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And to uproot, sell everything and move back to your home country, within two months. For any human, any individual, it's hard.'[/pullquote]An unemployed H-1B visa holder has to find a new employer, or “sponsor,” within 60 days, or leave the country. Thousands of Bay Area tech and biotech workers have surged onto sites like LinkedIn, frantically looking for friendly faces, like 36-year-old \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/vidhiagrawal/\">Vidhi Agrawal\u003c/a> of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An H-1B visa holder herself, Agrawal works at the San Francisco software company Databricks. She and a friend have been running an informal database linking H-1B visa holders with prospective employers. In the last two weeks, the off-hours project has exploded from roughly 50 friends and acquaintances to over 500 people nationwide. She’s also in contact with about 100 hiring managers and recruiters from multiple companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a sudden thing that happens, and you have family, you have kids here, who’ve grown up here,” said Agrawal. “And to uproot, sell everything and move back to your home country, within two months. For any human, any individual, it’s hard.” To make matters worse, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11913665/200000-documented-dreamers-are-literally-waiting-a-lifetime-for-a-green-card\">many Indian H-1B holders are in a years-long queue to get a green card\u003c/a>, and leaving the country is tantamount to letting go of a huge investment of time and patience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agrawal added that H-1B visa workers are always particularly vulnerable to layoffs. “We did sign up for this. When we come on work visas, we know what we’re signing up for. It’s not, like, things have changed on us,” she said.[aside postID=\"news_11913665,news_11931311,forum_2010101891200\" label=\"Related Posts\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the very least, \u003ca href=\"https://www.immihelp.com/h-1b-visa-layoff-and-60-days-grace-period/\">employers are required to notify federal immigration authorities and cover the cost of a plane flight back to the home country\u003c/a> when they lay off H-1B workers. Many companies, however, offer more support than that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remarking on the mass layoffs at Meta, \u003ca href=\"https://about.fb.com/news/2022/11/mark-zuckerberg-layoff-message-to-employees/\">Mark Zuckerberg, for instance, wrote\u003c/a>, “I know this is especially difficult if you’re here on a visa. There’s a notice period before termination and some visa grace periods, which means everyone will have time to make plans and work through their immigration status. We have dedicated immigration specialists to help guide you based on what you and your family need.” Private attorneys, of course, are eager to help for a fee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lyft.com/blog/posts/an-update-on-our-team\">Lyft\u003c/a> offers those on visas \u003ca href=\"https://www.lyft.com/blog/posts/an-update-on-our-team\">the option to extend employment (with no expectation to work)\u003c/a> for an additional eight weeks in lieu of eight weeks of severance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That's a huge benefit, because it means they have a greater time runway,” said Sophie Alcorn, who runs \u003ca href=\"https://www.alcorn.law/\">Alcorn Immigration Law\u003c/a> in Mountain View and writes about immigration for \u003ca href=\"https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/07/dear-sophie-how-can-i-stay-in-the-us-if-ive-been-laid-off/\">TechCrunch\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the laid-off tech workers have plenty of savings. They could find another job eventually. But getting through the holiday season with Thanksgiving just now and the December holidays, plus the hiring freezes, it's going to be really hard to get an offer within the 60-day grace period that would allow the future employer to have enough prep time to do the three to four weeks of work that it takes to get an H-1B ready for filing with the government,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of people familiar with American immigration law say the 60-day grace period doesn't accurately reflect the panic many workers and their families are in right now because of the paperwork involved in transitioning to a new job. “There's a whole prefiling subcomponent with a totally different government agency besides USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services) and the Department of Homeland Security,” Alcorn explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to get a certified labor condition application approved with the Department of Labor. Plus, many of the companies that have the funds to hire right now are early stage tech companies who listen to their venture capitalists and preserve their cash. So now they can hire, which is great. But if they're new to the immigration process, getting set up as a petitioning employer takes additional time. So I've been advising people to try to get interviews as soon as possible and, if at all possible, try to accept an offer before the end of the first month of the H-1B grace period.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been lucky, for the most part,” said 39-year-old \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/gutgutia/\">Abhishek Gutgutia\u003c/a> of San José. “Companies I’ve worked with have been wonderful. But there are definitely companies out there who take advantage of immigrant workers, H1-B workers, because they are afraid of losing status, or they just don’t know, and that’s not OK.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gutgutia arrived in the U.S. in 2012 to get his MBA. After graduation, he got an H-1B, then transitioned to an \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/permanent-workers/employment-based-immigration-first-preference-eb-1\">EB1-A\u003c/a>, and got a green card after 10 years of waiting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The entrepreneur saw the mass layoffs as an opportunity to start a new company, \u003ca href=\"http://www.gozeno.io/\">Zeno\u003c/a>, which he characterizes as TurboTax for DIY-minded immigrants. “I’ve been on H-1B visa in the past,” said Gutgutia. “So I know the pain points all too well, which also inspired me to start this venture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is there any chance of a fix, even a temporary one, in Washington D.C.? Alcorn says she’s talking about it with lawmakers and professional associations. “We're putting together a coalition to request executive action to temporarily extend the 60-day grace period for this group of people to 180 days, so that there's more time runway to stay in the country and look for other jobs, or self-petition green cards or, without illegally working, create a funded start-up that could then be their employer in the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Mass layoffs have pitched thousands of Bay Area H-1B visa holders into a desperate search to find another employer, or 'sponsor,' within 60 days before they're required to self-deport. 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But getting through the holiday season with Thanksgiving just now and the December holidays, plus the hiring freezes, it's going to be really hard to get an offer within the 60-day grace period that would allow the future employer to have enough prep time to do the three to four weeks of work that it takes to get an H-1B ready for filing with the government,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of people familiar with American immigration law say the 60-day grace period doesn't accurately reflect the panic many workers and their families are in right now because of the paperwork involved in transitioning to a new job. “There's a whole prefiling subcomponent with a totally different government agency besides USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services) and the Department of Homeland Security,” Alcorn explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to get a certified labor condition application approved with the Department of Labor. Plus, many of the companies that have the funds to hire right now are early stage tech companies who listen to their venture capitalists and preserve their cash. So now they can hire, which is great. But if they're new to the immigration process, getting set up as a petitioning employer takes additional time. So I've been advising people to try to get interviews as soon as possible and, if at all possible, try to accept an offer before the end of the first month of the H-1B grace period.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been lucky, for the most part,” said 39-year-old \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/gutgutia/\">Abhishek Gutgutia\u003c/a> of San José. “Companies I’ve worked with have been wonderful. But there are definitely companies out there who take advantage of immigrant workers, H1-B workers, because they are afraid of losing status, or they just don’t know, and that’s not OK.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gutgutia arrived in the U.S. in 2012 to get his MBA. After graduation, he got an H-1B, then transitioned to an \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/permanent-workers/employment-based-immigration-first-preference-eb-1\">EB1-A\u003c/a>, and got a green card after 10 years of waiting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The entrepreneur saw the mass layoffs as an opportunity to start a new company, \u003ca href=\"http://www.gozeno.io/\">Zeno\u003c/a>, which he characterizes as TurboTax for DIY-minded immigrants. “I’ve been on H-1B visa in the past,” said Gutgutia. “So I know the pain points all too well, which also inspired me to start this venture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is there any chance of a fix, even a temporary one, in Washington D.C.? Alcorn says she’s talking about it with lawmakers and professional associations. “We're putting together a coalition to request executive action to temporarily extend the 60-day grace period for this group of people to 180 days, so that there's more time runway to stay in the country and look for other jobs, or self-petition green cards or, without illegally working, create a funded start-up that could then be their employer in the future.”\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/11933511/mass-bay-area-tech-layoffs-thrust-thousands-of-h-1b-visa-holders-into-frantic-job-hunt","authors":["251"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_32055","news_18123","news_20526","news_22750","news_32053","news_2011","news_353","news_6176","news_5745","news_32054"],"featImg":"news_11933519","label":"news"},"news_11707158":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11707158","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11707158","score":null,"sort":[1542726347000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"indian-entrepreneurs-with-no-green-cards-pursue-silicon-valley-dreams-elsewhere","title":"Indian Entrepreneurs With No Green Cards Pursue Silicon Valley Dreams Elsewhere","publishDate":1542726347,"format":"audio","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nber.org/papers/w24494.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Immigrants start and/or lead\u003c/a> many of the biggest companies in Silicon Valley: Google, Oracle, Microsoft, etc. But with immigration reform in Congress stuck in neutral, a growing number of would-be entrepreneurs are choosing to pursue their Silicon Valley dreams someplace else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Navish Jain’s aha! moment came after eight years of working at Cisco as an engineer. He'd read \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/01/11/think-twice-before-answering-that-ad-101-killers-have-found-victims-on-craigslist/?utm_term=.10ec2e2cea5e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news headlines\u003c/a> about criminals finding their prey on Craigslist, and it struck him just how much he trusted Cisco's in-house digital message boards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What if, he thought, there was a housing platform that verified that every user was either a college student or gainfully employed? \"Those people are more trustworthy and credible as compared to complete strangers,\" Jain thought, first to himself, and then out loud. He dubbed the new company \u003ca href=\"https://www.cirtru.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cirtru\u003c/a>, inspired by the phrase \"circles of trust.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jain faced a dilemma. He couldn't work on Cirtru while working at Cisco, and because of his visa, he couldn’t stay in the U.S. \u003ci>without\u003c/i> working at Cisco. He was on a temporary, employment-contingent H-1B visa. A green card would have solved that but he’s Indian, and the backlog of Indian applicants stretches to 10, even 25 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I waited for my green card for seven, eight years. I wanted to launch my startup here, create jobs, solve this problem here. But since my green card did not come, I was forced back to move to India,\" Jain said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He explained all this on a recent morning in Sunnyvale, a city he used to live in, while waiting to deliver a pitch for his company at the startup accelerator \u003ca href=\"https://www.plugandplaytechcenter.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Plug and Play Tech Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11707172\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11707172\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Slide2-800x463.png\" alt=\"One of the slides from Jain's pitch deck for his startup, Cirtru.\" width=\"800\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Slide2-800x463.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Slide2-160x93.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Slide2-1020x590.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Slide2-1200x694.png 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Slide2-1920x1110.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the slides from Jain's pitch deck for his startup, Cirtru. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Navish Jain)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Think of it like speed dating in Silicon Valley. Roughly half the people in the room for that particular \"Friday Pitch Day\" were there to pitch their startups; roughly half were looking for startups to invest in. Each entrepreneur had five minutes on stage with his pitch deck to sell his idea, his team and his desired level of investment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People came from all over the world: Azerbaijan, Greece, Sweden, China, Germany, Japan. Even the local teams were packed with members whose accents betrayed that they didn’t start life in Northern California. There was a palpable atmosphere of excitement and ambition in the Plug and Play auditorium. For so many people in business around the world, Silicon Valley is where it's at, the promised land, the global nexus of opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, other countries are keen to mimic the magic of the San Francisco Bay Area, and Jain's home country of India is no exception. Investors from around the world are pumping money into Indian startups. Jain is competing for those investors, too, but he said Cirtru is primarily designed for American users. After moving his family back to Mumbai, Jain now flies to the Bay Area periodically on temporary business visas for events like \"Friday Pitch Day\" at Plug and Play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The backlog that Indians face for green cards didn’t start with the Trump administration, but it's inexorably linked to the collateral damage produced as federal immigration officials pursue the president’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/legal-resources/buy-american-hire-american-putting-american-workers-first\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Buy American, Hire American\u003c/em>\u003c/a> executive order. \u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11707173\" style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #767676;\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS24885_GettyImages-665478668-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt='President Trump has said of H-1B visas, \"They should be given to the most skilled and highest paid applicants. And they should never ever be used to replace Americans.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS24885_GettyImages-665478668-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS24885_GettyImages-665478668-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS24885_GettyImages-665478668-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS24885_GettyImages-665478668-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS24885_GettyImages-665478668-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On signing the order, President Trump said of H-1B visas, \"They should be given to the most skilled and highest-paid applicants. And they should never ever be used to replace Americans.\" Theoretically, employers pay H-1B visa holders prevailing market wages and hire them only if they can’t find qualified American workers. But there have been news headlines — and lawsuits — claiming some companies are flouting the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://wadhwa.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vivek Wadhwa\u003c/a> is a distinguished fellow at Harvard and Carnegie Mellon University of Silicon Valley who writes about technology. \"The anti-immigrants rightfully criticize H-1B workers because they have no choice but to keep working for the same employer for 10, 15 even 20 years while they wait for green cards. And when they’re in this limbo, they can’t change jobs, they don’t get the same salary increases, they’re stuck doing the same jobs they did a decade ago,\" Wadhwa said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cis.org/Miano\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Miano\u003c/a> is a former tech worker who became an attorney in order to sue over the H-1B program. \"Congress cannot even decide what H-1B even is. The original H category was strictly guest workers. The H-1B of today has been transformed into a holding pattern for immigration.\" Miano argues the law itself is designed to profit employers who want to ditch American workers. \"That is not abuse; that is what H-1B is intended to do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/staff/leslie-dellon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leslie Dellon\u003c/a>, staff attorney for the pro-immigration American Immigration Council, disagrees. \"It's not the H-1B classification that creates a problem. If employers are complying with the requirement of paying the higher of the prevailing wage or the actual wage, then you're not going to have a 'lower-paid' H-1B in the position. And, I believe the current law and regulations provide the agencies with ample tools to take action against those who don't comply.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, the Trump administration's clampdown has effectively killed an entrepreneur’s visa that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services estimates nearly 3,000 would apply for annually if it were a real thing. The Department of Homeland Security has delayed implementation of the Obama-era program twice and promised it plans to kill the rule entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Somebody like Jain has the financial freedom to leave Silicon Valley and still pursue his startup. But Wadhwa warns that a growing number of other countries are eating Silicon Valley’s lunch, starting by snapping up entrepreneurs who feel they're getting the cold shoulder from the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11707174\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11707174\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33977_India_FamilyPhoto-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"What's next for Navish Jain? An endless round of flights back and forth from Mumbai to San Francisco, as he seeks to raise his second round of funding for his startup.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33977_India_FamilyPhoto-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33977_India_FamilyPhoto-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33977_India_FamilyPhoto-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33977_India_FamilyPhoto-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33977_India_FamilyPhoto-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">What's next for Navish Jain? An endless round of flights back and forth from Mumbai to San Francisco, as he seeks to raise his second round of funding for his startup. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Navish Jain)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Now, the chances of them succeeding in India, China, Brazil, Mexico are greater than here, because the cost of developing startups has dropped dramatically. And you have pockets of intelligence everywhere now. You have startups everywhere now,\" Wadhwa said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The United States may be becoming more xenophobic,\" he added, \"but that's to our loss, our detriment.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Some Silicon Valley entrepreneurs from India who face a wait of 10 years for a green card choose to launch their companies elsewhere.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1542748948,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":1097},"headData":{"title":"Indian Entrepreneurs With No Green Cards Pursue Silicon Valley Dreams Elsewhere | KQED","description":"Some Silicon Valley entrepreneurs from India who face a wait of 10 years for a green card choose to launch their companies elsewhere.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Indian Entrepreneurs With No Green Cards Pursue Silicon Valley Dreams Elsewhere","datePublished":"2018-11-20T15:05:47.000Z","dateModified":"2018-11-20T21:22:28.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11707158 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11707158","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/11/20/indian-entrepreneurs-with-no-green-cards-pursue-silicon-valley-dreams-elsewhere/","disqusTitle":"Indian Entrepreneurs With No Green Cards Pursue Silicon Valley Dreams Elsewhere","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2018/11/MyrowMumbaiStartup.mp3","audioTrackLength":293,"path":"/news/11707158/indian-entrepreneurs-with-no-green-cards-pursue-silicon-valley-dreams-elsewhere","audioDuration":280000,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nber.org/papers/w24494.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Immigrants start and/or lead\u003c/a> many of the biggest companies in Silicon Valley: Google, Oracle, Microsoft, etc. But with immigration reform in Congress stuck in neutral, a growing number of would-be entrepreneurs are choosing to pursue their Silicon Valley dreams someplace else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Navish Jain’s aha! moment came after eight years of working at Cisco as an engineer. He'd read \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/01/11/think-twice-before-answering-that-ad-101-killers-have-found-victims-on-craigslist/?utm_term=.10ec2e2cea5e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news headlines\u003c/a> about criminals finding their prey on Craigslist, and it struck him just how much he trusted Cisco's in-house digital message boards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What if, he thought, there was a housing platform that verified that every user was either a college student or gainfully employed? \"Those people are more trustworthy and credible as compared to complete strangers,\" Jain thought, first to himself, and then out loud. He dubbed the new company \u003ca href=\"https://www.cirtru.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cirtru\u003c/a>, inspired by the phrase \"circles of trust.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jain faced a dilemma. He couldn't work on Cirtru while working at Cisco, and because of his visa, he couldn’t stay in the U.S. \u003ci>without\u003c/i> working at Cisco. He was on a temporary, employment-contingent H-1B visa. A green card would have solved that but he’s Indian, and the backlog of Indian applicants stretches to 10, even 25 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I waited for my green card for seven, eight years. I wanted to launch my startup here, create jobs, solve this problem here. But since my green card did not come, I was forced back to move to India,\" Jain said.\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>He explained all this on a recent morning in Sunnyvale, a city he used to live in, while waiting to deliver a pitch for his company at the startup accelerator \u003ca href=\"https://www.plugandplaytechcenter.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Plug and Play Tech Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11707172\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11707172\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Slide2-800x463.png\" alt=\"One of the slides from Jain's pitch deck for his startup, Cirtru.\" width=\"800\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Slide2-800x463.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Slide2-160x93.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Slide2-1020x590.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Slide2-1200x694.png 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Slide2-1920x1110.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the slides from Jain's pitch deck for his startup, Cirtru. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Navish Jain)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Think of it like speed dating in Silicon Valley. Roughly half the people in the room for that particular \"Friday Pitch Day\" were there to pitch their startups; roughly half were looking for startups to invest in. Each entrepreneur had five minutes on stage with his pitch deck to sell his idea, his team and his desired level of investment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People came from all over the world: Azerbaijan, Greece, Sweden, China, Germany, Japan. Even the local teams were packed with members whose accents betrayed that they didn’t start life in Northern California. There was a palpable atmosphere of excitement and ambition in the Plug and Play auditorium. For so many people in business around the world, Silicon Valley is where it's at, the promised land, the global nexus of opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, other countries are keen to mimic the magic of the San Francisco Bay Area, and Jain's home country of India is no exception. Investors from around the world are pumping money into Indian startups. Jain is competing for those investors, too, but he said Cirtru is primarily designed for American users. After moving his family back to Mumbai, Jain now flies to the Bay Area periodically on temporary business visas for events like \"Friday Pitch Day\" at Plug and Play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The backlog that Indians face for green cards didn’t start with the Trump administration, but it's inexorably linked to the collateral damage produced as federal immigration officials pursue the president’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/legal-resources/buy-american-hire-american-putting-american-workers-first\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Buy American, Hire American\u003c/em>\u003c/a> executive order. \u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11707173\" style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #767676;\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS24885_GettyImages-665478668-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt='President Trump has said of H-1B visas, \"They should be given to the most skilled and highest paid applicants. And they should never ever be used to replace Americans.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS24885_GettyImages-665478668-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS24885_GettyImages-665478668-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS24885_GettyImages-665478668-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS24885_GettyImages-665478668-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS24885_GettyImages-665478668-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On signing the order, President Trump said of H-1B visas, \"They should be given to the most skilled and highest-paid applicants. And they should never ever be used to replace Americans.\" Theoretically, employers pay H-1B visa holders prevailing market wages and hire them only if they can’t find qualified American workers. But there have been news headlines — and lawsuits — claiming some companies are flouting the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://wadhwa.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vivek Wadhwa\u003c/a> is a distinguished fellow at Harvard and Carnegie Mellon University of Silicon Valley who writes about technology. \"The anti-immigrants rightfully criticize H-1B workers because they have no choice but to keep working for the same employer for 10, 15 even 20 years while they wait for green cards. And when they’re in this limbo, they can’t change jobs, they don’t get the same salary increases, they’re stuck doing the same jobs they did a decade ago,\" Wadhwa said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cis.org/Miano\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Miano\u003c/a> is a former tech worker who became an attorney in order to sue over the H-1B program. \"Congress cannot even decide what H-1B even is. The original H category was strictly guest workers. The H-1B of today has been transformed into a holding pattern for immigration.\" Miano argues the law itself is designed to profit employers who want to ditch American workers. \"That is not abuse; that is what H-1B is intended to do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/staff/leslie-dellon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leslie Dellon\u003c/a>, staff attorney for the pro-immigration American Immigration Council, disagrees. \"It's not the H-1B classification that creates a problem. If employers are complying with the requirement of paying the higher of the prevailing wage or the actual wage, then you're not going to have a 'lower-paid' H-1B in the position. And, I believe the current law and regulations provide the agencies with ample tools to take action against those who don't comply.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, the Trump administration's clampdown has effectively killed an entrepreneur’s visa that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services estimates nearly 3,000 would apply for annually if it were a real thing. The Department of Homeland Security has delayed implementation of the Obama-era program twice and promised it plans to kill the rule entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Somebody like Jain has the financial freedom to leave Silicon Valley and still pursue his startup. But Wadhwa warns that a growing number of other countries are eating Silicon Valley’s lunch, starting by snapping up entrepreneurs who feel they're getting the cold shoulder from the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11707174\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11707174\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33977_India_FamilyPhoto-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"What's next for Navish Jain? An endless round of flights back and forth from Mumbai to San Francisco, as he seeks to raise his second round of funding for his startup.