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Would it include a new map to approve or create another process to draw on? Would the commission be temporarily or permanently repealed?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a fluid conversation,” he said. “We’re gaming all those things out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Trump turns up the heat in Texas\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>States typically redraw their congressional seats once per decade, after the census, to ensure the districts are all roughly equal in population. The most recent maps were drawn after the 2020 election and took effect in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But last month, Trump’s political team began \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/us/politics/trump-texas-redistricting.html\">pressuring Republican leaders in Texas\u003c/a> to revisit the state’s district lines and create additional GOP seats. The party won a five-seat majority in the House last November, the narrowest in nearly a century, leaving little room for error as Trump tries to enact his legislative agenda, putting control of the chamber at risk if next year’s midterm is a wave election \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/692879/independents-drive-trump-approval-second-term-low.aspx\">against the unpopular president\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12049817 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230817-PETALUMA-VINEYARD-FARMWORKERS-AP-ER-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Despite opposition from Republicans in the Texas congressional delegation — who worried that diluting their conservative voter bases in redistricting could inadvertently make their seats vulnerable — Gov. Greg Abbott earlier this month \u003ca href=\"https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/greg-abbott-redistricting-floods-thc-20762733.php\">called a special session\u003c/a> of the Legislature to redraw the maps. He is targeting four Democratic seats in the Dallas and Houston areas that the Trump administration has deemed “unconstitutional racial gerrymanders” because they have high numbers of Black and Latino voters. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we don’t put a stake into the heart of this administration, there may not be an election in 2028,” he said. “They’re not screwing around. We can’t afford to screw around either. We have got to fight fire with fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s one major obstacle to the governor’s ambitions, however: While the Legislature draws district lines in Texas, California relies on a bipartisan citizen redistricting commission protected by the state Constitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11961353\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-524576215-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11961353\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-524576215-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"The Sacramento Capitol building lit up at night\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1696\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-524576215-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-524576215-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-524576215-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-524576215-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-524576215-1536x1017.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-524576215-2048x1356.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-524576215-1920x1272.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Capitol building in Sacramento. As Texas moves forward with an off-cycle redistricting to shore up Republicans’ narrow House majority, Gov. Gavin Newsom is plotting a Democratic response in California. But the state’s independent redistricting commission is a major obstacle. \u003ccite>(Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2008, voters narrowly approved an amendment removing California legislators’ power to draw their own seats. Two years later, voters overwhelmingly passed another amendment expanding the commission’s authority to congressional maps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The independent commission in California became a national model for advocates who hoped to end the partisan gerrymandering that has contributed to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/gerrymandering-competitive-districts-near-extinction\">decline in competitive House seats\u003c/a> and the country’s fractious, sectarian politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Newsom, who said he otherwise supports independent redistricting, is exploring multiple options for working around the commission to squeeze more Democratic districts out of California, if Texas follows through on its plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would probably involve calling a special election, Newsom said, though he is still discussing with the Legislature what sort of proposal they might present to voters. Would it include a new map to approve or create another process to draw on? Would the commission be temporarily or permanently repealed?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a fluid conversation,” he said. “We’re gaming all those things out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Trump turns up the heat in Texas\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>States typically redraw their congressional seats once per decade, after the census, to ensure the districts are all roughly equal in population. The most recent maps were drawn after the 2020 election and took effect in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But last month, Trump’s political team began \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/us/politics/trump-texas-redistricting.html\">pressuring Republican leaders in Texas\u003c/a> to revisit the state’s district lines and create additional GOP seats. The party won a five-seat majority in the House last November, the narrowest in nearly a century, leaving little room for error as Trump tries to enact his legislative agenda, putting control of the chamber at risk if next year’s midterm is a wave election \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/692879/independents-drive-trump-approval-second-term-low.aspx\">against the unpopular president\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The money helps the district hire certified teachers to staff the camp, incorporating learning into children’s play for four weeks during the summer. The program helps kids keep their English and academic momentum over the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district serves roughly 1,100 students who are non-native English speakers. Many of them are born in the U.S. to parents who came to the area seeking job opportunities, often in the restaurants and warehouses that have popped up in the past decades in the region northeast of Baltimore. During the school year, the soon-to-be-released federal money pays for tutors for kids learning English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, more than 350 children filled the second floor of Bel Air High School for the second-to-last day of summer camp. 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Data available from the Census for three of the grant programs — teacher development, academic enrichment, and bilingual education — shows the Los Angeles Unified School District, for example, received $62 million in the 2022–23 school year. Philadelphia’s school district got $28 million, while Miami’s got over $24 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smaller districts got more modest amounts, but they still would have represented sizable gaps in their budgets. For example, schools in Burlington, Vermont; Pine Bluff, Arkansas; and Norristown, Pennsylvania, each got more than $300 per student from the same three grant programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Associated Press writer Sharon Lurye in Philadelphia contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Associated Press’ education coverage receives financial support from multiple private foundations. AP is solely responsible for all content. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ -->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While witnessing a rise in deportations across the country, college-bound high school seniors with immigrant parents in California had to decide this spring whether to submit a federal financial aid application. Their fear: The federal government will use sensitive personal information from the application to identify people in the country who lack legal status. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/08/g-s1-59056/irs-dhs-information-sharing-deal-immigrants-tax-records\">An agreement\u003c/a> between the IRS and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to share tax information is already in motion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the latest data available from the California Student Aid Commission shows that the number of high school senior applicants from mixed-status families has not decreased as much as \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2025/02/financial-aid-2/\">some financial aid advocates feared\u003c/a> it would. In fact, the number of high school senior applicants with at least one parent lacking legal status has nearly rebounded to the 2023 number after the revised financial aid form last year kept them from being able to apply without parental Social Security numbers for several months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the risk of exposing their parents to a deportation dragnet, 35% more college-bound high school seniors from mixed-status families have submitted a Free Application for Federal Student Aid as of the May 2 deadline compared to applications submitted by the same date last year. However, 9% fewer high school seniors from mixed-status families submitted their FAFSA compared to the same date two years ago. Community college students are notably excluded from these numbers as they have a separate deadline of Sept. 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students who choose not to submit a financial aid application lose potential federal aid through grants, work study and loans. While the federal deadline is not until the end of the academic year for which a student applies, California sets its own early deadline for the FAFSA to determine state aid such as Cal Grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=forum_2010101909645 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2025/04/GettyImages-2205113389-1-1020x574.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California officials gave students a one-month extension from April 2 to May 2 to submit the FAFSA after the U.S. Department of Education opened the application in December 2024 rather than the usual launch of October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.csac.ca.gov/about\">California Student Aid Commission\u003c/a> administers financial aid programs for students in California and helps organizations that counsel students on their financial aid applications. The commission’s spokesperson, Shelveen Ratnam, said the federal student aid application should have been a little easier for mixed-status families this time around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now the concern this year has kind of been the federal landscape, the federal administration, given… all the increased immigration enforcement (and) the unprecedented data sharing between federal agencies,” Ratnam said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the federal financial aid application, parents must submit personal details such as their Social Security numbers. If parents do not have them due to their legal status, they need to click a box that says “I do not have a SSN.” Although Ratnam and fellow staff at the commission are not currently aware of any efforts by immigration enforcement to access the personal information of FAFSA applicants, some students said they are concerned about the possibility that the personal details of their parents might be used to deport them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Students and parents face a tough choice\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>College-bound high school seniors in California who spoke to CalMatters for this story say the importance of going to college outweighs fears of their parents being deported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A graduate of Hawthorne High School in Los Angeles, Janet said she and her parents were antsy as they filled out the application together for the first time. Due to her family’s mixed legal status, she asked to go by her first name only. Janet recalls the concern from one of her parents who lacks permanent legal status that by submitting the application to the federal government they would be exposing themselves to immigration enforcement. However, her parents decided it was more important that their daughter receive financial aid for college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we submitted the application together, they said to me, ‘This is for you Janet. This is for the future generations and I hope we stay together,’” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/032725_CJN-FAFSA_AJ_05-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003cfigcaption>Janet, a high school senior, outside of Hawthorne High School in Los Angeles on March 27, 2025. Janet is hoping to study theatre in college. \u003cem>(Alisha Jucevic for CalMatters)\u003c/em>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alondra, a graduate of University High School Charter in Los Angeles, says she feels stress because most of her family does not have permanent legal status. Alondra also requested to use only her first name to protect her family from potential deportation. Alondra said it surprised her family when she informed them of the possible risk if they apply. However, a counselor in the One Voice Scholars Program, which works with low-income, first-generation students, pointed out that Alondra’s parents already share their personal information with the federal government when they file taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, it’s like we already know that my parents are already in the system, so we just kind of hope that me submitting my FAFSA isn’t adding on to that risk,” Alondra said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some students from mixed-status families who have older siblings may already have shared their data with the U.S. Department of Education, according to Alison De Lucca, executive director of the Southern California College Access Network. She said each family has to determine the pros and cons of the implications when applying for financial aid. Mixed-status families are also likely sharing their data with the state and federal government when they file taxes, get a driver’s license, or adjust their immigration status.