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It’s geared toward low-income farmworkers, like Vicente and Cornelio, and the other families displaced from the mushroom farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Joaquín Jiménez, mayor, Half Moon Bay\"]‘We’re looking for opportunities to better the lives of our essential workers.’[/pullquote]Two other farmworker housing projects are also in the works in the area, though they’ll take longer. Together, they could create some 200 units, and make a modest dent in the acute shortage of affordable housing in coastal San Mateo County. The most recent survey available, from 2016, found \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/housing/agricultural-workforce-housing-needs-assessment\">the county needs at least 1,000 units of farmworker housing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would be so happy to have a house like that,” says Cornelio, who still struggles with the trauma of the mass shooting, even after group therapy provided by a local community organization. “I’m so grateful to everyone who has extended a hand to us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We are in an emergency’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last year, after the shooting, officials, including Gov. Gavin Newsom and Rep. Anna Eshoo, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11941716/we-have-a-moment-here-an-urgent-push-for-farmworker-housing-in-wake-of-half-moon-bay-tragedy\">pledged to transform the tragedy\u003c/a> into critically needed investments in decent farmworker housing. That’s a much more costly proposition here in the expensive Bay Area than in more rural parts of the state, and the sense of urgency continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11939603,forum_2010101892120,news_11939470\"]“We are in an emergency,” Half Moon Bay Mayor Joaquín Jiménez says. “Families are still living crowded. They’re getting ready to move out of Half Moon Bay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials cobbled together the $16 million budget for Stone Pine Cove from a combination of federal, state and local sources, plus some philanthropic dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County Supervisor Ray Mueller says ensuring good quality, affordable housing for farmworkers is not only the right thing to do, it’s important for the health of the county’s economy — where \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/ceo/news/san-mateo-county-agriculture-production-near-100-million\">agriculture is a $100-million industry\u003c/a>, with products ranging from flowers to Brussels sprouts to Half Moon Bay’s famous pumpkins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Agriculture is incredibly important,” Mueller says. “It provides food resilience to the region. … and then obviously there’s the economics of being able to go ahead and have that thriving industry there which provides good jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials estimate San Mateo County has as many as 2,000 farmworkers overall, mostly in the area locals refer to as the “Coastside.” Mueller says he’s working to make it easier for farmers to build quality housing on their farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982574\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982574\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Joaquin Jimenez stops on a bridge in downtown Half Moon Bay on March 14, 2024. Jimenez, the son of a farmworker, has made farmworker housing a priority. \u003ccite>(Tyche Hendricks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Affordable housing in the works\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The $1 million the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors committed to housing the 38 displaced mushroom farm workers for a year ran out this month, but Half Moon Bay and local foundations will cover a second year while Stone Pine Cove is built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other affordable housing projects are in the works, too, but they won’t be ready for several years. Half Moon Bay plans a 40-unit apartment building for farmworkers 55 and older. Meanwhile, the county is in the process of buying a former flower nursery where Mueller says 100 homes could be built and is eyeing two other locations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are light years from where we were a year ago,” Mueller says. “But we haven’t crossed the finish line in terms of opening any of those housing sites. … So we can’t lose that momentum. The good news is, there’s no indication that we will.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shooting also prompted the county to create \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/planning/farm-labor-housing-compliance\">a new task force to inspect all on-farm housing\u003c/a> in unincorporated areas to ensure it meets health and safety standards. County officials say of the roughly 50 farms they’ve visited that provide housing, they haven’t found egregious violations, but more than a quarter have been ordered to make fixes such as repairing unsafe wiring and ensuring a clean water supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982571\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982571\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At a Half Moon Bay City Council meeting on March 14, 2024, Mayor Joaquín Jiménez speaks about the urgency of building affordable housing for farmworkers and other essential workers with low incomes. \u003ccite>(Tyche Hendricks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘That much more severe for farmworkers’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The agricultural region of coastside San Mateo County is just over a ridge from the heart of Silicon Valley, where high salaries and stock options have fueled ever-increasing housing costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent survey by the California Association of Realtors showed \u003ca href=\"https://www.car.org/aboutus/mediacenter/newsreleases/2024-News-Releases/4qtr2023hai#:~:text=Lassen%20(49%20percent)%20remained%20the,the%20fourth%20quarter%20of%202023.\">the median home price in San Mateo County is over $1.9 million\u003c/a>, making it the most expensive county in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edward Flores, the faculty director at UC Merced’s Center for Community and Labor Center, says the acute housing crisis for farmworkers in San Mateo is simply a more extreme example of a statewide affordable housing problem confronting millions of workers who fill essential jobs but are paid little.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Agricultural workers are among the lowest-earning occupations,” he says. “So as severe as the state’s housing crisis is for low-wage workers, it’s even that much more severe for farm workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most farmworkers in the Coastside earn little more than the minimum wage of $17.35/hour, Jiménez says, the Half Moon Bay mayor. But in San Mateo County, \u003ca href=\"https://livingwage.mit.edu/\">a living wage that covers the basics\u003c/a> can be well over twice that, depending on how many children a worker supports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact is, we need help from the county,” says Vicente, the mushroom farm worker. “Because here in Half Moon Bay the rent is really high, and we don’t earn much.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Sharing a home with 21 people\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As the child of farmworkers himself, Jiménez knows what it’s like when low-wage workers have to crowd into housing. During his teenage years, he says, his family shared a three-bedroom, one-bathroom house with 21 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Vicente, farmworker\"]‘The fact is, we need help from the county. Because here in Half Moon Bay, the rent is really high, and we don’t earn much.’[/pullquote]After running \u003ca href=\"https://www.alasdreams.com\">a local\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.alasdreams.com\">farmworker outreach program\u003c/a> for years, Jiménez is now spearheading a project to build \u003ca href=\"https://www.hmbreview.com/news/co-op-plants-opportunities-for-farmworkers/article_229f9136-7946-11ec-b1d0-1f79501ec0a3.html\">a farmworker co-op\u003c/a> in Half Moon Bay where farmworkers can profit from the produce they grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea is to help them build wealth for their family,” he says. “We’re looking for opportunities to better the lives of our essential workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent visit to the future site of Stone Pine Cove, Jiménez extolled the fact that 28 of the homes will be available for purchase, using \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/grants-and-funding/programs-active/joe-serna-jr-farmworker-housing-grant\">a state program of forgivable 20-year home loans\u003c/a> geared toward agricultural workers with very low incomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The farmworkers are going to get to own their modular home,” says Jiménez, who says home ownership is one more step toward stability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parcel sits just across a small creek from the California Terra Garden mushroom farm. When it’s developed, it will have a wildlife buffer along the creek, a walking trail and a playground for children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sitting on the porch of the guesthouse, Vicente says he can picture his son playing in a little park like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t need a fancy house,” he says. “Just a simple house with the basics, where we can be together as a family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Last year’s mass shooting spurred local leaders to act. Dozens of homes for farmworker families should be ready in early 2024, but other projects could take years.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1713195420,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":35,"wordCount":1675},"headData":{"title":"Half Moon Bay Prepares to Break Ground on Farmworker Housing | KQED","description":"Last year’s mass shooting spurred local leaders to act. Dozens of homes for farmworker families should be ready in early 2024, but other projects could take years.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/05712339-7ba0-41a4-916b-b141010298ad/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11982817/half-moon-bay-prepares-to-break-ground-on-farmworker-housing","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After their shift at a local mushroom farm one recent afternoon, two farmworkers, smudged with dirt and sawdust, trudged back to their rented rooms in Half Moon Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The motel rooms are clean and safe and have been home for Vicente and Cornelio since shortly after a coworker opened fire at this farm and another nearby in January 2023. The men asked that we use only their first names for immigration concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the mass shooting claimed seven lives, it also shone a light on the terrible living conditions at the mushroom farms, which local officials decried as deplorable and heartbreaking and vowed to improve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were four of us in the trailer,” says Vicente, 52, who has worked at the farm for three years. “We had nowhere to cook and no hot water. You endure it out of necessity. But it was not good, suffering in the cold like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While these rooms, paid for by the county, have heat and access to a kitchen, Vicente says knowing he’ll have to move has added to his sense of vulnerability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982572\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982572\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Half Moon Bay Mayor Joaquin Jimenez (in vest) and housing coordinator Mike Noce visit a site on March 14, 2023, where the city plans to build 47 affordable homes for farmworkers with very low incomes. The project is due to break ground next month and will include units for rent and for purchase, Noce says. \u003ccite>(Tyche Hendricks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Ever since the tragedy, we feel insecure. It affected us so much,” he says, adding that he wants a home where he can reunite with his wife and 7-year-old son. The family has been separated since the shooting because they couldn’t afford a place big enough to live together, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That desire for a permanent place could be a reality by early next year. Half Moon Bay officials plan to break ground next month to erect nearly four dozen manufactured homes. The new development, known as Stone Pine Cove, will be built on a parcel of city land, less than a 10-minute walk from downtown Half Moon Bay. It’s geared toward low-income farmworkers, like Vicente and Cornelio, and the other families displaced from the mushroom farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘We’re looking for opportunities to better the lives of our essential workers.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Joaquín Jiménez, mayor, Half Moon Bay","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Two other farmworker housing projects are also in the works in the area, though they’ll take longer. Together, they could create some 200 units, and make a modest dent in the acute shortage of affordable housing in coastal San Mateo County. The most recent survey available, from 2016, found \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/housing/agricultural-workforce-housing-needs-assessment\">the county needs at least 1,000 units of farmworker housing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would be so happy to have a house like that,” says Cornelio, who still struggles with the trauma of the mass shooting, even after group therapy provided by a local community organization. “I’m so grateful to everyone who has extended a hand to us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We are in an emergency’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last year, after the shooting, officials, including Gov. Gavin Newsom and Rep. Anna Eshoo, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11941716/we-have-a-moment-here-an-urgent-push-for-farmworker-housing-in-wake-of-half-moon-bay-tragedy\">pledged to transform the tragedy\u003c/a> into critically needed investments in decent farmworker housing. That’s a much more costly proposition here in the expensive Bay Area than in more rural parts of the state, and the sense of urgency continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"news_11939603,forum_2010101892120,news_11939470"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We are in an emergency,” Half Moon Bay Mayor Joaquín Jiménez says. “Families are still living crowded. They’re getting ready to move out of Half Moon Bay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials cobbled together the $16 million budget for Stone Pine Cove from a combination of federal, state and local sources, plus some philanthropic dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County Supervisor Ray Mueller says ensuring good quality, affordable housing for farmworkers is not only the right thing to do, it’s important for the health of the county’s economy — where \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/ceo/news/san-mateo-county-agriculture-production-near-100-million\">agriculture is a $100-million industry\u003c/a>, with products ranging from flowers to Brussels sprouts to Half Moon Bay’s famous pumpkins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Agriculture is incredibly important,” Mueller says. “It provides food resilience to the region. … and then obviously there’s the economics of being able to go ahead and have that thriving industry there which provides good jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials estimate San Mateo County has as many as 2,000 farmworkers overall, mostly in the area locals refer to as the “Coastside.” Mueller says he’s working to make it easier for farmers to build quality housing on their farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982574\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982574\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Joaquin Jimenez stops on a bridge in downtown Half Moon Bay on March 14, 2024. Jimenez, the son of a farmworker, has made farmworker housing a priority. \u003ccite>(Tyche Hendricks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Affordable housing in the works\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The $1 million the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors committed to housing the 38 displaced mushroom farm workers for a year ran out this month, but Half Moon Bay and local foundations will cover a second year while Stone Pine Cove is built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other affordable housing projects are in the works, too, but they won’t be ready for several years. Half Moon Bay plans a 40-unit apartment building for farmworkers 55 and older. Meanwhile, the county is in the process of buying a former flower nursery where Mueller says 100 homes could be built and is eyeing two other locations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are light years from where we were a year ago,” Mueller says. “But we haven’t crossed the finish line in terms of opening any of those housing sites. … So we can’t lose that momentum. The good news is, there’s no indication that we will.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shooting also prompted the county to create \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/planning/farm-labor-housing-compliance\">a new task force to inspect all on-farm housing\u003c/a> in unincorporated areas to ensure it meets health and safety standards. County officials say of the roughly 50 farms they’ve visited that provide housing, they haven’t found egregious violations, but more than a quarter have been ordered to make fixes such as repairing unsafe wiring and ensuring a clean water supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982571\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982571\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-HMB-Farmworkers-TH-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At a Half Moon Bay City Council meeting on March 14, 2024, Mayor Joaquín Jiménez speaks about the urgency of building affordable housing for farmworkers and other essential workers with low incomes. \u003ccite>(Tyche Hendricks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘That much more severe for farmworkers’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The agricultural region of coastside San Mateo County is just over a ridge from the heart of Silicon Valley, where high salaries and stock options have fueled ever-increasing housing costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent survey by the California Association of Realtors showed \u003ca href=\"https://www.car.org/aboutus/mediacenter/newsreleases/2024-News-Releases/4qtr2023hai#:~:text=Lassen%20(49%20percent)%20remained%20the,the%20fourth%20quarter%20of%202023.\">the median home price in San Mateo County is over $1.9 million\u003c/a>, making it the most expensive county in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edward Flores, the faculty director at UC Merced’s Center for Community and Labor Center, says the acute housing crisis for farmworkers in San Mateo is simply a more extreme example of a statewide affordable housing problem confronting millions of workers who fill essential jobs but are paid little.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Agricultural workers are among the lowest-earning occupations,” he says. “So as severe as the state’s housing crisis is for low-wage workers, it’s even that much more severe for farm workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most farmworkers in the Coastside earn little more than the minimum wage of $17.35/hour, Jiménez says, the Half Moon Bay mayor. But in San Mateo County, \u003ca href=\"https://livingwage.mit.edu/\">a living wage that covers the basics\u003c/a> can be well over twice that, depending on how many children a worker supports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact is, we need help from the county,” says Vicente, the mushroom farm worker. “Because here in Half Moon Bay the rent is really high, and we don’t earn much.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Sharing a home with 21 people\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As the child of farmworkers himself, Jiménez knows what it’s like when low-wage workers have to crowd into housing. During his teenage years, he says, his family shared a three-bedroom, one-bathroom house with 21 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘The fact is, we need help from the county. Because here in Half Moon Bay, the rent is really high, and we don’t earn much.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Vicente, farmworker","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>After running \u003ca href=\"https://www.alasdreams.com\">a local\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.alasdreams.com\">farmworker outreach program\u003c/a> for years, Jiménez is now spearheading a project to build \u003ca href=\"https://www.hmbreview.com/news/co-op-plants-opportunities-for-farmworkers/article_229f9136-7946-11ec-b1d0-1f79501ec0a3.html\">a farmworker co-op\u003c/a> in Half Moon Bay where farmworkers can profit from the produce they grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea is to help them build wealth for their family,” he says. “We’re looking for opportunities to better the lives of our essential workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent visit to the future site of Stone Pine Cove, Jiménez extolled the fact that 28 of the homes will be available for purchase, using \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/grants-and-funding/programs-active/joe-serna-jr-farmworker-housing-grant\">a state program of forgivable 20-year home loans\u003c/a> geared toward agricultural workers with very low incomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The farmworkers are going to get to own their modular home,” says Jiménez, who says home ownership is one more step toward stability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parcel sits just across a small creek from the California Terra Garden mushroom farm. When it’s developed, it will have a wildlife buffer along the creek, a walking trail and a playground for children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sitting on the porch of the guesthouse, Vicente says he can picture his son playing in a little park like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t need a fancy house,” he says. “Just a simple house with the basics, where we can be together as a family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11982817/half-moon-bay-prepares-to-break-ground-on-farmworker-housing","authors":["259"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_6266","news_1169","news_8"],"tags":["news_18269","news_27626","news_1164","news_1775","news_20202"],"featImg":"news_11982570","label":"news_72"},"news_11979367":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11979367","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11979367","score":null,"sort":[1712958644000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"fafsa-2024-the-big-error-affecting-mixed-status-families-and-what-to-do-if-youre-an-affected-student","title":"If You're a Mixed-Status Student Still Struggling With FAFSA, You Have Options","publishDate":1712958644,"format":"standard","headTitle":"If You’re a Mixed-Status Student Still Struggling With FAFSA, You Have Options | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid or FAFSA this year has been \u003cem>complicated\u003c/em>, to say the least. Especially if your family is considered “mixed status” — when a student has a Social Security number but one parent does not, due to their immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Department of Education began its process of revamping FAFSA several years ago, one of the stated goals was to make the application more easily accessible for mixed-status families. Federal officials told KQED last year that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11957693/applying-for-fafsa-in-2023-will-be-different-what-to-know-including-deadlines#undocumented\">the updated FAFSA would allow undocumented parents to complete the form\u003c/a> without needing a Social Security number.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that was not the case. For months, students from mixed-status families were blocked from completing the 2024–25 FAFSA form. Without a parent’s Social Security number, the form showed error messages and blocked students from submitting it. “I repeat and repeat the same thing, and it sends me back with the same error message,” Josue Hernández, high school senior in San Francisco, told KQED in February. “I’ve been trying every day for the past month, nonstop. And it still doesn’t work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And finally, on March 12, after months of delays and countless calls from students and counselors, the Department of Education announced it had successfully resolved the glitches that prevented students from mixed-status families from completing their FAFSA form. Students with “contributors without an SSN [Social Security Number] can now successfully submit the form,” said the statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the glitch being fixed, mixed-status families lost months of time to complete FAFSA. And on their end, colleges also had less time to calculate students’ financial aid packages. The aftermath of the FAFSA glitches has left many mixed-status families in complicated and confusing situations, but colleges and California state officials are taking action to give students more time to seek out financial aid and make a decision about college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading to learn what advice for mixed-status families KQED heard from college access advisors and financial aid offices.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Keep track of deadlines — all the deadlines\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you applied to colleges in California, you need to complete the FAFSA to qualify for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.csac.ca.gov/cal-grants\">Cal Grant\u003c/a>, a state financial aid program. The Cal Grant can help with tuition for schools in the UC and CSU system, along with many private universities in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Good news: You now have till May 2, 2024 to submit the 2024–25 FAFSA form and be eligible for California state financial aid, including the CalGrant. State officials extended the deadline for California students earlier this year in response to the multiple FAFSA glitches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep in mind, however, May 2 is the new deadline \u003cem>just\u003c/em> for state aid. Each school can decide its own deadline for when students need to submit FAFSA. Some colleges have pushed back their regular deadline to give students more time to complete the form, while others have granted case-by-case extensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point, make sure to have an up-to-date list of the FAFSA deadline for every school you’ve completed an application for. If one of these deadlines is coming up soon — or has already passed — contact the college’s financial aid office if you haven’t done so already. Even if you haven’t spoken to the financial aid team there before, the best thing you can do is make sure they know about your situation and that you need more time.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jill Marinelli, program director, Mission Graduates\"]‘It’s scary to ask questions and raise your hand. But it’s part of growing into an adult, something we all do throughout life.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the idea of reaching out makes you feel a little nervous, remember: Not reaching out could actually make things a lot more complicated later, as schools may not consider you for certain grants or scholarships. “It’s scary to ask questions and raise your hand,” said Jill Marinelli, program director at Mission Graduates, a San Francisco-based organization that helps many immigrant and lower-income students get to college. “But it’s part of growing into an adult, something we all do throughout life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Make sure \u003cem>you’ll\u003c/em> receive the information you need to choose your college\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Another set of deadlines to keep in mind later down the road — those related to Decision Day. Traditionally, most colleges ask accepted students to let them know by May 1 if they will enroll or not. However, the FAFSA delays have caused several schools to push back this deadline, too. All nine schools in the University of California system, for example, now require accepted students to make their decisions by May 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you already submitted FAFSA, keep in mind that colleges may send a letter with a breakdown of the financial aid you qualify for much later than your peers. If you don’t know when they will send that information to you, ask them as soon as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s critical you know when that information is coming in so you have it before deciding where to go to college.