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33977_India_FamilyPhoto-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33977_India_FamilyPhoto-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33977_India_FamilyPhoto-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33977_India_FamilyPhoto-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33977_India_FamilyPhoto-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">What's next for Navish Jain? An endless round of flights back and forth from Mumbai to San Francisco, as he seeks to raise his second round of funding for his startup. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Navish Jain)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Now, the chances of them succeeding in India, China, Brazil, Mexico are greater than here, because the cost of developing startups has dropped dramatically. And you have pockets of intelligence everywhere now. You have startups everywhere now,\" Wadhwa 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>\"The United States may be becoming more xenophobic,\" he added, \"but that's to our loss, our detriment.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11707158/indian-entrepreneurs-with-no-green-cards-pursue-silicon-valley-dreams-elsewhere","authors":["251"],"categories":["news_1758","news_1169","news_8","news_248"],"tags":["news_20526","news_2011","news_353","news_23369","news_23379"],"featImg":"news_11707171","label":"news"},"news_11701936":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11701936","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11701936","score":null,"sort":[1541084705000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"spouses-of-h-1b-visa-holders-could-soon-lose-the-right-to-work-in-the-u-s","title":"Spouses of H-1B Visa Holders Could Soon Lose the Right to Work in the U.S.","publishDate":1541084705,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Dream | The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Any day now, federal immigration officials are expected to officially propose that spouses of \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/files/nativedocuments/Characteristics_of_H-1B_Specialty_Occupation_Workers_FY17.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">H-1B\u003c/a> visa holders \u003ca href=\"https://www.reginfo.gov/public/jsp/eAgenda/StaticContent/201810/Statement_1600.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">no longer be allowed to work\u003c/a> in the U.S. Roughly \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Resources/Reports%20and%20Studies/Immigration%20Forms%20Data/BAHA/eads-by-basis-for-eligibility.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">105,000\u003c/a> families are expected to be affected, most of them from India, many of them right here in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take Leena Bhai. Her family of four rents a spacious but modest home in Sunnyvale. Her husband is a product manager with Google. \"I came here following my husband. He had an opportunity he wanted to pursue. So I came here as his wife, and now I'm dependent on him,\" Bhai explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The word “dependent” rolls uneasily off Bhai’s tongue. Originally from Mumbai, she got her bachelor's degree in computer engineering from Mumbai University. \"I have also an MBA from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.isb.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Indian School of Business\u003c/a>. It's an amazing school, and I have an amazing education. I would love to use that, if possible, here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bhai is allowed to work for now, thanks to a rule change that went into effect just three years ago, around the time she arrived in the U.S. She’s an H-4 EAD visa holder, the spouse of an H-1B visa holder, which means her husband's petition for permanent residence, or green card, has already been approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11702626\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11702626 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33518_Leena-with-family-2-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt='Leena Bhai with her family on vacation in 2018 at Death Valley. Her husband Siddharth has a job at Google and an H-1B visa, but because of the years-long wait time Indian applicants face for an employment-based green card, the Bhais feel like they may have to give up on their \"American dream.\" ' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33518_Leena-with-family-2-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33518_Leena-with-family-2-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33518_Leena-with-family-2-qut-1020x766.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33518_Leena-with-family-2-qut-1200x901.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33518_Leena-with-family-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33518_Leena-with-family-2-qut-1180x886.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33518_Leena-with-family-2-qut-960x721.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33518_Leena-with-family-2-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33518_Leena-with-family-2-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33518_Leena-with-family-2-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leena Bhai with her family on vacation in 2018 at Death Valley. Her husband, Siddharth, has a job at Google and an H-1B visa, but because of the years-long wait time Indian applicants face for an employment-based green card, the Bhais feel like they may have to give up on their \"American Dream.\" \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Leena Bhai)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bhai works for \u003ca href=\"https://anitab.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AnitaB.org\u003c/a>, a Palo Alto-based nonprofit that helps recruit, retain and advance women in technology. \"I use my H-4 EAD for the betterment of the community. If that's taken away from me, it's a little bit of a loss to those women, too. Right?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bhai and others like her -- mostly women, it must be said -- are worried the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services are poised to do an about-face on H-4 EAD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April 2017, President Trump signed an \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/presidential-executive-order-buy-american-hire-american/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">executive order\u003c/a> to review the H-1B visa process as part of his \"Buy American, Hire American\" initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cis.org/Immigration-Newsmaker/Immigration-Newsmaker-Conversation-Director-USCIS-Francis-Cissna\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rare public conversation\u003c/a> last August at the National Press Club, USCIS Director Francis Cissna argued Congress never explicitly gave H-1B visa spouses the right to work. \"That is an important reason why we should propose rescinding it,\" Cissna said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His argument mirrors the one from a group of IT workers called \"Save Jobs USA.\" The organization \u003ca href=\"http://www.immigration.com/sites/default/files/SaveJobs-Lawsuit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sued Homeland Security\u003c/a> in 2015 over this issue, claiming the DHS is sidestepping protections for U.S. workers built into the H-1B program, specifically a limit on the number of H-1B visas that can be issued each fiscal year. Under the Obama administration, DHS maintained it had broad authority to interpret immigration law. But under the Trump administration, DHS told the appeals court it \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop/document/Save_Jobs_USA_v_DHS_Docket_No_1605287_DC_Cir_Sept_30_2016_Court_D/1?1519928167\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">changed its mind\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11702628\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11702628 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/H4-visas-2008-17-800x600.png\" alt='\"The predominance of Indians in both is quite remarkable, but it is also telling that the number of total EADs granted from 2015-17 was much smaller than the H-4 visas granted during the same period,\" says Karthick Ramakrishnan, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy.' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/H4-visas-2008-17-800x600.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/H4-visas-2008-17-160x120.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/H4-visas-2008-17-1020x765.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/H4-visas-2008-17-1200x900.png 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/H4-visas-2008-17-1920x1440.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/H4-visas-2008-17-1180x885.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/H4-visas-2008-17-960x720.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/H4-visas-2008-17-240x180.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/H4-visas-2008-17-375x281.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/H4-visas-2008-17-520x390.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"The predominance of Indians in both is quite remarkable, but it is also telling that the number of total EADs granted from 2015-17 was much smaller than the H-4 visas granted during the same period,\" says Karthick Ramakrishnan, professor of political science and public policy. \u003ccite>(Infographic: Courtesy of Karthick Ramakrishnan/AAPI Data)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren of San Jose is one of 132 members of Congress who \u003ca href=\"https://jayapal.house.gov/sites/jayapal.house.gov/files/JayapalLove_DHS_Maintain_H4_Work_Authorization_2018_05_16_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signed a letter\u003c/a> urging Homeland Security to reconsider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the nation is long overdue for a broad reform of U.S. immigration law that takes into account, among other things, the needs of Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have a bill to do that. There are other bills that have been introduced. None of them are moving. The Republicans control every branch of government right now and they can't do anything,\" Lofgren said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 1965 law established that no individual country can constitute more than 7 percent of green cards issued in a year. The Immigration Act of 1990 caps the total number of new employment-based green cards at 140,000 a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But no other country sends as many highly educated green card applicants to the U.S. as India. Indians who applied in 2009 are just getting their green cards now, and the backlog is growing. Some Indians who qualify are waiting as long as 25 years to move through that queue. \"The wait for us is nearly exponential,\" Bhai said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bhai's daughter is 7 years old. Her son is 4. She wonders what will happen when they get old enough to apply to college and require more financial support than her husband can manage now. What happens when they turn 21, old enough to require green cards of their own?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaving aside her concerns as a mother, what happens if Bhai is forced to sit out during her most productive professional years? \"H-4 women face a triple burden if they are able to start working again, particularly in technology: race, gender and long gaps in their resumes,\" \u003ca href=\"https://theconversation.com/why-trumps-plan-to-forbid-spouses-of-h-1b-visa-holders-to-work-is-a-bad-idea-89279\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">writes\u003c/a> associate professor \u003ca href=\"https://gwst.umbc.edu/amy-bhatt/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amy Bhatt\u003c/a> at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, author of \u003ca href=\"http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/BHAATH.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\"High-Tech Housewives: Indian IT Workers, Gendered Labor, and Transmigration.\"\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11702634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11702634\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33519_Leena-conference-2-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Silicon Valley skews heavily male, and many of the women who are present are immigrants. Leena Bhai, who works for AnitaB, an organization that promotes women in technology, argues H4-EAD holders contribute to the San Francisco Bay Area, professionally as well as culturally.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33519_Leena-conference-2-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33519_Leena-conference-2-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33519_Leena-conference-2-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33519_Leena-conference-2-qut-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33519_Leena-conference-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33519_Leena-conference-2-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33519_Leena-conference-2-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33519_Leena-conference-2-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33519_Leena-conference-2-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33519_Leena-conference-2-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Silicon Valley skews heavily male, and many of the women who are present are immigrants. Leena Bhai, who works for AnitaB, an organization that promotes women in technology, argues H-4 EAD holders contribute to the San Francisco Bay Area, professionally as well as culturally. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Leena Bhai)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"These are approved immigrants waiting for their number to come up. These intending immigrants are supposed to sit on their hands and do nothing, even though they also have Ph.D.s?\" Rep. Lofgren said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lofgren added that highly skilled immigrants don’t have to work here. \"They're getting poached by Canada, because they also feel that based on the president's behavior, his comments, and some new hostility from the Immigration Service itself, that they're not wanted here. You know, we're not the only game in town.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Countries like Australia, China, Germany and Israel are also reaching out to frustrated Indians who don't want to wait.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, the Trump administration does not appear to be rushing this particular rule change through. The Department of Homeland Security has pushed its decision-making timeline several times over the last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leslie Dellon, staff attorney with the pro-immigration nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Immigration Council\u003c/a>, said that a notice of proposed rule-making requires a review by the Office of Management and Budget first, as well as a public comment period. \"We're probably looking at 2019 before there's going to be any action taken.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leena Bhai can keep working, at least until the new year. Presuming she wants to stay.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Roughly 105,000 highly skilled Indian immigrants could soon be barred from working in the U.S.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1541094842,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":1172},"headData":{"title":"Spouses of H-1B Visa Holders Could Soon Lose the Right to Work in the U.S. | KQED","description":"Roughly 105,000 highly skilled Indian immigrants could soon be barred from working in the U.S.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Spouses of H-1B Visa Holders Could Soon Lose the Right to Work in the U.S.","datePublished":"2018-11-01T15:05:05.000Z","dateModified":"2018-11-01T17:54:02.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11701936 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11701936","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/11/01/spouses-of-h-1b-visa-holders-could-soon-lose-the-right-to-work-in-the-u-s/","disqusTitle":"Spouses of H-1B Visa Holders Could Soon Lose the Right to Work in the U.S.","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2018/11/MyrowH1BSpouses.mp3","audioTrackLength":285,"path":"/news/11701936/spouses-of-h-1b-visa-holders-could-soon-lose-the-right-to-work-in-the-u-s","audioDuration":272000,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Any day now, federal immigration officials are expected to officially propose that spouses of \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/files/nativedocuments/Characteristics_of_H-1B_Specialty_Occupation_Workers_FY17.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">H-1B\u003c/a> visa holders \u003ca href=\"https://www.reginfo.gov/public/jsp/eAgenda/StaticContent/201810/Statement_1600.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">no longer be allowed to work\u003c/a> in the U.S. Roughly \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Resources/Reports%20and%20Studies/Immigration%20Forms%20Data/BAHA/eads-by-basis-for-eligibility.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">105,000\u003c/a> families are expected to be affected, most of them from India, many of them right here in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take Leena Bhai. Her family of four rents a spacious but modest home in Sunnyvale. Her husband is a product manager with Google. \"I came here following my husband. He had an opportunity he wanted to pursue. So I came here as his wife, and now I'm dependent on him,\" Bhai explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The word “dependent” rolls uneasily off Bhai’s tongue. Originally from Mumbai, she got her bachelor's degree in computer engineering from Mumbai University. \"I have also an MBA from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.isb.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Indian School of Business\u003c/a>. It's an amazing school, and I have an amazing education. I would love to use that, if possible, here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bhai is allowed to work for now, thanks to a rule change that went into effect just three years ago, around the time she arrived in the U.S. She’s an H-4 EAD visa holder, the spouse of an H-1B visa holder, which means her husband's petition for permanent residence, or green card, has already been approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11702626\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11702626 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33518_Leena-with-family-2-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt='Leena Bhai with her family on vacation in 2018 at Death Valley. Her husband Siddharth has a job at Google and an H-1B visa, but because of the years-long wait time Indian applicants face for an employment-based green card, the Bhais feel like they may have to give up on their \"American dream.\" ' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33518_Leena-with-family-2-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33518_Leena-with-family-2-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33518_Leena-with-family-2-qut-1020x766.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33518_Leena-with-family-2-qut-1200x901.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33518_Leena-with-family-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33518_Leena-with-family-2-qut-1180x886.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33518_Leena-with-family-2-qut-960x721.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33518_Leena-with-family-2-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33518_Leena-with-family-2-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33518_Leena-with-family-2-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leena Bhai with her family on vacation in 2018 at Death Valley. Her husband, Siddharth, has a job at Google and an H-1B visa, but because of the years-long wait time Indian applicants face for an employment-based green card, the Bhais feel like they may have to give up on their \"American Dream.\" \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Leena Bhai)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bhai works for \u003ca href=\"https://anitab.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AnitaB.org\u003c/a>, a Palo Alto-based nonprofit that helps recruit, retain and advance women in technology. \"I use my H-4 EAD for the betterment of the community. If that's taken away from me, it's a little bit of a loss to those women, too. Right?\"\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>Bhai and others like her -- mostly women, it must be said -- are worried the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services are poised to do an about-face on H-4 EAD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April 2017, President Trump signed an \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/presidential-executive-order-buy-american-hire-american/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">executive order\u003c/a> to review the H-1B visa process as part of his \"Buy American, Hire American\" initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cis.org/Immigration-Newsmaker/Immigration-Newsmaker-Conversation-Director-USCIS-Francis-Cissna\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rare public conversation\u003c/a> last August at the National Press Club, USCIS Director Francis Cissna argued Congress never explicitly gave H-1B visa spouses the right to work. \"That is an important reason why we should propose rescinding it,\" Cissna said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His argument mirrors the one from a group of IT workers called \"Save Jobs USA.\" The organization \u003ca href=\"http://www.immigration.com/sites/default/files/SaveJobs-Lawsuit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sued Homeland Security\u003c/a> in 2015 over this issue, claiming the DHS is sidestepping protections for U.S. workers built into the H-1B program, specifically a limit on the number of H-1B visas that can be issued each fiscal year. Under the Obama administration, DHS maintained it had broad authority to interpret immigration law. But under the Trump administration, DHS told the appeals court it \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop/document/Save_Jobs_USA_v_DHS_Docket_No_1605287_DC_Cir_Sept_30_2016_Court_D/1?1519928167\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">changed its mind\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11702628\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11702628 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/H4-visas-2008-17-800x600.png\" alt='\"The predominance of Indians in both is quite remarkable, but it is also telling that the number of total EADs granted from 2015-17 was much smaller than the H-4 visas granted during the same period,\" says Karthick Ramakrishnan, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy.' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/H4-visas-2008-17-800x600.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/H4-visas-2008-17-160x120.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/H4-visas-2008-17-1020x765.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/H4-visas-2008-17-1200x900.png 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/H4-visas-2008-17-1920x1440.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/H4-visas-2008-17-1180x885.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/H4-visas-2008-17-960x720.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/H4-visas-2008-17-240x180.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/H4-visas-2008-17-375x281.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/H4-visas-2008-17-520x390.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"The predominance of Indians in both is quite remarkable, but it is also telling that the number of total EADs granted from 2015-17 was much smaller than the H-4 visas granted during the same period,\" says Karthick Ramakrishnan, professor of political science and public policy. \u003ccite>(Infographic: Courtesy of Karthick Ramakrishnan/AAPI Data)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren of San Jose is one of 132 members of Congress who \u003ca href=\"https://jayapal.house.gov/sites/jayapal.house.gov/files/JayapalLove_DHS_Maintain_H4_Work_Authorization_2018_05_16_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signed a letter\u003c/a> urging Homeland Security to reconsider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the nation is long overdue for a broad reform of U.S. immigration law that takes into account, among other things, the needs of Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have a bill to do that. There are other bills that have been introduced. None of them are moving. The Republicans control every branch of government right now and they can't do anything,\" Lofgren said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 1965 law established that no individual country can constitute more than 7 percent of green cards issued in a year. The Immigration Act of 1990 caps the total number of new employment-based green cards at 140,000 a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But no other country sends as many highly educated green card applicants to the U.S. as India. Indians who applied in 2009 are just getting their green cards now, and the backlog is growing. Some Indians who qualify are waiting as long as 25 years to move through that queue. \"The wait for us is nearly exponential,\" Bhai said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bhai's daughter is 7 years old. Her son is 4. She wonders what will happen when they get old enough to apply to college and require more financial support than her husband can manage now. What happens when they turn 21, old enough to require green cards of their own?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaving aside her concerns as a mother, what happens if Bhai is forced to sit out during her most productive professional years? \"H-4 women face a triple burden if they are able to start working again, particularly in technology: race, gender and long gaps in their resumes,\" \u003ca href=\"https://theconversation.com/why-trumps-plan-to-forbid-spouses-of-h-1b-visa-holders-to-work-is-a-bad-idea-89279\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">writes\u003c/a> associate professor \u003ca href=\"https://gwst.umbc.edu/amy-bhatt/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amy Bhatt\u003c/a> at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, author of \u003ca href=\"http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/BHAATH.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\"High-Tech Housewives: Indian IT Workers, Gendered Labor, and Transmigration.\"\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11702634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11702634\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33519_Leena-conference-2-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Silicon Valley skews heavily male, and many of the women who are present are immigrants. Leena Bhai, who works for AnitaB, an organization that promotes women in technology, argues H4-EAD holders contribute to the San Francisco Bay Area, professionally as well as culturally.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33519_Leena-conference-2-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33519_Leena-conference-2-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33519_Leena-conference-2-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33519_Leena-conference-2-qut-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33519_Leena-conference-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33519_Leena-conference-2-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33519_Leena-conference-2-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33519_Leena-conference-2-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33519_Leena-conference-2-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33519_Leena-conference-2-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Silicon Valley skews heavily male, and many of the women who are present are immigrants. Leena Bhai, who works for AnitaB, an organization that promotes women in technology, argues H-4 EAD holders contribute to the San Francisco Bay Area, professionally as well as culturally. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Leena Bhai)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"These are approved immigrants waiting for their number to come up. These intending immigrants are supposed to sit on their hands and do nothing, even though they also have Ph.D.s?\" Rep. Lofgren said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lofgren added that highly skilled immigrants don’t have to work here. \"They're getting poached by Canada, because they also feel that based on the president's behavior, his comments, and some new hostility from the Immigration Service itself, that they're not wanted here. You know, we're not the only game in town.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Countries like Australia, China, Germany and Israel are also reaching out to frustrated Indians who don't want to wait.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, the Trump administration does not appear to be rushing this particular rule change through. The Department of Homeland Security has pushed its decision-making timeline several times over the last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leslie Dellon, staff attorney with the pro-immigration nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Immigration Council\u003c/a>, said that a notice of proposed rule-making requires a review by the Office of Management and Budget first, as well as a public comment period. \"We're probably looking at 2019 before there's going to be any action taken.\"\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>Leena Bhai can keep working, at least until the new year. Presuming she wants to stay.