[aside postID=news_12024593 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250129_UcBerkeleyRally_GC-1-1020x680.jpg']Angela, a graduate of the Los Angeles County High School of the Arts who also requested to use her first name only due to her family’s mixed legal status, said she started grappling with the decision of whether to apply for federal student aid during her sophomore year. At the time, her parents were still in the process of obtaining their citizenship and did not know if they would receive it in time for Angela’s financial aid application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They just really wanted me to be able to go (to college) for as cheap as possible,” Angela said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angela’s parents were able to obtain citizenship recently. However, she feels some of her college options are “off the table,” including Cornell University, which had offered her a scholarship that would have funded her first year at the university. Angela grew concerned about attending universities in New York after hearing reports of Immigration and Customs Enforcement “targeting” students that led pro-Palestinian protests, such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-ice-deportation-rcna199814\">Mahmoud Khalil\u003c/a> at Columbia and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/momodou-taal-cornell-student-activist-surrender-ice-rcna197604\">Momodou Taal\u003c/a> at Cornell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also feels guilt as some of her extended family and friends who are applying for financial aid do not have parents with permanent legal status in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m happy for myself but that feels selfish,” Angela said. “I know that I can help my family in that sense, but it’s really upsetting. You worry for your friends that might not be able to do it, might not be able to get that future that they really dream of.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Federal financial aid application faces new problems\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Following President Donald Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/improving-education-outcomes-by-empowering-parents-states-and-communities/\">executive order \u003c/a>to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education, the department’s spokesperson James Bergeron wrote \u003ca href=\"https://fsapartners.ed.gov/knowledge-center/library/electronic-announcements/2025-03-17/acting-under-secretary-james-bergeron-letter-education-stakeholders-march-14-2025\">in a letter on March 14\u003c/a> that those working directly with the federal financial aid application or student loan servicing were not affected by the staff reductions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Bergeron’s letter addressed the department’s staff reduction, De Lucca said that she and fellow staff at the College Access Network are concerned that layoffs at the department could lead to less support available for students and families when they call for assistance with their financial aid applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/101423_Collge-Info-Berkeley_JY_CM_22-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003cfigcaption>FAFSA fact sheets are displayed at College Information Day at UC Berkeley in Berkeley on Oct. 14, 2023. \u003cem>(Juliana Yamada for CalMatters)\u003c/em>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’s less staff at the Department of Education to consult with community-based organizations like SoCal CAN (College Access Network) and our members,” De Lucca said. “So for us, it’s been more difficult to reach folks at the department when we do have questions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/student-aid-policy/2025/03/27/how-education-department-cuts-could-jeopardize-fafsa\">Inside Higher Ed reported\u003c/a> in March that the staff reductions in the Office of Federal Student Aid would impact the staff’s ability to fix technical issues with the form, which were prevalent last year. Additional cuts were made to the FAFSA call center and training for financial aid practitioners, according to the same story by Inside Higher Ed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/22/education-department-court-ruling-firings-00365170\">federal judge blocked Trump’s executive order\u003c/a> that led to the massive staff reduction at the education department in May. However, on July 14 \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-trump-education-layoffs-9370415531185092341b16a6bfea9344\">the U.S. Supreme Court allowed for the president’s plan to continue\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The education department’s press office did not respond to repeated requests from CalMatters about the number of staff cuts at the Office of Federal Student Aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During last year’s updated FAFSA rollout, students faced technical issues with the application’s overhaul, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gao.gov/blog/botched-fafsa-rollout-leaves-uncertainty-students-seeking-financial-aid-college\">prompting a review by the U.S. Government Accountability Office\u003c/a>. Revisions to the application included reducing the number of questions by pulling students’ and parents’ financial information straight from the IRS. If parents were missing Social Security numbers then students could not submit a financial aid application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students had to wait until March 12, 2024 for the glitch on the website to be fixed before completing their submission, still ahead of the state’s extended deadline of May 2. The issues with the application last year resulted in 9,642 fewer federal financial aid applications submitted by May 2 from students in mixed-status families in the state compared to this year, according to the California Student Aid Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento State senior Fernanda Arteaga spent four months trying to submit a FAFSA last year due to her parents not having Social Security numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arteaga tried calling the office about six times to ensure that her application had the necessary information to be submitted, but each time she had to wait for assistance, leading her to hang up and try again at another time. Finally, Arteaga was able to reach a staff member and submit her application. Experts from the federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.gao.gov/blog/botched-fafsa-rollout-leaves-uncertainty-students-seeking-financial-aid-college\">Governmental Accountability Office\u003c/a> testified before Congress in the fall of 2024 that 74% of the calls to the department’s call center went unanswered due to understaffing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/032025-Fernanda-FAFSA-CM-01-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"A person with dark hair pulled back by a headband stands in front of a colorful mural featuring Indigenous and cultural motifs. They wear a floral-patterned dress with a square neckline and gold hoop earrings. Their expression is calm and confident, with soft lighting highlighting their face. Lush greenery surrounds the scene, and a modern glass building is visible in the background.\">\u003cfigcaption>Cal State Sacramento senior Fernanda Arteaga stands by Lassen Hall, where students can access assistance with their financial aid and scholarships, on Jan. 16, 2025. Arteaga, who comes from a mixed-status family, faced difficulties when applying for federal financial aid last year due to glitches on the site. \u003cem>(Mercy Sosa/CalMatters)\u003c/em>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I would mainly say that I just overcame those obstacles by just constantly checking in with the (Office of Federal Student Aid) and making sure that everything I could do on my end was done, and that everything I had was there,” Arteaga said. She finally received her financial aid a month into the fall 2024 semester and was granted an extension to pay for her tuition by the university while the funds were disbursed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With this year’s federal financial aid application, Arteaga did not encounter any website glitches, and had an easier process applying. Instead, Arteaga was concerned about the implications of applying for federal student aid given the political climate. Arteaga and her parents accepted the risk of immigration enforcement accessing their personal information through the application and ultimately applied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Obviously it is a federal organization,” Arteaga said. “So we were concerned that … our information wasn’t going to be protected. But my parents, since we’ve already done applications … in the past, they were like just do it. We really need the money, and we want to get you to finish your last year in college.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>California offers alternative financial aid application\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Students who lack permanent legal status themselves are not eligible for federal financial aid. However, since 2013, the state has administered the California Dream Act Application, also known as CADAA, for those students to apply for state and campus-based aid. When students from mixed-status families were unable to submit a federal application in 2024, California opened its financial aid application temporarily to those students so they could at least apply for state aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Student Aid Commission again opened the Dream Act application to \u003ca href=\"https://www.csac.ca.gov/cadaa-msf\">students from mixed-status families\u003c/a> this year to provide them a state-protected way to apply for financial aid. California \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=GOV§ionNum=7284.8.\">state law\u003c/a> protects students and families by not sharing their personal information with immigration officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now a state senator is proposing to open the financial aid application permanently to students from mixed-status families. State Sen. Sasha Renée Pérez, a Democrat from Pasadena, proposed \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb323\">Senate Bill 323\u003c/a>, which would require the California Student Aid Commission to ensure that the state application can be used by “any student eligible for state financial aid programs,” according to the bill text.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is crucial we provide California college bound students with a stable, safe, and alternative state-based financial aid application to feel safe in applying for financial aid and choosing to go to college,” \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/hearings/259431?t=1593&f=ac41f44fc0a8b5d4e237cc540187d245\">Pérez said on the Senate floor June 2\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emmanuel Rodriguez, senior director of policy and advocacy at The Institute for College Access and Success, said California’s Dream Act application adds a level of security for applicants as the information they receive is only shared with the campuses listed on a student’s application to determine whether the student is eligible for financial aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Financial aid advocates say that each family applying for financial aid must make a decision based on their specific situation and whether they should submit the federal application, the state Dream Act application, or both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Samantha Yee contributed to this story. Mercy Sosa is a fellow with the College Journalism Network, a collaboration between CalMatters and student journalists from across California. CalMatters higher education coverage is supported by a grant from the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2025/07/financial-aid-immigration-deportation-fears/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Angela, a graduate of the Los Angeles County High School of the Arts who also requested to use her first name only due to her family’s mixed legal status, said she started grappling with the decision of whether to apply for federal student aid during her sophomore year. At the time, her parents were still in the process of obtaining their citizenship and did not know if they would receive it in time for Angela’s financial aid application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They just really wanted me to be able to go (to college) for as cheap as possible,” Angela said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angela’s parents were able to obtain citizenship recently. However, she feels some of her college options are “off the table,” including Cornell University, which had offered her a scholarship that would have funded her first year at the university. Angela grew concerned about attending universities in New York after hearing reports of Immigration and Customs Enforcement “targeting” students that led pro-Palestinian protests, such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-ice-deportation-rcna199814\">Mahmoud Khalil\u003c/a> at Columbia and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/momodou-taal-cornell-student-activist-surrender-ice-rcna197604\">Momodou Taal\u003c/a> at Cornell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also feels guilt as some of her extended family and friends who are applying for financial aid do not have parents with permanent legal status in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m happy for myself but that feels selfish,” Angela said. “I know that I can help my family in that sense, but it’s really upsetting. You worry for your friends that might not be able to do it, might not be able to get that future that they really dream of.