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Is the FAFSA form still glitching for you? There are back-up options \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If the FAFSA form is still blocking you from submitting your information because one of your parents doesn’t have a Social Security number, depending on your circumstances you may have two back-up options open to you as a California student:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Use the California Dream Act Application instead\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 9, the state’s Student Aid Commission announced that the California Dream Act Application (CADAA) — which has usually been reserved only for California students who don’t have a Social Security number themselves — \u003ca href=\"https://www.csac.ca.gov/cadaa-msf\">will be now available to students from mixed-status families who are still facing issues completing FAFSA.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This does not mean that mixed-status families seeking state aid are now required to complete CADAA \u003cem>on top of\u003c/em> FAFSA. Rather, CADAA is a back-up option for students who — despite the recent fixes from the Department of Education — are still finding themselves blocked from completing FAFSA because one of their parents or guardians does not have a Social Security number.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We encourage [first-time students of mixed-status families] to first attempt to complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA),” said California State University Chancellor Mildred García in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they are unable to do so, students should then complete the California Dream Act Application (CADAA) well before the May 2 deadline and later complete the FAFSA as soon as that becomes feasible,” García said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Something else to keep in mind: Not all colleges take CADAA. If you still haven’t been able to complete FAFSA, contact the financial aid offices of the colleges you applied to and ask if they accept CADAA so you can share your family’s financial information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Submit an incomplete FAFSA\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second back-up option: A Department of Education spokesperson shared with KQED in February that the agency has put in place a process that allows students from mixed-status families “to submit an incomplete FAFSA.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What this means is that a student, using their own FSA ID, can manually enter their parent’s information, submit their FAFSA and later come back to submit a correction when the form has been fixed later this month.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"mindshift_63208,news_11979072\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, can any student from a mixed-status family use this second workaround? Unfortunately not. The Department of Education clarifies that this process “should only be used in the rare cases where students face an imminent deadline” that requires a FAFSA submission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If this is your case, here’s how you can access the workaround: Contact the FSAIC at 1-800-433-3243, mention your family is mixed-status and that you need to submit an incomplete FAFSA — and be ready to share detailed information on the university or scholarship you need to file FAFSA for immediately. And if you have previously requested an extension from that specific university or scholarship and were denied, make sure to mention that as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Don’t be hesitant to call the Department of Education\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Marinelli from Mission Graduates in San Francisco has worked with dozens of students and families through FAFSA troubles this year. One strategy, she says, that has brought results: Calling up the Federal Student Aid Information Center (FSAIC).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The more people that call and say ‘this is an issue,’ the more likely they are to fix it,” she said. “It’s teaching students self-advocacy and reminding them that it’s worth it; they are worth it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Marinelli added that wait times when calling FSAIC are quite long — and students should set aside 40–60 minutes when calling. You can reach the FSAIC at 1-800-433-3243.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Applied to private schools? Don’t forget about the CSS Profile\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you applied to private universities, you most likely also had to complete the \u003ca href=\"https://cssprofile.collegeboard.org/\">CSS Profile\u003c/a>, a separate application operated by the College Board and used by private schools to determine how much from their own funds they give out to students in financial aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CSS Profile is a much more complex form than the FAFSA and asks very specific questions about a family’s income and assets. There have not been any delays or glitches with the CSS Profile this year, which has helped private schools determine financial aid awards while the Department of Education fixes its FAFSA errors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford University is just one of those private schools that’s already ahead in calculating the aid prospective students could receive because of the CSS Profile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re going to be doing is telling [families], ‘Look, this is what you qualify for, the total amount based on the Profile,’” said Karen Cooper, Stanford’s director of financial aid — who also confirmed that once the FAFSA data comes in, there may not be that much that changes. “There may be some Pell Grants that may come in to help with some of that total.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford is a unique case, however, because it has incredibly large financial resources that allow the school to provide very generous financial aid packages to accepted students from lower-income backgrounds. Not all private schools have the same resources — and some may actually depend \u003cem>more \u003c/em>on federal and state grants to build a student’s financial aid package.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With that in mind, it’s best to contact each school you have applied to and ask them what information about you they are missing. If you’ve already submitted FAFSA, request a timeline for when you can expect a complete estimate of the financial aid package you qualify for. And if you need that information quickly — so you can make a decision on where to go to college — let colleges know that as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>And remember, you aren’t alone in this\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s OK to feel frustrated with the financial aid process at the best of times. And it’s \u003cem>definitely \u003c/em>OK to feel frustrated with FAFSA in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problems with this year’s FAFSA can take an emotional toll — especially on seniors who’ve given their best these past four years, stayed up late working on college applications and hustled to get everything in on time. But all the glitches and delays we’ve seen with FAFSA this admissions cycle have nothing to do with you as an individual, especially if you come from a mixed-status family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This problem has become so serious that even Congress is taking action. Dozens of senators, led by Sens. Alex Padilla of California and Bernie Sanders of Vermont, sent a letter to Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona urging his team to fix the error that’s preventing mixed-status families from completing the form. Earlier this week, \u003ca href=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/kqed-newscast-5e573249-5500-4ec2-a2a7-78383ae57787\">Padilla told KQED\u003c/a> that having a parent or guardian without a Social Security number “should not be an inhibitor to be able to access financial aid a student is otherwise eligible for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the first time that a lot of students are filling out a government form or paperwork like this,” said Marinelli of Mission Graduates. “Just doing it alone is overwhelming — and when it’s glitching and having problems, it just makes them want to give up and say, ‘what’s even the point?’”[pullquote align=\"left\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Charles Bailey-Gates, associate director of financial aid, San Francisco State University\"]‘We are not going to let any student fall through the cracks … We see you. We know that it’s a struggle.’[/pullquote]But there \u003cem>is \u003c/em>a point to all of this, she reminds you. Students who are working towards a college education, Marinelli says, belong in school. “They deserve this money. It’s there for them,” she said. “We have to keep reminding them to advocate for themselves and not give up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published on March 14.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"tellus\">\u003c/a>Tell us: What else do you need information about?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At KQED News, we know that it can sometimes be hard to track down the answers to navigate life in the Bay Area in 2024. We’ve published \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/coronavirus-resources-and-explainers\">clear, practical explainers and guides about COVID\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936674/how-to-prepare-for-this-weeks-atmospheric-river-storm-sandbags-emergency-kits-and-more\">how to cope with intense winter weather\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821950/how-to-safely-attend-a-protest-in-the-bay-area\">how to exercise your right to protest safely\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So tell us: What do you need to know more about? Tell us, and you could see your question answered online or on social media. What you submit will make our reporting stronger, and help us decide what to cover here on our site, and on KQED Public Radio, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[hearken id=\"10483\" src=\"https://modules.wearehearken.com/kqed/embed/10483.js\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Why are students with undocumented parents particularly affected by the errors plaguing the 2024–25 Free Application for Federal Student Aid or FAFSA — and what you can do if you’re among them.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1712959169,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":true,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":46,"wordCount":2407},"headData":{"title":"If You're a Mixed-Status Student Still Struggling With FAFSA, You Have Options | KQED","description":"Why are students with undocumented parents particularly affected by the errors plaguing the 2024–25 Free Application for Federal Student Aid or FAFSA — and what you can do if you’re among them.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11979367/fafsa-2024-the-big-error-affecting-mixed-status-families-and-what-to-do-if-youre-an-affected-student","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid or FAFSA this year has been \u003cem>complicated\u003c/em>, to say the least. Especially if your family is considered “mixed status” — when a student has a Social Security number but one parent does not, due to their immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Department of Education began its process of revamping FAFSA several years ago, one of the stated goals was to make the application more easily accessible for mixed-status families. Federal officials told KQED last year that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11957693/applying-for-fafsa-in-2023-will-be-different-what-to-know-including-deadlines#undocumented\">the updated FAFSA would allow undocumented parents to complete the form\u003c/a> without needing a Social Security number.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that was not the case. For months, students from mixed-status families were blocked from completing the 2024–25 FAFSA form. Without a parent’s Social Security number, the form showed error messages and blocked students from submitting it. “I repeat and repeat the same thing, and it sends me back with the same error message,” Josue Hernández, high school senior in San Francisco, told KQED in February. “I’ve been trying every day for the past month, nonstop. And it still doesn’t work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And finally, on March 12, after months of delays and countless calls from students and counselors, the Department of Education announced it had successfully resolved the glitches that prevented students from mixed-status families from completing their FAFSA form. Students with “contributors without an SSN [Social Security Number] can now successfully submit the form,” said the statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the glitch being fixed, mixed-status families lost months of time to complete FAFSA. And on their end, colleges also had less time to calculate students’ financial aid packages. The aftermath of the FAFSA glitches has left many mixed-status families in complicated and confusing situations, but colleges and California state officials are taking action to give students more time to seek out financial aid and make a decision about college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading to learn what advice for mixed-status families KQED heard from college access advisors and financial aid offices.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Keep track of deadlines — all the deadlines\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you applied to colleges in California, you need to complete the FAFSA to qualify for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.csac.ca.gov/cal-grants\">Cal Grant\u003c/a>, a state financial aid program. The Cal Grant can help with tuition for schools in the UC and CSU system, along with many private universities in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Good news: You now have till May 2, 2024 to submit the 2024–25 FAFSA form and be eligible for California state financial aid, including the CalGrant. State officials extended the deadline for California students earlier this year in response to the multiple FAFSA glitches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep in mind, however, May 2 is the new deadline \u003cem>just\u003c/em> for state aid. Each school can decide its own deadline for when students need to submit FAFSA. Some colleges have pushed back their regular deadline to give students more time to complete the form, while others have granted case-by-case extensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point, make sure to have an up-to-date list of the FAFSA deadline for every school you’ve completed an application for. If one of these deadlines is coming up soon — or has already passed — contact the college’s financial aid office if you haven’t done so already. Even if you haven’t spoken to the financial aid team there before, the best thing you can do is make sure they know about your situation and that you need more time.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘It’s scary to ask questions and raise your hand. But it’s part of growing into an adult, something we all do throughout life.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Jill Marinelli, program director, Mission Graduates","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the idea of reaching out makes you feel a little nervous, remember: Not reaching out could actually make things a lot more complicated later, as schools may not consider you for certain grants or scholarships. “It’s scary to ask questions and raise your hand,” said Jill Marinelli, program director at Mission Graduates, a San Francisco-based organization that helps many immigrant and lower-income students get to college. “But it’s part of growing into an adult, something we all do throughout life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Make sure \u003cem>you’ll\u003c/em> receive the information you need to choose your college\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Another set of deadlines to keep in mind later down the road — those related to Decision Day. Traditionally, most colleges ask accepted students to let them know by May 1 if they will enroll or not. However, the FAFSA delays have caused several schools to push back this deadline, too. All nine schools in the University of California system, for example, now require accepted students to make their decisions by May 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you already submitted FAFSA, keep in mind that colleges may send a letter with a breakdown of the financial aid you qualify for much later than your peers. If you don’t know when they will send that information to you, ask them as soon as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s critical you know when that information is coming in so you have it before deciding where to go to college.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Is the FAFSA form still glitching for you? There are back-up options \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If the FAFSA form is still blocking you from submitting your information because one of your parents doesn’t have a Social Security number, depending on your circumstances you may have two back-up options open to you as a California student:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Use the California Dream Act Application instead\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 9, the state’s Student Aid Commission announced that the California Dream Act Application (CADAA) — which has usually been reserved only for California students who don’t have a Social Security number themselves — \u003ca href=\"https://www.csac.ca.gov/cadaa-msf\">will be now available to students from mixed-status families who are still facing issues completing FAFSA.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This does not mean that mixed-status families seeking state aid are now required to complete CADAA \u003cem>on top of\u003c/em> FAFSA. Rather, CADAA is a back-up option for students who — despite the recent fixes from the Department of Education — are still finding themselves blocked from completing FAFSA because one of their parents or guardians does not have a Social Security number.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We encourage [first-time students of mixed-status families] to first attempt to complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA),” said California State University Chancellor Mildred García in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they are unable to do so, students should then complete the California Dream Act Application (CADAA) well before the May 2 deadline and later complete the FAFSA as soon as that becomes feasible,” García said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Something else to keep in mind: Not all colleges take CADAA. If you still haven’t been able to complete FAFSA, contact the financial aid offices of the colleges you applied to and ask if they accept CADAA so you can share your family’s financial information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Submit an incomplete FAFSA\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second back-up option: A Department of Education spokesperson shared with KQED in February that the agency has put in place a process that allows students from mixed-status families “to submit an incomplete FAFSA.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What this means is that a student, using their own FSA ID, can manually enter their parent’s information, submit their FAFSA and later come back to submit a correction when the form has been fixed later this month.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"mindshift_63208,news_11979072"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, can any student from a mixed-status family use this second workaround? Unfortunately not. The Department of Education clarifies that this process “should only be used in the rare cases where students face an imminent deadline” that requires a FAFSA submission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If this is your case, here’s how you can access the workaround: Contact the FSAIC at 1-800-433-3243, mention your family is mixed-status and that you need to submit an incomplete FAFSA — and be ready to share detailed information on the university or scholarship you need to file FAFSA for immediately. And if you have previously requested an extension from that specific university or scholarship and were denied, make sure to mention that as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Don’t be hesitant to call the Department of Education\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Marinelli from Mission Graduates in San Francisco has worked with dozens of students and families through FAFSA troubles this year. One strategy, she says, that has brought results: Calling up the Federal Student Aid Information Center (FSAIC).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The more people that call and say ‘this is an issue,’ the more likely they are to fix it,” she said. “It’s teaching students self-advocacy and reminding them that it’s worth it; they are worth it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Marinelli added that wait times when calling FSAIC are quite long — and students should set aside 40–60 minutes when calling. You can reach the FSAIC at 1-800-433-3243.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Applied to private schools? Don’t forget about the CSS Profile\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you applied to private universities, you most likely also had to complete the \u003ca href=\"https://cssprofile.collegeboard.org/\">CSS Profile\u003c/a>, a separate application operated by the College Board and used by private schools to determine how much from their own funds they give out to students in financial aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CSS Profile is a much more complex form than the FAFSA and asks very specific questions about a family’s income and assets. There have not been any delays or glitches with the CSS Profile this year, which has helped private schools determine financial aid awards while the Department of Education fixes its FAFSA errors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford University is just one of those private schools that’s already ahead in calculating the aid prospective students could receive because of the CSS Profile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re going to be doing is telling [families], ‘Look, this is what you qualify for, the total amount based on the Profile,’” said Karen Cooper, Stanford’s director of financial aid — who also confirmed that once the FAFSA data comes in, there may not be that much that changes. “There may be some Pell Grants that may come in to help with some of that total.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford is a unique case, however, because it has incredibly large financial resources that allow the school to provide very generous financial aid packages to accepted students from lower-income backgrounds. Not all private schools have the same resources — and some may actually depend \u003cem>more \u003c/em>on federal and state grants to build a student’s financial aid package.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With that in mind, it’s best to contact each school you have applied to and ask them what information about you they are missing. If you’ve already submitted FAFSA, request a timeline for when you can expect a complete estimate of the financial aid package you qualify for. And if you need that information quickly — so you can make a decision on where to go to college — let colleges know that as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>And remember, you aren’t alone in this\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s OK to feel frustrated with the financial aid process at the best of times. And it’s \u003cem>definitely \u003c/em>OK to feel frustrated with FAFSA in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problems with this year’s FAFSA can take an emotional toll — especially on seniors who’ve given their best these past four years, stayed up late working on college applications and hustled to get everything in on time. But all the glitches and delays we’ve seen with FAFSA this admissions cycle have nothing to do with you as an individual, especially if you come from a mixed-status family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This problem has become so serious that even Congress is taking action. Dozens of senators, led by Sens. Alex Padilla of California and Bernie Sanders of Vermont, sent a letter to Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona urging his team to fix the error that’s preventing mixed-status families from completing the form. Earlier this week, \u003ca href=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/kqed-newscast-5e573249-5500-4ec2-a2a7-78383ae57787\">Padilla told KQED\u003c/a> that having a parent or guardian without a Social Security number “should not be an inhibitor to be able to access financial aid a student is otherwise eligible for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the first time that a lot of students are filling out a government form or paperwork like this,” said Marinelli of Mission Graduates. “Just doing it alone is overwhelming — and when it’s glitching and having problems, it just makes them want to give up and say, ‘what’s even the point?’”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘We are not going to let any student fall through the cracks … We see you. We know that it’s a struggle.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"left","size":"medium","citation":"Charles Bailey-Gates, associate director of financial aid, San Francisco State University","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But there \u003cem>is \u003c/em>a point to all of this, she reminds you. Students who are working towards a college education, Marinelli says, belong in school. “They deserve this money. It’s there for them,” she said. “We have to keep reminding them to advocate for themselves and not give up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published on March 14.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"tellus\">\u003c/a>Tell us: What else do you need information about?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At KQED News, we know that it can sometimes be hard to track down the answers to navigate life in the Bay Area in 2024. We’ve published \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/coronavirus-resources-and-explainers\">clear, practical explainers and guides about COVID\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936674/how-to-prepare-for-this-weeks-atmospheric-river-storm-sandbags-emergency-kits-and-more\">how to cope with intense winter weather\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821950/how-to-safely-attend-a-protest-in-the-bay-area\">how to exercise your right to protest safely\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So tell us: What do you need to know more about? Tell us, and you could see your question answered online or on social media. What you submit will make our reporting stronger, and help us decide what to cover here on our site, and on KQED Public Radio, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"hearken","attributes":{"named":{"id":"10483","src":"https://modules.wearehearken.com/kqed/embed/10483.js","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11979367/fafsa-2024-the-big-error-affecting-mixed-status-families-and-what-to-do-if-youre-an-affected-student","authors":["11708"],"categories":["news_18540","news_1169","news_8"],"tags":["news_32707","news_20013","news_31715","news_20202"],"featImg":"news_11979390","label":"news"},"news_11982020":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11982020","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11982020","score":null,"sort":[1712350826000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"judge-rules-border-patrol-must-care-for-migrant-children-waiting-in-open-air-camps","title":"Judge Rules Border Patrol Must Care for Migrant Children Waiting in Camps","publishDate":1712350826,"format":"audio","headTitle":"Judge Rules Border Patrol Must Care for Migrant Children Waiting in Camps | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>A federal judge in California has ruled that the government is responsible for the well-being of migrant children who are waiting in makeshift encampments on the California side of the U.S.-Mexico border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee issued an order Wednesday evening directing federal agents to stop holding minors at the open-air sites while they wait for their turn to make their case to the U.S. Border Patrol, and to move the children “expeditiously” to facilities better suited for their care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ruling came after advocates called on Gee to intervene. They said that the way Border Patrol agents monitor the sites and limit migrants’ movement means children there are effectively in government custody, so the government is legally obligated to protect their welfare. Gee agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leecia Welch, deputy legal director at \u003ca href=\"https://www.childrensrights.org/\">Children’s Rights\u003c/a> and one of the lawyers representing children in the case, said she was gratified with the court’s ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=news_11957568,news_11981399,news_11977405]“Children were being left to fend for themselves outside in dangerous conditions, without adequate food, without water, without shelter, without medical care,” she said. “By arguing that these children were not in government custody, it basically meant that the government could just kind of wipe their hands of these children and their needs while they were at these sites.