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11701936/spouses-of-h-1b-visa-holders-could-soon-lose-the-right-to-work-in-the-u-s","authors":["251"],"programs":["news_72"],"series":["news_18211","news_21879"],"categories":["news_1758","news_1169","news_8","news_248"],"tags":["news_19542","news_21294","news_20526","news_22750","news_2011","news_353","news_23379","news_23395"],"featImg":"news_11702625","label":"news_72"},"news_11640500":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11640500","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11640500","score":null,"sort":[1515204935000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"tom-steyer-h-1b-visa-reform-legal-pot-in-california","title":"Tom Steyer, H-1B Visa Reform, Legal Pot in California","publishDate":1515204935,"format":"video","headTitle":"KQED Newsroom | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":7052,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cb style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Tom Steyer Teases ‘Major Announcement’ for 2018\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Billionaire and Democratic donor Tom Steyer discussed his political ambitions with KQED’s Government and Politics Senior Editor Scott Shafer. Steyer talked about the motivation behind his $20 million campaign to gather more than 3.75 million signatures in favor of impeaching President Trump. Steyer also teased a “big announcement” that he will be making at a press event Monday.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>H-1B Visa Reform\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many high-tech firms in the Bay Area rely on the H-1B visa program to hire foreign workers. Republican congressman Darrell Issa and co-author Democrat Rep. Zoe Lofgren have a bipartisan bill aimed at closing what they call loopholes in the current program. Critics, including many in the Trump administration, say the program is being exploited to take jobs away from American workers.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Guests:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-San Diego)\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose)\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>California’s Legal Marijuana Market\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On New Year’s Day, California became the sixth state to allow the recreational use of marijuana for adults. The state already has issued more than 400 licenses to businesses that are hoping for big profits in the multibillion-dollar industry, but several cities are still scrambling to put regulatory systems in place at the local level. Meanwhile, this week the Trump administration took aim at recreational cannabis, allowing federal prosecutors to more aggressively enforce laws against marijuana, which remains illegal at the federal level. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Guests:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">David Downs, San Francisco Chronicle reporter\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Terryn Buxton, Oakland Extracts owner\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Henry Wykowski, Wykowski & Associates attorney\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Billionaire and Democratic donor Tom Steyer teased a “big announcement” that he will be making at a press event Monday.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1515204935,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":7,"wordCount":272},"headData":{"title":"Tom Steyer, H-1B Visa Reform, Legal Pot in California | KQED","description":"Billionaire and Democratic donor Tom Steyer teased a “big announcement” that he will be making at a press event Monday.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Tom Steyer, H-1B Visa Reform, Legal Pot in California","datePublished":"2018-01-06T02:15:35.000Z","dateModified":"2018-01-06T02:15:35.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11640500 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11640500","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/01/05/tom-steyer-h-1b-visa-reform-legal-pot-in-california/","disqusTitle":"Tom Steyer, H-1B Visa Reform, Legal Pot in California","videoEmbed":"https://youtu.be/1OjOOJ-Gsk4","path":"/news/11640500/tom-steyer-h-1b-visa-reform-legal-pot-in-california","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cb style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Tom Steyer Teases ‘Major Announcement’ for 2018\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Billionaire and Democratic donor Tom Steyer discussed his political ambitions with KQED’s Government and Politics Senior Editor Scott Shafer. Steyer talked about the motivation behind his $20 million campaign to gather more than 3.75 million signatures in favor of impeaching President Trump. Steyer also teased a “big announcement” that he will be making at a press event Monday.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>H-1B Visa Reform\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many high-tech firms in the Bay Area rely on the H-1B visa program to hire foreign workers. Republican congressman Darrell Issa and co-author Democrat Rep. Zoe Lofgren have a bipartisan bill aimed at closing what they call loopholes in the current program. Critics, including many in the Trump administration, say the program is being exploited to take jobs away from American workers.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Guests:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">U.S. Rep. 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Fewer International Students Applying","publishDate":1495179932,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ci>This story is part of our series “\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/trump-ed/\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Ed\u003c/a>,” exploring how President Trump’s proposed federal education policies could impact California schools. The series was produced in collaboration with reporters from \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KPBS\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KPCC\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CALmatters\u003c/a>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Admissions officials at Cal State Long Beach were struck recently when they got their latest batch of applications on April 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there was a slight increase in the number of undergraduate applications received, the decline in graduate applications from some countries was in the double digits: 42 percent drop from India, 9 percent drop from China and a 24 percent drop from Iran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Certainly that number is significant, and we didn’t anticipate that large of a drop in those applications for graduate studies,” said Terrence Graham, the campus’s executive director of International Programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"2NqWOgOwUWg1S13hNMm3jiGnYWGf753U\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California State University Fullerton and UC Riverside are seeing similar drops, also from some of the same countries. The University of California \u003ca href=\"http://www.ucop.edu/institutional-research-academic-planning/_files/factsheets/2017/fall-2017-applications-table2.1-v2.pdf\">saw a drop systemwide\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Graham says his staff heard from applicants wanting to know about violence toward foreigners and about White House policies that could make it harder for them to get a job in the U.S. after graduation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did get emails from concerned students from India saying, 'Should I finish my application? Is there any point in me planning to come?'\" Graham said. \"We have heard from students from Iran[…] concerns certainly there with a lot of the rhetoric about [President Trump’s travel ban].\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The application decline could be an early warning to higher education institutions about enrollment declines that could dampen the amount of tuition they collect each year. Many international students enroll in engineering and business majors. College administrators say these American industries could be weakened as colleges graduate fewer professionals.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The workforce will be impacted [because] we have relied on foreign-born American-educated graduates in industry and in the faculty ranks in the academy.'\u003ccite>Forouzan Golshani, dean of the College of Engineering, Cal State Long Beach\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Seventy percent of the graduate students in engineering at Cal State Long Beach are international students. Some of them echo the concerns heard by university staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manoj Sampangi Ram -- a native of Bangalore, India -- is in the first year of the engineering master's program that teaches students how to design and manufacture parts for industries such as aerospace. In the fall he talked to friends in India who wanted to follow in his footsteps at an American university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When Trump won they all backed out. Because his rules are very strict, H-1B for students,\" Sampangi Ram said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s talking about the visa that allows foreigners to stay and work in the U.S. for a limited amount of time. President Trump has pledged to enact limits on the H-1B visa, and that worries Sampangi Ram.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"KF8SIyRMjI2iMXINUdUmnzz4XAmKLXVT\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The application drop at Cal State Long Beach appears to also be happening at campuses in different parts of the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers released results of \u003ca href=\"http://www.aacrao.org/docs/default-source/TrendTopic/Immigration/final-report.pdf?sfvrsn=0\">a survey of 294 college admission officials.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 40 percent of the institutions represented in the survey reported a drop in applications from international students. According to the report, there are more than 100,000 students from the Middle East enrolled in U.S. higher education, while nearly half a million students from China and India study here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the survey, students who want to study in U.S. universities said they’re concerned that U.S. embassies and consulates will deny them student visas and that the U.S. is becoming less welcoming to foreigners. They also worry the U.S. government will modify visas to restrict travel and employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The results, the association said, are early warnings of potential declines rather than definitive proof that fewer students from abroad will enroll in U.S. universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"RficXbjs0VeVRdiHVBPo6xtfdUoLZASx\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Cal State Long Beach, officials said a drop in foreign student enrollment could reduce class offerings and mean fewer graduates in careers that are key to the U.S. economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The workforce will be impacted much more significantly,” said Forouzan Golshani, dean of the College of Engineering. “The reason is that we have relied on foreign-born American-educated graduates in industry and in the faculty ranks in the academy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because, he said, so few American-born public school students pursue advanced degrees in science, technology, engineering and math.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If foreign applications continue to drop, Golshani said, American public schools will need to do a better job getting students interested in science, technology, engineering and math careers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal State Long Beach’s international student office has decided to take action on a couple of fronts. They’ve \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlCZPm-4_Hc\">created videos\u003c/a> to send overseas applicants the message that Southern California is a tolerant place where they are welcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlCZPm-4_Hc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This campus has nearly 2,000 students from abroad earning a degree, one of the highest number among all 23 Cal State universities. International students pay about double in tuition and fees compared to a California resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To counter the expected drop in international student enrollment, Cal State Long Beach is sending recruiters to places they rarely go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Latin America, for example, looking at Africa, looking at some other regions that we might not have been putting as many resources into so that we’re less susceptible to those political ups and downs that are part of this business,” said executive director Terrence Graham.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even in those countries, he said, his staff will likely get similar questions about whether it’s safe to study in the U.S. and whether government policies will allow them to stay and work after graduation.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Applicants are concerned about violence toward foreigners, and about White House policies that could make it harder for them to get a job in the U.S. after graduation.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1495222119,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":31,"wordCount":980},"headData":{"title":"The Trump Effect on Colleges? Fewer International Students Applying | KQED","description":"Applicants are concerned about violence toward foreigners, and about White House policies that could make it harder for them to get a job in the U.S. after graduation.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"The Trump Effect on Colleges? Fewer International Students Applying","datePublished":"2017-05-19T07:45:32.000Z","dateModified":"2017-05-19T19:28:39.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11465542 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11465542","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/05/19/the-trump-effect-on-colleges-fewer-international-students-applying/","disqusTitle":"The Trump Effect on Colleges? Fewer International Students Applying","audioUrl":"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2017/05/2017-05-19a-tcr.mp3","guestFields":"0","nprByline":"\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/about/people/staff/adolfo-guzman-lopez\">Adolfo Guzman-Lopez\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/\">KPCC\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>","path":"/news/11465542/the-trump-effect-on-colleges-fewer-international-students-applying","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ci>This story is part of our series “\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/trump-ed/\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Ed\u003c/a>,” exploring how President Trump’s proposed federal education policies could impact California schools. The series was produced in collaboration with reporters from \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KPBS\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KPCC\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CALmatters\u003c/a>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Admissions officials at Cal State Long Beach were struck recently when they got their latest batch of applications on April 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there was a slight increase in the number of undergraduate applications received, the decline in graduate applications from some countries was in the double digits: 42 percent drop from India, 9 percent drop from China and a 24 percent drop from Iran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Certainly that number is significant, and we didn’t anticipate that large of a drop in those applications for graduate studies,” said Terrence Graham, the campus’s executive director of International Programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California State University Fullerton and UC Riverside are seeing similar drops, also from some of the same countries. The University of California \u003ca href=\"http://www.ucop.edu/institutional-research-academic-planning/_files/factsheets/2017/fall-2017-applications-table2.1-v2.pdf\">saw a drop systemwide\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>Graham says his staff heard from applicants wanting to know about violence toward foreigners and about White House policies that could make it harder for them to get a job in the U.S. after graduation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did get emails from concerned students from India saying, 'Should I finish my application? Is there any point in me planning to come?'\" Graham said. \"We have heard from students from Iran[…] concerns certainly there with a lot of the rhetoric about [President Trump’s travel ban].\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The application decline could be an early warning to higher education institutions about enrollment declines that could dampen the amount of tuition they collect each year. Many international students enroll in engineering and business majors. College administrators say these American industries could be weakened as colleges graduate fewer professionals.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The workforce will be impacted [because] we have relied on foreign-born American-educated graduates in industry and in the faculty ranks in the academy.'\u003ccite>Forouzan Golshani, dean of the College of Engineering, Cal State Long Beach\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Seventy percent of the graduate students in engineering at Cal State Long Beach are international students. Some of them echo the concerns heard by university staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manoj Sampangi Ram -- a native of Bangalore, India -- is in the first year of the engineering master's program that teaches students how to design and manufacture parts for industries such as aerospace. In the fall he talked to friends in India who wanted to follow in his footsteps at an American university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When Trump won they all backed out. Because his rules are very strict, H-1B for students,\" Sampangi Ram said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s talking about the visa that allows foreigners to stay and work in the U.S. for a limited amount of time. President Trump has pledged to enact limits on the H-1B visa, and that worries Sampangi Ram.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The application drop at Cal State Long Beach appears to also be happening at campuses in different parts of the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers released results of \u003ca href=\"http://www.aacrao.org/docs/default-source/TrendTopic/Immigration/final-report.pdf?sfvrsn=0\">a survey of 294 college admission officials.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 40 percent of the institutions represented in the survey reported a drop in applications from international students. According to the report, there are more than 100,000 students from the Middle East enrolled in U.S. higher education, while nearly half a million students from China and India study here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the survey, students who want to study in U.S. universities said they’re concerned that U.S. embassies and consulates will deny them student visas and that the U.S. is becoming less welcoming to foreigners. They also worry the U.S. government will modify visas to restrict travel and employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The results, the association said, are early warnings of potential declines rather than definitive proof that fewer students from abroad will enroll in U.S. universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Cal State Long Beach, officials said a drop in foreign student enrollment could reduce class offerings and mean fewer graduates in careers that are key to the U.S. economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The workforce will be impacted much more significantly,” said Forouzan Golshani, dean of the College of Engineering. “The reason is that we have relied on foreign-born American-educated graduates in industry and in the faculty ranks in the academy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because, he said, so few American-born public school students pursue advanced degrees in science, technology, engineering and math.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If foreign applications continue to drop, Golshani said, American public schools will need to do a better job getting students interested in science, technology, engineering and math careers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal State Long Beach’s international student office has decided to take action on a couple of fronts. They’ve \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlCZPm-4_Hc\">created videos\u003c/a> to send overseas applicants the message that Southern California is a tolerant place where they are welcome.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/FlCZPm-4_Hc'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/FlCZPm-4_Hc'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>This campus has nearly 2,000 students from abroad earning a degree, one of the highest number among all 23 Cal State universities. International students pay about double in tuition and fees compared to a California resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To counter the expected drop in international student enrollment, Cal State Long Beach is sending recruiters to places they rarely go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Latin America, for example, looking at Africa, looking at some other regions that we might not have been putting as many resources into so that we’re less susceptible to those political ups and downs that are part of this business,” said executive director Terrence Graham.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even in those countries, he said, his staff will likely get similar questions about whether it’s safe to study in the U.S. and whether government policies will allow them to stay and work after graduation.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11465542/the-trump-effect-on-colleges-fewer-international-students-applying","authors":["byline_news_11465542"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_18540","news_1169","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_1323","news_20526","news_17286","news_20961"],"affiliates":["news_18481","news_7054","news_7055"],"featImg":"news_11465545","label":"news_72"},"news_11295516":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11295516","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11295516","score":null,"sort":[1492818746000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"photos-the-faces-of-californias-immigrant-story","title":"PHOTOS: The Faces of California's Immigrant Story","publishDate":1492818746,"format":"image","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>When President Trump's first immigration order temporarily went into effect on Jan. 27, and we began to see its impact at airports and hear stories about how it was touching many people's lives nationwide, we decided to try to capture some of those tales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We created a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/01/25/kqed-wants-your-immigration-stories/\">form\u003c/a>, asking people to share their immigration stories, and people did — 56 of them. They mostly weren't stories about the impact of the travel ban. Rather, they were stories that reflect the rich diversity California is known for. They were stories of people whose families had immigrated a generation prior from the Philippines, South Korea, Pakistan, Mexico, India and more. They were tales of people whose parents settled in the U.S. because of conflict in their home country, such as in Iran and El Salvador. They were stories of undocumented youth, known as Dreamers, who had signed up for former President Obama's DACA (or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) program — and in one case, a young man who didn't, because he didn't want to be a \"sitting duck\" if Obama's successor didn't keep the program. And there were people who came on work visas, such as the H-1B often used in Silicon Valley, and for love, such as a gay British man who married his American boyfriend.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright noborder\">#CaliforniaImmigrant stories, one by one (click to read)\n\u003ctable>\n\u003ctbody>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Undocumented\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420594\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Undocumented.png\" alt=\"50_Undocumented\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Undocumented.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Undocumented-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Gokul\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420582\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Gokul.png\" alt=\"50_Gokul\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Gokul.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Gokul-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Yibi\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420595\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Yibi.png\" alt=\"50_Yibi\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Yibi.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Yibi-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Saber\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420590\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Saber.png\" alt=\"50_Saber\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Saber.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Saber-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Roya\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420589\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Roya.png\" alt=\"50_Roya\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Roya.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Roya-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Daniel\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420577\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Daniel.png\" alt=\"50_Daniel\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Daniel.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Daniel-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Anonymous\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420576\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Anonymous.png\" alt=\"50_Anonymous\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Anonymous.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Anonymous-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Nicole\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420586\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Nicole.png\" alt=\"50_Nicole\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Nicole.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Nicole-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Enrique\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420579\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Enrique.png\" alt=\"50_Enrique\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Enrique.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Enrique-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Janet\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420583\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Janet.png\" alt=\"50_Janet\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Janet.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Janet-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Olivia\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420587\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Olivia.png\" alt=\"50_Olivia\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Olivia.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Olivia-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Erika\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420581\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Erika.png\" alt=\"50_Erika\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Erika.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Erika-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Judy\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420584\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Judy.png\" alt=\"50_Judy\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Judy.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Judy-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Sara\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420591\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Sara.png\" alt=\"50_Sara\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Sara.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Sara-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Saradha\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420592\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Saradha.png\" alt=\"50_Saradha\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Saradha.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Saradha-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Sergio\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420593\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Sergio.png\" alt=\"50_Sergio\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Sergio.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Sergio-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Max\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420585\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Max.png\" alt=\"50_Max\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Max.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Max-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Roberto\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420588\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Roberto.png\" alt=\"50_Roberto\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Roberto.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Roberto-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Enriqued\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420580\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Enriqued.png\" alt=\"50_Enriqued\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Enriqued.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Enriqued-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Elizabeth\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420578\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Elizabeth.png\" alt=\"50_Elizabeth\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Elizabeth.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Elizabeth-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003c/tbody>\n\u003c/table>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>We reached out to as many of the people who'd completed the form as we could (some asked not to be contacted, some did not reply and some stories were so similar that we decided not to duplicate them), and took portraits of some of those who could meet up with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A fun note to share: A human geography teacher at Lowell High School in San Francisco offered extra credit to his students who completed our form (and 24 of them did). We did this project in collaboration with \u003cem>The California Report Magazine,\u003c/em> which reported on the stories of four California immigrants (one who completed our form) whose lives are in limbo. You can read their stories here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We hope you enjoy these stories because — though they may differ from your family's experience — they are all part of the California story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380922\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11380922 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/menow-qut2.jpg\" alt=\"An undocumented immigrant from LA County says the Trump administration's actions justifies his fear of "not obtaining my DACA status all these years, I do not want to be a sitting duck."