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Federal financial aid application faces new problems\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Following President Donald Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/improving-education-outcomes-by-empowering-parents-states-and-communities/\">executive order \u003c/a>to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education, the department’s spokesperson James Bergeron wrote \u003ca href=\"https://fsapartners.ed.gov/knowledge-center/library/electronic-announcements/2025-03-17/acting-under-secretary-james-bergeron-letter-education-stakeholders-march-14-2025\">in a letter on March 14\u003c/a> that those working directly with the federal financial aid application or student loan servicing were not affected by the staff reductions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Bergeron’s letter addressed the department’s staff reduction, De Lucca said that she and fellow staff at the College Access Network are concerned that layoffs at the department could lead to less support available for students and families when they call for assistance with their financial aid applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/101423_Collge-Info-Berkeley_JY_CM_22-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003cfigcaption>FAFSA fact sheets are displayed at College Information Day at UC Berkeley in Berkeley on Oct. 14, 2023. \u003cem>(Juliana Yamada for CalMatters)\u003c/em>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’s less staff at the Department of Education to consult with community-based organizations like SoCal CAN (College Access Network) and our members,” De Lucca said. “So for us, it’s been more difficult to reach folks at the department when we do have questions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/student-aid-policy/2025/03/27/how-education-department-cuts-could-jeopardize-fafsa\">Inside Higher Ed reported\u003c/a> in March that the staff reductions in the Office of Federal Student Aid would impact the staff’s ability to fix technical issues with the form, which were prevalent last year. Additional cuts were made to the FAFSA call center and training for financial aid practitioners, according to the same story by Inside Higher Ed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/22/education-department-court-ruling-firings-00365170\">federal judge blocked Trump’s executive order\u003c/a> that led to the massive staff reduction at the education department in May. However, on July 14 \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-trump-education-layoffs-9370415531185092341b16a6bfea9344\">the U.S. Supreme Court allowed for the president’s plan to continue\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The education department’s press office did not respond to repeated requests from CalMatters about the number of staff cuts at the Office of Federal Student Aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During last year’s updated FAFSA rollout, students faced technical issues with the application’s overhaul, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gao.gov/blog/botched-fafsa-rollout-leaves-uncertainty-students-seeking-financial-aid-college\">prompting a review by the U.S. Government Accountability Office\u003c/a>. Revisions to the application included reducing the number of questions by pulling students’ and parents’ financial information straight from the IRS. If parents were missing Social Security numbers then students could not submit a financial aid application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students had to wait until March 12, 2024 for the glitch on the website to be fixed before completing their submission, still ahead of the state’s extended deadline of May 2. The issues with the application last year resulted in 9,642 fewer federal financial aid applications submitted by May 2 from students in mixed-status families in the state compared to this year, according to the California Student Aid Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento State senior Fernanda Arteaga spent four months trying to submit a FAFSA last year due to her parents not having Social Security numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arteaga tried calling the office about six times to ensure that her application had the necessary information to be submitted, but each time she had to wait for assistance, leading her to hang up and try again at another time. 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This looming tariff threat has sent shock waves through the U.S. coffee industry, raising fears especially among small roasters like Lost Sock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When people go to their local coffee shop, whether it’s Starbucks or something else, by and large they will likely be buying some form of Brazilian coffee,” says Monica de Bolle, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. “A 50% tariff will kill that market.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049049\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049049\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-1.jpg 2400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-1-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, 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href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/07/16/nx-s1-5468553/what-types-of-items-are-likely-to-see-price-hikes-due-to-tariffs\">price impact\u003c/a>,” de Bolle says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tariff threats extend beyond imports from Brazil: The Trump administration has announced a number of tariffs on imports from other coffee-producing countries, like Vietnam (which \u003ca href=\"https://www.fas.usda.gov/data/production/commodity/0711100\">produces 17%\u003c/a> of the world’s coffee), Colombia (which produces 8%) and Ethiopia and Indonesia (which produce 6% each).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yerxa says he is trying not to react until he knows details are final, but he says profit margins are already thin. “It’s the uncertainty that’s probably the worst.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, the consumer is the one that’s going to bear the brunt of it,” he says. “I don’t want to raise prices, but we’re seeing increased costs of 30% on coffee, potentially.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049057\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049057\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-2.jpg 2400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-2-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-2-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view of a coffee plantation consumed by wildfires in a rural area of Caconde, in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state, on Sept. 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Andre Penner/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Trump’s messaging rings hollow for business owners\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration defends its trade policy and the dozens of tariffs on a number of countries as necessary to protect American jobs, to renegotiate trade deals and to reduce the trade deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=forum_2010101908176 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2024/12/12-17-WPI-10am-1020x574.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of Brazil, Trump also indicated that the proposed tariffs are political retribution for the treatment of former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, who is \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/10/nx-s1-5428548/bolsonaro-brazil-coup-trial\">currently on trial\u003c/a> for trying to overturn the country’s 2022 election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For roasters like Yerxa and Colby Barr, CEO and co-founder of Verve Coffee Roasters, a Santa Cruz, Calif.-based craft coffee roaster and wholesaler launched in 2007, much of the administration’s reasoning falls flat. The U.S., aside from small coffee farms in Hawaii and California, doesn’t produce coffee at the scale that Americans consume it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a tax on Americans’ mornings,” Barr says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The past several years have been volatile for the coffee industry, contributing to a major increase in market prices for coffee even in the last year, Barr says. The price volatility can be attributed, in part, to the COVID-19 pandemic and back-to-back low-yield coffee harvests in Brazil in the last year, Yerxa says. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/12/17/nx-s1-5228008/coffee-prices-brazil-drought-weather\">Those weak harvests\u003c/a>, in turn, are due to \u003ca href=\"https://acadianplanthealth.com/resources/articles/drought-in-brazil-means-coffee-price-surge\">drought and high temperatures\u003c/a> and more generally \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/10/12/497578413/coffee-and-climate-change-in-brazil-a-disaster-is-brewing\">climate change\u003c/a>, which has negatively impacted coffee harvests for several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049058\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049058\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-3.jpg 2400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-3-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-3-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coffee producer Jose Natal da Silva sifts coffee beans on his farm in Porciúncula, in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro state, on July 17. \u003ccite>(Bruna Prado/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Roasted coffee prices in the U.S. surged 12.7% in June compared with a year prior, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.t02.htm\">data\u003c/a> from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Instant coffee saw a 16.3% increase. The \u003ca href=\"https://fred.stlouisfed.org/data/APU0000717311\">average retail price\u003c/a> for a pound of ground coffee was $8.13 in June, up more than $1 per pound since the start of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nika Finkelstein says she’s already well aware of the sticker shock that comes with buying coffee out. The 27-year-old sat outside Blue Bottle Coffee at Union Station in Washington, D.C., on a recent July afternoon. She makes coffee at home as much as possible. On the rare occasions she buys one out, she sticks with drip coffee rather than specialty drinks, like a latte.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If tariffs bump prices even higher? “I would just have to reel back on spending money at coffee shops and just make it from home, which I can do — it’s just not as fun,” she says. “There’s a certain romance to being able to go to the coffee shop and sit there and read your book or scroll on your phone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why customers will pay more\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>So much coffee in the U.S. comes from Brazil because of the country’s large-scale production capacity, low costs, favorable climate and flavor profile, Yerxa and de Bolle say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of the industry relies on those coffees to be the backbone of their blends,” Yerxa says, referring to the mixture of beans from different regions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049060\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1707px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049060\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-4-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1707\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-4-scaled.jpg 1707w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-4-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-4-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-4-1365x2048.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1707px) 100vw, 1707px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Walking away from longtime partnerships in Brazil really isn’t an option, Yerxa says. \u003ccite>(Claire Harbage/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lost Sock, the D.C. coffee company, is best known for single-origin, higher-end coffees sourced from nearly a dozen countries each year. But it uses Brazilian beans for some of its blends — products that stem from its long-standing relationships with two cooperatives in Brazil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting those beans from Brazil to D.C. is a long process that involves international partners, contracts negotiated months to years in advance, and plenty of other planning. Lost Sock coordinates with producers and exporters, and it places orders with them for specific amounts of specific beans from specific Brazilian farms, exports the coffee, and stores it in a U.S. warehouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The importer adds a margin for logistics, and Yerxa then factors that final price per pound into Lost Sock’s wholesale and retail pricing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And where would the tariffs come in?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is initially something that the importer would have to pay once it brings beans into the U.S., he says. “That tariff would just be another line item on the receipt that we’re getting when we release that coffee. And then for us, we take that coffee price, and again it’s added on to the price per pound of that coffee, when we come up with the pricing for wholesale and for retail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049063\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049063\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-5.jpg 2400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-5-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-5-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kristen Tizaawie-Vogel (left) prepares a drink at a Lost Sock Roasters coffee shop in Washington, DC. \u003ccite>(Claire Harbage/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>De Bolle explains that if tariffs hit on Aug. 1, it could be a few months before customers feel price increases at cafes or restaurants. That’s because those businesses generally buy in bulk and have a stock of coffee that could last them a while — stockpiles like this could last a few months, she says. People who buy their coffee beans at the grocery store could feel the tariff impacts more quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For people who don’t stock up, so the regular consumer who’s going to the supermarket … and getting their coffee, maybe those price increases will be felt sooner,” de Bolle says, adding that coffee is perishable and stocking up on beans can get a business, or consumer, only so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The ripple effects\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Long term, if it looks like these tariffs stick, Lost Sock may have to consider pivoting away from using Brazilian coffees in some blends, Yerxa says. Walking away from longtime partnerships in Brazil really isn’t an option for him, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels unfair to pull out of a relationship when the going gets tough,” he says. “So we’ll probably bear the brunt of it a little bit, but with the hope that the prices in the future will come back down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049064\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049064\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-6.jpg 2400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-6-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-6-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-6-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-6-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yerxa brews a cup of coffee with freshly roasted beans at Lost Sock’s roastery. \u003ccite>(Claire Harbage/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But if Brazil’s coffee prices go up, coffee roasters will rush to buy from other sources, Barr of Verve Coffee warns. And these other coffee-producing countries, such as Vietnam, are also facing tariffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really, really difficult, and more like impossible, to really prepare for it,” Barr says. “Tariffs don’t help the coffee producer. They don’t help the small- and medium-sized businesses across the country, and they don’t help the consumer. Why are we doing it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This month, President Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/07/09/nx-s1-5462903/trump-brazil-tariff-bolsonaro\">announced plans to levy a 50% tariff\u003c/a> on all goods from Brazil — the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fas.usda.gov/data/production/commodity/0711100\">world’s largest coffee producer\u003c/a> and the source of \u003ca href=\"https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/charts-of-note/chart-detail?chartId=110079&ref=thepourover.coffee#:~:text=The%20United%20States%20is%20the,Latin%20America%20and%20the%20Caribbean.