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers for the government had argued people in the camps were not in custody. They said the Border Patrol did not have a policy of restricting people to the sites and did not maintain constant supervision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the agency that includes the Border Patrol, said the agency is reviewing the court’s order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CBP will continue to transport vulnerable individuals and children encountered on the border to its facilities as quickly as possible,” said CBP spokesperson Jason Givens in an emailed statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Not ‘safe and sanitary’: Where did these border camps come from?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The encampments along the border developed over the past year, as thousands of migrants from different countries — who had entered the United States unlawfully — congregated at several locations near the border and waited to be heard by immigration authorities. Most people in the encampments are adults, but some are children traveling alone or with family members. And they’re not trying to run away from the Border Patrol or hide; they’re waiting to ask for asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Customs and Border Protection says, with the high numbers of migrants, agents don’t have the staff or detention space to process everyone immediately. So migrants have spent hours, or in some cases days, waiting in these outdoor areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some encampments are in the high desert outside of small towns in eastern San Diego County. Others are closer to San Diego, sandwiched between two 30-foot-high fences. Border Patrol agents have provided portable toilets and snacks, while volunteers have delivered food and water and administered first aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the government didn’t create the camps, advocates for the migrant children \u003ca href=\"https://youthlaw.org/sites/default/files/2024-02/Motion%20to%20Enforce%20Settlement%20re%20Open-Air%20Detention%20Sites.pdf\">presented evidence to the court (PDF)\u003c/a> that Border Patrol agents often directed, or even drove, migrants to the locations, then monitored them and told them not to leave unless they wanted to be deported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Gee ruled that children in the camps “are in the legal custody of CBP because CBP exerts control over their health, welfare and physical movement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gee then \u003ca href=\"https://youthlaw.org/sites/default/files/2024-04/ORDER%20-%20Motion%20to%20Enforce%20%28OADS%29.pdf\">ordered the government (PDF)\u003c/a> to place children “in facilities that are safe and sanitary and that are consistent with [the agency]’s concern for the particular vulnerability of minors.” And she said the combined amount of time that kids spend in the open-air sites and in Border Patrol stations must not exceed 72 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order came as part of Gee’s ongoing enforcement of a class action legal settlement, known as the Flores Agreement, that dates back to 1997. The Flores case covers “all minors who are detained in the legal custody of the INS,” referring to the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the nation’s immigration enforcement agency at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/assets/flores_settlement_final_plus_extension_of_settlement011797.pdf\">The Flores Agreement (PDF)\u003c/a> declares that the government shall treat children with “dignity, respect and special concern for their particular vulnerability as minors.” And when kids are arrested, they are to be held in facilities that are “safe and sanitary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a hearing last week, lawyers for the Biden administration argued that the children at the open-air encampments are not under arrest or in Border Patrol custody. They said agents were simply giving directions to better manage people and transport them to Border Patrol stations efficiently. And they said agents are now transporting people out of the camps faster: within 12 hours, on average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But no one disputed that conditions at the sites are not safe or sanitary. Advocates gave testimony saying they saw children taking shelter from the wind and rain inside porta potties. And they said children suffered medical emergencies without adequate care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982043\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2024/04/05/judge-rules-border-patrol-must-care-for-migrant-children-waiting-in-open-air-camps/migrants-at-the-us-mexico-border-3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11982043\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982043\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/GettyImages-1858797305-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"a line of people on a dusty road, with tents in the background and trucks and officials on the side of the road\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/GettyImages-1858797305-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/GettyImages-1858797305-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/GettyImages-1858797305-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/GettyImages-1858797305-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/GettyImages-1858797305-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/GettyImages-1858797305-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/GettyImages-1858797305-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Migrants waiting to be processed by US Border Patrol near the border in California. \u003ccite>(Qian Weizhong/VCG via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Border unequipped for 21st Century migration\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The number of migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border has been at historic highs in recent years, though it has declined some since the beginning of this year. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-encounters\">During the five months from October through February\u003c/a>, more than 57,000 children were encountered by border authorities, slightly fewer than the past three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kathleen Bush-Joseph, a policy analyst at the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., said the staffing and infrastructure of border enforcement was designed for an earlier era, in the 1980s and ’90s, when mostly single men from Mexico were trying to enter the U.S. to find work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, beefed up enforcement makes it harder to cross undetected. There are few legal pathways for people to come and work or to reunite with family. The U.S. asylum system is backlogged. And migration is on the rise globally, as people flee corruption, repression and economic collapse in their home countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The system does not match our 21st Century immigration needs,” said Bush-Joseph. “And this decision is a reflection of how that fails children and puts them in really dangerous conditions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Kathleen Bush-Joseph, policy analyst, Migration Policy Institute\"]‘The system does not match our 21st Century immigration needs.’[/pullquote]To reduce pressure at the border, she said Congress needs to overhaul the legal immigration system and the asylum process. For starters, she pointed to a bipartisan Senate bill supported by the Biden administration — but abandoned by Republicans after Trump criticized it — that would have created a more streamlined asylum system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Under the Senate bill, the process would have been sped up to be done in six months, which would have been a huge difference,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Bush-Joseph said, the Border Patrol is struggling to meet the demands of the current situation, especially in the wake of a federal court ruling in Florida last year that ordered officials to spend more time on background checks and issue notices for migrants to appear in court, which has slowed the process at the border. The Biden administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/biden-administration-defends-migrant-parole-release-policy-at-eleventh-circuit/\">appealed that ruling earlier Friday\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the Department of Homeland Security, the parent agency for both CBP and the Border Patrol, will have to scramble to comply now with Judge Gee’s order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“DHS does try to process kids and family units as quickly as they can. But this could require them to dedicate more officers and move resources around, maybe from other border posts,” she said. “It’s difficult to imagine how they’re really going to be able to dramatically change conditions. And my fear is, numbers increase over the summer. … And it might get worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Welch, the plaintiffs’ lawyer, said Gee’s ruling was needed to light a fire under border agents and force them to address the children’s welfare with more urgency. And she said the heated political rhetoric about uncontrolled migration at the border is beside the point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When children show up in your backyard — whether you’re Democrat or Republican or what[ever] your politics are — most people’s first inclination is to want to make sure they’re cared for,” she said. “So for me, this isn’t really about politics. This is about how we, as a country, want to take care of children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Gee also ordered the CBP Juvenile Coordinator to file a report by May 10 on the number of kids still in open-air sites and how the government is making conditions better for children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"As migrants, including children, cross into the US and wait to ask for asylum, they’ve been stuck in makeshift encampments along the California border.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1712681946,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":32,"wordCount":1515},"headData":{"title":"Judge Rules Border Patrol Must Care for Migrant Children Waiting in Camps | KQED","description":"As migrants, including children, cross into the US and wait to ask for asylum, they’ve been stuck in makeshift encampments along the California border.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-4[…]f-aaef00f5a073/b468c320-eeba-4c2f-ba1f-b1490103dd03/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11982020/judge-rules-border-patrol-must-care-for-migrant-children-waiting-in-open-air-camps","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A federal judge in California has ruled that the government is responsible for the well-being of migrant children who are waiting in makeshift encampments on the California side of the U.S.-Mexico border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee issued an order Wednesday evening directing federal agents to stop holding minors at the open-air sites while they wait for their turn to make their case to the U.S. Border Patrol, and to move the children “expeditiously” to facilities better suited for their care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ruling came after advocates called on Gee to intervene. They said that the way Border Patrol agents monitor the sites and limit migrants’ movement means children there are effectively in government custody, so the government is legally obligated to protect their welfare. Gee agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leecia Welch, deputy legal director at \u003ca href=\"https://www.childrensrights.org/\">Children’s Rights\u003c/a> and one of the lawyers representing children in the case, said she was gratified with the court’s ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"news_11957568,news_11981399,news_11977405"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Children were being left to fend for themselves outside in dangerous conditions, without adequate food, without water, without shelter, without medical care,” she said. “By arguing that these children were not in government custody, it basically meant that the government could just kind of wipe their hands of these children and their needs while they were at these sites.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers for the government had argued people in the camps were not in custody. They said the Border Patrol did not have a policy of restricting people to the sites and did not maintain constant supervision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the agency that includes the Border Patrol, said the agency is reviewing the court’s order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CBP will continue to transport vulnerable individuals and children encountered on the border to its facilities as quickly as possible,” said CBP spokesperson Jason Givens in an emailed statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Not ‘safe and sanitary’: Where did these border camps come from?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The encampments along the border developed over the past year, as thousands of migrants from different countries — who had entered the United States unlawfully — congregated at several locations near the border and waited to be heard by immigration authorities. Most people in the encampments are adults, but some are children traveling alone or with family members. And they’re not trying to run away from the Border Patrol or hide; they’re waiting to ask for asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Customs and Border Protection says, with the high numbers of migrants, agents don’t have the staff or detention space to process everyone immediately. So migrants have spent hours, or in some cases days, waiting in these outdoor areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some encampments are in the high desert outside of small towns in eastern San Diego County. Others are closer to San Diego, sandwiched between two 30-foot-high fences. Border Patrol agents have provided portable toilets and snacks, while volunteers have delivered food and water and administered first aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the government didn’t create the camps, advocates for the migrant children \u003ca href=\"https://youthlaw.org/sites/default/files/2024-02/Motion%20to%20Enforce%20Settlement%20re%20Open-Air%20Detention%20Sites.pdf\">presented evidence to the court (PDF)\u003c/a> that Border Patrol agents often directed, or even drove, migrants to the locations, then monitored them and told them not to leave unless they wanted to be deported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Gee ruled that children in the camps “are in the legal custody of CBP because CBP exerts control over their health, welfare and physical movement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gee then \u003ca href=\"https://youthlaw.org/sites/default/files/2024-04/ORDER%20-%20Motion%20to%20Enforce%20%28OADS%29.pdf\">ordered the government (PDF)\u003c/a> to place children “in facilities that are safe and sanitary and that are consistent with [the agency]’s concern for the particular vulnerability of minors.” And she said the combined amount of time that kids spend in the open-air sites and in Border Patrol stations must not exceed 72 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order came as part of Gee’s ongoing enforcement of a class action legal settlement, known as the Flores Agreement, that dates back to 1997. The Flores case covers “all minors who are detained in the legal custody of the INS,” referring to the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the nation’s immigration enforcement agency at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/assets/flores_settlement_final_plus_extension_of_settlement011797.pdf\">The Flores Agreement (PDF)\u003c/a> declares that the government shall treat children with “dignity, respect and special concern for their particular vulnerability as minors.” And when kids are arrested, they are to be held in facilities that are “safe and sanitary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a hearing last week, lawyers for the Biden administration argued that the children at the open-air encampments are not under arrest or in Border Patrol custody. They said agents were simply giving directions to better manage people and transport them to Border Patrol stations efficiently. And they said agents are now transporting people out of the camps faster: within 12 hours, on average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But no one disputed that conditions at the sites are not safe or sanitary. Advocates gave testimony saying they saw children taking shelter from the wind and rain inside porta potties. And they said children suffered medical emergencies without adequate care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982043\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2024/04/05/judge-rules-border-patrol-must-care-for-migrant-children-waiting-in-open-air-camps/migrants-at-the-us-mexico-border-3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11982043\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982043\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/GettyImages-1858797305-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"a line of people on a dusty road, with tents in the background and trucks and officials on the side of the road\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/GettyImages-1858797305-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/GettyImages-1858797305-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/GettyImages-1858797305-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/GettyImages-1858797305-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/GettyImages-1858797305-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/GettyImages-1858797305-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/GettyImages-1858797305-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Migrants waiting to be processed by US Border Patrol near the border in California. \u003ccite>(Qian Weizhong/VCG via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Border unequipped for 21st Century migration\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The number of migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border has been at historic highs in recent years, though it has declined some since the beginning of this year. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-encounters\">During the five months from October through February\u003c/a>, more than 57,000 children were encountered by border authorities, slightly fewer than the past three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kathleen Bush-Joseph, a policy analyst at the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., said the staffing and infrastructure of border enforcement was designed for an earlier era, in the 1980s and ’90s, when mostly single men from Mexico were trying to enter the U.S. to find work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, beefed up enforcement makes it harder to cross undetected. There are few legal pathways for people to come and work or to reunite with family. The U.S. asylum system is backlogged. And migration is on the rise globally, as people flee corruption, repression and economic collapse in their home countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The system does not match our 21st Century immigration needs,” said Bush-Joseph. “And this decision is a reflection of how that fails children and puts them in really dangerous conditions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘The system does not match our 21st Century immigration needs.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Kathleen Bush-Joseph, policy analyst, Migration Policy Institute","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>To reduce pressure at the border, she said Congress needs to overhaul the legal immigration system and the asylum process. For starters, she pointed to a bipartisan Senate bill supported by the Biden administration — but abandoned by Republicans after Trump criticized it — that would have created a more streamlined asylum system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Under the Senate bill, the process would have been sped up to be done in six months, which would have been a huge difference,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Bush-Joseph said, the Border Patrol is struggling to meet the demands of the current situation, especially in the wake of a federal court ruling in Florida last year that ordered officials to spend more time on background checks and issue notices for migrants to appear in court, which has slowed the process at the border. The Biden administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/biden-administration-defends-migrant-parole-release-policy-at-eleventh-circuit/\">appealed that ruling earlier Friday\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the Department of Homeland Security, the parent agency for both CBP and the Border Patrol, will have to scramble to comply now with Judge Gee’s order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“DHS does try to process kids and family units as quickly as they can. But this could require them to dedicate more officers and move resources around, maybe from other border posts,” she said. “It’s difficult to imagine how they’re really going to be able to dramatically change conditions. And my fear is, numbers increase over the summer. … And it might get worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Welch, the plaintiffs’ lawyer, said Gee’s ruling was needed to light a fire under border agents and force them to address the children’s welfare with more urgency. And she said the heated political rhetoric about uncontrolled migration at the border is beside the point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When children show up in your backyard — whether you’re Democrat or Republican or what[ever] your politics are — most people’s first inclination is to want to make sure they’re cared for,” she said. “So for me, this isn’t really about politics. This is about how we, as a country, want to take care of children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Gee also ordered the CBP Juvenile Coordinator to file a report by May 10 on the number of kids still in open-air sites and how the government is making conditions better for children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11982020/judge-rules-border-patrol-must-care-for-migrant-children-waiting-in-open-air-camps","authors":["259"],"categories":["news_1169","news_8"],"tags":["news_24736","news_3716","news_27626","news_23687","news_20202","news_23796","news_244"],"featImg":"news_11982042","label":"news"},"news_11981399":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11981399","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11981399","score":null,"sort":[1711825258000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"judge-questions-border-patrol-stand-on-not-being-responsible-for-childrens-welfare-at-migrant-camps","title":"Judge Questions Border Patrol Stand on Not Being Responsible for Children's Welfare at Migrant Camps","publishDate":1711825258,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Judge Questions Border Patrol Stand on Not Being Responsible for Children’s Welfare at Migrant Camps | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>A federal judge on Friday sharply questioned the Biden administration’s position that it bears no responsibility for housing and feeding migrant children while they wait in makeshift camps along the U.S-Mexico border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Border Patrol does not dispute the conditions at the camps, where migrants wait under open skies or sometimes in tents or structures made of tree branches while short on food and water. The migrants, who crossed the border illegally, are waiting there for Border Patrol agents to arrest and process them. The question is whether they are in legal custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would start a 72-hour limit on how long children can be held and require emergency medical services and guarantees of physical safety, among other things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee said evidence presented by migrant advocacy groups appeared to support the definition of legal custody. “Are they free to leave?” she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As long as they do not proceed further into the United States,” answered Justice Department attorney Fizza Batool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gee, who was appointed by former Democratic President Bill Clinton, acknowledged it was complicated — “like dancing on the head of a pin” — because some children arrive on their own at the camps and are not sent there by Border Patrol agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates are seeking to enforce \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/us-news-ap-top-news-az-state-wire-ca-state-wire-immigration-e69ba2785cce42bfa1c81efce8175120\">a 1997 court-supervised settlement\u003c/a> on custody conditions for migrant children, which includes the time limit and services including toilets, sinks and temperature controls. Gee did not rule after a half-hour hearing in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Children traveling alone must be turned over within 72 hours to the U.S. Health and Human Services Department, which generally releases them to family in the United States while an immigration judge considers asylum. Asylum-seeking families are typically released in the U.S. while their cases wind through courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legal challenge focuses on two areas in California: one between two border fences in San Diego and another in \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/border-emergency-asylum-biden-senate-immigration-aa424bab9d68cacbf56cb0564aa59c5b\">a remote mountainous region\u003c/a> east of San Diego. When the number of migrants was particularly high last year, they waited for several days to be arrested and processed by overwhelmed Border Patrol agents. From May to December, agents distributed colored wristbands to prioritize whom to process first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11979131,news_11977405,news_11973981\"]Advocates say the Border Patrol often directs migrants to the camps, sometimes even driving them there. Agents are often seen nearby keeping a loose watch until buses and vans arrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Justice Department, which rejects advocates’ label of “open-air detention sites,” says smugglers send migrants to camps. It says agents giving them water and snacks is a humanitarian gesture and that any agent who sends, or even escorts, migrants there is “no different than any law enforcement officer directing heightened traffic to avoid disorder and disarray.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Border Patrol generally arrests migrants at the camps within 12 hours of encountering them, down from 24 hours last year, Brent Schwerdtfeger, a senior official in the agency’s San Diego sector, said in a court filing. The agency has more than doubled the number of buses in the San Diego area to 15 for speedier processing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, 33 migrants, including two small children, waited between border walls in San Diego until agents came to ask they empty their pockets, remove shoelaces and submit to weapons searches before being taken in vans to a holding station. They were primarily from China and India, with others from Afghanistan, Azerbaijan and Georgia. Agents spoke to them in English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pedro Rios, a volunteer with American Friends of Service Committee, delivered turkey sandwiches and hot tea and coffee through spaces in the border wall. He gave pain relievers and ointment to a limping Chinese woman who had fallen from the wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kedian William, 38, said she left a 10-year-old daughter with family in Jamaica because she couldn’t afford the journey, including airfare to Mexico, but that asthma would have made the trip difficult for her child anyway. She planned to apply for asylum and settle with family in New York, having fled her home after her sister-in-law, her sister-in-law’s husband and their child were killed last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>William said she attempted to reach the camp on Wednesday but fled back into Tijuana to avoid Mexican authorities in pursuit. She tried again a day later, waiting six hours on U.S. soil for agents to pick her up for processing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A federal judge said evidence presented by migrant advocacy groups appeared to support the definition of legal custody, which would start a 72-hour limit on how long children can be held without guarantees of safety.