\" width=\"400\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/menow-qut2.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/menow-qut2-160x100.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/menow-qut2-240x149.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/menow-qut2-375x233.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An undocumented immigrant from L.A. County says the Trump administration's actions justify his fear of \"not obtaining my DACA status all these years. I do not want to be a sitting duck.\" \u003ccite>(Courtesy of anonymous)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> \u003ca id=\"Undocumented\">\u003c/a>Anonymous, undocumented, Los Angeles County\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy father came here without a visa or work permit, undocumented, and left all family back in Mexico. My mother, my two siblings and I were left back in Mexico City. He sent money for us and worked hard to save up enough to get all of us visas to enter the USA the safest way possible, with a B-1/B-2 or legally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration justifies my fear for not obtaining my DACA status all these years; I do not want to be a sitting duck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I came to the Bay Area when I was 10 years old and started the fifth grade without knowing the language. I hold a bachelor of science which I paid for out of pocket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My field grants me access to sensitive data of a business or enterprise and I've always been afraid of leaving my workplace in fear of having to be e-verified if I’m rehired elsewhere that may be a government subcontractor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately for me, I was stupid to gamble with moving forward and working at a Google-like perks and pay tech job — I was hired and let go after two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The Trump administration justifies my fear for not obtaining my DACA status all these years; I do not want to be a sitting duck.'\u003ccite>Anonymous, undocumented, Los Angeles County\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The laws now enforcing extreme vetting are very much in full effect. If this continues and tougher laws are enforced, such as verifying I-9 employment eligibility verification with e-verify through USCIS (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services), not only members of my family and myself but a whole lot of illegals who are hired by a lot of businesses will be out of work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is sad because most are low-level/low-wage jobs or small businesses that rarely follow such procedures and only do the minimum, which is to file away a copy of an ID and social security card in case of an audit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having stayed under the radar for so long while doing my due diligence will no longer work out for me and plenty of others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the system has taken advantage to our detriment and used us for cheap labor. Now, they intend to further degrade us and keep us living in fear or simply toss us out for being \"Bad Hombres.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11379346\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11379346\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Gokul Gunasekaran was photographed on the campus of Stanford University, his alma mater, on March 6, 2017. He entered the U.S. on a student visa and was able to stay by securing a work visa.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gokul Gunasekaran was photographed on the campus of Stanford University, his alma mater, on March 6, 2017. He entered the U.S. on a student visa and was able to stay by securing a work visa. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Gokul\">\u003c/a>Gokul Gunasekaran, H-1B visa holder, Sunnyvale\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI came to Stanford to pursue my graduate studies in electrical engineering. I graduated in 2011 and since then I've been working as a software engineer. I started my career at a bigger company. I worked there for three years. Since then, I've been working at a smaller startup in Palo Alto for close to three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially, as one could imagine, getting admitted to Stanford, with all the tuition taken care of, was a dream come true. I experienced no issues getting my student visa as well. It was great. Up till then, my immigration story was very smooth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only after I graduated from Stanford did I realize the problems associated with working on a work visa in the United States. The system is definitely not encouraging folks to be independent, free, and to move from companies. It's not very straightforward at all. The laws are very complex. For the first few years, it was OK because I was just starting to work for the first time in my life. Immigration was not my primary concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once I wanted to switch jobs, that's when I realized how painful it was going to be to even just move from one company to another, let alone starting my own business — which is almost impossible to do. It's been downhill since then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, I've come to a point where I've spent close to eight years in this country and I'm starting to doubt whether I should still pursue this arduous journey here or should I give up and go back to my home country or another country like Canada or Australia, where they are welcoming to a lot more highly skilled immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue is primarily with the green card process. They give out 140,000 green cards* per year; no more than 7 percent can go to one specific country. For people who are born in India, we are looking at a wait time of more than 50 years. I'll probably be 70 or maybe even dead by the time I'm actually eligible to get my green card. That is the biggest issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second thing is also the mobility on the H-1B visa. For example, let's say I want to switch to another company. The company sponsors me, but then I have to go back and start the process all over again (that's generally what happens and in any case, it doesn't change the fact that I'll have to wait so many years).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last problem is, for example, let's say I have been here 10 or 15 years, and my company is not doing well. If they lay me off, I have to leave the country within 10 days. I'm basically being penalized because I was born in India. That is the root cause of the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I've come to a point where I've spent close to eight years in this country and I'm starting to doubt whether I should still pursue this arduous journey here or should I give up and go back to my home country or another country ... where they are welcoming to a lot more highly skilled immigrants.'\u003ccite>Gokul Gunasekaran, H-1B visa holder, Sunnyvale\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>As far as the executive orders are concerned, I'm kind of scared right now to go back to visit my parents because I'm worried … whether the consulate will actually give me a stamp to come back to the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, the uncertainties toward travel, whether we will get our visa stamping, whether our work visas will be renewed -- these are all adding quite a bit of anxiety to the high-skilled immigrant community. That's it in a nutshell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every time I go back home or when I talk to my parents, they ask me if I’m close to getting my green card or do I have any permanency and I tell them, “No. It's not happening.” They ask me, “What's the point of all this? Just come back home and stay with us and stay close with family.” That is a decision that's been moving up on my things to do and I'm seriously considering that, unfortunately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The system here is totally broken. I think my American Dream has been pretty much shattered to pieces and I feel like I could have done a lot more with my career back home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Hear more from Gunasekaran and others about \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2017/04/18/president-trump-signs-executive-order-targeting-h1-b-visas/\">the debate over H-1B visas\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418752\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418752\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Yibi's husband, Maguiber, was detained by ICE on February 9. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heras' husband, Maguiber, was detained by ICE on Feb. 9. \u003ccite>(Erasmo Martinez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Yibi\">\u003c/a>Yibi Heras, wife of Guatemalan immigrant detained by ICE, Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I have been in Oakland for four years and I've been in the United States for 10 years. I met my husband, Maguiber,* at work and that's where everything started. We have three children.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested her husband at their Oakland home shortly after 5 a.m. in February.)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I was washing dishes and I saw some people outside and I didn't know who they were. I thought maybe they were robbers. And so I went to go get my husband. And then they were already knocking on the window.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They said they were \"police\" investigating a case of hit-and-run. They asked Maguiber, \"Can you show us your registration papers that you have for your car?\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Like all of us, he's made mistakes, but he's not dangerous. You can't say someone’s dangerous based on immigration status or nationality. There are a lot of dangerous people who are born here in the U.S.'\u003ccite>Yibi Heras, wife of Guatemalan immigrant detained by ICE, Oakland\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>So my husband went out. He opened the car up. He got the papers out and then a man came up behind him and I saw that he showed my husband a paper. And that's when he (my husband) said, \"Yibi, it's immigration.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They started asking him questions. \"Do you have children? Are you married?\" He said, \"Yes, I have three\" kids. And when I saw that he was going to keep responding to the questions I told him, \"Keep your mouth shut! You don't need to answer anything. It's going to be worse for you if you keep answering them.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And that's when the person that had been asking him questions turned to me asking, \"Do you have children? Are you married?\" And I asked him, \"Do you have a warrant?\" And then he said, \"No, it's OK. We only came for him.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They basically lied to him to get him to come outside. And that seems unfair, that seems wrong. So that's why I want to speak out. I would like to warn people who maybe they don’t have to respond to questions.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(*Maguiber’s attorney asked that we use only his first name while his case is pending. She believes a recent arrest for reckless driving put him on ICE’s radar\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maguiber first came to the U.S. a decade ago. He was soon deported to Guatemala but returned after a notorious gang there attacked him and threatened his life.)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like all of us, he's made mistakes, but he's not dangerous. You can't say someone’s dangerous based on immigration status or nationality. There are a lot of dangerous people who are born here in the U.S. It depends on the way that you're brought up — not where you're from.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When this happened, I was afraid to come back home. But I can't live with fear. I have three children. The oldest has a disability. I stopped working because he had an operation and it didn't make sense to pay somebody to take care of him. But now I have to look for other funds to keep surviving.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(An immigration judge will hold a hearing in June on whether to allow Maguiber to stay in the U.S. \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/03/08/how-trump-could-detain-more-immigrants-in-california/\">Read more\u003c/a> about the family's story)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We’re optimistic that everything turns out well, but we know that the judge has the last word.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Listen to the full The California Report immigration special:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2017/04/2017-04-21-tcrmag.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24993_TCR-Mag-Immigration-Banner-qut-1920x628.jpg\" Title=\"Living in Limbo: California Immigrant Stories in Trump's America\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418783\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418783\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Moe-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Saber Askar stands outside his apartment in East Porterville. A U.S. citizen, he is struggling to bring his family to the U.S. from Yemen.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Moe-qut.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Moe-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Moe-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Moe-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Moe-qut-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saber Askar stands outside his apartment in East Porterville. A U.S. citizen, he is struggling to bring his family to the U.S. from Yemen. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Saber\">\u003c/a>Saber \"Moe\" Askar, naturalized U.S. citizen, East Porterville (Tulare County)\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">My dad was a U.S. citizen, and when I was 15 he told me to come here (from Yemen). I came to Michigan. It was a hard time. I only had summer clothes; I was freezing. I worked in factories, and I applied for my citizenship. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are a couple of things that are the best times in my life — one of them was becoming an American citizen. It’s the best thing I have. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">About eight years ago, my cousin said, “Please, can you help me with my store?” So I moved to California, and I love it here. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But it doesn’t matter what I’m doing, there’s nothing to make me happy because my family is not with me.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(Moe would go back to visit Yemen for extended stays over the years. During one such stay, he married. He’d return home for long trips.)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I try to explain to them, 'Just give me a little time and then you guys are going to be here, then you guys are going to be OK.' They make me bleed inside when I talk to them. I don’t know what to do. Every time I call I’m afraid they won’t answer anymore.'\u003ccite>Saber Askar, naturalized U.S. citizen, East Porterville\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’ve always wanted them to come here, but I was waiting for the right time. I wanted to find a good job and get a house. Then the war started. I want them out; I want to save them. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s been two years now, and nobody stops killing. There is no gas, no electricity; they don’t have enough food to eat. My middle daughter, I think she’s about to lose her mind. She’s very skinny. She cannot eat. She’s scared because she hears the bombing. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I try to explain to them, “Just give me a little time and then you guys are going to be here, then you guys are going to be OK.” They make me bleed inside when I talk to them. I don’t know what to do. Every time I call I’m afraid they won’t answer anymore. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I want to die in this country because I love this country, but what’s happening with the new president here, it shocked me bad. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I was thinking my kids were going to come here and have a safe life, a normal life, and go to school and have a future. But they’re not welcome here. There’s no place for my kids — not in Yemen, not here. So where can we go? I really feel insulted. Even if you’re an American citizen, you’re nothing. Nothing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Learn more about Askar’s story on \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/21/for-a-longtime-citizen-the-trump-age-brings-uncertainty/\">The California Report\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11379342\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11379342\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Roya Soleimani was photographed in her home in San Francisco on March 1, 2017. Her parents came to the U.S. from Iran in the 1970s to earn their doctorate degrees at the University of the Pacific and weren't able to return because of the Iranian Revolution.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roya Soleimani was photographed in her home in San Francisco on March 1, 2017. Her parents came to the U.S. from Iran in the 1970s to earn their doctorate degrees at the University of the Pacific and weren't able to return home because of the Iranian Revolution. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Roya\">\u003c/a>Roya Soleimani, child of immigrants, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy parents' immigration story is part of the vibrant mosaic and fabric of the United States. They came from Iran on student visas to attend the University of the Pacific in Stockton for their doctoral education in sociology and psychology. They finished in 1979, and with the revolution chaotically unfolding in Iran, they weren't able to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have called Stockton home since 1973, and have now spent more of their lives here. With their Ph.D.s in hand, and no option to return to Iran, they made the most of their situation. They could not find work in their respective fields because of the hostage crisis in Iran and the perception people have about them for being Iranian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My dad turned his talent of sewing into a business and has owned a tailor shop since 1982. My mom turned her education and passion for children into her life's work, and transformed a humble home daycare into a preschool, kindergarten and child-care center, with nearly 50 kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have been proud citizens since the '90s and have voted in every election since they could vote. They are active in their community, members of Rotary, and raised my sister and I with pride for our hyphenated Iranian-American identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was born and raised in Stockton, and have held both sides of my cultural identity with so much pride. I speak Persian fluently, and happily balanced the rich culture, food, music and traditions of my parents’ homeland with my civic service, activism and patriotic nature of my American identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418551\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11418551 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Daniel Maher was photographed at the Ecology Center in Berkeley on April 20, 2017. He supervises the center's fleet of trucks and trains at risk youth in green collar jobs.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Maher was photographed at the Ecology Center in Berkeley on April 20, 2017. He supervises the center's fleet of trucks and trains at-risk youth in green-collar jobs. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Daniel\">\u003c/a>Daniel Maher, former green-card holder, Hayward\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When I was 3 years old, my family emigrated from Macau (a former Portuguese colony that’s now a Chinese autonomous region) to the United States. We were in Union City for a brief period. My grandparents operated a flower-growing business there, and we would stay with them, help with the family business, and \u003c/span>then,\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> the family business kind of picked up and left and moved to San Jose.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I usually associated with certain individuals that really were misfits, I don't know why. Probably because I kept moving a lot in a short period of time. It was hard to make friends right away. Misfits are there for one reason or another. Maybe they were looked at as nerds as well. A lot of my friends were in gifted education, so we would bounce ideas all the time, good or bad, I’m not going to say.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The chance of being deported is on my mind all the time. I have all these plans, a lot of things that I want to get done. Is it going to be interrupted?'\u003ccite>Daniel Maher, former green-card holder, Hayward\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I’d just about turned 21 and I still had the same friends but they were off doing something else. I knew what they were doing. They had planned to rob drug dealers, and they had somebody else who was supposed to go with them. That person was unable to make it, so rather than scrap their plans they asked me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(Daniel was arrested and served five years for felony armed robbery and attempted kidnapping; his green card was revoked and his future in the U.S. is uncertain because \u003c/em>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cem>Trump has vowed to deport violent\u003c/em> felons.)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I understand the underlying reasoning behind deporting violent felons, and I'm really not opposed to it. I've had a very short period of my life where I was actually that person who was convicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then I've been a completely different person. So does one moment in time justify changing a person's life for the long term or can we change it for the better? Can we give that person a second chance because he's shown that he's changed? I'm all for that second chance, but I would certainly understand if they wouldn't allow it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chance of being deported is on my mind all the time. I have all these plans, a lot of things that I want to get done. Is it going to be interrupted?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Learn more about Maher’s story on \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/20/should-a-mistake-made-long-ago-doom-this-immigrants-future\">The California Report\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380557\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11380557\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"A British man married his Mexican-American partner after a drawn-out process in which he briefly became undocumented.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-520x520.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A British man married his Mexican-American partner after a drawn-out process in which he briefly became undocumented. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of anonymous)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Anonymous\">\u003c/a>Anonymous, permanent resident, San Francisco Bay Area\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI entered on a tourist visa and have since married my Mexican-American partner and gained permanent residency after a very stressful, drawn-out, expensive application starting in NYC and now ending in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I became undocumented as I \"overstayed\" my 90-day tourist visa while awaiting paperwork (from the UK) that I was told I'd need by the Office of the City Clerk in NYC, delaying our wedding. The irony being that the paperwork wasn't needed after all. But because we followed the rules we were told by a government official, I then became classed as undocumented (\"illegal\").\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you think Trump's new executive actions/orders could impact your family?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy same-sex marriage could be reneged by the new administration and/or I could get deported due to being undocumented briefly before marrying, and my husband would then face the same sorts of issues trying to immigrate to the UK with me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11379343\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11379343\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Nicole Fernandez was photographed at home in San Mateo on Feb. 28, 2017. Her parents and grandparents immigrated to the U.S. from Pakistan in the 1980s.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicole Fernandez was photographed at home in San Mateo on Feb. 28, 2017. Her parents and grandparents immigrated to the U.S. from Pakistan in the 1980s. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Nicole\">\u003c/a>Nicole Fernandez, child of immigrants, San Mateo\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy parents immigrated from Karachi, Pakistan, with visas the year before I was born in 1982.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I really feel like being the child of immigrants shaped who I became. My parents and grandparents are literally the American Dream. They came over with nothing, minimal support from family. Until I was 30, I lived in a multigenerational home with my parents and grandparents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My parents worked really hard. My dad's a welder. He works with his hands. My mom's in the medical industry. Medical care. She works for Sutter. I'm just so proud of what they've been able to achieve considering their very humble roots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My grandparents are in their 80s. They live in Palo Alto and you won't meet anyone who loves this country more than my parents and grandparents. They haven't had it easy. They taught us a lot about hard work and giving back to our nation.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>Immigration still affects my family. I have many family members, cousins, second cousins who immigrated illegally. They now are all citizens and they are raising their children in this country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where we are nationally, I fear that more people are going to be going underground and as a society, we're not going to be benefiting from the beautiful diversity that immigration brings because so many people are going to be afraid to leave their homes or will self-deport back to their country of origin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11379347\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11379347\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Enrique Yarce was photographed on March 1, 2017, at Santa Rosa Junior College, where he is a student and activist. His parents brought him to the U.S. from Mexico when he was 3 years old.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Enrique Yarce Martinez was photographed on March 1, 2017, at Santa Rosa Junior College, where he is a student and activist. His parents brought him to the U.S. from Mexico when he was 3 years old. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Enrique\">\u003c/a>Enrique Yarce Martinez, DACA recipient, Santa Rosa\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nWe came through border checks (from Mexico). I was in the trunk, for part of the journey, and then the back, covered with a blanket. My parents say it's a miracle that the patroller didn't see me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am DACA, so, slightly less illegal, I've heard. I saw a really good play in Santa Rosa, and they were talking about that, and they put it really well, because DACA isn't really a path to citizenship, like a lot of people think. It's like $500 every two years for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We're at risk for being deported. I've lived here 19 years of my life in this country. I'm an American. If I were to be deported, it'd be such a culture shock. I love Mexico. From what I hear, obviously the government has a lot of issues, but the country's beautiful, but still, I wouldn't feel the same. This is my home, it always has been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I always internalized this part of my identity for a very long time, because it's scary to think about. It's scary because it's very real. I remember one time my dad was trying to tell us, my mom and I, to say we're Chilean or something, because Mexico's having a lot of attention, with all the immigration and stuff.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'... with a child and everything, they were doing crime scene cleanups, and cleaning offices, and just anything they could do to get money. You can get two tacos for $1 at Jack in the Box, and we would just eat that, a lot. I still like it.'\u003ccite>Enrique Yarce Martinez, DACA recipient, Santa Rosa\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>My mom was like, \"No, I'm proud of being a Mexican. I'm not going to hide from that.\" Yeah, I didn't really know yet, but I felt that way. Later, as I got older, I think about that a lot, and that was really important to me — how my mom stood up like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm proud of who I am, and my identity is complicated, but it's still who I am, and it's made me into the person I am.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you think Trump's new executive actions/orders could impact your family?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIt's very uncertain. I know it's taken me awhile to finally feel like I can go to school and continue my education. I want to be a social worker, my major is sociology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was always interested in activism, community organizing. I do that stuff, I love it — it's my life. I want to continue to do that, I want to continue to help people, so it just feels ... I feel really paralyzed a lot of the times, because I don't know if all my work will just go down the drain, you know?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Same with my parents, we were homeless when we first moved here, and that was rough, but they still managed to get out of that, I don't even know how.