\">about 30%\u003c/a> of U.S. coffee imports. That’s on top of the 10% tariff that impacts nearly everything the U.S. brings in. This looming tariff threat has sent shock waves through the U.S. coffee industry, raising fears especially among small roasters like Lost Sock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When people go to their local coffee shop, whether it’s Starbucks or something else, by and large they will likely be buying some form of Brazilian coffee,” says Monica de Bolle, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. “A 50% tariff will kill that market.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049049\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049049\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-1.jpg 2400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-1-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yerxa holds some green coffee beans before they are roasted at Lost Sock Roasters in Washington, DC. \u003ccite>(Claire Harbage/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the tariffs on imports from Brazil, as well as on imports from other nations, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/07/12/nx-s1-5465577/trump-30-tariffs-eu-mexico\">aren’t set to begin until Aug. 1\u003c/a>, the uncertainty is rattling the industry already.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s consumers who will end up paying the price, de Bolle, Yerxa and others warn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a massive \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/07/16/nx-s1-5468553/what-types-of-items-are-likely-to-see-price-hikes-due-to-tariffs\">price impact\u003c/a>,” de Bolle says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tariff threats extend beyond imports from Brazil: The Trump administration has announced a number of tariffs on imports from other coffee-producing countries, like Vietnam (which \u003ca href=\"https://www.fas.usda.gov/data/production/commodity/0711100\">produces 17%\u003c/a> of the world’s coffee), Colombia (which produces 8%) and Ethiopia and Indonesia (which produce 6% each).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yerxa says he is trying not to react until he knows details are final, but he says profit margins are already thin. “It’s the uncertainty that’s probably the worst.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, the consumer is the one that’s going to bear the brunt of it,” he says. “I don’t want to raise prices, but we’re seeing increased costs of 30% on coffee, potentially.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049057\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049057\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-2.jpg 2400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-2-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-2-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view of a coffee plantation consumed by wildfires in a rural area of Caconde, in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state, on Sept. 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Andre Penner/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Trump’s messaging rings hollow for business owners\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration defends its trade policy and the dozens of tariffs on a number of countries as necessary to protect American jobs, to renegotiate trade deals and to reduce the trade deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of Brazil, Trump also indicated that the proposed tariffs are political retribution for the treatment of former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, who is \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/10/nx-s1-5428548/bolsonaro-brazil-coup-trial\">currently on trial\u003c/a> for trying to overturn the country’s 2022 election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For roasters like Yerxa and Colby Barr, CEO and co-founder of Verve Coffee Roasters, a Santa Cruz, Calif.-based craft coffee roaster and wholesaler launched in 2007, much of the administration’s reasoning falls flat. The U.S., aside from small coffee farms in Hawaii and California, doesn’t produce coffee at the scale that Americans consume it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a tax on Americans’ mornings,” Barr says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The past several years have been volatile for the coffee industry, contributing to a major increase in market prices for coffee even in the last year, Barr says. The price volatility can be attributed, in part, to the COVID-19 pandemic and back-to-back low-yield coffee harvests in Brazil in the last year, Yerxa says. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/12/17/nx-s1-5228008/coffee-prices-brazil-drought-weather\">Those weak harvests\u003c/a>, in turn, are due to \u003ca href=\"https://acadianplanthealth.com/resources/articles/drought-in-brazil-means-coffee-price-surge\">drought and high temperatures\u003c/a> and more generally \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/10/12/497578413/coffee-and-climate-change-in-brazil-a-disaster-is-brewing\">climate change\u003c/a>, which has negatively impacted coffee harvests for several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049058\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049058\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-3.jpg 2400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-3-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-3-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coffee producer Jose Natal da Silva sifts coffee beans on his farm in Porciúncula, in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro state, on July 17. \u003ccite>(Bruna Prado/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Roasted coffee prices in the U.S. surged 12.7% in June compared with a year prior, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.t02.htm\">data\u003c/a> from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Instant coffee saw a 16.3% increase. The \u003ca href=\"https://fred.stlouisfed.org/data/APU0000717311\">average retail price\u003c/a> for a pound of ground coffee was $8.13 in June, up more than $1 per pound since the start of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nika Finkelstein says she’s already well aware of the sticker shock that comes with buying coffee out. The 27-year-old sat outside Blue Bottle Coffee at Union Station in Washington, D.C., on a recent July afternoon. She makes coffee at home as much as possible. On the rare occasions she buys one out, she sticks with drip coffee rather than specialty drinks, like a latte.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If tariffs bump prices even higher? “I would just have to reel back on spending money at coffee shops and just make it from home, which I can do — it’s just not as fun,” she says. “There’s a certain romance to being able to go to the coffee shop and sit there and read your book or scroll on your phone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why customers will pay more\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>So much coffee in the U.S. comes from Brazil because of the country’s large-scale production capacity, low costs, favorable climate and flavor profile, Yerxa and de Bolle say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of the industry relies on those coffees to be the backbone of their blends,” Yerxa says, referring to the mixture of beans from different regions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049060\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1707px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049060\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-4-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1707\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-4-scaled.jpg 1707w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-4-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-4-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-4-1365x2048.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1707px) 100vw, 1707px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Walking away from longtime partnerships in Brazil really isn’t an option, Yerxa says. \u003ccite>(Claire Harbage/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lost Sock, the D.C. coffee company, is best known for single-origin, higher-end coffees sourced from nearly a dozen countries each year. But it uses Brazilian beans for some of its blends — products that stem from its long-standing relationships with two cooperatives in Brazil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting those beans from Brazil to D.C. is a long process that involves international partners, contracts negotiated months to years in advance, and plenty of other planning. Lost Sock coordinates with producers and exporters, and it places orders with them for specific amounts of specific beans from specific Brazilian farms, exports the coffee, and stores it in a U.S. warehouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The importer adds a margin for logistics, and Yerxa then factors that final price per pound into Lost Sock’s wholesale and retail pricing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And where would the tariffs come in?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is initially something that the importer would have to pay once it brings beans into the U.S., he says. “That tariff would just be another line item on the receipt that we’re getting when we release that coffee. And then for us, we take that coffee price, and again it’s added on to the price per pound of that coffee, when we come up with the pricing for wholesale and for retail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049063\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049063\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-5.jpg 2400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-5-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-5-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kristen Tizaawie-Vogel (left) prepares a drink at a Lost Sock Roasters coffee shop in Washington, DC. \u003ccite>(Claire Harbage/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>De Bolle explains that if tariffs hit on Aug. 1, it could be a few months before customers feel price increases at cafes or restaurants. That’s because those businesses generally buy in bulk and have a stock of coffee that could last them a while — stockpiles like this could last a few months, she says. People who buy their coffee beans at the grocery store could feel the tariff impacts more quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For people who don’t stock up, so the regular consumer who’s going to the supermarket … and getting their coffee, maybe those price increases will be felt sooner,” de Bolle says, adding that coffee is perishable and stocking up on beans can get a business, or consumer, only so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The ripple effects\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Long term, if it looks like these tariffs stick, Lost Sock may have to consider pivoting away from using Brazilian coffees in some blends, Yerxa says. Walking away from longtime partnerships in Brazil really isn’t an option for him, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels unfair to pull out of a relationship when the going gets tough,” he says. “So we’ll probably bear the brunt of it a little bit, but with the hope that the prices in the future will come back down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049064\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049064\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-6.jpg 2400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-6-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-6-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-6-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-6-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yerxa brews a cup of coffee with freshly roasted beans at Lost Sock’s roastery. \u003ccite>(Claire Harbage/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But if Brazil’s coffee prices go up, coffee roasters will rush to buy from other sources, Barr of Verve Coffee warns. And these other coffee-producing countries, such as Vietnam, are also facing tariffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really, really difficult, and more like impossible, to really prepare for it,” Barr says. “Tariffs don’t help the coffee producer. They don’t help the small- and medium-sized businesses across the country, and they don’t help the consumer. Why are we doing it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ -->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This commentary was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of California Voices, a commentary forum aiming to broaden our understanding of the state and spotlight Californians directly impacted by policy or its absence. Learn more \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/category/commentary/\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/07/la-immigration-restraining-order/\">Blocked for now by a federal court order\u003c/a> from sending warrantless roving immigration patrols through Los Angeles and six other Southern California counties, U.S. agents on Thursday \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/07/sacramento-border-patrol-raids/\">moved their sweeps north to Sacramento\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Border Patrol section chief \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/investigation/2025/06/los-angeles-border-patrol-chief/\">Gregory Bovino\u003c/a> made it abundantly clear that the point of the operation at a Home Depot parking lot in South Sacramento was embodied in the same word, the same concept, as the round-ups in Los Angeles. They are about “sanctuary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is a word that has clearly gotten under Bovino’s skin, just as it has gotten under the skin of immigration opponents in the White House and the Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no sanctuary city,” \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/BillMelugin_/status/1945902933813690454\">Bovino told Fox News\u003c/a>. “Sacramento is not a sanctuary city. The state of California is not a sanctuary state. There is no sanctuary anywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If by that he meant that no jurisdiction can protect residents from federal immigration law, he is of course correct. The Constitution’s Supremacy Clause leaves no doubt about that. States, counties and cities that describe themselves as sanctuaries are engaging in recklessly misleading political marketing. Their laws at most prevent local police from \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/01/california-sanctuary-state/\">questioning suspects about their immigration status\u003c/a>, for example, or block jailers from holding inmates past their release dates so the feds can get them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the federal government’s contempt for sanctuary appears to go well beyond the modest if over-sold local policies. Their actions and statements demonstrate that they respect no sanctuary, no refuge, no protection in the very things they purport to be guarding: the law, the Constitution, the American people, and their safety, values and sovereignty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=forum_2010101909877 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-08-BL_qed-1-1020x574.