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1711821908,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":762},"headData":{"title":"Judge Questions Border Patrol Stand on Not Being Responsible for Children's Welfare at Migrant Camps | KQED","description":"A federal judge said evidence presented by migrant advocacy groups appeared to support the definition of legal custody, which would start a 72-hour limit on how long children can be held without guarantees of safety.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"Elliot Spagat\u003cbr>Associated Press","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11981399/judge-questions-border-patrol-stand-on-not-being-responsible-for-childrens-welfare-at-migrant-camps","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A federal judge on Friday sharply questioned the Biden administration’s position that it bears no responsibility for housing and feeding migrant children while they wait in makeshift camps along the U.S-Mexico border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Border Patrol does not dispute the conditions at the camps, where migrants wait under open skies or sometimes in tents or structures made of tree branches while short on food and water. The migrants, who crossed the border illegally, are waiting there for Border Patrol agents to arrest and process them. The question is whether they are in legal custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would start a 72-hour limit on how long children can be held and require emergency medical services and guarantees of physical safety, among other things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee said evidence presented by migrant advocacy groups appeared to support the definition of legal custody. “Are they free to leave?” she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As long as they do not proceed further into the United States,” answered Justice Department attorney Fizza Batool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gee, who was appointed by former Democratic President Bill Clinton, acknowledged it was complicated — “like dancing on the head of a pin” — because some children arrive on their own at the camps and are not sent there by Border Patrol agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates are seeking to enforce \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/us-news-ap-top-news-az-state-wire-ca-state-wire-immigration-e69ba2785cce42bfa1c81efce8175120\">a 1997 court-supervised settlement\u003c/a> on custody conditions for migrant children, which includes the time limit and services including toilets, sinks and temperature controls. Gee did not rule after a half-hour hearing in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Children traveling alone must be turned over within 72 hours to the U.S. Health and Human Services Department, which generally releases them to family in the United States while an immigration judge considers asylum. Asylum-seeking families are typically released in the U.S. while their cases wind through courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legal challenge focuses on two areas in California: one between two border fences in San Diego and another in \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/border-emergency-asylum-biden-senate-immigration-aa424bab9d68cacbf56cb0564aa59c5b\">a remote mountainous region\u003c/a> east of San Diego. When the number of migrants was particularly high last year, they waited for several days to be arrested and processed by overwhelmed Border Patrol agents. From May to December, agents distributed colored wristbands to prioritize whom to process first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"news_11979131,news_11977405,news_11973981"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Advocates say the Border Patrol often directs migrants to the camps, sometimes even driving them there. Agents are often seen nearby keeping a loose watch until buses and vans arrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Justice Department, which rejects advocates’ label of “open-air detention sites,” says smugglers send migrants to camps. It says agents giving them water and snacks is a humanitarian gesture and that any agent who sends, or even escorts, migrants there is “no different than any law enforcement officer directing heightened traffic to avoid disorder and disarray.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Border Patrol generally arrests migrants at the camps within 12 hours of encountering them, down from 24 hours last year, Brent Schwerdtfeger, a senior official in the agency’s San Diego sector, said in a court filing. The agency has more than doubled the number of buses in the San Diego area to 15 for speedier processing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, 33 migrants, including two small children, waited between border walls in San Diego until agents came to ask they empty their pockets, remove shoelaces and submit to weapons searches before being taken in vans to a holding station. They were primarily from China and India, with others from Afghanistan, Azerbaijan and Georgia. Agents spoke to them in English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pedro Rios, a volunteer with American Friends of Service Committee, delivered turkey sandwiches and hot tea and coffee through spaces in the border wall. He gave pain relievers and ointment to a limping Chinese woman who had fallen from the wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kedian William, 38, said she left a 10-year-old daughter with family in Jamaica because she couldn’t afford the journey, including airfare to Mexico, but that asthma would have made the trip difficult for her child anyway. She planned to apply for asylum and settle with family in New York, having fled her home after her sister-in-law, her sister-in-law’s husband and their child were killed last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>William said she attempted to reach the camp on Wednesday but fled back into Tijuana to avoid Mexican authorities in pursuit. She tried again a day later, waiting six hours on U.S. soil for agents to pick her up for processing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11981399/judge-questions-border-patrol-stand-on-not-being-responsible-for-childrens-welfare-at-migrant-camps","authors":["byline_news_11981399"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_20458","news_1775","news_20202","news_29063"],"featImg":"news_11981405","label":"news"},"news_11980459":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11980459","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11980459","score":null,"sort":[1711127451000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-workers-heat-illness-protections","title":"'They Are at Risk': California Workers May Wait Longer for Heat-Illness Protections","publishDate":1711127451,"format":"standard","headTitle":"‘They Are at Risk’: California Workers May Wait Longer for Heat-Illness Protections | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration withdrew support of new heat-illness protections for indoor workers, which was widely expected to win final approval from state regulators on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision by the Department of Finance, revealed just hours before the scheduled vote, shocked and angered workplace safety advocates who view the proposed requirements as critically urgent for tens of thousands of workers who face heat hazards at warehouses, restaurants, packing houses and other indoor facilities.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Stephen Knight, executive director, Worksafe\"]‘It’s an extraordinary disappointment. It was a moment for the State of California to step into its climate change leadership in a way that could provide relief and support for people at the bottom of the economy.’[/pullquote]The \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/oshsb/Indoor-Heat.html\">indoor heat rule\u003c/a> would require employers to keep work areas below 87 degrees, if feasible, or reduce hazards by adjusting employees’ shifts or taking other steps. Concerns about compliance costs may delay implementation of the regulations, which have already taken the state years to develop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an extraordinary disappointment,” Stephen Knight, the executive director of the nonprofit Worksafe, told KQED. “It was a moment for the State of California to step into its climate change leadership in a way that could provide relief and support for people at the bottom of the economy. Instead, the concern is still, ‘When are we going to have heat protections for workers?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heat stress \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/heatstress/heatrelillness.html#:~:text=Symptoms%20of%20heat%20syncope%20include,a%20sitting%20or%20lying%20position\">can cause\u003c/a> nausea, fainting, seizures and even death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has had heat illness \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/heatillnessinfo.html\">prevention rules for outdoor\u003c/a> workplaces since 2006, a standard spurred by a string of farmworker deaths the previous year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1167\">2016 law\u003c/a> called on the state to formally propose regulations to minimize heat-related injuries and illnesses at indoor workplaces by 2019. Still, the contentious \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/steps-to-develop-an-ohs.html\">rulemaking process\u003c/a> lagged for five more years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Extreme temperatures have become more common due to climate change. Jassy Grewal, legislative director with the United Food and Commercial Workers Western States Council, said additional setbacks would result in sickened or killed indoor workers.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jassy Grewal, legislative director, United Food and Commercial Workers Western States Council\"]‘By delaying the standard, we are going to harm low-income workers the most. They are at risk.’[/pullquote]“By delaying the standard, we are going to harm low-income workers the most. They are at risk,” Grewal said at Thursday’s occupational safety standards board meeting. “Heat in California is a public health emergency and a worker health emergency and needs to be treated as such.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hold-up comes as the Department of Finance must review the fiscal impact of major regulations on state agencies before they are approved. The department has already commented on the indoor heat rule through the formal rulemaking process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, new estimates it received recently signaled that the standard could cost correctional institutions billions of dollars to implement, said H.D. Palmer, a department spokesman. The agency lacked enough time to assess whether those figures were accurate or fiscally responsible at a time when California braces for a budget shortfall, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This wasn’t us trying to say we want to stop this from a policy standpoint,” Palmer told KQED. “It wasn’t a policy-based decision. It was simply that we could not sign off on — late in the game — cost estimates that could potentially be in the billions of dollars.”[aside postID=news_11974555 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/GettyImages-1459869829-1020x584.jpg']If the heat standard is not formally adopted by a March 29 administrative deadline, the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health, also known as Cal/OSHA, may have to start the rulemaking process from scratch, according to worker advocates. Cal/OSHA did not immediately return a request for comment to confirm the impact of missing that time limit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At its packed meeting, interrupted by chants from angered workers and advocates, the Occupational Safety & Health Standards Board held a largely symbolic vote on the regulations anyway. It passed unanimously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re in uncharted waters,” Laura Stock, a board member, said. “We just voted for it. We don’t know yet whether that’s going to have any impact whatsoever. We don’t know yet whether there’s going to be any pressure that is able to be put to bear on the Department of Finance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration withdrew support of new heat-illness protections for indoor workers, which was widely expected to win final approval from California regulators on Thursday.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1711396579,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":14,"wordCount":768},"headData":{"title":"'They Are at Risk': California Workers May Wait Longer for Heat-Illness Protections | KQED","description":"Gov. 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Gavin Newsom’s administration withdrew support of new heat-illness protections for indoor workers, which was widely expected to win final approval from state regulators on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision by the Department of Finance, revealed just hours before the scheduled vote, shocked and angered workplace safety advocates who view the proposed requirements as critically urgent for tens of thousands of workers who face heat hazards at warehouses, restaurants, packing houses and other indoor facilities.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘It’s an extraordinary disappointment. 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They are at risk,” Grewal said at Thursday’s occupational safety standards board meeting. “Heat in California is a public health emergency and a worker health emergency and needs to be treated as such.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hold-up comes as the Department of Finance must review the fiscal impact of major regulations on state agencies before they are approved. The department has already commented on the indoor heat rule through the formal rulemaking process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, new estimates it received recently signaled that the standard could cost correctional institutions billions of dollars to implement, said H.D. Palmer, a department spokesman. The agency lacked enough time to assess whether those figures were accurate or fiscally responsible at a time when California braces for a budget shortfall, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This wasn’t us trying to say we want to stop this from a policy standpoint,” Palmer told KQED. “It wasn’t a policy-based decision. It was simply that we could not sign off on — late in the game — cost estimates that could potentially be in the billions of dollars.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11974555","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/GettyImages-1459869829-1020x584.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>If the heat standard is not formally adopted by a March 29 administrative deadline, the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health, also known as Cal/OSHA, may have to start the rulemaking process from scratch, according to worker advocates. Cal/OSHA did not immediately return a request for comment to confirm the impact of missing that time limit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At its packed meeting, interrupted by chants from angered workers and advocates, the Occupational Safety & Health Standards Board held a largely symbolic vote on the regulations anyway. It passed unanimously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re in uncharted waters,” Laura Stock, a board member, said. “We just voted for it. We don’t know yet whether that’s going to have any impact whatsoever. We don’t know yet whether there’s going to be any pressure that is able to be put to bear on the Department of Finance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11980459/california-workers-heat-illness-protections","authors":["8659"],"categories":["news_457","news_8"],"tags":["news_32371","news_26334","news_32372","news_29044","news_27626","news_16","news_20202","news_23063"],"featImg":"news_11980502","label":"news"},"news_11979997":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11979997","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11979997","score":null,"sort":[1710928822000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"concords-new-immigration-court","title":"Defending Against Deportation in Contra Costa County","publishDate":1710928822,"format":"audio","headTitle":"Defending Against Deportation in Contra Costa County | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>View the full episode transcript.\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates and lawyers are scrambling to provide immigration legal assistance in Contra Costa County, where a new immigration court has opened to help tackle a nationwide deportation backlog and record numbers of asylum claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Tyche Hendricks takes us to a high school gym in Concord where nonprofit groups helped provide free legal advice to people ahead of their court hearings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"card card--enclosed grey\">\n\u003cp id=\"embed-code\" class=\"inconsolata\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC8757597160&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Links:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11975904/new-bay-area-immigration-court-opens-aims-to-tackle-deportation-backlog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Bay Area Immigration Court Opens, Aims to Tackle Deportation Backlog\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra and welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. Our immigration court system is gummed up. There’s a backlog of more than 3.3 million immigration court cases, including a record number of people seeking asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong> That means it could take years for a case to finally reach a judge. And even if that happens, most migrants won’t have a lawyer. And that makes it really hard to win a deportation case and stay in this country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ali Saidi: \u003c/strong>Having an immigration attorney versus not having an immigration attorney has profound, profound impacts on your ability to present fully your your claim. And most of these claims that we’re seeing are asylum seeking family units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Concord is the site of a new immigration court that opened last month. To try and help ease this backlog, and advocates in Contra Costa County are now working overtime to find more lawyers to help handle these cases. Today, what people in Contra Costa County are doing to try and help defend people from deportation?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>On Sunday, I went out to the Ignacio Valley High School in Concord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Tyche Hendricks is senior immigration editor for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>They called it an immigration forum. It was geared towards Spanish speaking immigrants. There were nearly 200 people who came out for it. There were folks who had questionnaires and they had different colored stickers. And depending on kind of questions, you you had what you were there looking for. They would give you, you know, red, yellow, green, orange sticker, blue sticker. And then they would put a number on it. Then he ends up in the middle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>You know, you have an asylum question. You get a blue sticker and a number one, next person number two, next person number three. And someone on stage was calling, okay, blue number 43, go to table six for a Long Island moment. And minority say in a table six there would be an immigration lawyer volunteering and you would get to have a one on one conversation with them about your question. It was very organized and it was it was kind of lively and there was a very a warm vibe there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emma Paulino: \u003c/strong>The idea is for people to get informed, not to feel like afraid, but just for people to know this is what is happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>One person who was sitting at the desk with the yellow and green stickers was a woman named Emma Paulino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emma Paulino: \u003c/strong>Most of the people, I will say 80% of the people who came to this event came because they need the consultations with the attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>And she is with this group, Faith in action. She’s based in Oakland. They’ve been doing these kinds of immigration forums and legal clinics, she said, for 23 years. And she was really the person who started it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emma Paulino: \u003c/strong>I’m really proud of it because through these 20 plus years, like you have and like how much it costs to one person, each consultation with them and an attorney s hundreds of thousands of dollars that the people save already by doing this services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I know Emma actually ran into someone that she had helped. Can you tell me about that moment as you were talking with her?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>We were talking. And this woman walks up and says, oh, Emma Paulino oh, I want to thank you so much. And she launches into this story and then gives her a huge hug\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>The woman’s name is Rosaura Mayen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rosaura Mayen: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>[speaking spanish]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>And she came from Guatemala seven years ago as an asylum seeker fleeing gang violence and threats. A gang was was making threats against her daughter and and Rosaura says she stood up to the gang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rosaura Mayen: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>[speaking spanish]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>And then there were threats against herself and her family that they ended up coming to the States and seeking asylum. And she had found a lawyer that she couldn’t afford to pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rosaura Mayen: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>[speaking spanish]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>Emma Paulino, the woman from Faith in action, helped her find a nonprofit lawyer who would work for free. And last September, Rosaura got her asylum and her daughter did too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rosaura Mayen: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>[speaking spanish]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>But then there she was on Sunday at at the high school event in Concord. Because her husband’s case is different, and she was there with her husband, looking for some legal guidance for him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rosaura Mayen: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>[speaking spanish]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Tyche. Why was this happening in Concord, of all places?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>Well, because there’s a brand new immigration court in Concord. You know, the whole Bay area and really more than Northern California, but from like Bakersfield to the Oregon border, all those cases have been in the San Francisco immigration court orbit. But now there are cases from the San Francisco court where you thought you were going to court in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>Your case has been transferred to Concord, and in some cases, you’re the date of your hearing has been changed. Some cases, it’s earlier than you expected. Big part of what they were doing was getting the word out to people like, you need to check, and here’s how to check whether you’re hearing time and place have been moved. So you don’t miss your hearing. Because if you miss your immigration court hearing, you can be ordered deported in absentia, meaning that you’re not you don’t show, okay?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>Automatically. We’re just going to deport you. You know, you don’t have the right to a court appointed lawyer, so you have to find your own. And lots of people can’t afford to hire a private practice immigration lawyer. So a lot of it falls to a handful of nonprofit groups that do immigration, legal work, deportation, defense to a very small program that the county funds with a couple of lawyers in the public defender’s office and two, three, four lawyers in nonprofits who are getting some county funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yeah, but I can imagine, I mean, even coming to a new country and having to navigate all that must be so overwhelming. What is the need that this new immigration court in Concord is trying to fill?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>The San Francisco court has one of the largest caseloads in the country. They have had a backlog of 160,000 cases. It’s not often that you have a new a brand new immigration court that’s stood up. There is a small court in Sacramento that has about eight judges. There’s 27 judges in the San Francisco court. But, you know, the the waiting time for your case to be heard could be two, three, four years. Moving it out to Concord then allows people who are coming from further away, like all the way down the Central Valley, to travel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>Not quite as far is going all the way to San Francisco. And so this is just kind of expanding, the capacity in the Bay area to handle immigration cases. So the new court will have when it’s fully staffed, it’ll have 21 judges. It’s in least office space in, in an office building in Concord off of a busy boulevard. I think they have 11 judges now, and they’re, you know, they’re hoping to keep hiring up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>How big of a dent ticket is this supposed to make in this national immigration backlog that we’ve been talking about?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>The San Francisco caseload is down from 160,000. It’s now 120,000. And those 40,000 plus cases are now on the docket for the Concord court. And the Biden administration has been trying to expand. They’ve hired about 300 new immigration judges and stood up six new courts around the country. But Republicans in Congress succeeded in cutting the immigration court budget. So that’s going to mean belt tightening at all the immigration courts. And it’s kind of the opposite of what they were hoping to do to try to clear this, this 3 million case backlog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming up, we’ll hear from immigration lawyers who are doing what they can to help people with their cases. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>What has the opening of the this immigration court meant for the county specifically? It sounds like a lot of I guess action is coming to the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>Yeah. It’s true. I mean, the court has been in San Francisco. There’s a long standing effort by the immigration bar in San Francisco to provide more pro bono legal services to people going to court there. None of that has existed out here. So there’s been a big scurry by the nonprofit groups in the East Bay that serve immigrants to hustle and figure out how to help folks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ali Saidi: \u003c/strong>Welcome to my little corner. This is my office to the left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>So Ali said he works for the public defender’s office in Contra Costa. And I met him and his team at their office in Martinez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ali Saidi: \u003c/strong>Okay, team, everybody has a copy of the agenda. Yes. Okay. So, as you all know, the new court is opening up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>He runs this small unit of immigration lawyers doing deportation defense. And he’s also the director of a coalition called Stand Together Contra Costa that includes the public defender’s office and a bunch of nonprofits that are working in this area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ali Saidi: \u003c/strong>There’s over 13,000 Contra Costa residents that have pending deportation cases. And there’s over a thousand in the last 90 days that have been newly, placed into deportation proceedings. So, obviously six lawyers is not enough to handle all of that. That’s why we’re not doing this alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>And they wanted to be sure that people know that this court is not an Ice detention center, like there’s, you know, you’re just going to court here. You’re not going to be locked up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ali Saidi: \u003c/strong>And we want to let the community know where they can go to get help, to understand if their cases are going to be transferred to this new deportation court. And to have access to free legal consultations and hopefully connect as many people as we can, given our limited resources with, actual attorneys to be able to present and process their cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>He also really has a strong critique of the immigration court system, where, how can you represent yourself in an asylum claim or, you know, a deportation case if you don’t know immigration law, which is like second to the tax code and complexity is very complicated and that folks are being kind of rushed into, what he thinks of as like a pipeline of a rushed deportation process without access to attorneys. He sees as a serious due process problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ali Saidi: \u003c/strong>The statistics bear out that the difference between having an immigration attorney versus not having an immigration attorney has profound, profound impacts on your ability to present fully your your claim. And most of these claims that we’re seeing are asylum seeking family units. We have epic backlogs, and there’s a lot of reasons to be able to process cases more quickly, but not at the expense of due process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>What can happen if people don’t get that legal representation?