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's incredible, with a child and everything, they were doing crime scene cleanups, and cleaning offices, and just anything they could do to get money. You can get two tacos for $1 at Jack in the Box, and we would just eat that, a lot. I still like it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm worried about my parents. I've talked to my mom about it, what it's like for her to not really have an identity in this country. She doesn't have any sort of identification. She's always felt, kind of, trapped. They live in Lake County, and there's not a lot of people of color at all, especially where we live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We're just here, trying to live our lives. We're human like everyone else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I remember this one time, I was watching a video about some lawyers on United Way and this woman at the end was like, \"I know things are hard right now. I know that it seems really bleak, but, we can do this. We can win. We can improve our lives. …\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I cried so much, I didn't even know ... I needed to hear that, but I really did because that stuff was really getting to me. Just the internalization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I've gotten messages because I comment on things, and I'm like, \"You're wrong, you know, I'm not a demon.\" Then people will message me, and threaten to call ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) or whatever, and I'm just like, \"OK.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's a lot of hate, and that's really scary to me — that people would hate me just because I was brought here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380709\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11380709\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Janet del Mundo, far right, with her mom and sister in 1987. Del Mundo's grandfather fought for the U.S. in WW2, earning him U.S. citizenship. He was able to petition for his children, including del Mundo's mom.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-1920x1439.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janet del Mundo, far right, with her mom and sister in 1987. Del Mundo's grandfather fought for the U.S. in World War II, earning him U.S. citizenship. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Janet del Mundo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Janet\">\u003c/a>Janet del Mundo, naturalized U.S. citizen, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy grandfather was in the Philippine Navy during WWII and fought on the side of the Americans. Because of this, he was granted U.S. citizenship and was able to petition for his children, including my mother.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nHow do you think Trump's new executive actions/orders could impact your family?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI am fortunate enough to have naturalized legally through a family petition. However, I have many friends and family members who don't have the same opportunities. It's unfair and it dishonors the history of this country, which was, in fact, built by immigrants. Trump's policies will divide families and make us weaker as a nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What does growing up in an immigrant family in the U.S. mean to you?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>For me, growing up in an immigrant family in the U.S. means courage, hard work and sacrifice. My mom left behind her home and built up a life from scratch, at one point working two jobs, all to give her children a better life. It's kind of a cliche to say \"the American Dream,\" but that's really what this country is built on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418771\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418771\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut-800x938.jpg\" alt=\"Olivia and her husband walk together after their civil ceremony at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, December 2016. They wanted to get married and start Olivia's application for legal status before President Trump took office.\" width=\"800\" height=\"938\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut-800x938.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut-160x188.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut-1020x1196.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut-1180x1383.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut-960x1126.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut-240x281.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut-375x440.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut-520x610.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olivia and her husband walk together after their civil ceremony at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, December 2016. They wanted to get married and start Olivia's application for legal status before President Trump took office. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Olivia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia*, DACA recipient, San Francisco Bay Area\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI'm originally from Mexico. The whole entire family came here in 1999 and we settled down in San Jose. I started fifth grade I believe when we just arrived. And we have been in San Jose ever since. We call it our home. I live in San Francisco now; we've always been in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was finally going to have the wedding that I had always envisioned (in fall 2017), but then Nov. 8 (Trump’s election) happened and I panicked because I didn't know what was going to be my fate and that of my brother in this country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My birthday is Nov. 17, so that was probably the worst birthday I've ever had. I was pretty depressed. My boyfriend tried cheering me up, but I was just bummed. I didn't know what was going to happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's just one thing after the other. It's just unbelievable. There's so much uncertainty and it makes you feel so helpless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You have to sit back and wait and watch and see what happens. It's not a nice way to live, to have to turn on the TV or have to open up social media or have to follow a newspaper and read that these things are happening. There is no more -- there isn't protection for people with DACA. There just isn't.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I never pressured him to marry because I didn't need it. You know I was OK. I don't need to travel outside of the States. I have my immediate family here so I don't have anything kind of holding me back in Mexico. This is my life. I was OK with staying here being like in a cage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>*Olivia isn’t her real name; she asked to remain anonymous out of fear of deportation. Learn more about Olivia’s story on \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/12/dreamer-sees-path-to-escape-immigration-limbo/\">The California Report\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11379348\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11379348\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Erika Lee was photographed at Lowell High School in San Francisco, where she is a student, on March 6, 2017. Her parents and grandparents immigrated from South Korea in 1991.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erika Lee was photographed at Lowell High School in San Francisco, where she is a student, on March 6, 2017. Her parents and grandparents emigrated from South Korea in 1991. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Erika\">\u003c/a>Erika Lee, child of immigrants, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nOn my dad’s side, my grandpa, his wife and three kids decided to emigrate out of South Korea in 1991 so that they could have a better future. My dad came with his older and younger sisters, and a few months later, my grandparents came and they bought a house. We still live in the same house today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My mom’s side is from North Korea. My great-grandparents were civilians affected by the Korean War in 1950. They had to keep moving south, which was safer for the family. So they went to a city in South Korea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They didn’t have enough money so they decided to move to the United States in 1982, as one big family, for a better life and to get a better education. They migrated to Bay Farm Island (in Alameda), where all the kids went to school and graduated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as time went by, my grandpa wanted to move to a place near his job so the whole family moved to San Leandro, where my mom and dad met and married. They lived there for about three years with me, and then my family moved to my dad’s parents’ house in S.F. (that's because of a Korean tradition in which the eldest son and his family live with their parents).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is how my family migrated to America. My family was part of the migration stream: Lots of people were moving to the United States because of the opportunities to have better lives and wealth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380844\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11380844\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Judy Christopher emigrated from Canada to the U.S. decades ago. She got citizenship last year. Here she is with her daughter.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Judy Christopher emigrated from Canada to the U.S. She got citizenship last year. She is pictured here with her daughter, Loha. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Judy Christopher)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Judy\">\u003c/a>Judy Christopher, naturalized U.S. citizen, Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI came on a tourist visa from Canada. Clearly moving. Two suitcases filled with personal belongings, important papers, photo albums, and with my cat and dog, on a one-way flight from Toronto to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overstayed my visa. Applied for permanent resident status after marrying an American. Was waved through at customs after secondary screening with a \"looks like you are moving — don't let us catch you working\" warning. White privilege!\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Overstayed my visa. Applied for permanent resident status after marrying an American. Was waved through at customs after secondary screening with a 'looks like you are moving — don't let us catch you working' warning. White privilege!'\u003ccite>Judy Christopher, naturalized U.S. citizen, Oakland\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I worked for cash cleaning houses. I used the medical system to have my son without cost to me. And everyone kept saying, \"Oh, it's different with you.\" The only difference was my skin color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you think Trump's new executive actions/orders could impact your family?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI got my citizenship a month before the election so I could vote against Trump. While I'm not worried about anyone in my family being deported (my three kids were born here), I am worried about other families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump's \"victory\" will impact my family in that we will become more resolved resisters and more active in civil society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380713\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 604px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11380713\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SMostavi-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Sara Mostafavi, an Iranian-American immigration lawyer, on a visit to Morocco.\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SMostavi-qut.jpg 604w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SMostavi-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SMostavi-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SMostavi-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SMostavi-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sara Mostafavi, an Iranian-American immigration lawyer, on a visit to Morocco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sara Mostafavi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Sara\">\u003c/a>Sara Mostafavi, dual Iranian-U.S. citizen, Danville\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI am an Iranian-American dual national by virtue of having been born here and having parents that are Iranian citizens. I am also an immigration attorney who represents many clients from Iran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new executive order has the effect of freezing travel between Iran and the U.S. for anyone who is not a U.S. citizen \u003cem>(Editor’s note: The ban is currently being challenged in court and has been stayed)\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My clients are scared, worried, anxious, and are separated from loved ones. They have PTSD from the post-9/11 immigration horror stories and they are reliving those moments again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have been playing part-attorney, part-therapist and part-fortune teller (without the benefit of a functioning crystal ball) when speaking to family, friends, community members and clients about the reverberations of this (Trump’s) executive order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380779\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11380779\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych-800x361.png\" alt=\"Sarah Rao with her parents at SeaWorld San Diego. Today, Rao, an 18-year-old high school senior, reflects on her dual identities.\" width=\"800\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych-800x361.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych-160x72.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych-1020x461.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych-1180x533.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych-960x434.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych-240x108.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych-375x169.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych-520x235.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych.png 1590w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarah Rao an 18-year-old high school senior, reflects on her dual identities. Right, with her parents at SeaWorld San Diego as a kid. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sarah Rao)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Saradha\">\u003c/a>Saradha (Sarah) Rao, child of immigrants, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy parents (from India) married in their 20s and moved here once my father was awarded an H-1B visa. I was born a year later. My father continued his work for the next 10 years working by contract with companies that would endorse the extensions for his stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 2012, my mother became a U.S. citizen and my father, later the next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you think Trump's new executive actions/orders could impact your family?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>My family is currently low income and dependent on welfare. I am also a student who is about to enter college, so we are extremely vulnerable to any of his actions, financially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What does growing up in an immigrant family in the U.S. mean to you?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nGrowing up in an immigrant family is definitely complicated. It's comparable to a balancing act. You have such direct roots to your parents' culture but also feel so much pressure to assimilate. To me it's been a lot about self-discovery. As a young child I equally expressed both halves of me, Indian and American, without shame or discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'So growing up in an immigrant family means self-discovery and place-finding for me. No, being an immigrant or a first-generation citizen should not be defining. But it does mean something in who you are and what you bring to the table.'\u003ccite>Saradha (Sarah) Rao, child of immigrants, San Francisco\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>As I grew older and I became more self-conscious and experienced bits of racism and xenophobia, I started to try to suppress my heritage. If I showed any interest, it was only at home around my parents. Outside of the house, I'd be utterly embarrassed at any association with India unless it was from another's praise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am a senior in high school and am just about to graduate. In high school, I was lucky to have found an environment that is accepting, and peers who have embraced me, and diversity in general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last four years, I've truly come to love and appreciate the complex relationship between my identity and my heritage. I constantly research online and ask my parents questions. In this time, I have also developed a nationalistic pride equal to that I feel for America, although I recognize that both have a long way to go before either are perfect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So growing up in an immigrant family means self-discovery and place-finding for me. No, being an immigrant or a first-generation citizen should not be defining. But it does mean something in who you are and what you bring to the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It can be a struggle to balance the societal pressures and views of your family's origin and your cultural ties, but sooner or later you figure out that you don't have to compromise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11419141\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11419141\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut-800x475.jpg\" alt=\"Sergio Herrera's parents came from El Salvador and Mexico. Herrera, a high school student in San Francisco, is pictured center in each photo with his mom, Maria, dad, Sergio, and brother, Joshua.\" width=\"800\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut-800x475.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut-160x95.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut-1020x605.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut-1180x700.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut-960x570.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut-240x142.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut-375x222.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut-520x308.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sergio Herrera's parents came from El Salvador and Mexico. Herrera, a high school student in San Francisco, is pictured center in each photo with his mom, Maria, dad, Sergio, and brother, Joshua. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sergio Herrera)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sergio Herrera, child of immigrants, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy family's migration starts from two Latin American countries, Mexico and El Salvador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My dad was born in Mexico and migrated to America at 18 to find a way to support his poor family back in Mexico, who were living in a hut. He knew he wouldn't be able to support them in Mexico where jobs are really low-paying, so he decided to take a risk that millions of people have taken: jump the border in order to have a better life and higher-paying jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Obviously, he had to face major obstacles since he entered the country illegally. He had to survive a two-week trip from his hometown to the border fence. He would then have to take another 24 hours to get through the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His goal was San Francisco since he had friends there, and after a long trip he made it. Eventually, he was able to get his green card and his citizenship, and save enough money for his family back home to build a house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My mother was born in El Salvador and immigrated legally by plane at age 25. Her parents were able to apply for a green card before she traveled to the United States and her green card was granted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main reason for her migration was the fact that there was a civil war going on in El Salvador. She knew no one and basically had to start from scratch. Luckily, after about two years, her sister arrived in San Francisco and they were able to help each other out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing up in an immigrant family makes me feel fortunate that I had the opportunities to experience different cultures. It also meant that my family was different in a sense that we ate different meals than most of my friends: While they were eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch, me and my brother were eating tortillas with beans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also made me want to work harder knowing that my parents went through a hard time coming to the United States for them and their kids to have a better future. They did their part, so now it’s my turn to do my part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11379344\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11379344\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Maximilian Tiao, photographed at Lowell High School in San Francisco on March 6, 2017. He is a member of Lowell's track and field team; his parents immigrated from South Korea.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maximilian Tiao, photographed at Lowell High School in San Francisco on March 6, 2017. He is a member of Lowell's track and field team. His parents emigrated from South Korea. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Max\">\u003c/a>Maximilian Tiao, child of immigrants, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy parents immigrated by plane from South Korea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both my grandparents (who are originally from China) and my parents didn't receive such a high education. They didn't have such a high income so, when my parents came to the United States, they really emphasized the fact. They're like: \"Oh, our next generation has to take care of themselves and be able to establish an education — for even their next generation as well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They came to San Francisco particularly because they knew that, besides being close to South Korea, this place has innovation. This new place gave them an awesome opportunity to be able to do jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I believe that Trump's new executive actions will probably not affect my family since they’re all naturalized as U.S. citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But anything can happen, especially with one of Trump's executive orders halting funding of sanctuary cities like San Francisco \u003cem>(Editor’s note: San Francisco and Santa Clara counties have filed lawsuits challenging any possible reductions in funding)\u003c/em>. I don't believe that this will affect my family specifically, but it can affect those around — especially my friends at Lowell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380842\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 384px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11380842 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RobertoBurgos-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Roberto Burgos' family emigrated from Panama.\" width=\"384\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RobertoBurgos-qut.jpg 384w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RobertoBurgos-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RobertoBurgos-qut-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RobertoBurgos-qut-375x500.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roberto Burgos' family emigrated from Panama. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Roberto Burgos)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Roberto\">\u003c/a>Roberto Burgos, naturalized U.S. citizen, Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy mother was one of many Panamanians working for USAID in Panama. During the height of Manual Noriega's dictatorship, the U.S. granted visas to some Panamanian employees, my mother being one. She already had a sister living in San Francisco, so, after much preparations, and as the country's safety deteriorated, we flew in on December 1988.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you think Trump's new executive actions/orders could impact your family?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI don't know, and that is a problem. I feel that me and my family are pretty much established in the U.S., and that, as of today, the actions Trump has taken will not affect us directly, I feel uncertain about actions he may take in the future that could. I have a nagging feeling that it is very possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380848\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11380848 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EnriqueDiaz-qut-160x290.jpg\" alt=\"Enrique Diaz, Gilroy.\" width=\"160\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EnriqueDiaz-qut-160x290.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EnriqueDiaz-qut-240x436.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EnriqueDiaz-qut-375x681.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EnriqueDiaz-qut-520x944.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EnriqueDiaz-qut.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Enrique Diaz, Gilroy. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Enrique Diaz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Enriqued\">\u003c/a>Enrique Diaz, naturalized U.S. citizen, Gilroy\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>How did your family enter the U.S.?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>Illegally initially -> green card -> citizenship -> 4 siblings with 4 year university degrees!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you think Trump's new executive actions/orders could impact your family?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>Fear/anxiety/uncertainty among those undocumented and not appreciated for those that are now documented. \u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380917\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11380917 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut-160x240.jpg\" alt=\"Elizabeth Parrott, Lafayette.\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut-240x360.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut-375x563.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut-520x780.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizabeth Parrott, Lafayette. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Elizabeth Parrott)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Elizabeth\">\u003c/a>Elizabeth Parrott, child of immigrants, Lafayette\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>How did your family enter the U.S.?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>My mother was an au pair for a family in Southern California, and my dad just came over on a work visa.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>How do you think Trump's new executive actions/orders could impact your family?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>While my parents have become citizens, and my sisters and I were all born here, I believe the executive actions will lead to profiling (similar to what occurred in Arizona), of all Latinos and people who simply look Mexican. I believe that this type of profiling is a fundamental violation of my rights as a citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380852\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11380852\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Angelica Salceda, Firebaugh\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-1180x1180.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-960x960.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-520x520.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-150x150.jpg 150w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut.jpg 1836w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angelica Salceda with her niece, Sophia Marie Salceda, in Chowchilla. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Angelica Salceda)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Angelica\">\u003c/a>Angelica Salceda, child of immigrants, Firebaugh (Fresno County)\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy mom came on a travel visa in the 1980s and extended her stay. She later become a LPR (lawful permanent resident). But many other family members came here undocumented and continue to lack status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you think Trump's new executive actions/orders could impact your family?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>For undocumented and LPR family members, I fear that any encounter with law enforcement may result in grave immigration consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The interviews were edited for clarity and length.\u003c/em> \u003cem>Sasha Khokha, Ryan Levi, Vanessa Rancano and Julie Small contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>*This story has been corrected to reflect the number of green cards is 140,000, not 150,000 as previously reported.\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Want to share your immigration story? Complete our form:\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ImmigrationForm]\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A storekeeper from Yemen. A software engineer from India. A DACA recipient from Mexico. It's a rich mix of odysseys spanning the globe.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1493403164,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":145,"wordCount":7968},"headData":{"title":"PHOTOS: The Faces of California's Immigrant Story | KQED","description":"A storekeeper from Yemen. A software engineer from India. A DACA recipient from Mexico. It's a rich mix of odysseys spanning the globe.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"PHOTOS: The Faces of California's Immigrant Story","datePublished":"2017-04-21T23:52:26.000Z","dateModified":"2017-04-28T18:12:44.