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong’s blistering \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.975351/gov.uscourts.cacd.975351.87.0.pdf\">July 11 order\u003c/a>, which the administration has appealed, lays out the frightening details of a government that has turned hard-won American freedoms inside out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this country, unlike most others in the world, the people are free to go about their business without having to show their papers to government agents on demand, absent probable cause to believe they have committed a crime, or at least sufficient suspicion to ask them questions. Those same agents, by contrast, must identify themselves, and not merely by brandishing their guns. They must be clearly distinguishable in action and appearance from crooks of the sort who kidnap residents of third-world countries. Here there is no army of secret police. There are no roving bands of quasi-military thugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until now. Border Patrol and ICE agents in \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/commentary/2025/06/ice-san-diego-foreshadowed-protests/\">San Diego\u003c/a>, Los Angeles, Orange and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-10/federal-immigration-sweep-ventura-county-farms\">Ventura\u003c/a> counties, and now in Sacramento, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/07/immigration-raids-who/\">hide their faces\u003c/a>, tint their car windows, remove their license plates, cover their badges, ignore requests for identification, and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/investigation/2025/07/patterns-in-california-immigration-raids/\">target people based on where they work\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/04/border-patrol-injunction/\">how they look\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If this conduct is allowed to stand for federal officers, based on the specious argument that they need protection, it is inevitable that all police, perhaps all jailers, prosecutors and judges, will soon hide their faces and do their government work in secret.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agents recognize no sanctuary in the Fourth Amendment’s protection against warrantless search and seizure. They demand at gunpoint that you show your papers and lock you up if they find them unsatisfactory. Frimpong’s order describes a U.S. citizen showing a driver’s license — and then being grabbed anyway after an agent demanded to see a passport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since when do American citizens have to carry passports?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no sanctuary in the 14th Amendment’s promise of equal protection or in generations of civil rights struggles, court rulings and policy updates that supposedly swept away racially disparate treatment. Frimpong’s order describes a stop in which agents let a white person walk away but not a nonwhite person. Border “czar” Tom Homan said recently that ICE agents were \u003ca href=\"https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3ltoyyfr5vt2m\">free to stop people based on their appearance\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no sanctuary in the Sixth Amendment’s right to counsel. The order describes shocking conditions in the basement of the immigration building at 300 N. Los Angeles Street, where captured suspects were so cramped they could not sit or lie down and had no access to lawyers for days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no sanctuary in \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/article309102735.html\">courthouses\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2025/07/ice-targets-immigrants-church-grounds/\">churches\u003c/a>, nursing homes or other places where agents grab people without judicial warrants. There is no sanctuary in essential work, such as farm fields, despite President Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/06/20/trump-farmers-migrant-labor/84291870007/\">statement\u003c/a> that perhaps farmworkers and hotel workers might get a break, because after all, farmers would not hire any murderers. He did not explain why the exemption should cover farmworkers but not, say, kitchen workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no sanctuary, no protection from deportation, even in American citizenship. The Department of Justice is \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/30/nx-s1-5445398/denaturalization-trump-immigration-enforcement\">stepping up a program to denaturalize people\u003c/a> who were born elsewhere but lawfully go through the citizenship process and take the oath, but who later commit crimes. Such a move creates a second, lesser tier of citizenship, with different standards of conduct and different consequences for the same crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second-tier citizenship was virtually abolished in American society after a century-long post-slavery struggle for equality. Must we countenance its return?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there is no sanctuary even in being born here. The administration is moving to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/birthright-citizenship-trump-immigration-new-hampshire-9d54d8b4a75e350b6a2fe41cb79c1c65\">end birthright citizenship\u003c/a>, which long has been an unassailable cornerstone of American identity and civil rights. Our leaders are threatening to, for the first time in 60 years, award or deny fundamental rights based not on who you are or what you do, but who your parents were and what they did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So where can sanctuary be found? If not in lines written on the base of the Statue of Liberty, or in the Constitution, or in citizenship or in simple human decency, then where?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is there sanctuary only in \u003ca href=\"https://www.latintimes.com/dont-you-dare-ever-say-that-again-kristi-noem-threatens-reporter-over-question-ice-racial-587136\">skin color\u003c/a>? If you’re white, or perhaps if you’re Black, you may be OK. If you are brown, you’d better carry your passport for the rest of your days, and teach your children to carry theirs too. Stay away from Home Depot. Endure stops and questions. Keep your head down. It is the dream of the white supremacist. It is the achievement of the 2017 Charlottesville rally to “Unite the Right.” It is a state of affairs repugnant to the American creed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the only thing, so far, that keeps it from becoming the new American normal is Judge Frimpong’s emergency order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government has \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-14/doj-ninth-circuit-immigration-appeal\">appealed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/commentary/2025/07/trump-targets-sanctuary-expense-american-creed/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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There are no roving bands of quasi-military thugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until now. Border Patrol and ICE agents in \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/commentary/2025/06/ice-san-diego-foreshadowed-protests/\">San Diego\u003c/a>, Los Angeles, Orange and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-10/federal-immigration-sweep-ventura-county-farms\">Ventura\u003c/a> counties, and now in Sacramento, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/07/immigration-raids-who/\">hide their faces\u003c/a>, tint their car windows, remove their license plates, cover their badges, ignore requests for identification, and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/investigation/2025/07/patterns-in-california-immigration-raids/\">target people based on where they work\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/04/border-patrol-injunction/\">how they look\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If this conduct is allowed to stand for federal officers, based on the specious argument that they need protection, it is inevitable that all police, perhaps all jailers, prosecutors and judges, will soon hide their faces and do their government work in secret.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agents recognize no sanctuary in the Fourth Amendment’s protection against warrantless search and seizure. They demand at gunpoint that you show your papers and lock you up if they find them unsatisfactory. Frimpong’s order describes a U.S. citizen showing a driver’s license — and then being grabbed anyway after an agent demanded to see a passport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since when do American citizens have to carry passports?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no sanctuary in the 14th Amendment’s promise of equal protection or in generations of civil rights struggles, court rulings and policy updates that supposedly swept away racially disparate treatment. Frimpong’s order describes a stop in which agents let a white person walk away but not a nonwhite person. Border “czar” Tom Homan said recently that ICE agents were \u003ca href=\"https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3ltoyyfr5vt2m\">free to stop people based on their appearance\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no sanctuary in the Sixth Amendment’s right to counsel. The order describes shocking conditions in the basement of the immigration building at 300 N. Los Angeles Street, where captured suspects were so cramped they could not sit or lie down and had no access to lawyers for days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no sanctuary in \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/article309102735.html\">courthouses\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2025/07/ice-targets-immigrants-church-grounds/\">churches\u003c/a>, nursing homes or other places where agents grab people without judicial warrants. There is no sanctuary in essential work, such as farm fields, despite President Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/06/20/trump-farmers-migrant-labor/84291870007/\">statement\u003c/a> that perhaps farmworkers and hotel workers might get a break, because after all, farmers would not hire any murderers. He did not explain why the exemption should cover farmworkers but not, say, kitchen workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no sanctuary, no protection from deportation, even in American citizenship. The Department of Justice is \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/30/nx-s1-5445398/denaturalization-trump-immigration-enforcement\">stepping up a program to denaturalize people\u003c/a> who were born elsewhere but lawfully go through the citizenship process and take the oath, but who later commit crimes. Such a move creates a second, lesser tier of citizenship, with different standards of conduct and different consequences for the same crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second-tier citizenship was virtually abolished in American society after a century-long post-slavery struggle for equality. Must we countenance its return?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there is no sanctuary even in being born here. The administration is moving to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/birthright-citizenship-trump-immigration-new-hampshire-9d54d8b4a75e350b6a2fe41cb79c1c65\">end birthright citizenship\u003c/a>, which long has been an unassailable cornerstone of American identity and civil rights. Our leaders are threatening to, for the first time in 60 years, award or deny fundamental rights based not on who you are or what you do, but who your parents were and what they did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So where can sanctuary be found? If not in lines written on the base of the Statue of Liberty, or in the Constitution, or in citizenship or in simple human decency, then where?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is there sanctuary only in \u003ca href=\"https://www.latintimes.com/dont-you-dare-ever-say-that-again-kristi-noem-threatens-reporter-over-question-ice-racial-587136\">skin color\u003c/a>? If you’re white, or perhaps if you’re Black, you may be OK. If you are brown, you’d better carry your passport for the rest of your days, and teach your children to carry theirs too. Stay away from Home Depot. Endure stops and questions. Keep your head down. It is the dream of the white supremacist. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 3:30 p.m. Tuesday \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, a giant bust of Elon Musk — accompanied by the words “Make America Wait Again: Now With Longer Lines Thanks To DOGE Cuts!” — \u003ca href=\"https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/environment/elon-musk-head-arches-national-park\">appeared in Utah’s Arches National Park\u003c/a>, towed on a trailer behind a truck driving through the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the Musk bust has appeared again — this time in Yosemite National Park.