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>If you have an asylum claim, you’re coming to the US and asking for asylum. Here is the equivalent of refugee protection that you fear persecution in your home country based on a series of possible grounds. But if you don’t have a lawyer to make that case for you, the statistics show that more than 80% of the time people lose their asylum cases. If you do have a lawyer, your chances are a lot better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>Almost half of people with lawyers when they’re asylum claims. Unfortunately, nationally, at this point, only a third of the people who are facing deportation in immigration court have a lawyer. So, you know, those legal services are really important and there’s really not enough of them. And that is, you know, true and conquered. It’s true in the immigration courts everywhere in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, I want to end Tyche by asking you about how what happens locally in Concord kind of connects to what’s happening on the national level, because there is a presidential election coming this November, it’s going to be Donald Trump versus Joe Biden again. Immigration is a big issue. And I mean, I think we can all expect a lot of news, a lot of rhetoric around immigration again this year. How do you hope this story helps people understand the issue of immigration in this election, especially folks here in the Bay area?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>Trump and the Republican Party have have really made. Immigration, the border, and specifically a sense of chaos at the border and a sense of sort of invasion by immigrants as kind of a, talking point in their campaigning. It’s absolutely the case that there are a great number of people coming to the border asking for asylum. And the Biden administration, I think, has been trying to manage migration and manage the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>It really illustrates how it’s a big national issue, but it comes down to individual people’s lives and individual people’s stories and the odyssey that these individual folks are on to say, you know, I was fleeing death threats in Guatemala, and this is where I came to seek refuge. Here are some people from the faith community, from the legal services community, who are reaching out to try to help folks feel less intimidated and feel less alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>There was a real sense of community fabric here in the Bay area, in Contra Costa, of responding to those individual needs of people on their on their journey and saying like, how can we help? How can we make you feel safer, make you feel like you belong, and and see if we can help give you a pathway to be part of the community here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>We’ll take you. Thank you so much for joining us on the show. I really appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>Well, it’s my pleasure. Great to talk to you always, Ericka.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That was Tyche Hendricks, senior immigration editor for KQED. This 39 minute conversation with Tyche was cut down and edited by senior editor Alan Montecillo. Maria Esquinca is our producer. She scored this episode and added all the tape music courtesy of the Audio Network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>KQED and the Bay are funded by listeners just like you. If you want to help support our show and local news, consider becoming a KQED member. Just go to KQED.org/Donate. And I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Thanks so much for listening. 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While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra and welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. Our immigration court system is gummed up. There’s a backlog of more than 3.3 million immigration court cases, including a record number of people seeking asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong> That means it could take years for a case to finally reach a judge. And even if that happens, most migrants won’t have a lawyer. And that makes it really hard to win a deportation case and stay in this country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ali Saidi: \u003c/strong>Having an immigration attorney versus not having an immigration attorney has profound, profound impacts on your ability to present fully your your claim. And most of these claims that we’re seeing are asylum seeking family units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Concord is the site of a new immigration court that opened last month. To try and help ease this backlog, and advocates in Contra Costa County are now working overtime to find more lawyers to help handle these cases. Today, what people in Contra Costa County are doing to try and help defend people from deportation?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>On Sunday, I went out to the Ignacio Valley High School in Concord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Tyche Hendricks is senior immigration editor for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>They called it an immigration forum. It was geared towards Spanish speaking immigrants. There were nearly 200 people who came out for it. There were folks who had questionnaires and they had different colored stickers. And depending on kind of questions, you you had what you were there looking for. They would give you, you know, red, yellow, green, orange sticker, blue sticker. And then they would put a number on it. Then he ends up in the middle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>You know, you have an asylum question. You get a blue sticker and a number one, next person number two, next person number three. And someone on stage was calling, okay, blue number 43, go to table six for a Long Island moment. And minority say in a table six there would be an immigration lawyer volunteering and you would get to have a one on one conversation with them about your question. It was very organized and it was it was kind of lively and there was a very a warm vibe there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emma Paulino: \u003c/strong>The idea is for people to get informed, not to feel like afraid, but just for people to know this is what is happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>One person who was sitting at the desk with the yellow and green stickers was a woman named Emma Paulino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emma Paulino: \u003c/strong>Most of the people, I will say 80% of the people who came to this event came because they need the consultations with the attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>And she is with this group, Faith in action. She’s based in Oakland. They’ve been doing these kinds of immigration forums and legal clinics, she said, for 23 years. And she was really the person who started it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emma Paulino: \u003c/strong>I’m really proud of it because through these 20 plus years, like you have and like how much it costs to one person, each consultation with them and an attorney s hundreds of thousands of dollars that the people save already by doing this services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I know Emma actually ran into someone that she had helped. Can you tell me about that moment as you were talking with her?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>We were talking. And this woman walks up and says, oh, Emma Paulino oh, I want to thank you so much. And she launches into this story and then gives her a huge hug\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>The woman’s name is Rosaura Mayen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rosaura Mayen: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>[speaking spanish]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>And she came from Guatemala seven years ago as an asylum seeker fleeing gang violence and threats. A gang was was making threats against her daughter and and Rosaura says she stood up to the gang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rosaura Mayen: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>[speaking spanish]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>And then there were threats against herself and her family that they ended up coming to the States and seeking asylum. And she had found a lawyer that she couldn’t afford to pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rosaura Mayen: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>[speaking spanish]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>Emma Paulino, the woman from Faith in action, helped her find a nonprofit lawyer who would work for free. And last September, Rosaura got her asylum and her daughter did too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rosaura Mayen: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>[speaking spanish]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>But then there she was on Sunday at at the high school event in Concord. Because her husband’s case is different, and she was there with her husband, looking for some legal guidance for him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rosaura Mayen: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>[speaking spanish]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Tyche. Why was this happening in Concord, of all places?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>Well, because there’s a brand new immigration court in Concord. You know, the whole Bay area and really more than Northern California, but from like Bakersfield to the Oregon border, all those cases have been in the San Francisco immigration court orbit. But now there are cases from the San Francisco court where you thought you were going to court in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>Your case has been transferred to Concord, and in some cases, you’re the date of your hearing has been changed. Some cases, it’s earlier than you expected. Big part of what they were doing was getting the word out to people like, you need to check, and here’s how to check whether you’re hearing time and place have been moved. So you don’t miss your hearing. Because if you miss your immigration court hearing, you can be ordered deported in absentia, meaning that you’re not you don’t show, okay?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>Automatically. We’re just going to deport you. You know, you don’t have the right to a court appointed lawyer, so you have to find your own. And lots of people can’t afford to hire a private practice immigration lawyer. So a lot of it falls to a handful of nonprofit groups that do immigration, legal work, deportation, defense to a very small program that the county funds with a couple of lawyers in the public defender’s office and two, three, four lawyers in nonprofits who are getting some county funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yeah, but I can imagine, I mean, even coming to a new country and having to navigate all that must be so overwhelming. What is the need that this new immigration court in Concord is trying to fill?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>The San Francisco court has one of the largest caseloads in the country. They have had a backlog of 160,000 cases. It’s not often that you have a new a brand new immigration court that’s stood up. There is a small court in Sacramento that has about eight judges. There’s 27 judges in the San Francisco court. But, you know, the the waiting time for your case to be heard could be two, three, four years. Moving it out to Concord then allows people who are coming from further away, like all the way down the Central Valley, to travel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>Not quite as far is going all the way to San Francisco. And so this is just kind of expanding, the capacity in the Bay area to handle immigration cases. So the new court will have when it’s fully staffed, it’ll have 21 judges. It’s in least office space in, in an office building in Concord off of a busy boulevard. I think they have 11 judges now, and they’re, you know, they’re hoping to keep hiring up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>How big of a dent ticket is this supposed to make in this national immigration backlog that we’ve been talking about?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>The San Francisco caseload is down from 160,000. It’s now 120,000. And those 40,000 plus cases are now on the docket for the Concord court. And the Biden administration has been trying to expand. They’ve hired about 300 new immigration judges and stood up six new courts around the country. But Republicans in Congress succeeded in cutting the immigration court budget. So that’s going to mean belt tightening at all the immigration courts. And it’s kind of the opposite of what they were hoping to do to try to clear this, this 3 million case backlog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming up, we’ll hear from immigration lawyers who are doing what they can to help people with their cases. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>What has the opening of the this immigration court meant for the county specifically? It sounds like a lot of I guess action is coming to the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>Yeah. It’s true. I mean, the court has been in San Francisco. There’s a long standing effort by the immigration bar in San Francisco to provide more pro bono legal services to people going to court there. None of that has existed out here. So there’s been a big scurry by the nonprofit groups in the East Bay that serve immigrants to hustle and figure out how to help folks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ali Saidi: \u003c/strong>Welcome to my little corner. This is my office to the left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>So Ali said he works for the public defender’s office in Contra Costa. And I met him and his team at their office in Martinez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ali Saidi: \u003c/strong>Okay, team, everybody has a copy of the agenda. Yes. Okay. So, as you all know, the new court is opening up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>He runs this small unit of immigration lawyers doing deportation defense. And he’s also the director of a coalition called Stand Together Contra Costa that includes the public defender’s office and a bunch of nonprofits that are working in this area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ali Saidi: \u003c/strong>There’s over 13,000 Contra Costa residents that have pending deportation cases. And there’s over a thousand in the last 90 days that have been newly, placed into deportation proceedings. So, obviously six lawyers is not enough to handle all of that. That’s why we’re not doing this alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>And they wanted to be sure that people know that this court is not an Ice detention center, like there’s, you know, you’re just going to court here. You’re not going to be locked up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ali Saidi: \u003c/strong>And we want to let the community know where they can go to get help, to understand if their cases are going to be transferred to this new deportation court. And to have access to free legal consultations and hopefully connect as many people as we can, given our limited resources with, actual attorneys to be able to present and process their cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>He also really has a strong critique of the immigration court system, where, how can you represent yourself in an asylum claim or, you know, a deportation case if you don’t know immigration law, which is like second to the tax code and complexity is very complicated and that folks are being kind of rushed into, what he thinks of as like a pipeline of a rushed deportation process without access to attorneys. He sees as a serious due process problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ali Saidi: \u003c/strong>The statistics bear out that the difference between having an immigration attorney versus not having an immigration attorney has profound, profound impacts on your ability to present fully your your claim. And most of these claims that we’re seeing are asylum seeking family units. We have epic backlogs, and there’s a lot of reasons to be able to process cases more quickly, but not at the expense of due process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>What can happen if people don’t get that legal representation?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>If you have an asylum claim, you’re coming to the US and asking for asylum. Here is the equivalent of refugee protection that you fear persecution in your home country based on a series of possible grounds. But if you don’t have a lawyer to make that case for you, the statistics show that more than 80% of the time people lose their asylum cases. If you do have a lawyer, your chances are a lot better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>Almost half of people with lawyers when they’re asylum claims. Unfortunately, nationally, at this point, only a third of the people who are facing deportation in immigration court have a lawyer. So, you know, those legal services are really important and there’s really not enough of them. And that is, you know, true and conquered. It’s true in the immigration courts everywhere in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, I want to end Tyche by asking you about how what happens locally in Concord kind of connects to what’s happening on the national level, because there is a presidential election coming this November, it’s going to be Donald Trump versus Joe Biden again. Immigration is a big issue. And I mean, I think we can all expect a lot of news, a lot of rhetoric around immigration again this year. How do you hope this story helps people understand the issue of immigration in this election, especially folks here in the Bay area?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>Trump and the Republican Party have have really made. Immigration, the border, and specifically a sense of chaos at the border and a sense of sort of invasion by immigrants as kind of a, talking point in their campaigning. It’s absolutely the case that there are a great number of people coming to the border asking for asylum. And the Biden administration, I think, has been trying to manage migration and manage the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>It really illustrates how it’s a big national issue, but it comes down to individual people’s lives and individual people’s stories and the odyssey that these individual folks are on to say, you know, I was fleeing death threats in Guatemala, and this is where I came to seek refuge. Here are some people from the faith community, from the legal services community, who are reaching out to try to help folks feel less intimidated and feel less alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>There was a real sense of community fabric here in the Bay area, in Contra Costa, of responding to those individual needs of people on their on their journey and saying like, how can we help? How can we make you feel safer, make you feel like you belong, and and see if we can help give you a pathway to be part of the community here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>We’ll take you. Thank you so much for joining us on the show. I really appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/strong>Well, it’s my pleasure. Great to talk to you always, Ericka.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That was Tyche Hendricks, senior immigration editor for KQED. This 39 minute conversation with Tyche was cut down and edited by senior editor Alan Montecillo. Maria Esquinca is our producer. She scored this episode and added all the tape music courtesy of the Audio Network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>KQED and the Bay are funded by listeners just like you. If you want to help support our show and local news, consider becoming a KQED member. Just go to KQED.org/Donate. And I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Thanks so much for listening. I’ll talk to you next time.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11979997/concords-new-immigration-court","authors":["8654","259","11802","11649"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_18053","news_20202","news_33812","news_22598"],"featImg":"news_11979156","label":"source_news_11979997"},"arts_13954195":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13954195","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13954195","score":null,"sort":[1710531551000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"the-far-country-berkeley-rep-angel-island-review","title":"‘The Far Country’ Explores Memory, Family and Angel Island’s Detention Horrors","publishDate":1710531551,"format":"standard","headTitle":"‘The Far Country’ Explores Memory, Family and Angel Island’s Detention Horrors | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":140,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>What if walls could talk?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of \u003ca href=\"https://www.aiisf.org/poems-and-inscriptions\">Angel Island\u003c/a>, the walls do in fact talk. Imprisoned upon arrival in the early 20th century, Chinese immigrants etched their pain into the walls as poetry that has been preserved for posterity. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s harrowing production of Lloyd Suh’s Pulitzer-finalist play \u003cem>The Far Country\u003c/em> exists in a world where even the most remote and desolate land carries its own richness. The play’s magic, exposed by Jennifer Chang’s exquisite direction, is that it feels epic in scope, beautifully balanced between struggle, hope and decadent artistry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954199\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TFC_012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954199\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TFC_012.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TFC_012-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TFC_012-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TFC_012-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TFC_012-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TFC_012-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Feodor Chin (Gee/Three), Aaron Wilton (Harriwell/Interpreter), and Whit K. 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Through Chin’s commitment to each critical moment, Gee moves from professional groveler to shrewd businessman in the span of the exchange, making one wonder about his authenticity. Is he the soft soul that made the grizzled, white inspector smile, or a soulless heathen only interested in favorable transactions — or both? \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954200\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TFC_058.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TFC_058.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TFC_058-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TFC_058-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TFC_058-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TFC_058-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TFC_058-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tess Lina (Low/Two) and Tommy Bo (Moon Gyet) in Lloyd Suh’s ‘The Far Country’ at Berkeley Rep. \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Having gained passage back to China, Gee makes a tempting offer to a widow, Low (Tess Lina). For a hefty fee, most of which is free labor, Gee will take Low’s son Moon Gyet (Tommy Bo) to the United States, where labor will become currency in the freedom of a new land. In multiple scenes, Lina oscillates between heartache and pragmatism, informed by each calculated thought with a regal smoothness. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a pact with the devil, to be sure, and one where admission isn’t guaranteed — even the devil might not be able to crack Angel Island inspectors’ relentless interrogation. Admission for Moon Gyet and the many other Chinese migrants trying to enter the steel doors of America is dependent on the tiniest of details: How many steps were at your house? How about the steps at your school? Are these lies? \u003cem>Don’t they all lie\u003c/em>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suh’s use of language and translation in these scenes is exceptional, where exacting words in Angel Island’s interrogation room by both inspector and translator spoken within seconds of each other is a balancing act of delicate precision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954201\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TFC_166.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954201\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TFC_166.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TFC_166-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TFC_166-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TFC_166-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TFC_166-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TFC_166-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tommy Bo (Moon Gyet) and Sharon Shao (Yuen/Four) in Lloyd Suh’s ‘The Far Country’ at Berkeley Rep. \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bo portrays Moon Gyet’s high-stakes game with steely, sharp resolve. Moon Gyet later makes his own transactional offer to Yuen (Sharon Shao): a marriage proposal that, as it turns out, dismisses her hopes of lifelong love (shaking hands after accepting the offer will do that). Shao plays tender and skittish charm beautifully, serving as an effective foil for Moon Gyet’s scheming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As director, Chang is best when creating savory tableaus, pacing each moment with what’s necessary. In her hands, not only does the drama provide tension, but offers artistry and a clean blend of humor necessary for the audience to take a breath and process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13954121']Moments within Angel Island are loaded with desperate warmth, the details filled with artistic strokes incorporating Minjoo Kim’s wonderful lighting design. It is there where the hope of a people, those whose poetry sustained them within the most soul-crushing circumstances, rises beyond the clay that covers each word. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story’s denouement offers critical lessons with humane subtlety. As one grows and ages, the totality of a life is clearest just before the memory starts to fade. No one will live forever, but a legacy can. Just listen to the walls — they will tell all. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘The Far Country’ runs now through April 14 at Berkeley Rep. \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyrep.org/shows/the-far-country/\">Details here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"At Berkeley Rep, Lloyd Suh’s masterful, Pulitzer-finalist play is set during the Chinese Exclusion Act.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1710531551,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":775},"headData":{"title":"Review: ‘The Far Country’ at Berkeley Rep and Angel Island’s Detention Horrors | KQED","description":"At Berkeley Rep, Lloyd Suh’s masterful, Pulitzer-finalist play is set during the Chinese Exclusion Act.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialTitle":"Review: ‘The Far Country’ at Berkeley Rep and Angel Island’s Detention Horrors %%page%% %%sep%% KQED"},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"David John Chávez","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13954195/the-far-country-berkeley-rep-angel-island-review","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>What if walls could talk?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of \u003ca href=\"https://www.aiisf.org/poems-and-inscriptions\">Angel Island\u003c/a>, the walls do in fact talk. Imprisoned upon arrival in the early 20th century, Chinese immigrants etched their pain into the walls as poetry that has been preserved for posterity. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s harrowing production of Lloyd Suh’s Pulitzer-finalist play \u003cem>The Far Country\u003c/em> exists in a world where even the most remote and desolate land carries its own richness. The play’s magic, exposed by Jennifer Chang’s exquisite direction, is that it feels epic in scope, beautifully balanced between struggle, hope and decadent artistry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954199\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TFC_012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954199\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TFC_012.