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11295516 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11295516","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/21/photos-the-faces-of-californias-immigrant-story/","disqusTitle":"PHOTOS: The Faces of California's Immigrant Story","path":"/news/11295516/photos-the-faces-of-californias-immigrant-story","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When President Trump's first immigration order temporarily went into effect on Jan. 27, and we began to see its impact at airports and hear stories about how it was touching many people's lives nationwide, we decided to try to capture some of those tales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We created a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/01/25/kqed-wants-your-immigration-stories/\">form\u003c/a>, asking people to share their immigration stories, and people did — 56 of them. They mostly weren't stories about the impact of the travel ban. Rather, they were stories that reflect the rich diversity California is known for. They were stories of people whose families had immigrated a generation prior from the Philippines, South Korea, Pakistan, Mexico, India and more. They were tales of people whose parents settled in the U.S. because of conflict in their home country, such as in Iran and El Salvador. They were stories of undocumented youth, known as Dreamers, who had signed up for former President Obama's DACA (or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) program — and in one case, a young man who didn't, because he didn't want to be a \"sitting duck\" if Obama's successor didn't keep the program. And there were people who came on work visas, such as the H-1B often used in Silicon Valley, and for love, such as a gay British man who married his American boyfriend.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright noborder\">#CaliforniaImmigrant stories, one by one (click to read)\n\u003ctable>\n\u003ctbody>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Undocumented\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420594\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Undocumented.png\" alt=\"50_Undocumented\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Undocumented.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Undocumented-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Gokul\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420582\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Gokul.png\" alt=\"50_Gokul\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Gokul.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Gokul-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Yibi\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420595\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Yibi.png\" alt=\"50_Yibi\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Yibi.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Yibi-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Saber\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420590\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Saber.png\" alt=\"50_Saber\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Saber.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Saber-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Roya\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420589\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Roya.png\" alt=\"50_Roya\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Roya.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Roya-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Daniel\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420577\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Daniel.png\" alt=\"50_Daniel\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Daniel.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Daniel-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Anonymous\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420576\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Anonymous.png\" alt=\"50_Anonymous\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Anonymous.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Anonymous-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Nicole\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420586\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Nicole.png\" alt=\"50_Nicole\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Nicole.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Nicole-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Enrique\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420579\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Enrique.png\" alt=\"50_Enrique\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Enrique.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Enrique-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Janet\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420583\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Janet.png\" alt=\"50_Janet\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Janet.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Janet-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Olivia\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420587\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Olivia.png\" alt=\"50_Olivia\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Olivia.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Olivia-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Erika\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420581\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Erika.png\" alt=\"50_Erika\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Erika.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Erika-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Judy\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420584\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Judy.png\" alt=\"50_Judy\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Judy.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Judy-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Sara\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420591\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Sara.png\" alt=\"50_Sara\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Sara.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Sara-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Saradha\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420592\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Saradha.png\" alt=\"50_Saradha\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Saradha.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Saradha-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Sergio\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420593\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Sergio.png\" alt=\"50_Sergio\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Sergio.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Sergio-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Max\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420585\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Max.png\" alt=\"50_Max\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Max.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Max-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Roberto\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420588\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Roberto.png\" alt=\"50_Roberto\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Roberto.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Roberto-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Enriqued\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420580\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Enriqued.png\" alt=\"50_Enriqued\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Enriqued.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Enriqued-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Elizabeth\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420578\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Elizabeth.png\" alt=\"50_Elizabeth\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Elizabeth.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Elizabeth-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003c/tbody>\n\u003c/table>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>We reached out to as many of the people who'd completed the form as we could (some asked not to be contacted, some did not reply and some stories were so similar that we decided not to duplicate them), and took portraits of some of those who could meet up with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A fun note to share: A human geography teacher at Lowell High School in San Francisco offered extra credit to his students who completed our form (and 24 of them did). We did this project in collaboration with \u003cem>The California Report Magazine,\u003c/em> which reported on the stories of four California immigrants (one who completed our form) whose lives are in limbo. You can read their stories here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We hope you enjoy these stories because — though they may differ from your family's experience — they are all part of the California story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380922\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11380922 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/menow-qut2.jpg\" alt=\"An undocumented immigrant from LA County says the Trump administration's actions justifies his fear of "not obtaining my DACA status all these years, I do not want to be a sitting duck."\" width=\"400\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/menow-qut2.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/menow-qut2-160x100.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/menow-qut2-240x149.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/menow-qut2-375x233.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An undocumented immigrant from L.A. County says the Trump administration's actions justify his fear of \"not obtaining my DACA status all these years. I do not want to be a sitting duck.\" \u003ccite>(Courtesy of anonymous)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> \u003ca id=\"Undocumented\">\u003c/a>Anonymous, undocumented, Los Angeles County\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy father came here without a visa or work permit, undocumented, and left all family back in Mexico. My mother, my two siblings and I were left back in Mexico City. He sent money for us and worked hard to save up enough to get all of us visas to enter the USA the safest way possible, with a B-1/B-2 or legally.\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 Trump administration justifies my fear for not obtaining my DACA status all these years; I do not want to be a sitting duck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I came to the Bay Area when I was 10 years old and started the fifth grade without knowing the language. I hold a bachelor of science which I paid for out of pocket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My field grants me access to sensitive data of a business or enterprise and I've always been afraid of leaving my workplace in fear of having to be e-verified if I’m rehired elsewhere that may be a government subcontractor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately for me, I was stupid to gamble with moving forward and working at a Google-like perks and pay tech job — I was hired and let go after two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The Trump administration justifies my fear for not obtaining my DACA status all these years; I do not want to be a sitting duck.'\u003ccite>Anonymous, undocumented, Los Angeles County\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The laws now enforcing extreme vetting are very much in full effect. If this continues and tougher laws are enforced, such as verifying I-9 employment eligibility verification with e-verify through USCIS (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services), not only members of my family and myself but a whole lot of illegals who are hired by a lot of businesses will be out of work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is sad because most are low-level/low-wage jobs or small businesses that rarely follow such procedures and only do the minimum, which is to file away a copy of an ID and social security card in case of an audit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having stayed under the radar for so long while doing my due diligence will no longer work out for me and plenty of others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the system has taken advantage to our detriment and used us for cheap labor. Now, they intend to further degrade us and keep us living in fear or simply toss us out for being \"Bad Hombres.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11379346\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11379346\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Gokul Gunasekaran was photographed on the campus of Stanford University, his alma mater, on March 6, 2017. He entered the U.S. on a student visa and was able to stay by securing a work visa.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gokul Gunasekaran was photographed on the campus of Stanford University, his alma mater, on March 6, 2017. He entered the U.S. on a student visa and was able to stay by securing a work visa. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Gokul\">\u003c/a>Gokul Gunasekaran, H-1B visa holder, Sunnyvale\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI came to Stanford to pursue my graduate studies in electrical engineering. I graduated in 2011 and since then I've been working as a software engineer. I started my career at a bigger company. I worked there for three years. Since then, I've been working at a smaller startup in Palo Alto for close to three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially, as one could imagine, getting admitted to Stanford, with all the tuition taken care of, was a dream come true. I experienced no issues getting my student visa as well. It was great. Up till then, my immigration story was very smooth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only after I graduated from Stanford did I realize the problems associated with working on a work visa in the United States. The system is definitely not encouraging folks to be independent, free, and to move from companies. It's not very straightforward at all. The laws are very complex. For the first few years, it was OK because I was just starting to work for the first time in my life. Immigration was not my primary concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once I wanted to switch jobs, that's when I realized how painful it was going to be to even just move from one company to another, let alone starting my own business — which is almost impossible to do. It's been downhill since then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, I've come to a point where I've spent close to eight years in this country and I'm starting to doubt whether I should still pursue this arduous journey here or should I give up and go back to my home country or another country like Canada or Australia, where they are welcoming to a lot more highly skilled immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue is primarily with the green card process. They give out 140,000 green cards* per year; no more than 7 percent can go to one specific country. For people who are born in India, we are looking at a wait time of more than 50 years. I'll probably be 70 or maybe even dead by the time I'm actually eligible to get my green card. That is the biggest issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second thing is also the mobility on the H-1B visa. For example, let's say I want to switch to another company. The company sponsors me, but then I have to go back and start the process all over again (that's generally what happens and in any case, it doesn't change the fact that I'll have to wait so many years).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last problem is, for example, let's say I have been here 10 or 15 years, and my company is not doing well. If they lay me off, I have to leave the country within 10 days. I'm basically being penalized because I was born in India. That is the root cause of the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I've come to a point where I've spent close to eight years in this country and I'm starting to doubt whether I should still pursue this arduous journey here or should I give up and go back to my home country or another country ... where they are welcoming to a lot more highly skilled immigrants.'\u003ccite>Gokul Gunasekaran, H-1B visa holder, Sunnyvale\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>As far as the executive orders are concerned, I'm kind of scared right now to go back to visit my parents because I'm worried … whether the consulate will actually give me a stamp to come back to the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, the uncertainties toward travel, whether we will get our visa stamping, whether our work visas will be renewed -- these are all adding quite a bit of anxiety to the high-skilled immigrant community. That's it in a nutshell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every time I go back home or when I talk to my parents, they ask me if I’m close to getting my green card or do I have any permanency and I tell them, “No. It's not happening.” They ask me, “What's the point of all this? Just come back home and stay with us and stay close with family.” That is a decision that's been moving up on my things to do and I'm seriously considering that, unfortunately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The system here is totally broken. I think my American Dream has been pretty much shattered to pieces and I feel like I could have done a lot more with my career back home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Hear more from Gunasekaran and others about \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2017/04/18/president-trump-signs-executive-order-targeting-h1-b-visas/\">the debate over H-1B visas\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418752\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418752\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Yibi's husband, Maguiber, was detained by ICE on February 9. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heras' husband, Maguiber, was detained by ICE on Feb. 9. \u003ccite>(Erasmo Martinez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Yibi\">\u003c/a>Yibi Heras, wife of Guatemalan immigrant detained by ICE, Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I have been in Oakland for four years and I've been in the United States for 10 years. I met my husband, Maguiber,* at work and that's where everything started. We have three children.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested her husband at their Oakland home shortly after 5 a.m. in February.)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I was washing dishes and I saw some people outside and I didn't know who they were. I thought maybe they were robbers. And so I went to go get my husband. And then they were already knocking on the window.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They said they were \"police\" investigating a case of hit-and-run. They asked Maguiber, \"Can you show us your registration papers that you have for your car?\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Like all of us, he's made mistakes, but he's not dangerous. You can't say someone’s dangerous based on immigration status or nationality. There are a lot of dangerous people who are born here in the U.S.'\u003ccite>Yibi Heras, wife of Guatemalan immigrant detained by ICE, Oakland\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>So my husband went out. He opened the car up. He got the papers out and then a man came up behind him and I saw that he showed my husband a paper. And that's when he (my husband) said, \"Yibi, it's immigration.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They started asking him questions. \"Do you have children? Are you married?\" He said, \"Yes, I have three\" kids. And when I saw that he was going to keep responding to the questions I told him, \"Keep your mouth shut! You don't need to answer anything. It's going to be worse for you if you keep answering them.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And that's when the person that had been asking him questions turned to me asking, \"Do you have children? Are you married?\" And I asked him, \"Do you have a warrant?\" And then he said, \"No, it's OK. We only came for him.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They basically lied to him to get him to come outside. And that seems unfair, that seems wrong. So that's why I want to speak out. I would like to warn people who maybe they don’t have to respond to questions.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(*Maguiber’s attorney asked that we use only his first name while his case is pending. She believes a recent arrest for reckless driving put him on ICE’s radar\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maguiber first came to the U.S. a decade ago. He was soon deported to Guatemala but returned after a notorious gang there attacked him and threatened his life.)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like all of us, he's made mistakes, but he's not dangerous. You can't say someone’s dangerous based on immigration status or nationality. There are a lot of dangerous people who are born here in the U.S. It depends on the way that you're brought up — not where you're from.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When this happened, I was afraid to come back home. But I can't live with fear. I have three children. The oldest has a disability. I stopped working because he had an operation and it didn't make sense to pay somebody to take care of him. But now I have to look for other funds to keep surviving.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(An immigration judge will hold a hearing in June on whether to allow Maguiber to stay in the U.S. \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/03/08/how-trump-could-detain-more-immigrants-in-california/\">Read more\u003c/a> about the family's story)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We’re optimistic that everything turns out well, but we know that the judge has the last word.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Listen to the full The California Report immigration special:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"audio","attributes":{"named":{"src":"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2017/04/2017-04-21-tcrmag.mp3","image":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24993_TCR-Mag-Immigration-Banner-qut-1920x628.jpg","title":"Living in Limbo: California Immigrant Stories in Trump's America","program":"The California Report","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418783\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418783\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Moe-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Saber Askar stands outside his apartment in East Porterville. A U.S. citizen, he is struggling to bring his family to the U.S. from Yemen.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Moe-qut.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Moe-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Moe-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Moe-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Moe-qut-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saber Askar stands outside his apartment in East Porterville. A U.S. citizen, he is struggling to bring his family to the U.S. from Yemen. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Saber\">\u003c/a>Saber \"Moe\" Askar, naturalized U.S. citizen, East Porterville (Tulare County)\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">My dad was a U.S. citizen, and when I was 15 he told me to come here (from Yemen). I came to Michigan. It was a hard time. I only had summer clothes; I was freezing. I worked in factories, and I applied for my citizenship. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are a couple of things that are the best times in my life — one of them was becoming an American citizen. It’s the best thing I have. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">About eight years ago, my cousin said, “Please, can you help me with my store?” So I moved to California, and I love it here. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But it doesn’t matter what I’m doing, there’s nothing to make me happy because my family is not with me.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(Moe would go back to visit Yemen for extended stays over the years. During one such stay, he married. He’d return home for long trips.)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I try to explain to them, 'Just give me a little time and then you guys are going to be here, then you guys are going to be OK.' They make me bleed inside when I talk to them. I don’t know what to do. Every time I call I’m afraid they won’t answer anymore.'\u003ccite>Saber Askar, naturalized U.S. citizen, East Porterville\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’ve always wanted them to come here, but I was waiting for the right time. I wanted to find a good job and get a house. Then the war started. I want them out; I want to save them. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s been two years now, and nobody stops killing. There is no gas, no electricity; they don’t have enough food to eat. My middle daughter, I think she’s about to lose her mind. She’s very skinny. She cannot eat. She’s scared because she hears the bombing. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I try to explain to them, “Just give me a little time and then you guys are going to be here, then you guys are going to be OK.” They make me bleed inside when I talk to them. I don’t know what to do. Every time I call I’m afraid they won’t answer anymore. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I want to die in this country because I love this country, but what’s happening with the new president here, it shocked me bad. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I was thinking my kids were going to come here and have a safe life, a normal life, and go to school and have a future. But they’re not welcome here. There’s no place for my kids — not in Yemen, not here. So where can we go? I really feel insulted. Even if you’re an American citizen, you’re nothing. Nothing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Learn more about Askar’s story on \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/21/for-a-longtime-citizen-the-trump-age-brings-uncertainty/\">The California Report\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11379342\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11379342\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Roya Soleimani was photographed in her home in San Francisco on March 1, 2017. Her parents came to the U.S. from Iran in the 1970s to earn their doctorate degrees at the University of the Pacific and weren't able to return because of the Iranian Revolution.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roya Soleimani was photographed in her home in San Francisco on March 1, 2017. Her parents came to the U.S. from Iran in the 1970s to earn their doctorate degrees at the University of the Pacific and weren't able to return home because of the Iranian Revolution. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Roya\">\u003c/a>Roya Soleimani, child of immigrants, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy parents' immigration story is part of the vibrant mosaic and fabric of the United States. They came from Iran on student visas to attend the University of the Pacific in Stockton for their doctoral education in sociology and psychology. They finished in 1979, and with the revolution chaotically unfolding in Iran, they weren't able to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have called Stockton home since 1973, and have now spent more of their lives here. With their Ph.D.s in hand, and no option to return to Iran, they made the most of their situation. They could not find work in their respective fields because of the hostage crisis in Iran and the perception people have about them for being Iranian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My dad turned his talent of sewing into a business and has owned a tailor shop since 1982. My mom turned her education and passion for children into her life's work, and transformed a humble home daycare into a preschool, kindergarten and child-care center, with nearly 50 kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have been proud citizens since the '90s and have voted in every election since they could vote. They are active in their community, members of Rotary, and raised my sister and I with pride for our hyphenated Iranian-American identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was born and raised in Stockton, and have held both sides of my cultural identity with so much pride. I speak Persian fluently, and happily balanced the rich culture, food, music and traditions of my parents’ homeland with my civic service, activism and patriotic nature of my American identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418551\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11418551 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Daniel Maher was photographed at the Ecology Center in Berkeley on April 20, 2017. He supervises the center's fleet of trucks and trains at risk youth in green collar jobs.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Maher was photographed at the Ecology Center in Berkeley on April 20, 2017. He supervises the center's fleet of trucks and trains at-risk youth in green-collar jobs. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Daniel\">\u003c/a>Daniel Maher, former green-card holder, Hayward\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When I was 3 years old, my family emigrated from Macau (a former Portuguese colony that’s now a Chinese autonomous region) to the United States. We were in Union City for a brief period. My grandparents operated a flower-growing business there, and we would stay with them, help with the family business, and \u003c/span>then,\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> the family business kind of picked up and left and moved to San Jose.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I usually associated with certain individuals that really were misfits, I don't know why. Probably because I kept moving a lot in a short period of time. It was hard to make friends right away. Misfits are there for one reason or another. Maybe they were looked at as nerds as well. A lot of my friends were in gifted education, so we would bounce ideas all the time, good or bad, I’m not going to say.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The chance of being deported is on my mind all the time. I have all these plans, a lot of things that I want to get done. Is it going to be interrupted?'\u003ccite>Daniel Maher, former green-card holder, Hayward\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I’d just about turned 21 and I still had the same friends but they were off doing something else. I knew what they were doing. They had planned to rob drug dealers, and they had somebody else who was supposed to go with them. That person was unable to make it, so rather than scrap their plans they asked me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(Daniel was arrested and served five years for felony armed robbery and attempted kidnapping; his green card was revoked and his future in the U.S. is uncertain because \u003c/em>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cem>Trump has vowed to deport violent\u003c/em> felons.)