[aside postID='news_12047124,news_12048728,news_12045255' label='Getting Outside']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visitor Greg Perkins told KQED that he spotted the sculpture, which makes reference to the Tesla CEO and former Department of Government Efficiency leader’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041320/in-crisis-mode-former-national-park-leaders-say-cuts-will-hit-public-lands-hard\">attempts to reduce the staff and budgets of federal departments like the National Parks Service\u003c/a>, in Yosemite this weekend — and captured photos of the giant head passing iconic park spots like \u003ca href=\"https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/upper-yosemite-falls-trail\">Yosemite Falls\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/places/000/el-capitan-meadow.htm\">El Capitan\u003c/a>. According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/environment/elon-musk-head-arches-national-park\">\u003cem>Outside\u003c/em> magazine\u003c/a>, the head spotted in Arches was 12 feet high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott Carr, Director of Communication for Yosemite National Park, confirmed that the bust of Musk was indeed present in the park this weekend. Addressing the issue of wait times referenced by the bust’s signage, Carr told KQED by email that “Yosemite National Park is one of the busiest parks in the National Park System and while it is still early in the summer season the park is on pace to surpass last year’s visitation totals of more than 4.1 million visitors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wait times to enter Yosemite vary daily and throughout the day,” wrote Carr, and “weekends, specifically Friday and Saturday, are the busiest days with peak traffic between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049029\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12049029 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/S_ElYose2-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1390\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/S_ElYose2-1.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/S_ElYose2-1-160x116.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/S_ElYose2-1-1536x1112.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitors to Yosemite National Park take photos of a traveling bust of Elon Musk. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Greg Perkins)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to the National Parks Conservation Association, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/articles/9551-staffing-crisis-at-national-parks-reaches-breaking-point-new-data-shows-24\">permanent staffing at national parks around the United States has fallen 24%\u003c/a> since President Donald Trump took office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>National Parks have \u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/articles/2675-lands-of-protest\">long been used as sites of protest\u003c/a>, including \u003ca href=\"https://planning.dc.gov/publication/history-resistance-lafayette-square-and-black-lives-matter-movement-washington-dc\">2020 Black Lives Matter protests\u003c/a> in Washington, D.C.’s Lafayette Square opposite the White House and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11788540/a-look-back-at-the-occupation-of-alcatraz-50-years-later\">Native American occupation of Alcatraz Island in the 1960s\u003c/a>. In February,\u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/upside-us-flag-hung-yosemite-national-park-protest-employee-cuts-rcna193409\"> Yosemite staffers hung an upside-down United State flag\u003c/a> from the face of El Capitan during \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11860844/yosemite-firefall-week-2021\">the park’s annual “firefall” event\u003c/a> in protest of the Trump administration’s proposed cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049021\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12049021 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/S_ElYose4-e1753130794983.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/S_ElYose4-e1753130794983.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/S_ElYose4-e1753130794983-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/S_ElYose4-e1753130794983-1536x1026.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The bust of Elon Musk towed on a trailer behind a truck driving through Yosemite National Park. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Greg Perkins)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration’s policies have taken direct aim at public lands during the president’s first six months back in office, from \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Fiscal-Year-2026-Discretionary-Budget-Request.pdf\">calls to cut $900 million from the NPS operations budget\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046147/incredibly-short-sighted-land-conservation-groups-rally-against-gop-proposal-to-sell-off-public-lands-like-tahoe\">attempts to sell U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management properties\u003c/a> to private buyers to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/26/nx-s1-5444323/national-park-trump-signs\">new signs asking visitors to federal lands to report signage\u003c/a> that includes “negative” information about U.S. history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049028\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049028\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/S_ElYose3_CROP.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1139\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/S_ElYose3_CROP.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/S_ElYose3_CROP-160x95.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/S_ElYose3_CROP-1536x911.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A giant head of former DOGE head Elon Musk travels through Yosemite National Park. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Greg Perkins)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046147/incredibly-short-sighted-land-conservation-groups-rally-against-gop-proposal-to-sell-off-public-lands-like-tahoe\">lands sale was ultimately scrapped from Republicans’ budget bill\u003c/a>, and most \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2025/07/15/national-parks-spared-deeper-budget-cuts-2026-grassroots-protests/\">parks funding may remain intact in 2026\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12048367/can-trump-really-reopen-alcatraz-delegation-heads-to-island-to-make-case\">top Trump officials still have their eyes on Alcatraz National Park as a future federal prison site\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some national parks are also struggling not only with \u003ca href=\"https://time.com/7301979/national-park-system-trump-administration/\">low morale around the uncertainty \u003c/a>of staffing shortages and underfunding, but also \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/23/nx-s1-5393641/trump-budget-cuts-national-parks-joshua-tree-safety\">with reported lower visitation\u003c/a> as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040535/canadians-tourists-say-they-are-avoiding-the-united-states-due-to-fear\">international travel wanes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visitor Greg Perkins told KQED that he spotted the sculpture, which makes reference to the Tesla CEO and former Department of Government Efficiency leader’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041320/in-crisis-mode-former-national-park-leaders-say-cuts-will-hit-public-lands-hard\">attempts to reduce the staff and budgets of federal departments like the National Parks Service\u003c/a>, in Yosemite this weekend — and captured photos of the giant head passing iconic park spots like \u003ca href=\"https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/upper-yosemite-falls-trail\">Yosemite Falls\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/places/000/el-capitan-meadow.htm\">El Capitan\u003c/a>. According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/environment/elon-musk-head-arches-national-park\">\u003cem>Outside\u003c/em> magazine\u003c/a>, the head spotted in Arches was 12 feet high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott Carr, Director of Communication for Yosemite National Park, confirmed that the bust of Musk was indeed present in the park this weekend. Addressing the issue of wait times referenced by the bust’s signage, Carr told KQED by email that “Yosemite National Park is one of the busiest parks in the National Park System and while it is still early in the summer season the park is on pace to surpass last year’s visitation totals of more than 4.1 million visitors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wait times to enter Yosemite vary daily and throughout the day,” wrote Carr, and “weekends, specifically Friday and Saturday, are the busiest days with peak traffic between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049029\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12049029 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/S_ElYose2-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1390\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/S_ElYose2-1.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/S_ElYose2-1-160x116.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/S_ElYose2-1-1536x1112.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitors to Yosemite National Park take photos of a traveling bust of Elon Musk. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Greg Perkins)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to the National Parks Conservation Association, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/articles/9551-staffing-crisis-at-national-parks-reaches-breaking-point-new-data-shows-24\">permanent staffing at national parks around the United States has fallen 24%\u003c/a> since President Donald Trump took office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>National Parks have \u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/articles/2675-lands-of-protest\">long been used as sites of protest\u003c/a>, including \u003ca href=\"https://planning.dc.gov/publication/history-resistance-lafayette-square-and-black-lives-matter-movement-washington-dc\">2020 Black Lives Matter protests\u003c/a> in Washington, D.C.’s Lafayette Square opposite the White House and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11788540/a-look-back-at-the-occupation-of-alcatraz-50-years-later\">Native American occupation of Alcatraz Island in the 1960s\u003c/a>. In February,\u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/upside-us-flag-hung-yosemite-national-park-protest-employee-cuts-rcna193409\"> Yosemite staffers hung an upside-down United State flag\u003c/a> from the face of El Capitan during \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11860844/yosemite-firefall-week-2021\">the park’s annual “firefall” event\u003c/a> in protest of the Trump administration’s proposed cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049021\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12049021 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/S_ElYose4-e1753130794983.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/S_ElYose4-e1753130794983.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/S_ElYose4-e1753130794983-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/S_ElYose4-e1753130794983-1536x1026.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The bust of Elon Musk towed on a trailer behind a truck driving through Yosemite National Park. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Greg Perkins)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration’s policies have taken direct aim at public lands during the president’s first six months back in office, from \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Fiscal-Year-2026-Discretionary-Budget-Request.pdf\">calls to cut $900 million from the NPS operations budget\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046147/incredibly-short-sighted-land-conservation-groups-rally-against-gop-proposal-to-sell-off-public-lands-like-tahoe\">attempts to sell U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management properties\u003c/a> to private buyers to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/26/nx-s1-5444323/national-park-trump-signs\">new signs asking visitors to federal lands to report signage\u003c/a> that includes “negative” information about U.S. history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049028\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049028\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/S_ElYose3_CROP.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1139\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/S_ElYose3_CROP.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/S_ElYose3_CROP-160x95.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/S_ElYose3_CROP-1536x911.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A giant head of former DOGE head Elon Musk travels through Yosemite National Park. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Greg Perkins)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046147/incredibly-short-sighted-land-conservation-groups-rally-against-gop-proposal-to-sell-off-public-lands-like-tahoe\">lands sale was ultimately scrapped from Republicans’ budget bill\u003c/a>, and most \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2025/07/15/national-parks-spared-deeper-budget-cuts-2026-grassroots-protests/\">parks funding may remain intact in 2026\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12048367/can-trump-really-reopen-alcatraz-delegation-heads-to-island-to-make-case\">top Trump officials still have their eyes on Alcatraz National Park as a future federal prison site\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some national parks are also struggling not only with \u003ca href=\"https://time.com/7301979/national-park-system-trump-administration/\">low morale around the uncertainty \u003c/a>of staffing shortages and underfunding, but also \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/23/nx-s1-5393641/trump-budget-cuts-national-parks-joshua-tree-safety\">with reported lower visitation\u003c/a> as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040535/canadians-tourists-say-they-are-avoiding-the-united-states-due-to-fear\">international travel wanes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ -->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They appeared in plain clothes outside a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/immigration-raids-san-diego-hotels-tourism/3859339/\">San Diego\u003c/a> hotel, wore camouflage as they \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/07/worksite-immigration-raids/\">raided a Los Angeles factory\u003c/a> and arrived with military gear at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-10/federal-immigration-sweep-ventura-county-farms\">Ventura County farm\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The presence of thousands of hard-to-identify federal agents is a new fact of life in Southern California this summer as the Trump administration carries out the president’s promised deportations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many residents may assume these masked agents are officers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). But that’s not always the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of them belong to the Border Patrol, the agency that traditionally has policed the nation’s border with Mexico. But the Trump administration sent officers from other agencies to Los Angeles, too, including the FBI and special tactical teams from the Department of Homeland Security not widely seen until now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats in California’s Legislature have proposed measures to unmask the federal agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Bill 627, the “\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb627\">No Secret Police Act\u003c/a>,” seeks to prohibit all local, state and federal officers from using masks with some exceptions. SB 805, the “\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb805\">No Vigilantes Act\u003c/a>,” would require that officers clearly display their name or badge number. It’s disputed whether the state can regulate federal officers and law enforcement agencies are lobbying against the proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal regulations \u003ca href=\"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-8/chapter-I/subchapter-B/part-287/section-287.8#p-287.8(c)\">state\u003c/a> that ICE and Border Patrol agents should identify themselves when arresting someone “as soon as it is practical and safe to do so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the public is allowed to ask federal agents to identify themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12047506 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250609-SEIUProtests-07-BL_qed.