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TFC_012-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TFC_012-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TFC_012-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TFC_012-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TFC_012-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Feodor Chin (Gee/Three), Aaron Wilton (Harriwell/Interpreter), and Whit K. Lee (Yip/One) in Lloyd Suh’s ‘The Far Country’ at Berkeley Rep. \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The play begins on Angel Island, in the San Francisco Bay, in 1909. It’s 27 years after the implementation of the Chinese Exclusion Act, which severely limited Chinese immigration and brought horrific consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the conventional belief that Angel Island functioned similarly to Ellis Island in New York, the island was primarily a detention center, devoid of any romanticism for those yearning to breathe free. It is there where we first meet Gee (Feodor Chin) as he is interrogated by an American inspector (John Keebler), assisted by his interpreter (Aaron Wilton). \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gee is charming and funny, stating that his paperwork proving American citizenship was destroyed in the infamous earthquake three years earlier. Through Chin’s commitment to each critical moment, Gee moves from professional groveler to shrewd businessman in the span of the exchange, making one wonder about his authenticity. Is he the soft soul that made the grizzled, white inspector smile, or a soulless heathen only interested in favorable transactions — or both? \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954200\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TFC_058.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TFC_058.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TFC_058-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TFC_058-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TFC_058-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TFC_058-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TFC_058-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tess Lina (Low/Two) and Tommy Bo (Moon Gyet) in Lloyd Suh’s ‘The Far Country’ at Berkeley Rep. \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Having gained passage back to China, Gee makes a tempting offer to a widow, Low (Tess Lina). For a hefty fee, most of which is free labor, Gee will take Low’s son Moon Gyet (Tommy Bo) to the United States, where labor will become currency in the freedom of a new land. In multiple scenes, Lina oscillates between heartache and pragmatism, informed by each calculated thought with a regal smoothness. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a pact with the devil, to be sure, and one where admission isn’t guaranteed — even the devil might not be able to crack Angel Island inspectors’ relentless interrogation. Admission for Moon Gyet and the many other Chinese migrants trying to enter the steel doors of America is dependent on the tiniest of details: How many steps were at your house? How about the steps at your school? Are these lies? \u003cem>Don’t they all lie\u003c/em>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suh’s use of language and translation in these scenes is exceptional, where exacting words in Angel Island’s interrogation room by both inspector and translator spoken within seconds of each other is a balancing act of delicate precision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954201\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TFC_166.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954201\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TFC_166.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TFC_166-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TFC_166-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TFC_166-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TFC_166-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/TFC_166-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tommy Bo (Moon Gyet) and Sharon Shao (Yuen/Four) in Lloyd Suh’s ‘The Far Country’ at Berkeley Rep. \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bo portrays Moon Gyet’s high-stakes game with steely, sharp resolve. Moon Gyet later makes his own transactional offer to Yuen (Sharon Shao): a marriage proposal that, as it turns out, dismisses her hopes of lifelong love (shaking hands after accepting the offer will do that). Shao plays tender and skittish charm beautifully, serving as an effective foil for Moon Gyet’s scheming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As director, Chang is best when creating savory tableaus, pacing each moment with what’s necessary. In her hands, not only does the drama provide tension, but offers artistry and a clean blend of humor necessary for the audience to take a breath and process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13954121","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Moments within Angel Island are loaded with desperate warmth, the details filled with artistic strokes incorporating Minjoo Kim’s wonderful lighting design. It is there where the hope of a people, those whose poetry sustained them within the most soul-crushing circumstances, rises beyond the clay that covers each word. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story’s denouement offers critical lessons with humane subtlety. As one grows and ages, the totality of a life is clearest just before the memory starts to fade. No one will live forever, but a legacy can. Just listen to the walls — they will tell all. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘The Far Country’ runs now through April 14 at Berkeley Rep. \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyrep.org/shows/the-far-country/\">Details here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13954195/the-far-country-berkeley-rep-angel-island-review","authors":["byline_arts_13954195"],"programs":["arts_140"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_967"],"tags":["arts_22018","arts_1270","arts_1237","arts_1773","arts_585"],"featImg":"arts_13954202","label":"arts_140"},"news_11979131":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11979131","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11979131","score":null,"sort":[1710285172000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"you-cant-have-it-both-ways-sen-padilla-slams-budget-cuts-to-immigration-courts","title":"'You Can't Have It Both Ways': Sen. Padilla Slams Budget Cuts to Immigration Courts","publishDate":1710285172,"format":"standard","headTitle":"‘You Can’t Have It Both Ways’: Sen. Padilla Slams Budget Cuts to Immigration Courts | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>When the Biden administration opened \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11975904/new-bay-area-immigration-court-opens-aims-to-tackle-deportation-backlog\">a new immigration court in the Bay Area city of Concord\u003c/a> last month, it was part of a broader effort to cope with an unprecedented nationwide backlog of 3.3 million cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a spending deal reached in Congress last week to avert a government shutdown cuts the budget for the federal immigration courts, even though President Joe Biden had asked for a major spending increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"California Sen. Alex Padilla\"]‘We can’t say we’re trying to reduce the backlog for asylum applications or anything else … if we’re trying to cut the capacity of the same departments and agencies that are charged with securing the border and enforcing our laws.’[/pullquote]California Sen. Alex Padilla said the reduction, pushed by Republican leaders in the House of Representatives, is a mistake if they care about managing migration at the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My message to them is: You can’t have it both ways,” he said. “We can’t say we’re trying to reduce the backlog for asylum applications or anything else … if we’re trying to cut the capacity of the same departments and agencies that are charged with securing the border and enforcing our laws.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Republicans said the appropriations package, signed by Biden late Friday evening, \u003ca href=\"https://appropriations.house.gov/sites/republicans.appropriations.house.gov/files/First%20FY24%20Package%20-%20Consolidated%20Appropriations%20Act%2C%202024.pdf\">reined in federal spending (PDF)\u003c/a> and “put an end to budgetary waste.” In particular, they touted a provision “requiring the DOJ to hold Immigration Judges accountable by implementing a performance appraisal system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faced with a growing number of asylum claims at the U.S.-Mexico border compounding an existing backlog of deportation cases, \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/d9/2023-03/eoir_fy_2024_pb_narrative_omb_cleared_03.14.23.pdf\">Biden had asked Congress to commit $1.45 billion (PDF)\u003c/a> to the court system, known as the Executive Office of Immigration Review. That reflected a 70% increase over last year’s budget of $860 million. Instead, funding was trimmed to $844 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11975904,news_11903829,news_11883227\"]Since Biden was elected, EOIR, which is part of the U.S. Department of Justice, has added \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/d9/pages/attachments/2020/02/12/25a_number_of_courtrooms.pdf\">six new immigration courts (PDF)\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/d9/pages/attachments/2020/01/31/25_immigration_judge_hiring_1.pdf\">more than 300 judges (PDF)\u003c/a> across the country, building on an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11883227/backlogged-immigration-courts-could-get-help-from-biden-plan-but-some-want-a-total-overhaul\">expansion that began as immigration enforcement ballooned under the Trump administration\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new Concord court is slated to have 21 new judges, nearly doubling the capacity in the Bay Area to hear deportation cases, including asylum claims. Until now, the 27 judges in San Francisco’s court, with help from a smaller court in Sacramento, have handled all immigration cases from Bakersfield, California, to the Oregon border. With 160,000 pending cases, each case takes more than three and a half years to complete, on average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though caseloads have grown, the nation’s 734 immigration judges are closing nearly a third more cases on average than at the end of the Obama years, \u003ca href=\"https://trac.syr.edu/reports/734/\">according to a data analysis\u003c/a> by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University. But the judges’ speed is outmatched by the raw numbers of new migrants applying for asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Analysts with the Congressional Research Service found last year that \u003ca href=\"https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R47637\">the number of judges nationally would need to double,\u003c/a> and it would still take eight years to clear the backlog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retired San Francisco immigration judge Dana Leigh Marks said each judge also needs a courtroom, legal and administrative staff support, language interpreters and functioning computer systems. And staffing up can take months. Yet the new budget cuts to the bone, she said, at a time when the credibility of the nation’s immigration system is at stake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Dana Leigh Marks, retired San Francisco immigration judge\"]‘It really is a travesty that there’s all this focus on the border and the backlog in the immigration court system. And yet the major solution is simply giving adequate funding.’[/pullquote]“EOIR is desperately undersized and underfunded. So every penny counts,” said Marks, who is president emerita of the National Association of Immigration Judges. “It really is a travesty that there’s all this focus on the border and the backlog in the immigration court system. And yet the major solution is simply giving adequate funding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, she said delays can hurt an asylum seeker’s chances of winning permanent protection in the U.S., even as they’ve put down roots here and may be valued members of their communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve got cases that have been pending for five, six, seven years,” Marks said. “Their asylum case may no longer be viable … They may be hampered by the ability to obtain evidence because so much time has passed. So, from a legal perspective, their case is not one which could be granted. But it doesn’t mean that they are someone who necessarily should be forced to leave.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"California Sen. Alex Padilla says the reduction, pushed by Republican leaders in the House of Representatives, is a mistake if they care about managing migration at the border.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1710286853,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":16,"wordCount":838},"headData":{"title":"'You Can't Have It Both Ways': Sen. Padilla Slams Budget Cuts to Immigration Courts | KQED","description":"California Sen. 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Alex Padilla said the reduction, pushed by Republican leaders in the House of Representatives, is a mistake if they care about managing migration at the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My message to them is: You can’t have it both ways,” he said. “We can’t say we’re trying to reduce the backlog for asylum applications or anything else … if we’re trying to cut the capacity of the same departments and agencies that are charged with securing the border and enforcing our laws.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Republicans said the appropriations package, signed by Biden late Friday evening, \u003ca href=\"https://appropriations.house.gov/sites/republicans.appropriations.house.gov/files/First%20FY24%20Package%20-%20Consolidated%20Appropriations%20Act%2C%202024.pdf\">reined in federal spending (PDF)\u003c/a> and “put an end to budgetary waste.” In particular, they touted a provision “requiring the DOJ to hold Immigration Judges accountable by implementing a performance appraisal system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faced with a growing number of asylum claims at the U.S.-Mexico border compounding an existing backlog of deportation cases, \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/d9/2023-03/eoir_fy_2024_pb_narrative_omb_cleared_03.14.23.pdf\">Biden had asked Congress to commit $1.45 billion (PDF)\u003c/a> to the court system, known as the Executive Office of Immigration Review. That reflected a 70% increase over last year’s budget of $860 million. Instead, funding was trimmed to $844 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"news_11975904,news_11903829,news_11883227"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Since Biden was elected, EOIR, which is part of the U.S. Department of Justice, has added \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/d9/pages/attachments/2020/02/12/25a_number_of_courtrooms.pdf\">six new immigration courts (PDF)\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/d9/pages/attachments/2020/01/31/25_immigration_judge_hiring_1.pdf\">more than 300 judges (PDF)\u003c/a> across the country, building on an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11883227/backlogged-immigration-courts-could-get-help-from-biden-plan-but-some-want-a-total-overhaul\">expansion that began as immigration enforcement ballooned under the Trump administration\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new Concord court is slated to have 21 new judges, nearly doubling the capacity in the Bay Area to hear deportation cases, including asylum claims. Until now, the 27 judges in San Francisco’s court, with help from a smaller court in Sacramento, have handled all immigration cases from Bakersfield, California, to the Oregon border. With 160,000 pending cases, each case takes more than three and a half years to complete, on average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though caseloads have grown, the nation’s 734 immigration judges are closing nearly a third more cases on average than at the end of the Obama years, \u003ca href=\"https://trac.syr.edu/reports/734/\">according to a data analysis\u003c/a> by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University. But the judges’ speed is outmatched by the raw numbers of new migrants applying for asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Analysts with the Congressional Research Service found last year that \u003ca href=\"https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R47637\">the number of judges nationally would need to double,\u003c/a> and it would still take eight years to clear the backlog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retired San Francisco immigration judge Dana Leigh Marks said each judge also needs a courtroom, legal and administrative staff support, language interpreters and functioning computer systems. And staffing up can take months. Yet the new budget cuts to the bone, she said, at a time when the credibility of the nation’s immigration system is at stake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘It really is a travesty that there’s all this focus on the border and the backlog in the immigration court system. And yet the major solution is simply giving adequate funding.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Dana Leigh Marks, retired San Francisco immigration judge","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“EOIR is desperately undersized and underfunded. So every penny counts,” said Marks, who is president emerita of the National Association of Immigration Judges. “It really is a travesty that there’s all this focus on the border and the backlog in the immigration court system. And yet the major solution is simply giving adequate funding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, she said delays can hurt an asylum seeker’s chances of winning permanent protection in the U.S., even as they’ve put down roots here and may be valued members of their communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve got cases that have been pending for five, six, seven years,” Marks said. “Their asylum case may no longer be viable … They may be hampered by the ability to obtain evidence because so much time has passed. So, from a legal perspective, their case is not one which could be granted. But it doesn’t mean that they are someone who necessarily should be forced to leave.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11979131/you-cant-have-it-both-ways-sen-padilla-slams-budget-cuts-to-immigration-courts","authors":["259"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_27626","news_20202","news_29063"],"featImg":"news_11979156","label":"news"},"news_11976293":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11976293","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11976293","score":null,"sort":[1708207230000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"research-finds-immigration-enforcement-hurts-students-and-hinders-schoolwork-but-schools-offer-support","title":"Research Finds Immigration Enforcement Hurts Students and Hinders Schoolwork — but Schools Offer Support","publishDate":1708207230,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Research Finds Immigration Enforcement Hurts Students and Hinders Schoolwork — but Schools Offer Support | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Immigrant students’ schoolwork and experience in the classroom often suffer in the presence of immigration enforcement — with 60% of teachers and school staff reporting poorer academic performance, and nearly half noting increased rates of bullying against these students, UCLA-based researchers found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of focusing on their education, these students struggle with this uncertainty and, as a result, are often absent from school or inattentive. Their teachers also struggle to motivate them and sometimes to protect them,” reads a recent \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://transformschools.ucla.edu/research/the-impact-of-a-broken-immigration-system-on-us-students-and-schools/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">policy brief\u003c/a> by \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.google.com/url?q=https://transformschools.ucla.edu&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1708046037332511&usg=AOvVaw2dVTCzF8pcegM5zmQ92H96\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UCLA’s Center for the Transformation of Schools\u003c/a>, \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://latino.ucla.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Latino Policy and Politics Institute\u003c/a>, and \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/#:~:text=The%20mission%20of%20the%20Civil,resolved%20to%20achieve%20racial%20and\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The broken immigration system hurts schools and creates victims across the spectrum of race and ethnicity in the United States, but it is especially acute for these students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/16782222/embed\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to UCLA’s policy brief, children of “unauthorized immigrants” between the ages of 6 and 16 are 14% more likely to repeat a grade, while those aged 14 to 17 are 18% more likely to drop out of school altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the most common reasons for students to miss class or drop out is the pressure to work full time to support family members financially, said Yesenia Arroyo, the principal of LAUSD’s RFK School for the Visual Arts and Humanities, where roughly 80% of students are immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that she works closely with her school’s counseling staff to connect regularly with students about their academic progress. They also try to find \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.linkedlearning.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Linked Learning\u003c/a> opportunities, where students develop real-world experience, and paid internships — which can help students earn while remaining in school or pursuing their interests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"UCLA and Civil Rights Project policy brief\"]‘The broken immigration system hurts schools and creates victims across the spectrum of race and ethnicity in the United States, but it is especially acute for these students.’[/pullquote]“A part of it is really understanding the community that we serve,” Arroyo said, “understanding the students that we serve, understanding what are the challenges and ensuring that we are matching resources, that we’re listening first — that we’re really listening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools and community organizations throughout Los Angeles have taken various approaches to support students who are undocumented or have family members who are — including running a one-of-a-kind high school in Korea Town with an onsite immigration clinic and engaging the services of community organizers to help connect families with resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s happening in one school, unfortunately, is not something that’s always happening in other schools. And I’m sure that there’s other great leaders that are doing great things. It would be nice to learn from what others are doing,” Arroyo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s so many different tasks, so much work that we need to do. I wish we had more time to collaborate with other leaders to ensure that we are sharing resources and ideas, so that we are not working in isolation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">‘Wraparound’ support\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While it is impossible for teachers, administrators and the district as a whole to always know which students are undocumented and in need of support, schools and community organizations have taken various approaches to provide basic assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the Los Angeles Unified School District said that while the district follows the law and does not “collect information or inquire about immigration status,” it supports all students, irrespective of their immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Schools assist families with affidavits, for example, to ensure students are enrolled, and families are connected to appropriate services and support, even if enrollment documents aren’t available,” the spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Rosie Arroyo, senior program officer of immigration, California Community Foundation\"]‘It’s about survival. And right now, there’s a lot of multilayered challenges communities are facing, from being able to make it on a day-by-day basis and having access to resources around just food.’[/pullquote]Meanwhile, 34 of LAUSD’s schools are also community schools, which provide “wraparound” services — from meals to medical assistance — that advocates say are critical for students who are undocumented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosie Arroyo (not related to Yesenia), a senior program officer of immigration at the \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.calfund.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Community Foundation\u003c/a>, a nonprofit organization based in Los Angeles that aims to address systemic challenges facing various communities throughout the region, said housing and mental health resources are in especially high demand for these students and their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about survival,” Arroyo said. “And right now, there’s a lot of multilayered challenges communities are facing, from being able to make it on a day-by-day basis and having access to resources around just food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a community school, the School for the Visual Arts and Humanities holds workshops for families every Wednesday, covering a range of topics, from housing to special education and how to access community resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least a fifth of the school’s parents attend, which principal Arroyo said is particularly difficult to achieve with parents who often work multiple jobs, and because parental involvement usually decreases as students get older.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mental health support has also been a big concern at the school — especially as a lot of the students are grappling with serious trauma and lack confidence. Roughly 65% of the behavioral incidents reported to the district by the schools are related to students’ struggles with mental health issues, the principal said, adding that the COVID-19 pandemic only exacerbated those challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school now has a QR system posted throughout campus that students can scan to schedule a visit with the school counselor. About a fifth of the students request to see a counselor on a weekly basis, Arroyo added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of them have been through a lot of trauma on their way into the country. They’ve been abused; they’ve seen death,” she said. “It would be great if we had a system in place to address all these issues that our students come with and provide them with resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Legal backing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Beyond receiving assistance with basic needs, access to legal services and some understanding of individual rights is critical for students, advocates say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the support it provides its students as a community school, the School for the Visual Arts and Humanities partnered with \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://law.ucla.edu/academics/experiential-program/law-clinic-courses/immigrant-family-legal-clinic/immigrant-family-legal-clinic-resources\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UCLA\u003c/a> in 2019 to launch a permanent one-of-a-kind legal clinic. The clinic space is specifically designed to support students whose families need legal guidance or backing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The RFK Immigrant Family Legal Clinic “is a blessing for our families and for our students, because they have resources that they, perhaps, would not go out on their own to get,” Arroyo said, adding that more than 80% of the students at her school were not born in the U.S., and about 20% immigrated within the past two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the recent arrivals are from southern Mexico, Central America and South America, though there are students from other parts of the world, including Korea, Russia and Bangladesh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Nina Rabin, director, RFK Immigrant Family Legal Clinic\"]‘The kids are just kind of incredible — what they take on and how much they’re just survivors and resilient. They have so much potential and … there’s so much that’s so, so difficult and unfair about their situation in this country.’