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But David Levine, a professor at UC Law San Francisco said, “they can ask but it doesn’t mean they’ll get the information.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of sweeps and detentions appeared to slow this week after a federal judge issued a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/07/la-immigration-restraining-order/\">temporary restraining order\u003c/a>, finding that agents stopped people based on someone’s race, language, accent, presence at a specific location or job. For ensuing stops, agents must have “reasonable suspicion” that doesn’t consider those factors “alone or in combination,” according to the judge’s order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While ICE is a different agency than Border Patrol, both are part of the Department of Homeland Security and carry out immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The difference may not always matter much, but misidentifying an agency can confuse the public, as it did with the sighting of \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-06-19/dhs-agents-at-dodger-stadium-area\">federal agents\u003c/a> outside Dodger Stadium in June. The agents reportedly had no visible names or badges and attempted to enter the stadium’s parking lots. The Dodgers put out a statement that “ICE agents” had been denied entry to the stadium. ICE denied it was ever there; the Department of Homeland Security then clarified that it had been Customs and Border Protection agents at the venue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Images on social media show a constellation of federal agencies supporting immigration sweeps in Southern California. Here’s how you can identify them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Border Patrol far from the border\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/070725_ILLO_Operation-Excalibur-MacArthur-Park_Hendricks_CM_14-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Three heavily armed U.S. Border Patrol agents in tactical gear stand outside in a city setting with palm trees and buildings in the background. All are wearing helmets, face coverings, and body armor. A zoomed-in inset highlights a round shoulder patch with yellow text reading “U.S. Border Patrol” over a blue map of the United States. The photo is black and white, except for the yellow and blue colors of the patch in the inset.\">\u003cfigcaption>Federal agents descend on MacArthur Park in Los Angeles on July 7, 2025. \u003cem>J.W. Hendricks for CalMatters\u003c/em>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Border Patrol agents often wear green uniforms and “Border Patrol” and “U.S. Customs and Border Protection” might be labeled on their badge, vest, shoulder, back, bucket hat or cap, and usually in yellow text over blue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their marked vehicles tend to be white with a green slash, reading “Border Patrol” on the side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some might confuse Border Patrol with Customs and Border Protection officers. Those officials wear blue and usually stay stationed at ports of entry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You may be wondering why Border Patrol agents are conducting immigration operations deep into Los Angeles neighborhoods, rather than staying closer to the border.[aside postID=news_12047018 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/IMG_1067-2000x1500.jpg']Border Patrol agents can search vehicles without a warrant throughout much of the country. They’re allowed to operate 100 miles from any edge of the country and coastline, reaching roughly two-thirds of the U.S. population, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2025/04/border-patrol-records-kern-county/\">CalMatters investigation\u003c/a> and documentary produced in partnership with Evident and Bellingcat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since its \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbp.gov/border-security/along-us-borders/overview\">creation\u003c/a> by Congress in 1924, the Border Patrol’s role has been to prevent unauthorized entry into the United States. The agency \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbp.gov/border-security/along-us-borders\">polices\u003c/a> trade, narcotics, contraband and combats human trafficking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency has a SWAT-like unit known as BORTAC, or Border Patrol Tactical Unit, which has also been documented in immigrant hubs such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/mel_buer_/p/DL0bj-LBOyT/?img_index=1\">MacArthur Park\u003c/a>, Los Angeles’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DLlaVtDS-2N/\">Toy District\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/story/2025-06-20/photos-federal-raid-in-bell-met-with-protests\">Bell\u003c/a>. Border Patrol sources describe the unit’s use for “high-risk” purposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fatigues, the unit wears a “BORTAC” patch on the left shoulder with, at times, black undershirts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Customs and Border Protection also \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/federal-agents-execute-search-warrant-in-north-hills-neighborhood/3734363/\">deployed\u003c/a> its tactical Special Response Team in Los Angeles’ North Hills late June, executing a federal search warrant at a “human smuggling hub” tied to national security threats, arresting two, according to the agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>ICE in police vests\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>ICE agents might wear an “ICE” patch on the front or back of their vest, usually in black-and-white, though they also can carry a badge of the same design in gold. The ICE emblem features the U.S. Department of Homeland Security eagle \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/department-homeland-security-seal\">seal\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE agents might display “police” on their uniform. The ACLU wants ICE to stop using the word “police” on uniforms, contending the agency is impersonating local law enforcement officers\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After 9/11, the Bush administration created the Department of Homeland Security, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement within it shortly thereafter. ICE is \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/history\">tasked\u003c/a> with enforcing trade and immigration laws, including within the interior of the country.[aside postID=news_12047397 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/immigration-protest-1020x680.jpeg']The Cato Institute \u003ca href=\"https://www.cato.org/blog/65-people-taken-ice-had-no-convictions-93-no-violent-convictions\">found\u003c/a> that ICE booked over 200,000 people into detention between October 1 and June 14. More than 93% of book-ins had no violent conviction and 65% had no criminal conviction whatsoever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE itself has a few enforcement divisions. That’s why some ICE uniforms might read \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/about-ice/ero\">ERO \u003c/a>— part of their “Enforcement and Removal Operations” team — or \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/about-ice/hsi\">HSI\u003c/a> for “Homeland Security Investigations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2024, ICE launched a rebrand and created the investigations unit to develop cases, and improve public outreach, including with local law enforcement, an \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/homeland-security-agency-ice-rebrands-aid-investigations/story?id=109510154\">HSI official told\u003c/a> ABC News.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to its \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/about-ice\">website\u003c/a>, HSI combats a broad array of transnational-related crime, ranging from narcotics smuggling to cybercrime, and from human trafficking to intellectual property theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/about-ice/ero\">ERO\u003c/a> meanwhile manages all aspects of the typical immigration enforcement process: identifying, arresting, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/statistics\">GPS monitoring\u003c/a>, and deporting unauthorized immigrants. \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/mission\">Their site description \u003c/a>also says they seek to deport priority undocumented immigrants after they are released from U.S. jails and prisons. They can also assist multi-agency task forces in arresting unauthorized immigrants without any other criminal history who are “deemed a threat to public safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE also deployed its Special Response Team (SRT), decked in military wear and weaponry, in San Diego late May. It sent a dozen or more of those officers to the \u003ca href=\"https://lapublicpress.org/2025/06/vendor-safety-santa-fe-springs-swap-meet-raid/\">Santa Fe Springs Swap Meet\u003c/a> near southeast Los Angeles in June, detaining two people for deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agents from those teams will often feature their logo on the shoulder and will be seen in heavy military-like uniforms. The teams are meant to engage “high risk” situations, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/about-ice/hsi/news/hsi-insider/strategic-safety-operations\">ICE\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Rare National Guard deployment\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>National Guard troops had been most visible outside a federal building during protests in \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/06/la-immigration-protests-photo-essay/\">downtown Los Angeles\u003c/a>, but have also accompanied a few immigration enforcement operations. In \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/DEALOSANGELES/status/1935558820014809383\">mid-June\u003c/a>, National Guard soldiers accompanied federal agents raiding marijuana farms around Thermal, a desert town near Coachella, where about \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/DEALOSANGELES/status/1935559162144141669\">70 undocumented immigrants\u003c/a> were arrested, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 7, about 90 California National Guard soldiers swept through the Los Angeles immigrant hub of MacArthur Park, a defense official said, to protect immigration agents from potentially hostile crowds, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-immigration-raid-troops-military-2d81f5c35f9d11db9e32234e03480497\">according to the Associated Press\u003c/a>. They also were on site in \u003ca href=\"https://www.dvidshub.net/image/9177508/soldiers-support-federal-operation-southern-california\">Carpinteria\u003c/a> last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Guard troops in L.A. wear Army uniforms. Soldiers in the state units have patches on their left shoulder that show a \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/army/comments/rc5ctq/found_this_unit_patch_online_can_anyone_tell_me/\">raven\u003c/a>, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.dvidshub.net/image/9131019/california-national-guard-soldiers-support-federal-security-mission-los-angeles\">sunburst\u003c/a>, or a \u003ca href=\"http://www.uniforms-4u.com/p-49th-military-police-mp-brigade-acu-military-patch-4901.aspx\">sunburst\u003c/a> on top a diamond, each in black and green color schemes. Troops will also have a full color \u003ca href=\"https://www.dvidshub.net/image/9111385/california-national-guard-soldiers-provide-protection-federal-law-enforcement-federal-operation\">U.S. flag\u003c/a> on the right shoulder. The patch under that, if any, can vary and may be based on a soldier’s past deployments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the U.S. military, the National Guard is able to serve both domestically and globally for state and federal duties, assisting with natural disasters, border security, civil unrest, overseas combat, counter-drug efforts and more. Soldiers largely stay in their home state and can be called on by the state governor or president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom opposed President Trump’s decision to send the troops to Los Angeles, and the assignment marked the first time that a president has deployed the National Guard \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/06/national-guard-los-angeles-legal/\">over the objections of a governor\u003c/a> since the Civil Rights era.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>More federal law enforcement officers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In January, a Homeland Security memo called for Justice Department agents to carry out immigration enforcement, according to \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/dhs-allows-us-marshals-dea-atf-carry-immigration/story?id=118022307\">ABC News\u003c/a>. Deputized bureaus include the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), the U.S. Marshals Service, the Federal Bureau of Prisons receiving the “same authority already granted to the FBI.