[/pullquote]The legal clinic’s team — comprised of a director, manager, two staff attorneys and up to a dozen law students — provides students and families with one-time consultations and, in some cases, legal representation. They are also present in classrooms, during “coffee with the principal” events and during weekly workshops for families — allowing the clinic to become “a trusting face” which Arroyo said is “key to ensuring that our families are actually taking advantage of those resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The clinic has allowed us to relieve stress and anxiety, but there’s just so many kids who don’t have that,” said Nina Rabin, the clinic’s director who also teaches at UCLA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just love the school. It’s such a special place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As more students arrive from around the world and the clinic earns more trust from the communities it serves, the demand grows. The clinic recently expanded to a second location on the same campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, the team has more than 120 cases\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>on its docket, many of them already prepared and sitting in a long, backlogged process that can take years, Rabin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In any given week, the clinic has roughly a dozen “really active cases” — and they prioritize families that are seeking asylum and students who are eligible for certain visas that only people under the age of 21 can apply for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While “there’s definitely a need beyond what we can currently fill,” Rabin said, the clinic also tries to give more immediate attention to high-need families, unaccompanied minors and those with imminent hearings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The kids are just kind of incredible — what they take on and how much they’re just survivors and resilient,” Rabin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have so much potential and … there’s so much that’s so, so difficult and unfair about their situation in this country. And so, being able to intervene with this possibility of getting full status at this really prime time in their life, I think is really rewarding when it works, and it has been working. We’ve been getting a lot of kids on that pathway.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11973789,news_11969685,news_11970802,news_11957693\"]Through her Facebook group \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/1176163479411915\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Our Voice/Nuestra Voz\u003c/a>, Evelyn Aleman organizes live-streams\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>and virtual workshops every Friday. Most of the group’s LAUSD parents, she said, are either in fully undocumented or mixed-status families and are looking to find ways to support and advocate for their children in school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Usually, she said, 20 to 30 parents attend the Zoom sessions, while up to 400 might opt to stream them later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We continuously ask our parents ‘OK, what information would you like us to bring to Our Voice?’” Aleman said. “Consistently, they’ll say, in addition to education, but primarily, they’ll say, immigrant rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, Aleman is partnering with the \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.chirla.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles\u003c/a> to host a 10-workshop series — each week discussing a different topic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The topics related to immigration status will include: “know your rights,” “public charge,” “DACA,” “resources for undocumented students,” “citizenship” and “notario fraud prevention + referrals for non-profit immigration legal services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Building trust with undocumented and mixed-status families is critical, she said, because many remain wary of fraudulent attorneys and notaries because of their prior experiences or the experiences of people they know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They take their money, and they run,” Aleman said. “The families lose hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars investing with the hope … that they’ll help them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Moving forward\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To support students who are undocumented or from mixed-status families, the UCLA brief emphasizes the importance of investing in community schools, participating in partnerships with community-based organizations and providing “Know Your Rights” guidance from the California Department of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The brief also urges school districts to hire more counselors and school support staff, improve diversity in the ranks of teachers and offer more professional development opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Lucrecia Santibañez, faculty co-director, Center for the Transformation of Schools\"]‘It is everybody’s problem because kids in schools, even when they themselves are not undocumented, they’re feeling the fear, they’re feeling the uncertainty.’[/pullquote]Lucrecia Santibañez, the faculty co-director of the Center for the Transformation of Schools, co-author of the brief, said expanding support for teachers is key because some may not know how to handle a situation where an undocumented student comes forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Teachers themselves have to be really careful about having these conversations. They obviously want to support the kids, they want to support their families,” Santibañez said. These situations add to teachers’ stress and create more work for them. Being better prepared to handle them would be a big help, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santibañez also emphasized the negative psychological impacts of anti-immigrant rhetoric — not only for students who might be undocumented or come from mixed-status families, but for all students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I’m here legally, I may get comfortable in saying, ‘Well, that’s somebody else’s problem, right? I’m not going to get deported. My kids aren’t going to come home and not see me because I got sent back,’” Santibañez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is actually our problem. It is everybody’s problem because kids in schools, even when they themselves are not undocumented, they’re feeling the fear, they’re feeling the uncertainty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/immigration-enforcement-hinders-performance-in-school-heres-how-communities-are-helping/705983\">\u003cem>This story originally appeared in EdSource.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"According to UCLA's policy brief, children of 'unauthorized immigrants' between the ages of 6 and 16 are 14% more likely to repeat a grade, while those aged 14 to 17 are 18% more likely to drop out of school altogether.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1708203546,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":true,"iframeSrcs":["https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/16782222/embed"],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":52,"wordCount":2313},"headData":{"title":"Research Finds Immigration Enforcement Hurts Students and Hinders Schoolwork — but Schools Offer Support | KQED","description":"According to UCLA's policy brief, children of 'unauthorized immigrants' between the ages of 6 and 16 are 14% more likely to repeat a grade, while those aged 14 to 17 are 18% more likely to drop out of school altogether.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"source":"edsource","sourceUrl":"https://edsource.org/","sticky":false,"nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/author/mseshadri\">Mallika Seshadri\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11976293/research-finds-immigration-enforcement-hurts-students-and-hinders-schoolwork-but-schools-offer-support","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Immigrant students’ schoolwork and experience in the classroom often suffer in the presence of immigration enforcement — with 60% of teachers and school staff reporting poorer academic performance, and nearly half noting increased rates of bullying against these students, UCLA-based researchers found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of focusing on their education, these students struggle with this uncertainty and, as a result, are often absent from school or inattentive. Their teachers also struggle to motivate them and sometimes to protect them,” reads a recent \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://transformschools.ucla.edu/research/the-impact-of-a-broken-immigration-system-on-us-students-and-schools/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">policy brief\u003c/a> by \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.google.com/url?q=https://transformschools.ucla.edu&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1708046037332511&usg=AOvVaw2dVTCzF8pcegM5zmQ92H96\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UCLA’s Center for the Transformation of Schools\u003c/a>, \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://latino.ucla.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Latino Policy and Politics Institute\u003c/a>, and \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/#:~:text=The%20mission%20of%20the%20Civil,resolved%20to%20achieve%20racial%20and\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The broken immigration system hurts schools and creates victims across the spectrum of race and ethnicity in the United States, but it is especially acute for these students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/16782222/embed\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to UCLA’s policy brief, children of “unauthorized immigrants” between the ages of 6 and 16 are 14% more likely to repeat a grade, while those aged 14 to 17 are 18% more likely to drop out of school altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the most common reasons for students to miss class or drop out is the pressure to work full time to support family members financially, said Yesenia Arroyo, the principal of LAUSD’s RFK School for the Visual Arts and Humanities, where roughly 80% of students are immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that she works closely with her school’s counseling staff to connect regularly with students about their academic progress. They also try to find \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.linkedlearning.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Linked Learning\u003c/a> opportunities, where students develop real-world experience, and paid internships — which can help students earn while remaining in school or pursuing their interests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘The broken immigration system hurts schools and creates victims across the spectrum of race and ethnicity in the United States, but it is especially acute for these students.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"UCLA and Civil Rights Project policy brief","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“A part of it is really understanding the community that we serve,” Arroyo said, “understanding the students that we serve, understanding what are the challenges and ensuring that we are matching resources, that we’re listening first — that we’re really listening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools and community organizations throughout Los Angeles have taken various approaches to support students who are undocumented or have family members who are — including running a one-of-a-kind high school in Korea Town with an onsite immigration clinic and engaging the services of community organizers to help connect families with resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s happening in one school, unfortunately, is not something that’s always happening in other schools. And I’m sure that there’s other great leaders that are doing great things. It would be nice to learn from what others are doing,” Arroyo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s so many different tasks, so much work that we need to do. I wish we had more time to collaborate with other leaders to ensure that we are sharing resources and ideas, so that we are not working in isolation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">‘Wraparound’ support\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While it is impossible for teachers, administrators and the district as a whole to always know which students are undocumented and in need of support, schools and community organizations have taken various approaches to provide basic assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the Los Angeles Unified School District said that while the district follows the law and does not “collect information or inquire about immigration status,” it supports all students, irrespective of their immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Schools assist families with affidavits, for example, to ensure students are enrolled, and families are connected to appropriate services and support, even if enrollment documents aren’t available,” the spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘It’s about survival. And right now, there’s a lot of multilayered challenges communities are facing, from being able to make it on a day-by-day basis and having access to resources around just food.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Rosie Arroyo, senior program officer of immigration, California Community Foundation","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Meanwhile, 34 of LAUSD’s schools are also community schools, which provide “wraparound” services — from meals to medical assistance — that advocates say are critical for students who are undocumented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosie Arroyo (not related to Yesenia), a senior program officer of immigration at the \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.calfund.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Community Foundation\u003c/a>, a nonprofit organization based in Los Angeles that aims to address systemic challenges facing various communities throughout the region, said housing and mental health resources are in especially high demand for these students and their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about survival,” Arroyo said. “And right now, there’s a lot of multilayered challenges communities are facing, from being able to make it on a day-by-day basis and having access to resources around just food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a community school, the School for the Visual Arts and Humanities holds workshops for families every Wednesday, covering a range of topics, from housing to special education and how to access community resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least a fifth of the school’s parents attend, which principal Arroyo said is particularly difficult to achieve with parents who often work multiple jobs, and because parental involvement usually decreases as students get older.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mental health support has also been a big concern at the school — especially as a lot of the students are grappling with serious trauma and lack confidence. Roughly 65% of the behavioral incidents reported to the district by the schools are related to students’ struggles with mental health issues, the principal said, adding that the COVID-19 pandemic only exacerbated those challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school now has a QR system posted throughout campus that students can scan to schedule a visit with the school counselor. About a fifth of the students request to see a counselor on a weekly basis, Arroyo added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of them have been through a lot of trauma on their way into the country. They’ve been abused; they’ve seen death,” she said. “It would be great if we had a system in place to address all these issues that our students come with and provide them with resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Legal backing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Beyond receiving assistance with basic needs, access to legal services and some understanding of individual rights is critical for students, advocates say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the support it provides its students as a community school, the School for the Visual Arts and Humanities partnered with \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://law.ucla.edu/academics/experiential-program/law-clinic-courses/immigrant-family-legal-clinic/immigrant-family-legal-clinic-resources\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UCLA\u003c/a> in 2019 to launch a permanent one-of-a-kind legal clinic. The clinic space is specifically designed to support students whose families need legal guidance or backing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The RFK Immigrant Family Legal Clinic “is a blessing for our families and for our students, because they have resources that they, perhaps, would not go out on their own to get,” Arroyo said, adding that more than 80% of the students at her school were not born in the U.S., and about 20% immigrated within the past two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the recent arrivals are from southern Mexico, Central America and South America, though there are students from other parts of the world, including Korea, Russia and Bangladesh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘The kids are just kind of incredible — what they take on and how much they’re just survivors and resilient. They have so much potential and … there’s so much that’s so, so difficult and unfair about their situation in this country.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Nina Rabin, director, RFK Immigrant Family Legal Clinic","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The legal clinic’s team — comprised of a director, manager, two staff attorneys and up to a dozen law students — provides students and families with one-time consultations and, in some cases, legal representation. They are also present in classrooms, during “coffee with the principal” events and during weekly workshops for families — allowing the clinic to become “a trusting face” which Arroyo said is “key to ensuring that our families are actually taking advantage of those resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The clinic has allowed us to relieve stress and anxiety, but there’s just so many kids who don’t have that,” said Nina Rabin, the clinic’s director who also teaches at UCLA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just love the school. It’s such a special place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As more students arrive from around the world and the clinic earns more trust from the communities it serves, the demand grows. The clinic recently expanded to a second location on the same campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, the team has more than 120 cases\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>on its docket, many of them already prepared and sitting in a long, backlogged process that can take years, Rabin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In any given week, the clinic has roughly a dozen “really active cases” — and they prioritize families that are seeking asylum and students who are eligible for certain visas that only people under the age of 21 can apply for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While “there’s definitely a need beyond what we can currently fill,” Rabin said, the clinic also tries to give more immediate attention to high-need families, unaccompanied minors and those with imminent hearings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The kids are just kind of incredible — what they take on and how much they’re just survivors and resilient,” Rabin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have so much potential and … there’s so much that’s so, so difficult and unfair about their situation in this country. And so, being able to intervene with this possibility of getting full status at this really prime time in their life, I think is really rewarding when it works, and it has been working. We’ve been getting a lot of kids on that pathway.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"news_11973789,news_11969685,news_11970802,news_11957693"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Through her Facebook group \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/1176163479411915\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Our Voice/Nuestra Voz\u003c/a>, Evelyn Aleman organizes live-streams\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>and virtual workshops every Friday. Most of the group’s LAUSD parents, she said, are either in fully undocumented or mixed-status families and are looking to find ways to support and advocate for their children in school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Usually, she said, 20 to 30 parents attend the Zoom sessions, while up to 400 might opt to stream them later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We continuously ask our parents ‘OK, what information would you like us to bring to Our Voice?’” Aleman said. “Consistently, they’ll say, in addition to education, but primarily, they’ll say, immigrant rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, Aleman is partnering with the \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.chirla.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles\u003c/a> to host a 10-workshop series — each week discussing a different topic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The topics related to immigration status will include: “know your rights,” “public charge,” “DACA,” “resources for undocumented students,” “citizenship” and “notario fraud prevention + referrals for non-profit immigration legal services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Building trust with undocumented and mixed-status families is critical, she said, because many remain wary of fraudulent attorneys and notaries because of their prior experiences or the experiences of people they know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They take their money, and they run,” Aleman said. “The families lose hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars investing with the hope … that they’ll help them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Moving forward\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To support students who are undocumented or from mixed-status families, the UCLA brief emphasizes the importance of investing in community schools, participating in partnerships with community-based organizations and providing “Know Your Rights” guidance from the California Department of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The brief also urges school districts to hire more counselors and school support staff, improve diversity in the ranks of teachers and offer more professional development opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘It is everybody’s problem because kids in schools, even when they themselves are not undocumented, they’re feeling the fear, they’re feeling the uncertainty.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Lucrecia Santibañez, faculty co-director, Center for the Transformation of Schools","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Lucrecia Santibañez, the faculty co-director of the Center for the Transformation of Schools, co-author of the brief, said expanding support for teachers is key because some may not know how to handle a situation where an undocumented student comes forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Teachers themselves have to be really careful about having these conversations. They obviously want to support the kids, they want to support their families,” Santibañez said. These situations add to teachers’ stress and create more work for them. Being better prepared to handle them would be a big help, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santibañez also emphasized the negative psychological impacts of anti-immigrant rhetoric — not only for students who might be undocumented or come from mixed-status families, but for all students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I’m here legally, I may get comfortable in saying, ‘Well, that’s somebody else’s problem, right? I’m not going to get deported. My kids aren’t going to come home and not see me because I got sent back,’” Santibañez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is actually our problem. It is everybody’s problem because kids in schools, even when they themselves are not undocumented, they’re feeling the fear, they’re feeling the uncertainty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/immigration-enforcement-hinders-performance-in-school-heres-how-communities-are-helping/705983\">\u003cem>This story originally appeared in EdSource.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11976293/research-finds-immigration-enforcement-hurts-students-and-hinders-schoolwork-but-schools-offer-support","authors":["byline_news_11976293"],"categories":["news_18540","news_1169","news_8"],"tags":["news_18538","news_20013","news_27626","news_27924","news_20202","news_2998"],"featImg":"news_11976294","label":"source_news_11976293"},"news_11975904":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11975904","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11975904","score":null,"sort":[1707948031000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"new-bay-area-immigration-court-opens-aims-to-tackle-deportation-backlog","title":"New Bay Area Immigration Court Opens, Aims to Tackle Deportation Backlog","publishDate":1707948031,"format":"standard","headTitle":"New Bay Area Immigration Court Opens, Aims to Tackle Deportation Backlog | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The nation’s newest immigration court opened for business this week in the East Bay city of Concord after federal authorities decided the San Francisco Bay Area needed more resources to cope with a growing backlog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move adds 21 new courtrooms to help ease the burden at \u003ca href=\"https://trac.syr.edu/phptools/immigration/backlog/\">one of the nation’s busiest immigration courts\u003c/a> across the bay in San Francisco. When it’s fully up and running, the new Concord facility will nearly double the capacity in the Bay Area to hear deportation cases, including asylum claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Ali Saidi, deputy public defender, Contra Costa County\"]‘The difference between having an immigration attorney versus not having an immigration attorney has profound impacts on your ability to present your claim fully.’[/pullquote]Until now, the 27 judges in San Francisco’s court, with help from a smaller court in Sacramento, have handled all immigration cases from Bakersfield, California, to the Oregon border. With 160,000 pending cases, each case takes more than three and a half years to complete, on average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/eoir/concord-immigration-court\">new Concord court\u003c/a> is also part of a nationwide effort by the Biden Administration to cope with an unprecedented backlog of more than 3.3 million cases across the country, including a record number of asylum seekers who’ve recently arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border. While observers say new courtrooms and judges should help move cases faster, some worry they could also trigger new problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Nationwide Court Expansion Needs More Funding\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Since President Joe Biden was elected, the Executive Office of Immigration Review, which is part of the U.S. Department of Justice, has added \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/d9/pages/attachments/2020/02/12/25a_number_of_courtrooms.pdf\">six new immigration courts\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/d9/pages/attachments/2020/01/31/25_immigration_judge_hiring_1.pdf\">more than 300 judges\u003c/a> across the country, building on an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11883227/backlogged-immigration-courts-could-get-help-from-biden-plan-but-some-want-a-total-overhaul\">expansion that began as immigration enforcement ballooned under the Trump Administration\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Concord court will start with 11 judges and will continue hiring to reach a full bench of 21, according to officials with the EOIR, as the immigration court system is called.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mimi Tsankov, president of the National Association of Immigration Judges, said the expansion is welcome and the new Concord court should help deal with “the overabundance of cases that has been inundating San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she cautioned that just hiring judges would not solve the case backlog by itself. Judges have struggled without well-functioning computer systems, a sufficient number of language interpreters and full teams of law clerks and administrative aides, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11975915\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240212-ImmigrationCourt-06-BL-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11975915\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240212-ImmigrationCourt-06-BL-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A woman holds up a white sign in Spanish.