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers’ affiliations can be seen on their vests, jackets, or at times, their shoulder patches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agents wearing FBI fatigues were most visible in the worksite sweep at Ambiance Apparel in L.A.’s Fashion District, arguably the first major operation of the current wave of raids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 10, FBI Los Angeles’ X account \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/FBILosAngeles/status/1932573649585787303\">touted\u003c/a> its collaboration with an ICE operation in Ventura County. They have also \u003ca href=\"https://www.fox10tv.com/2025/06/26/hsi-fbi-speak-illegal-immigration-raid-gulf-shores-high-school/\">participated\u003c/a> in other immigration raids across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson with the Justice Department declined to comment on how it deployed agents from various agencies. In early June, the FBI \u003ca href=\"https://ktla.com/news/local-news/federal-agents-raid-home-depot-in-westlake-district/\">told\u003c/a> KTLA that it is participating in immigration enforcement in Los Angeles and nationwide “as directed by the Attorney General,” supporting with SWAT, intelligence and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ATF was also seen at the Ambiance Apparel raid. The DEA was there, too, and has since \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/DEALOSANGELES/status/1932898021626556425/photo/1\">collaborated\u003c/a> with ICE in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On X, U.S. Marshals \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/USMSLosAngeles/status/1935684366589415896/photo/1\">touted\u003c/a> themselves as “on the front lines of immigration enforcement” in Los Angeles while showing officers interviewing a man on a bike. Marshals were also on \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/USMSLosAngeles/status/1943918200799772806/photo/1\">site\u003c/a> at a Ventura County marijuana farm raid where more than 200 people were arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Can California unmask federal agents?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The use of masked agents without clearly identifying uniforms has confused the public, including local police receiving reports of kidnappings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Attorney General Rob Bonta \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-issues-warning-amid-increased-reports-fake-ice-officers\">warned\u003c/a> in March that reports of ICE impersonations were growing. Alleged federal agent impersonations have occurred in Huntington Park, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fox6now.com/news/new-berlin-border-patrol-impersonator-charges\">Wisconsin\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDUXfqt4QUs\">Philadelphia\u003c/a> and elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t even know who these people are. It’s so dangerous, it’s so horrific, and it’s time to put standards in place,” said Sen. Scott Wiener, a San Francisco Democrat who is backing two proposals that would compel law enforcement officers to go without masks and display identification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration maintains that the masks are necessary to protect officers’ identities as they carry out investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, I’m sorry if people are offended by them wearing masks but I’m not going to let my officers and agents go out there and put their lives on the line and their family on the line because people don’t like what immigration enforcement is,” \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.ap.org/editorial-photos-videos/detail?itemid=dfdb587be6bb4d8d829c7d1b92812a76\">said\u003c/a> acting ICE Director Todd Lyons in a press conference early June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And some law enforcement experts say the federal government has that authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Certain legislators are giving a false sense of hope that California can legislate laws to control the practices of federal agents,” said Ed Obayashi, a longtime sheriff’s deputy in California and policy adviser to the Modoc County Sheriff’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They cannot do that — bottom line. Plain and simple. Federal law is supreme.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acknowledging potential legal disputes, Wiener said he’s willing to test the “time-sensitive” bills in the courts.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>“Federal employees can’t just come in and ignore all California laws,” he said. “There are laws that they have to follow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/07/immigration-raids-who/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The Cato Institute \u003ca href=\"https://www.cato.org/blog/65-people-taken-ice-had-no-convictions-93-no-violent-convictions\">found\u003c/a> that ICE booked over 200,000 people into detention between October 1 and June 14. More than 93% of book-ins had no violent conviction and 65% had no criminal conviction whatsoever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE itself has a few enforcement divisions. That’s why some ICE uniforms might read \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/about-ice/ero\">ERO \u003c/a>— part of their “Enforcement and Removal Operations” team — or \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/about-ice/hsi\">HSI\u003c/a> for “Homeland Security Investigations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2024, ICE launched a rebrand and created the investigations unit to develop cases, and improve public outreach, including with local law enforcement, an \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/homeland-security-agency-ice-rebrands-aid-investigations/story?id=109510154\">HSI official told\u003c/a> ABC News.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to its \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/about-ice\">website\u003c/a>, HSI combats a broad array of transnational-related crime, ranging from narcotics smuggling to cybercrime, and from human trafficking to intellectual property theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/about-ice/ero\">ERO\u003c/a> meanwhile manages all aspects of the typical immigration enforcement process: identifying, arresting, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/statistics\">GPS monitoring\u003c/a>, and deporting unauthorized immigrants. \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/mission\">Their site description \u003c/a>also says they seek to deport priority undocumented immigrants after they are released from U.S. jails and prisons. They can also assist multi-agency task forces in arresting unauthorized immigrants without any other criminal history who are “deemed a threat to public safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE also deployed its Special Response Team (SRT), decked in military wear and weaponry, in San Diego late May. It sent a dozen or more of those officers to the \u003ca href=\"https://lapublicpress.org/2025/06/vendor-safety-santa-fe-springs-swap-meet-raid/\">Santa Fe Springs Swap Meet\u003c/a> near southeast Los Angeles in June, detaining two people for deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agents from those teams will often feature their logo on the shoulder and will be seen in heavy military-like uniforms. The teams are meant to engage “high risk” situations, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/about-ice/hsi/news/hsi-insider/strategic-safety-operations\">ICE\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Rare National Guard deployment\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>National Guard troops had been most visible outside a federal building during protests in \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/06/la-immigration-protests-photo-essay/\">downtown Los Angeles\u003c/a>, but have also accompanied a few immigration enforcement operations. In \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/DEALOSANGELES/status/1935558820014809383\">mid-June\u003c/a>, National Guard soldiers accompanied federal agents raiding marijuana farms around Thermal, a desert town near Coachella, where about \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/DEALOSANGELES/status/1935559162144141669\">70 undocumented immigrants\u003c/a> were arrested, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 7, about 90 California National Guard soldiers swept through the Los Angeles immigrant hub of MacArthur Park, a defense official said, to protect immigration agents from potentially hostile crowds, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-immigration-raid-troops-military-2d81f5c35f9d11db9e32234e03480497\">according to the Associated Press\u003c/a>. They also were on site in \u003ca href=\"https://www.dvidshub.net/image/9177508/soldiers-support-federal-operation-southern-california\">Carpinteria\u003c/a> last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Guard troops in L.A. wear Army uniforms. Soldiers in the state units have patches on their left shoulder that show a \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/army/comments/rc5ctq/found_this_unit_patch_online_can_anyone_tell_me/\">raven\u003c/a>, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.dvidshub.net/image/9131019/california-national-guard-soldiers-support-federal-security-mission-los-angeles\">sunburst\u003c/a>, or a \u003ca href=\"http://www.uniforms-4u.com/p-49th-military-police-mp-brigade-acu-military-patch-4901.aspx\">sunburst\u003c/a> on top a diamond, each in black and green color schemes. Troops will also have a full color \u003ca href=\"https://www.dvidshub.net/image/9111385/california-national-guard-soldiers-provide-protection-federal-law-enforcement-federal-operation\">U.S. flag\u003c/a> on the right shoulder. The patch under that, if any, can vary and may be based on a soldier’s past deployments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the U.S. military, the National Guard is able to serve both domestically and globally for state and federal duties, assisting with natural disasters, border security, civil unrest, overseas combat, counter-drug efforts and more. Soldiers largely stay in their home state and can be called on by the state governor or president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom opposed President Trump’s decision to send the troops to Los Angeles, and the assignment marked the first time that a president has deployed the National Guard \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/06/national-guard-los-angeles-legal/\">over the objections of a governor\u003c/a> since the Civil Rights era.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>More federal law enforcement officers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In January, a Homeland Security memo called for Justice Department agents to carry out immigration enforcement, according to \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/dhs-allows-us-marshals-dea-atf-carry-immigration/story?id=118022307\">ABC News\u003c/a>. Deputized bureaus include the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), the U.S. Marshals Service, the Federal Bureau of Prisons receiving the “same authority already granted to the FBI.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers’ affiliations can be seen on their vests, jackets, or at times, their shoulder patches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agents wearing FBI fatigues were most visible in the worksite sweep at Ambiance Apparel in L.A.’s Fashion District, arguably the first major operation of the current wave of raids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 10, FBI Los Angeles’ X account \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/FBILosAngeles/status/1932573649585787303\">touted\u003c/a> its collaboration with an ICE operation in Ventura County. They have also \u003ca href=\"https://www.fox10tv.com/2025/06/26/hsi-fbi-speak-illegal-immigration-raid-gulf-shores-high-school/\">participated\u003c/a> in other immigration raids across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson with the Justice Department declined to comment on how it deployed agents from various agencies. In early June, the FBI \u003ca href=\"https://ktla.com/news/local-news/federal-agents-raid-home-depot-in-westlake-district/\">told\u003c/a> KTLA that it is participating in immigration enforcement in Los Angeles and nationwide “as directed by the Attorney General,” supporting with SWAT, intelligence and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ATF was also seen at the Ambiance Apparel raid. The DEA was there, too, and has since \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/DEALOSANGELES/status/1932898021626556425/photo/1\">collaborated\u003c/a> with ICE in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On X, U.S. Marshals \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/USMSLosAngeles/status/1935684366589415896/photo/1\">touted\u003c/a> themselves as “on the front lines of immigration enforcement” in Los Angeles while showing officers interviewing a man on a bike. Marshals were also on \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/USMSLosAngeles/status/1943918200799772806/photo/1\">site\u003c/a> at a Ventura County marijuana farm raid where more than 200 people were arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Can California unmask federal agents?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The use of masked agents without clearly identifying uniforms has confused the public, including local police receiving reports of kidnappings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Attorney General Rob Bonta \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-issues-warning-amid-increased-reports-fake-ice-officers\">warned\u003c/a> in March that reports of ICE impersonations were growing. 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Federal authorities ultimately reported \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/immigration-raids-marijuana-farm-southern-california-arrests-ead862824a6e994fdfd5297aa1cd6c79\">more than 360 arrests\u003c/a> of people they suspected of being in the country illegally and the recovery of 14 immigrant minors. Glass House Farms did not respond to emailed questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is absolutely heightened risk working for a cannabis facility. It shouldn’t be that way,” Woodson said. “Folks should be aware of that risk and we should be prepared as an industry to manage that risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration has not given an indication whether those operations were an isolated incident or a reflection of shifting enforcement priorities on cannabis. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration did not respond to emailed questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates had hoped that Trump might finally lead the way on loosening federal restrictions on cannabis. Yet since \u003ca href=\"https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113105431683796730\">suggesting during his campaign\u003c/a> last fall that he would downgrade the classification of weed so that its medical uses can be more easily studied, Trump has \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/us/trump-biden-marijuana-policy.html\">made no moves toward rescheduling\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other developments signal that momentum may be moving in the opposite direction. 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