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240212-ImmigrationCourt-06-BL-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240212-ImmigrationCourt-06-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240212-ImmigrationCourt-06-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240212-ImmigrationCourt-06-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240212-ImmigrationCourt-06-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240212-ImmigrationCourt-06-BL-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240212-ImmigrationCourt-06-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosa Menjivar, from the Latina Center, holds a sign outside the new Concord Immigration Court in Concord during a press conference on Feb. 12, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We need court staff to be there, to support the judges and those very fast-moving, time-intensive dockets,” Tsankov said, speaking in her role with the NAIJ, the judge’s union. “Our staff is working nonstop until late hours of the night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Concord facility is “currently staffed to meet all support needs,” according to EOIR spokesperson Kathryn Mattingly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tsankov noted that the nation’s 734 immigration judges are working faster than ever. Even though caseloads have grown, judges are closing nearly a third more cases on average than at the end of the Obama years, \u003ca href=\"https://trac.syr.edu/reports/734/\">according to a data analysis\u003c/a> by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University. But the judges’ speed is outmatched by the raw numbers of new migrants applying for asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re still not able to outrun the volume of work that comes our way,” Tsankov said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Justice Department has asked for \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/d9/2023-03/eoir_fy_24_budsum_ii_omb_cleared_03.08.23.pdf\">a major increase in funding to hire 150 more judges\u003c/a> and court staff this year, but Congress has been unable to pass the federal budget. Biden officials also requested court funding in a bipartisan immigration deal tied to Ukraine aid, but Republicans killed that plan last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Immigrants Not Receiving Hearing Notices\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In Contra Costa County, where the new court is located, immigration lawyers are scrambling to prepare for a swelling demand for legal services. Calls are already surging on a hotline run by \u003ca href=\"https://standtogethercontracosta.org/\">Stand Together Contra Costa\u003c/a>, a partnership between the county and community groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deputy Public Defender Ali Saidi directs the partnership with a small team of lawyers who provide deportation defense. Meeting with coworkers around a conference table last week, Saidi heard repeatedly that immigrant clients, as well as hotline callers, said they had not been notified by EOIR that their cases were being transferred to the Concord court — and that they had new hearing dates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11975918\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240212-ImmigrationCourt-13-BL-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11975918\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240212-ImmigrationCourt-13-BL-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing glasses and a business suit holds a microphone outside with people holding signs in the background.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240212-ImmigrationCourt-13-BL-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240212-ImmigrationCourt-13-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240212-ImmigrationCourt-13-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240212-ImmigrationCourt-13-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240212-ImmigrationCourt-13-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240212-ImmigrationCourt-13-BL-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240212-ImmigrationCourt-13-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Contra Costa County Removal Defense Attorney Heliodoro Moreno speaks during a press conference outside the new Concord Immigration Court on Feb. 12, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Public defender Heliodoro Moreno said he could see in the court’s electronic portal for lawyers that hearing dates for some of his clients have been moved much sooner and delayed for others. He was troubled that his clients had not received a letter notifying them of the change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11910789,news_11903829,news_11900546,news_11975246\" label=\"Related Stories\"]“There’s a case that’s only going to have a one-month lead time. And still, there’s no notice to prepare for a hearing, which is quite frustrating for clients like mine that all have attorneys,” he said. “But what worries me is for all those that don’t have an attorney, which are the majority of people. How are those notices happening? It’s worrisome.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In immigration court, if defendants don’t show up, they are typically ordered deported \u003ci>in absentia\u003c/i>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Court officials said late last week that they were in the process of notifying everyone whose case has been reassigned to the Concord Immigration Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“New hearing notices for all cases that have been transferred have been or will be sent to the respondent at the address on file or to the attorney of record,” EOIR’s Mattingly said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Scramble to Find Immigration Lawyers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Unlike in criminal court, the government does not provide lawyers for people who can’t afford their own. And presently, \u003ca href=\"https://trac.syr.edu/reports/736/#f4\">less than a third of immigrants facing deportation have lawyers\u003c/a>, down from two-thirds just a few years ago — largely because of the increase in new asylum cases from the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saidi’s team includes two public defenders and two immigration attorneys at a local nonprofit, plus funding to hire two more. But Saidi said more than 13,000 Contra Costa residents have pending deportation cases, including a growing number of newly arrived families seeking asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s over a thousand in the last 90 days that have been newly placed into deportation proceedings,” he said. “So, obviously, six lawyers is not enough to handle all of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to local residents, immigrants in deportation proceedings will be coming from all over Northern and Central California as their cases are transferred to the Concord court. And without lawyers, they face steep odds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The difference between having an immigration attorney versus not having an immigration attorney has profound impacts on your ability to present your claim fully,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under U.S. and international law, asylum is available to people who face persecution in their home country based on their race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social group. Those who pass an initial border screening are placed in deportation proceedings to make their case to an immigration judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of asylum seekers lose their cases, but having a lawyer is key: 49% of people with attorneys won, while just 18% of unrepresented asylum seekers did so, \u003ca href=\"https://trac.syr.edu/reports/703/\">according to the latest available data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11975030\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240206-IMMIGRATIONCOURT-26-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11975030\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240206-IMMIGRATIONCOURT-26-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A view looking up at a building.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240206-IMMIGRATIONCOURT-26-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240206-IMMIGRATIONCOURT-26-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240206-IMMIGRATIONCOURT-26-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240206-IMMIGRATIONCOURT-26-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240206-IMMIGRATIONCOURT-26-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240206-IMMIGRATIONCOURT-26-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The site of a new immigration court at 1855 Concord Gateway in Concord on Feb. 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Saidi and his team are hoping to follow the lead of San Francisco, where a robust collaboration of 16 nonprofits aims to provide a lawyer for any San Francisco resident going to immigration court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Milli Atkinson helps lead that network as director of the Immigrant Legal Defense Program at the San Francisco Bar Association. She worries that immigrants will find few legal resources in Concord to assist them with their claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are very few nonprofits serving the immigrant community in Concord and Contra Costa County,” she said. “In the next year or two, a lot of people will be struggling to find help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Atkinson said she’s reaching out to East Bay legal aid groups to offer what she can. And Saidi is teaming up with the organizations in his area. They held a press conference on Monday to get the word out to the immigrant community about what to expect at the new court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of confusion and fear, especially in the current climate,” Saidi said. “So we want folks to know that this isn’t a detention center,… understand if their cases are going to be transferred to this new deportation court, and hopefully connect as many people as we can with actual attorneys.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stand Together Contra Costa is planning a free legal clinic on March 17. The nonprofit groups seek a nearby storefront or office where immigrants can find information and services. Saidi also asks immigration lawyers to volunteer for an “attorney of the day” program, modeled on San Francisco’s, where attorneys take shifts at court to provide short consultations for unrepresented immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Functioning Immigration Court Helps Border Control\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Research shows that when immigrants facing deportation have attorneys, \u003ca href=\"https://www.migrationpolicy.org/sites/default/files/publications/mpi-courts-report-2023_final.pdf\">not only is the outcome more fair but proceedings are more efficient\u003c/a>, as lawyers can guide clients unfamiliar with U.S. immigration law and court procedure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saidi worries that with confusion over the last-minute change in venue, a lack of lawyers in his area and a swifter pace in court, it will be tough for immigrants to find representation fast enough, and their chances of winning protection in the U.S. could suffer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Folks that are unrepresented being kind of pipelined into a rushed deportation process without access to attorneys?” he said. “That, to me, is a serious due process problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But timely hearings can also be important to due process for individuals — and necessary for the whole U.S. immigration system to work, said Doris Meissner, a senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She is pressing for reforms that would lead to asylum claims being decided in a matter of months rather than years. And she said expanding the number of immigration judges and courtrooms is part of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A functioning, functional immigration judge system is essential today in order for there to be effective border control… that also allows for fairness and timeliness for the people that are seeking protection,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meissner said the opening of the new Concord court is a positive step, but Congress needs to invest a lot more money in the immigration courts for the government to be able to manage the border.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The federal immigration court opening in Contra Costa County will nearly double the capacity of San Francisco’s overburdened court. But advocates fear it could rush asylum seekers and other immigrants through deportation proceedings without lawyers.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1708037749,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":42,"wordCount":1884},"headData":{"title":"New Bay Area Immigration Court Opens, Aims to Tackle Deportation Backlog | KQED","description":"The federal immigration court opening in Contra Costa County will nearly double the capacity of San Francisco’s overburdened court. But advocates fear it could rush asylum seekers and other immigrants through deportation proceedings without lawyers.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-4[…]f-aaef00f5a073/eac0db6f-0a82-4a0c-9ce7-b1140102994d/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11975904/new-bay-area-immigration-court-opens-aims-to-tackle-deportation-backlog","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The nation’s newest immigration court opened for business this week in the East Bay city of Concord after federal authorities decided the San Francisco Bay Area needed more resources to cope with a growing backlog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move adds 21 new courtrooms to help ease the burden at \u003ca href=\"https://trac.syr.edu/phptools/immigration/backlog/\">one of the nation’s busiest immigration courts\u003c/a> across the bay in San Francisco. When it’s fully up and running, the new Concord facility will nearly double the capacity in the Bay Area to hear deportation cases, including asylum claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘The difference between having an immigration attorney versus not having an immigration attorney has profound impacts on your ability to present your claim fully.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Ali Saidi, deputy public defender, Contra Costa County","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Until now, the 27 judges in San Francisco’s court, with help from a smaller court in Sacramento, have handled all immigration cases from Bakersfield, California, to the Oregon border. With 160,000 pending cases, each case takes more than three and a half years to complete, on average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/eoir/concord-immigration-court\">new Concord court\u003c/a> is also part of a nationwide effort by the Biden Administration to cope with an unprecedented backlog of more than 3.3 million cases across the country, including a record number of asylum seekers who’ve recently arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border. While observers say new courtrooms and judges should help move cases faster, some worry they could also trigger new problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Nationwide Court Expansion Needs More Funding\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Since President Joe Biden was elected, the Executive Office of Immigration Review, which is part of the U.S. Department of Justice, has added \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/d9/pages/attachments/2020/02/12/25a_number_of_courtrooms.pdf\">six new immigration courts\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/d9/pages/attachments/2020/01/31/25_immigration_judge_hiring_1.pdf\">more than 300 judges\u003c/a> across the country, building on an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11883227/backlogged-immigration-courts-could-get-help-from-biden-plan-but-some-want-a-total-overhaul\">expansion that began as immigration enforcement ballooned under the Trump Administration\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Concord court will start with 11 judges and will continue hiring to reach a full bench of 21, according to officials with the EOIR, as the immigration court system is called.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mimi Tsankov, president of the National Association of Immigration Judges, said the expansion is welcome and the new Concord court should help deal with “the overabundance of cases that has been inundating San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she cautioned that just hiring judges would not solve the case backlog by itself. Judges have struggled without well-functioning computer systems, a sufficient number of language interpreters and full teams of law clerks and administrative aides, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11975915\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240212-ImmigrationCourt-06-BL-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11975915\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240212-ImmigrationCourt-06-BL-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A woman holds up a white sign in Spanish.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240212-ImmigrationCourt-06-BL-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240212-ImmigrationCourt-06-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240212-ImmigrationCourt-06-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240212-ImmigrationCourt-06-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240212-ImmigrationCourt-06-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240212-ImmigrationCourt-06-BL-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240212-ImmigrationCourt-06-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosa Menjivar, from the Latina Center, holds a sign outside the new Concord Immigration Court in Concord during a press conference on Feb. 12, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We need court staff to be there, to support the judges and those very fast-moving, time-intensive dockets,” Tsankov said, speaking in her role with the NAIJ, the judge’s union. “Our staff is working nonstop until late hours of the night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Concord facility is “currently staffed to meet all support needs,” according to EOIR spokesperson Kathryn Mattingly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tsankov noted that the nation’s 734 immigration judges are working faster than ever. Even though caseloads have grown, judges are closing nearly a third more cases on average than at the end of the Obama years, \u003ca href=\"https://trac.syr.edu/reports/734/\">according to a data analysis\u003c/a> by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University. But the judges’ speed is outmatched by the raw numbers of new migrants applying for asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re still not able to outrun the volume of work that comes our way,” Tsankov said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Justice Department has asked for \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/d9/2023-03/eoir_fy_24_budsum_ii_omb_cleared_03.08.23.pdf\">a major increase in funding to hire 150 more judges\u003c/a> and court staff this year, but Congress has been unable to pass the federal budget. Biden officials also requested court funding in a bipartisan immigration deal tied to Ukraine aid, but Republicans killed that plan last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Immigrants Not Receiving Hearing Notices\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In Contra Costa County, where the new court is located, immigration lawyers are scrambling to prepare for a swelling demand for legal services. Calls are already surging on a hotline run by \u003ca href=\"https://standtogethercontracosta.org/\">Stand Together Contra Costa\u003c/a>, a partnership between the county and community groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deputy Public Defender Ali Saidi directs the partnership with a small team of lawyers who provide deportation defense. Meeting with coworkers around a conference table last week, Saidi heard repeatedly that immigrant clients, as well as hotline callers, said they had not been notified by EOIR that their cases were being transferred to the Concord court — and that they had new hearing dates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11975918\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240212-ImmigrationCourt-13-BL-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11975918\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240212-ImmigrationCourt-13-BL-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing glasses and a business suit holds a microphone outside with people holding signs in the background.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240212-ImmigrationCourt-13-BL-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240212-ImmigrationCourt-13-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240212-ImmigrationCourt-13-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240212-ImmigrationCourt-13-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240212-ImmigrationCourt-13-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240212-ImmigrationCourt-13-BL-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240212-ImmigrationCourt-13-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Contra Costa County Removal Defense Attorney Heliodoro Moreno speaks during a press conference outside the new Concord Immigration Court on Feb. 12, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Public defender Heliodoro Moreno said he could see in the court’s electronic portal for lawyers that hearing dates for some of his clients have been moved much sooner and delayed for others. He was troubled that his clients had not received a letter notifying them of the change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11910789,news_11903829,news_11900546,news_11975246","label":"Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“There’s a case that’s only going to have a one-month lead time. And still, there’s no notice to prepare for a hearing, which is quite frustrating for clients like mine that all have attorneys,” he said. “But what worries me is for all those that don’t have an attorney, which are the majority of people. How are those notices happening? It’s worrisome.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In immigration court, if defendants don’t show up, they are typically ordered deported \u003ci>in absentia\u003c/i>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Court officials said late last week that they were in the process of notifying everyone whose case has been reassigned to the Concord Immigration Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“New hearing notices for all cases that have been transferred have been or will be sent to the respondent at the address on file or to the attorney of record,” EOIR’s Mattingly said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Scramble to Find Immigration Lawyers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Unlike in criminal court, the government does not provide lawyers for people who can’t afford their own. And presently, \u003ca href=\"https://trac.syr.edu/reports/736/#f4\">less than a third of immigrants facing deportation have lawyers\u003c/a>, down from two-thirds just a few years ago — largely because of the increase in new asylum cases from the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saidi’s team includes two public defenders and two immigration attorneys at a local nonprofit, plus funding to hire two more. But Saidi said more than 13,000 Contra Costa residents have pending deportation cases, including a growing number of newly arrived families seeking asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s over a thousand in the last 90 days that have been newly placed into deportation proceedings,” he said. “So, obviously, six lawyers is not enough to handle all of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to local residents, immigrants in deportation proceedings will be coming from all over Northern and Central California as their cases are transferred to the Concord court. And without lawyers, they face steep odds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The difference between having an immigration attorney versus not having an immigration attorney has profound impacts on your ability to present your claim fully,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under U.S. and international law, asylum is available to people who face persecution in their home country based on their race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social group. Those who pass an initial border screening are placed in deportation proceedings to make their case to an immigration judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of asylum seekers lose their cases, but having a lawyer is key: 49% of people with attorneys won, while just 18% of unrepresented asylum seekers did so, \u003ca href=\"https://trac.syr.edu/reports/703/\">according to the latest available data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11975030\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240206-IMMIGRATIONCOURT-26-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11975030\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240206-IMMIGRATIONCOURT-26-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A view looking up at a building.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240206-IMMIGRATIONCOURT-26-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240206-IMMIGRATIONCOURT-26-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240206-IMMIGRATIONCOURT-26-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240206-IMMIGRATIONCOURT-26-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240206-IMMIGRATIONCOURT-26-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240206-IMMIGRATIONCOURT-26-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The site of a new immigration court at 1855 Concord Gateway in Concord on Feb. 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Saidi and his team are hoping to follow the lead of San Francisco, where a robust collaboration of 16 nonprofits aims to provide a lawyer for any San Francisco resident going to immigration court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Milli Atkinson helps lead that network as director of the Immigrant Legal Defense Program at the San Francisco Bar Association. She worries that immigrants will find few legal resources in Concord to assist them with their claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are very few nonprofits serving the immigrant community in Concord and Contra Costa County,” she said. “In the next year or two, a lot of people will be struggling to find help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Atkinson said she’s reaching out to East Bay legal aid groups to offer what she can. And Saidi is teaming up with the organizations in his area. They held a press conference on Monday to get the word out to the immigrant community about what to expect at the new court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of confusion and fear, especially in the current climate,” Saidi said. “So we want folks to know that this isn’t a detention center,… understand if their cases are going to be transferred to this new deportation court, and hopefully connect as many people as we can with actual attorneys.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stand Together Contra Costa is planning a free legal clinic on March 17. The nonprofit groups seek a nearby storefront or office where immigrants can find information and services. Saidi also asks immigration lawyers to volunteer for an “attorney of the day” program, modeled on San Francisco’s, where attorneys take shifts at court to provide short consultations for unrepresented immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Functioning Immigration Court Helps Border Control\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Research shows that when immigrants facing deportation have attorneys, \u003ca href=\"https://www.migrationpolicy.org/sites/default/files/publications/mpi-courts-report-2023_final.pdf\">not only is the outcome more fair but proceedings are more efficient\u003c/a>, as lawyers can guide clients unfamiliar with U.S. immigration law and court procedure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saidi worries that with confusion over the last-minute change in venue, a lack of lawyers in his area and a swifter pace in court, it will be tough for immigrants to find representation fast enough, and their chances of winning protection in the U.S. could suffer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Folks that are unrepresented being kind of pipelined into a rushed deportation process without access to attorneys?” he said. “That, to me, is a serious due process problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But timely hearings can also be important to due process for individuals — and necessary for the whole U.S. immigration system to work, said Doris Meissner, a senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She is pressing for reforms that would lead to asylum claims being decided in a matter of months rather than years. And she said expanding the number of immigration judges and courtrooms is part of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A functioning, functional immigration judge system is essential today in order for there to be effective border control… that also allows for fairness and timeliness for the people that are seeking protection,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meissner said the opening of the new Concord court is a positive step, but Congress needs to invest a lot more money in the immigration courts for the government to be able to manage the border.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11975904/new-bay-area-immigration-court-opens-aims-to-tackle-deportation-backlog","authors":["259"],"categories":["news_1169","news_8"],"tags":["news_26233","news_18123","news_27626","news_20611","news_20202","news_6883"],"featImg":"news_11975031","label":"news"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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