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I understand the underlying reasoning behind deporting violent felons, and I'm really not opposed to it. I've had a very short period of my life where I was actually that person who was convicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then I've been a completely different person. So does one moment in time justify changing a person's life for the long term or can we change it for the better? Can we give that person a second chance because he's shown that he's changed? I'm all for that second chance, but I would certainly understand if they wouldn't allow it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chance of being deported is on my mind all the time. I have all these plans, a lot of things that I want to get done. Is it going to be interrupted?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Learn more about Maher’s story on \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/20/should-a-mistake-made-long-ago-doom-this-immigrants-future\">The California Report\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380557\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11380557\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"A British man married his Mexican-American partner after a drawn-out process in which he briefly became undocumented.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-520x520.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A British man married his Mexican-American partner after a drawn-out process in which he briefly became undocumented. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of anonymous)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Anonymous\">\u003c/a>Anonymous, permanent resident, San Francisco Bay Area\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI entered on a tourist visa and have since married my Mexican-American partner and gained permanent residency after a very stressful, drawn-out, expensive application starting in NYC and now ending in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I became undocumented as I \"overstayed\" my 90-day tourist visa while awaiting paperwork (from the UK) that I was told I'd need by the Office of the City Clerk in NYC, delaying our wedding. The irony being that the paperwork wasn't needed after all. But because we followed the rules we were told by a government official, I then became classed as undocumented (\"illegal\").\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you think Trump's new executive actions/orders could impact your family?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy same-sex marriage could be reneged by the new administration and/or I could get deported due to being undocumented briefly before marrying, and my husband would then face the same sorts of issues trying to immigrate to the UK with me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11379343\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11379343\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Nicole Fernandez was photographed at home in San Mateo on Feb. 28, 2017. Her parents and grandparents immigrated to the U.S. from Pakistan in the 1980s.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicole Fernandez was photographed at home in San Mateo on Feb. 28, 2017. Her parents and grandparents immigrated to the U.S. from Pakistan in the 1980s. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Nicole\">\u003c/a>Nicole Fernandez, child of immigrants, San Mateo\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy parents immigrated from Karachi, Pakistan, with visas the year before I was born in 1982.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I really feel like being the child of immigrants shaped who I became. My parents and grandparents are literally the American Dream. They came over with nothing, minimal support from family. Until I was 30, I lived in a multigenerational home with my parents and grandparents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My parents worked really hard. My dad's a welder. He works with his hands. My mom's in the medical industry. Medical care. She works for Sutter. I'm just so proud of what they've been able to achieve considering their very humble roots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My grandparents are in their 80s. They live in Palo Alto and you won't meet anyone who loves this country more than my parents and grandparents. They haven't had it easy. They taught us a lot about hard work and giving back to our nation.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>Immigration still affects my family. I have many family members, cousins, second cousins who immigrated illegally. They now are all citizens and they are raising their children in this country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where we are nationally, I fear that more people are going to be going underground and as a society, we're not going to be benefiting from the beautiful diversity that immigration brings because so many people are going to be afraid to leave their homes or will self-deport back to their country of origin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11379347\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11379347\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Enrique Yarce was photographed on March 1, 2017, at Santa Rosa Junior College, where he is a student and activist. His parents brought him to the U.S. from Mexico when he was 3 years old.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Enrique Yarce Martinez was photographed on March 1, 2017, at Santa Rosa Junior College, where he is a student and activist. His parents brought him to the U.S. from Mexico when he was 3 years old. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Enrique\">\u003c/a>Enrique Yarce Martinez, DACA recipient, Santa Rosa\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nWe came through border checks (from Mexico). I was in the trunk, for part of the journey, and then the back, covered with a blanket. My parents say it's a miracle that the patroller didn't see me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am DACA, so, slightly less illegal, I've heard. I saw a really good play in Santa Rosa, and they were talking about that, and they put it really well, because DACA isn't really a path to citizenship, like a lot of people think. It's like $500 every two years for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We're at risk for being deported. I've lived here 19 years of my life in this country. I'm an American. If I were to be deported, it'd be such a culture shock. I love Mexico. From what I hear, obviously the government has a lot of issues, but the country's beautiful, but still, I wouldn't feel the same. This is my home, it always has been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I always internalized this part of my identity for a very long time, because it's scary to think about. It's scary because it's very real. I remember one time my dad was trying to tell us, my mom and I, to say we're Chilean or something, because Mexico's having a lot of attention, with all the immigration and stuff.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'... with a child and everything, they were doing crime scene cleanups, and cleaning offices, and just anything they could do to get money. You can get two tacos for $1 at Jack in the Box, and we would just eat that, a lot. I still like it.'\u003ccite>Enrique Yarce Martinez, DACA recipient, Santa Rosa\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>My mom was like, \"No, I'm proud of being a Mexican. I'm not going to hide from that.\" Yeah, I didn't really know yet, but I felt that way. Later, as I got older, I think about that a lot, and that was really important to me — how my mom stood up like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm proud of who I am, and my identity is complicated, but it's still who I am, and it's made me into the person I am.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you think Trump's new executive actions/orders could impact your family?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIt's very uncertain. I know it's taken me awhile to finally feel like I can go to school and continue my education. I want to be a social worker, my major is sociology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was always interested in activism, community organizing. I do that stuff, I love it — it's my life. I want to continue to do that, I want to continue to help people, so it just feels ... I feel really paralyzed a lot of the times, because I don't know if all my work will just go down the drain, you know?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Same with my parents, we were homeless when we first moved here, and that was rough, but they still managed to get out of that, I don't even know how.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's incredible, with a child and everything, they were doing crime scene cleanups, and cleaning offices, and just anything they could do to get money. You can get two tacos for $1 at Jack in the Box, and we would just eat that, a lot. I still like it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm worried about my parents. I've talked to my mom about it, what it's like for her to not really have an identity in this country. She doesn't have any sort of identification. She's always felt, kind of, trapped. They live in Lake County, and there's not a lot of people of color at all, especially where we live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We're just here, trying to live our lives. We're human like everyone else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I remember this one time, I was watching a video about some lawyers on United Way and this woman at the end was like, \"I know things are hard right now. I know that it seems really bleak, but, we can do this. We can win. We can improve our lives. …\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I cried so much, I didn't even know ... I needed to hear that, but I really did because that stuff was really getting to me. Just the internalization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I've gotten messages because I comment on things, and I'm like, \"You're wrong, you know, I'm not a demon.\" Then people will message me, and threaten to call ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) or whatever, and I'm just like, \"OK.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's a lot of hate, and that's really scary to me — that people would hate me just because I was brought here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380709\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11380709\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Janet del Mundo, far right, with her mom and sister in 1987. Del Mundo's grandfather fought for the U.S. in WW2, earning him U.S. citizenship. He was able to petition for his children, including del Mundo's mom.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-1920x1439.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janet del Mundo, far right, with her mom and sister in 1987. Del Mundo's grandfather fought for the U.S. in World War II, earning him U.S. citizenship. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Janet del Mundo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Janet\">\u003c/a>Janet del Mundo, naturalized U.S. citizen, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy grandfather was in the Philippine Navy during WWII and fought on the side of the Americans. Because of this, he was granted U.S. citizenship and was able to petition for his children, including my mother.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nHow do you think Trump's new executive actions/orders could impact your family?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI am fortunate enough to have naturalized legally through a family petition. However, I have many friends and family members who don't have the same opportunities. It's unfair and it dishonors the history of this country, which was, in fact, built by immigrants. Trump's policies will divide families and make us weaker as a nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What does growing up in an immigrant family in the U.S. mean to you?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>For me, growing up in an immigrant family in the U.S. means courage, hard work and sacrifice. My mom left behind her home and built up a life from scratch, at one point working two jobs, all to give her children a better life. It's kind of a cliche to say \"the American Dream,\" but that's really what this country is built on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418771\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418771\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut-800x938.jpg\" alt=\"Olivia and her husband walk together after their civil ceremony at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, December 2016. They wanted to get married and start Olivia's application for legal status before President Trump took office.\" width=\"800\" height=\"938\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut-800x938.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut-160x188.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut-1020x1196.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut-1180x1383.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut-960x1126.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut-240x281.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut-375x440.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut-520x610.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olivia and her husband walk together after their civil ceremony at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, December 2016. They wanted to get married and start Olivia's application for legal status before President Trump took office. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Olivia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia*, DACA recipient, San Francisco Bay Area\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI'm originally from Mexico. The whole entire family came here in 1999 and we settled down in San Jose. I started fifth grade I believe when we just arrived. And we have been in San Jose ever since. We call it our home. I live in San Francisco now; we've always been in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was finally going to have the wedding that I had always envisioned (in fall 2017), but then Nov. 8 (Trump’s election) happened and I panicked because I didn't know what was going to be my fate and that of my brother in this country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My birthday is Nov. 17, so that was probably the worst birthday I've ever had. I was pretty depressed. My boyfriend tried cheering me up, but I was just bummed. I didn't know what was going to happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's just one thing after the other. It's just unbelievable. There's so much uncertainty and it makes you feel so helpless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You have to sit back and wait and watch and see what happens. It's not a nice way to live, to have to turn on the TV or have to open up social media or have to follow a newspaper and read that these things are happening. There is no more -- there isn't protection for people with DACA. There just isn't.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I never pressured him to marry because I didn't need it. You know I was OK. I don't need to travel outside of the States. I have my immediate family here so I don't have anything kind of holding me back in Mexico. This is my life. I was OK with staying here being like in a cage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>*Olivia isn’t her real name; she asked to remain anonymous out of fear of deportation. Learn more about Olivia’s story on \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/12/dreamer-sees-path-to-escape-immigration-limbo/\">The California Report\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11379348\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11379348\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Erika Lee was photographed at Lowell High School in San Francisco, where she is a student, on March 6, 2017. Her parents and grandparents immigrated from South Korea in 1991.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erika Lee was photographed at Lowell High School in San Francisco, where she is a student, on March 6, 2017. Her parents and grandparents emigrated from South Korea in 1991. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Erika\">\u003c/a>Erika Lee, child of immigrants, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nOn my dad’s side, my grandpa, his wife and three kids decided to emigrate out of South Korea in 1991 so that they could have a better future. My dad came with his older and younger sisters, and a few months later, my grandparents came and they bought a house. We still live in the same house today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My mom’s side is from North Korea. My great-grandparents were civilians affected by the Korean War in 1950. They had to keep moving south, which was safer for the family. So they went to a city in South Korea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They didn’t have enough money so they decided to move to the United States in 1982, as one big family, for a better life and to get a better education. They migrated to Bay Farm Island (in Alameda), where all the kids went to school and graduated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as time went by, my grandpa wanted to move to a place near his job so the whole family moved to San Leandro, where my mom and dad met and married. They lived there for about three years with me, and then my family moved to my dad’s parents’ house in S.F. (that's because of a Korean tradition in which the eldest son and his family live with their parents).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is how my family migrated to America. My family was part of the migration stream: Lots of people were moving to the United States because of the opportunities to have better lives and wealth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380844\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11380844\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Judy Christopher emigrated from Canada to the U.S. decades ago. She got citizenship last year. Here she is with her daughter.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Judy Christopher emigrated from Canada to the U.S. She got citizenship last year. She is pictured here with her daughter, Loha. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Judy Christopher)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Judy\">\u003c/a>Judy Christopher, naturalized U.S. citizen, Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI came on a tourist visa from Canada. Clearly moving. Two suitcases filled with personal belongings, important papers, photo albums, and with my cat and dog, on a one-way flight from Toronto to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overstayed my visa. Applied for permanent resident status after marrying an American. Was waved through at customs after secondary screening with a \"looks like you are moving — don't let us catch you working\" warning. White privilege!\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Overstayed my visa. Applied for permanent resident status after marrying an American. Was waved through at customs after secondary screening with a 'looks like you are moving — don't let us catch you working' warning. White privilege!'\u003ccite>Judy Christopher, naturalized U.S. citizen, Oakland\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I worked for cash cleaning houses. I used the medical system to have my son without cost to me. And everyone kept saying, \"Oh, it's different with you.\" The only difference was my skin color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you think Trump's new executive actions/orders could impact your family?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI got my citizenship a month before the election so I could vote against Trump. While I'm not worried about anyone in my family being deported (my three kids were born here), I am worried about other families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump's \"victory\" will impact my family in that we will become more resolved resisters and more active in civil society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380713\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 604px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11380713\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SMostavi-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Sara Mostafavi, an Iranian-American immigration lawyer, on a visit to Morocco.\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SMostavi-qut.jpg 604w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SMostavi-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SMostavi-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SMostavi-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SMostavi-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sara Mostafavi, an Iranian-American immigration lawyer, on a visit to Morocco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sara Mostafavi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Sara\">\u003c/a>Sara Mostafavi, dual Iranian-U.S. citizen, Danville\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI am an Iranian-American dual national by virtue of having been born here and having parents that are Iranian citizens. I am also an immigration attorney who represents many clients from Iran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new executive order has the effect of freezing travel between Iran and the U.S. for anyone who is not a U.S. citizen \u003cem>(Editor’s note: The ban is currently being challenged in court and has been stayed)\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My clients are scared, worried, anxious, and are separated from loved ones. They have PTSD from the post-9/11 immigration horror stories and they are reliving those moments again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have been playing part-attorney, part-therapist and part-fortune teller (without the benefit of a functioning crystal ball) when speaking to family, friends, community members and clients about the reverberations of this (Trump’s) executive order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380779\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11380779\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych-800x361.png\" alt=\"Sarah Rao with her parents at SeaWorld San Diego. Today, Rao, an 18-year-old high school senior, reflects on her dual identities.\" width=\"800\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych-800x361.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych-160x72.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych-1020x461.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych-1180x533.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych-960x434.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych-240x108.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych-375x169.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych-520x235.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych.png 1590w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarah Rao an 18-year-old high school senior, reflects on her dual identities. Right, with her parents at SeaWorld San Diego as a kid. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sarah Rao)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Saradha\">\u003c/a>Saradha (Sarah) Rao, child of immigrants, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy parents (from India) married in their 20s and moved here once my father was awarded an H-1B visa. I was born a year later. My father continued his work for the next 10 years working by contract with companies that would endorse the extensions for his stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 2012, my mother became a U.S. citizen and my father, later the next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you think Trump's new executive actions/orders could impact your family?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>My family is currently low income and dependent on welfare. I am also a student who is about to enter college, so we are extremely vulnerable to any of his actions, financially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What does growing up in an immigrant family in the U.S. mean to you?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nGrowing up in an immigrant family is definitely complicated. It's comparable to a balancing act. You have such direct roots to your parents' culture but also feel so much pressure to assimilate. To me it's been a lot about self-discovery. As a young child I equally expressed both halves of me, Indian and American, without shame or discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'So growing up in an immigrant family means self-discovery and place-finding for me. No, being an immigrant or a first-generation citizen should not be defining. But it does mean something in who you are and what you bring to the table.'\u003ccite>Saradha (Sarah) Rao, child of immigrants, San Francisco\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>As I grew older and I became more self-conscious and experienced bits of racism and xenophobia, I started to try to suppress my heritage. If I showed any interest, it was only at home around my parents. Outside of the house, I'd be utterly embarrassed at any association with India unless it was from another's praise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am a senior in high school and am just about to graduate. In high school, I was lucky to have found an environment that is accepting, and peers who have embraced me, and diversity in general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last four years, I've truly come to love and appreciate the complex relationship between my identity and my heritage. I constantly research online and ask my parents questions. In this time, I have also developed a nationalistic pride equal to that I feel for America, although I recognize that both have a long way to go before either are perfect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So growing up in an immigrant family means self-discovery and place-finding for me. No, being an immigrant or a first-generation citizen should not be defining. But it does mean something in who you are and what you bring to the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It can be a struggle to balance the societal pressures and views of your family's origin and your cultural ties, but sooner or later you figure out that you don't have to compromise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11419141\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11419141\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut-800x475.jpg\" alt=\"Sergio Herrera's parents came from El Salvador and Mexico. Herrera, a high school student in San Francisco, is pictured center in each photo with his mom, Maria, dad, Sergio, and brother, Joshua.\" width=\"800\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut-800x475.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut-160x95.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut-1020x605.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut-1180x700.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut-960x570.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut-240x142.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut-375x222.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut-520x308.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sergio Herrera's parents came from El Salvador and Mexico. Herrera, a high school student in San Francisco, is pictured center in each photo with his mom, Maria, dad, Sergio, and brother, Joshua. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sergio Herrera)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sergio Herrera, child of immigrants, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy family's migration starts from two Latin American countries, Mexico and El Salvador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My dad was born in Mexico and migrated to America at 18 to find a way to support his poor family back in Mexico, who were living in a hut. He knew he wouldn't be able to support them in Mexico where jobs are really low-paying, so he decided to take a risk that millions of people have taken: jump the border in order to have a better life and higher-paying jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Obviously, he had to face major obstacles since he entered the country illegally. He had to survive a two-week trip from his hometown to the border fence. He would then have to take another 24 hours to get through the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His goal was San Francisco since he had friends there, and after a long trip he made it. Eventually, he was able to get his green card and his citizenship, and save enough money for his family back home to build a house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My mother was born in El Salvador and immigrated legally by plane at age 25. Her parents were able to apply for a green card before she traveled to the United States and her green card was granted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main reason for her migration was the fact that there was a civil war going on in El Salvador. She knew no one and basically had to start from scratch. Luckily, after about two years, her sister arrived in San Francisco and they were able to help each other out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing up in an immigrant family makes me feel fortunate that I had the opportunities to experience different cultures. It also meant that my family was different in a sense that we ate different meals than most of my friends: While they were eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch, me and my brother were eating tortillas with beans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also made me want to work harder knowing that my parents went through a hard time coming to the United States for them and their kids to have a better future. They did their part, so now it’s my turn to do my part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11379344\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11379344\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Maximilian Tiao, photographed at Lowell High School in San Francisco on March 6, 2017. He is a member of Lowell's track and field team; his parents immigrated from South Korea.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maximilian Tiao, photographed at Lowell High School in San Francisco on March 6, 2017. He is a member of Lowell's track and field team. His parents emigrated from South Korea. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Max\">\u003c/a>Maximilian Tiao, child of immigrants, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy parents immigrated by plane from South Korea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both my grandparents (who are originally from China) and my parents didn't receive such a high education. They didn't have such a high income so, when my parents came to the United States, they really emphasized the fact. They're like: \"Oh, our next generation has to take care of themselves and be able to establish an education — for even their next generation as well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They came to San Francisco particularly because they knew that, besides being close to South Korea, this place has innovation. This new place gave them an awesome opportunity to be able to do jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I believe that Trump's new executive actions will probably not affect my family since they’re all naturalized as U.S. citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But anything can happen, especially with one of Trump's executive orders halting funding of sanctuary cities like San Francisco \u003cem>(Editor’s note: San Francisco and Santa Clara counties have filed lawsuits challenging any possible reductions in funding)\u003c/em>. I don't believe that this will affect my family specifically, but it can affect those around — especially my friends at Lowell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380842\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 384px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11380842 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RobertoBurgos-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Roberto Burgos' family emigrated from Panama.\" width=\"384\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RobertoBurgos-qut.jpg 384w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RobertoBurgos-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RobertoBurgos-qut-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RobertoBurgos-qut-375x500.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roberto Burgos' family emigrated from Panama. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Roberto Burgos)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Roberto\">\u003c/a>Roberto Burgos, naturalized U.S. citizen, Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy mother was one of many Panamanians working for USAID in Panama. During the height of Manual Noriega's dictatorship, the U.S. granted visas to some Panamanian employees, my mother being one. She already had a sister living in San Francisco, so, after much preparations, and as the country's safety deteriorated, we flew in on December 1988.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you think Trump's new executive actions/orders could impact your family?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI don't know, and that is a problem. I feel that me and my family are pretty much established in the U.S., and that, as of today, the actions Trump has taken will not affect us directly, I feel uncertain about actions he may take in the future that could. I have a nagging feeling that it is very possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380848\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11380848 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EnriqueDiaz-qut-160x290.jpg\" alt=\"Enrique Diaz, Gilroy.\" width=\"160\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EnriqueDiaz-qut-160x290.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EnriqueDiaz-qut-240x436.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EnriqueDiaz-qut-375x681.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EnriqueDiaz-qut-520x944.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EnriqueDiaz-qut.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Enrique Diaz, Gilroy. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Enrique Diaz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Enriqued\">\u003c/a>Enrique Diaz, naturalized U.S. citizen, Gilroy\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>How did your family enter the U.S.?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>Illegally initially -> green card -> citizenship -> 4 siblings with 4 year university degrees!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you think Trump's new executive actions/orders could impact your family?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>Fear/anxiety/uncertainty among those undocumented and not appreciated for those that are now documented. \u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380917\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11380917 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut-160x240.jpg\" alt=\"Elizabeth Parrott, Lafayette.\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut-240x360.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut-375x563.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut-520x780.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizabeth Parrott, Lafayette. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Elizabeth Parrott)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Elizabeth\">\u003c/a>Elizabeth Parrott, child of immigrants, Lafayette\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>How did your family enter the U.S.?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>My mother was an au pair for a family in Southern California, and my dad just came over on a work visa.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>How do you think Trump's new executive actions/orders could impact your family?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>While my parents have become citizens, and my sisters and I were all born here, I believe the executive actions will lead to profiling (similar to what occurred in Arizona), of all Latinos and people who simply look Mexican. I believe that this type of profiling is a fundamental violation of my rights as a citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380852\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11380852\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Angelica Salceda, Firebaugh\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-1180x1180.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-960x960.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-520x520.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-150x150.jpg 150w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut.jpg 1836w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angelica Salceda with her niece, Sophia Marie Salceda, in Chowchilla. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Angelica Salceda)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Angelica\">\u003c/a>Angelica Salceda, child of immigrants, Firebaugh (Fresno County)\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy mom came on a travel visa in the 1980s and extended her stay. She later become a LPR (lawful permanent resident). But many other family members came here undocumented and continue to lack status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you think Trump's new executive actions/orders could impact your family?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>For undocumented and LPR family members, I fear that any encounter with law enforcement may result in grave immigration consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The interviews were edited for clarity and length.\u003c/em> \u003cem>Sasha Khokha, Ryan Levi, Vanessa Rancano and Julie Small contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>*This story has been corrected to reflect the number of green cards is 140,000, not 150,000 as previously reported.\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Want to share your immigration story? Complete our form:\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\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>[ImmigrationForm]\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11295516/photos-the-faces-of-californias-immigrant-story","authors":["11310","11328"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_1169","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_20226","news_1323","news_20415","news_20526","news_17708","news_18775","news_17041","news_20467","news_20529","news_244"],"featImg":"news_11379345","label":"news_72"},"news_11415206":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11415206","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11415206","score":null,"sort":[1492547024000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"trumps-new-order-targets-visa-program-for-skilled-workers","title":"Trump's New Order Targets Visa Program for Skilled Workers","publishDate":1492547024,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>President Trump hopes to revive the economic populism that helped drive his election campaign, signing an order Tuesday in politically important Wisconsin to tighten rules on technology companies bringing in highly skilled foreign workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump toured the headquarters of tool manufacturer Snap-on Inc., and then signed an executive order aimed at curbing what his administration says are hiring abuses in a visa program used by U.S. technology companies. Dubbed \"Buy American, Hire American,\" the directive follows a series of recent Trump reversals on economic policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president is targeting the H-1B visa program, which the White House says undercuts U.S. workers by bringing in large numbers of cheaper foreign workers, driving down wages. The tech industry has argued that the H-1B program is needed because it encourages students to stay in the U.S. after getting degrees in high-tech specialties — and companies can't always find enough American workers with the skills they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new order directs U.S. agencies to propose rules to prevent immigration fraud and abuse in the program. They would also be asked to offer changes so that H-1B visas are awarded to the \"most-skilled or highest-paid applicants,\" said administration officials, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity despite the president's frequent criticism of the use of anonymous sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"rnbNLNkOTKhMn5Vs1Euc2XZ84kqUiysR\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials said the order also seeks to strengthen requirements that American-made products be used in certain federal construction projects, as well as in various federal grant-funded transportation projects. The Commerce secretary will review how to close loopholes in existing rules and provide recommendations to the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the \"Buy American\" provisions may run afoul of free-trade agreements, the order specifically asks the secretary to review waivers of these rules in free-trade agreements. The waivers could be renegotiated or revoked.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What is an H1-B visa and how does it work?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The H-1B program is open to a broad range of occupations, including architects, professors and even fashion models. It's meant for jobs requiring specialty skills that cannot be filled by a U.S. worker. Many of these jobs happen to be in tech. According to the Labor Department, the top three H-1B occupations are computer systems analysts, application software developers and computer programmers — and those three account for roughly half of the department's H-1B certifications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the program is capped at 85,000 new H-1B visas each year, more than 100,000 workers are allowed in annually because of exemptions for university-related positions. Recipients can stay up to six years. Demand is usually higher than the cap, so the government holds an annual lottery. This year, the government received nearly 200,000 applications -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/H-1B-visa-applications-drop-for-first-time-in-11078751.php\" target=\"_blank\">though that number marks a large decrease in applications for the first time in years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics say the program has been hijacked by staffing companies that use the visas to recruit foreigners — often from India — who will work for less than Americans. The staffing companies then sell their services to corporate clients. Employers, including Walt Disney World and the University of California, San Francisco, have laid off tech employees and replaced them with H-1B visa holders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The H-1B visa program is commonly discussed as being for when employers have a labor shortage,\" Daniel Costa, director of immigration law and policy research at the Economic Policy Institute, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/04/17/524422344/new-trump-order-extends-buy-american-and-hire-american-rules\" target=\"_blank\">told NPR\u003c/a>. \"The reality of it is that employers are not required to recruit and try to hire U.S. workers before they hire an H-1B worker. The latest data that I've seen showed that 80 percent of the H-1Bs who were coming in came in below the local average wage.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Potential changes could be administrative or legislative and could include higher fees for the visas, changing the wage scale for the program or other initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Campaign promises\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Trump campaigned on populist promises to stand up to China, which he contended was manipulating its currency and stealing American jobs, and to eliminate the Export-Import Bank, which he billed as wasteful subsidy. Trump reversed himself on both positions in interviews last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while he has long pledged to support American goods and workers, his own business record is mixed. Many Trump-branded products, like clothing, are made overseas. His businesses have also hired foreign workers, including on H2-B visas at his Florida club, \u003ca href=\"http://www.mypalmbeachpost.com/business/trump-again-hires-foreign-workers-for-mar-lago-little-change-pay/NtHozFcFMZXQWVkErxSdhM/\" target=\"_blank\">according to the Palm Beach Post\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump said at one point during the presidential campaign that he supported high-skilled visas, and then said he opposed the program. At one debate, he said: \"It's very bad for our workers and it's unfair for our workers. And we should end it.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"President Trump announced a 'Buy American, Hire American' executive order today.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1492557128,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":796},"headData":{"title":"Trump's New Order Targets Visa Program for Skilled Workers | KQED","description":"President Trump announced a 'Buy American, Hire American' executive order today.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Trump's New Order Targets Visa Program for Skilled Workers","datePublished":"2017-04-18T20:23:44.000Z","dateModified":"2017-04-18T23:12:08.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11415206 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11415206","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/18/trumps-new-order-targets-visa-program-for-skilled-workers/","disqusTitle":"Trump's New Order Targets Visa Program for Skilled Workers","nprByline":"Catherine Lucey and Scott Bauer\u003cbr> Associated Press","path":"/news/11415206/trumps-new-order-targets-visa-program-for-skilled-workers","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>President Trump hopes to revive the economic populism that helped drive his election campaign, signing an order Tuesday in politically important Wisconsin to tighten rules on technology companies bringing in highly skilled foreign workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump toured the headquarters of tool manufacturer Snap-on Inc., and then signed an executive order aimed at curbing what his administration says are hiring abuses in a visa program used by U.S. technology companies. Dubbed \"Buy American, Hire American,\" the directive follows a series of recent Trump reversals on economic policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president is targeting the H-1B visa program, which the White House says undercuts U.S. workers by bringing in large numbers of cheaper foreign workers, driving down wages. The tech industry has argued that the H-1B program is needed because it encourages students to stay in the U.S. after getting degrees in high-tech specialties — and companies can't always find enough American workers with the skills they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new order directs U.S. agencies to propose rules to prevent immigration fraud and abuse in the program. They would also be asked to offer changes so that H-1B visas are awarded to the \"most-skilled or highest-paid applicants,\" said administration officials, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity despite the president's frequent criticism of the use of anonymous sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials said the order also seeks to strengthen requirements that American-made products be used in certain federal construction projects, as well as in various federal grant-funded transportation projects. The Commerce secretary will review how to close loopholes in existing rules and provide recommendations to the president.\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>While the \"Buy American\" provisions may run afoul of free-trade agreements, the order specifically asks the secretary to review waivers of these rules in free-trade agreements. The waivers could be renegotiated or revoked.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What is an H1-B visa and how does it work?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The H-1B program is open to a broad range of occupations, including architects, professors and even fashion models. It's meant for jobs requiring specialty skills that cannot be filled by a U.S. worker. Many of these jobs happen to be in tech. According to the Labor Department, the top three H-1B occupations are computer systems analysts, application software developers and computer programmers — and those three account for roughly half of the department's H-1B certifications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the program is capped at 85,000 new H-1B visas each year, more than 100,000 workers are allowed in annually because of exemptions for university-related positions. Recipients can stay up to six years. Demand is usually higher than the cap, so the government holds an annual lottery. This year, the government received nearly 200,000 applications -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/H-1B-visa-applications-drop-for-first-time-in-11078751.php\" target=\"_blank\">though that number marks a large decrease in applications for the first time in years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics say the program has been hijacked by staffing companies that use the visas to recruit foreigners — often from India — who will work for less than Americans. The staffing companies then sell their services to corporate clients. Employers, including Walt Disney World and the University of California, San Francisco, have laid off tech employees and replaced them with H-1B visa holders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The H-1B visa program is commonly discussed as being for when employers have a labor shortage,\" Daniel Costa, director of immigration law and policy research at the Economic Policy Institute, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/04/17/524422344/new-trump-order-extends-buy-american-and-hire-american-rules\" target=\"_blank\">told NPR\u003c/a>. \"The reality of it is that employers are not required to recruit and try to hire U.S. workers before they hire an H-1B worker. The latest data that I've seen showed that 80 percent of the H-1Bs who were coming in came in below the local average wage.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Potential changes could be administrative or legislative and could include higher fees for the visas, changing the wage scale for the program or other initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Campaign promises\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Trump campaigned on populist promises to stand up to China, which he contended was manipulating its currency and stealing American jobs, and to eliminate the Export-Import Bank, which he billed as wasteful subsidy. Trump reversed himself on both positions in interviews last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while he has long pledged to support American goods and workers, his own business record is mixed. Many Trump-branded products, like clothing, are made overseas. His businesses have also hired foreign workers, including on H2-B visas at his Florida club, \u003ca href=\"http://www.mypalmbeachpost.com/business/trump-again-hires-foreign-workers-for-mar-lago-little-change-pay/NtHozFcFMZXQWVkErxSdhM/\" target=\"_blank\">according to the Palm Beach Post\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump said at one point during the presidential campaign that he supported high-skilled visas, and then said he opposed the program. At one debate, he said: \"It's very bad for our workers and it's unfair for our workers. And we should end it.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11415206/trumps-new-order-targets-visa-program-for-skilled-workers","authors":["byline_news_11415206"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_1758","news_1169","news_8","news_13","news_248"],"tags":["news_1323","news_20526","news_17286"],"featImg":"news_11415211","label":"news_72"},"news_11338167":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11338167","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11338167","score":null,"sort":[1488357002000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"trump-may-weigh-in-on-h-1b-visas-but-major-reform-depends-on-congress","title":"Trump May Weigh in on H-1B Visas, But Major Reform Depends on Congress","publishDate":1488357002,"format":"image","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>President Trump has pushed aggressively against illegal immigration, while his specific plans for legal immigration — including the popular but troubled H-1B work visa — remain unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has said he wants to crack down on abuses and protect American workers, but it's Congress that holds the power to fundamentally reform the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Broken System\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For months last year, California lawmakers Darrell Issa and Zoe Lofgren tried to hash out a joint bipartisan bill to reform the H-1B visa, the popular program that lets thousands of highly skilled foreigners work in the U.S., particularly in tech jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as immigration reforms go, high-skilled immigration programs are some of the least controversial. The H-1B program covers many fields, but is especially known to benefit tech companies. Its description often invokes a recurring line about America's interest in attracting the world's \"best and brightest.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But H-1B also has elements known to be broken: A lottery decides who gets the visa; the demand has far eclipsed the quota; and options for permanent stay differ by country of origin. And the biggest complaint is that Indian IT companies like Wipro, Infosys and Tata have hijacked the system. They are three of the top H-1B employers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/517496648/517779845\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're taking the H-1B visas a real U.S. tech company needs,\" says Gary Shapiro, head of the Consumer Technology Association. \"And they're using them ... to basically replace American workers at a cheaper rate by having people come here temporarily, not paid well, not housed well, not on any way to becoming citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everyone loses under the system today,\" he says, \"so it's part of the reason we need an H-1B overhaul.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Efforts to do that kind of overhaul have been undertaken by federal legislators over recent years, but haven't progressed. The latest concerted effort came under President Barack Obama — but stalled in Congress, folded into a massive, broad immigration reform bill, Shapiro says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"President Obama meant well, but ... he had the chance and he lost it,\" he says. \"Now we have another chance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Attempted Joint Effort\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Lofgren is the top Democrat on the immigration subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee, where Issa is one of her Republican colleagues. Her district covers a chunk of Silicon Valley; his is in San Diego County. She is, by profession, an immigration lawyer. He is a former electronics executive with family members from Lebanon balancing lives in several countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We tried to work before the election with the ranking member on the subcommittee and she pulled out of it, preferring partisan politics,\" Issa says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We talked for probably six, seven months ... every day it was a new\" thing, says Lofgren. \"I tried to work with Darrell, but it's impossible to work with Darrell.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11338169\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11338169\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/gettyimages-457785174-37b8d050f4d5ab580deca4b967b285e0dd7691fe-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., says he's got the votes to pass his narrow H-1B bill in the House and hopes for support in the Senate.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., says he's got the votes to pass his narrow H-1B bill in the House and hopes for support in the Senate. \u003ccite>(Mark Wilson/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Each says the other kept moving the goal post or altering the bill. In the end, the two of them introduced separate bills. With Republicans controlling the majority, Issa's has more potential — at least he says he's got the votes to pass it in the House. Shapiro's CTA supports it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"\u003c/strong>This piece of legislation is small, it's focused, and it's highly bipartisan,\" Issa says, \"and that gives it an opportunity to break a logjam that has gone on for approaching two decades.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Dueling Bills\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Issa's bill is small indeed. Without reaching for changes to the quota or how the system operates, \u003ca href=\"https://issa.house.gov/news-room/press-releases/issa-introduces-bill-stop-outsourcing-american-jobs\" target=\"_blank\">Issa's legislation\u003c/a> — in simplest terms — raises the bar for companies with more than 15 percent of H-1B employees to \"attest\" that they could not hire Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, these \"H-1B-dependent\" companies have to certify this only if a foreigner displaces an American worker for a job that pays less than $60,000 — far less than an average tech wage. Under Issa's bill, the threshold would rise to $100,000 and holders of master's degrees would lose an exemption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Lofgren and other critics — which include \u003ca href=\"http://www.ieeeusa.org/communications/releases/2017/10617.asp\" target=\"_blank\">the engineering group IEEE-USA\u003c/a> — say that this won't do much. They argue companies have figured out how to game the so-called attestation process, and in a highly paid field of tech work, even the new wage threshold would allow for displacement of Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11338249\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11338249\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Lofgren-800x527.jpg\" alt=\"Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., says the H-1B program needs a broad reform, including changes to the lottery process that awards the visas.\" width=\"800\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Lofgren-800x527.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Lofgren-160x105.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Lofgren-1020x672.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Lofgren.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Lofgren-1180x777.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Lofgren-960x633.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Lofgren-240x158.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Lofgren-375x247.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Lofgren-520x343.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., says the H-1B program needs a broad reform, including changes to the lottery process that awards the visas. \u003ccite>(Alex Wong/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Some people think (attestation) works, but my observation is it doesn't work and it hasn't worked,\" Lofgren says. \"I think if we place all eggs in that basket, we're going to be disappointed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lofgren's \u003ca href=\"https://lofgren.house.gov/uploadedfiles/high_skilled_bill_sxs_and_analysis_-1-2017__final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">bill sweeps wider\u003c/a>. It proposes replacing the lottery process with a system that prioritizes the highest-paying companies. Then it goes beyond H-1B, suggesting changes to work-based immigration and other types of visas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Issa sees merit in Lofgren's bill — he says parts of it came from their joint effort. But, he says, the time for broader legislation is \u003cem>after \u003c/em>a narrow bill passes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I support comprehensive high-skilled reform,\" Issa says. \"But there's a difference between plugging a leak and building a better ship. ... In this particular structure of Republicans and Democrats, simplicity may be the best way to at least get a partial fix.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Presidential Power\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Issa's and Lofgren's bills aren't the only ones \u003ca href=\"http://www.computerworld.com/article/3159596/it-careers/new-senate-bill-seeks-sweeping-h-1b-changes.html\" target=\"_blank\">under consideration\u003c/a> in Congress. And Trump \u003cem>is \u003c/em>expected to weigh in on the matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A leaked \u003ca href=\"http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/30/technology/trump-h1b-visa-immigration-reform/?iid=EL\" target=\"_blank\">draft of his executive order\u003c/a> earlier this year took aim at H-1B and other work visas, but with few specifics. It recommended a review of the programs to ensure protections for American workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"1A1S0qJztrjWxNHvCNbrADUmrR7KZJhk\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The president made it clear when he was asked by [Apple CEO] Tim Cook and other tech leaders to put a priority on this that he would and they agreed with him,\" Issa says about Trump's \u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/us-trump-immigration-tech-idUSKBN14W1CZ\" target=\"_blank\">December meeting\u003c/a> with tech executives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White House spokesman Sean Spicer was asked about plans for legal immigration earlier this month. He \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/02/22/press-briefing-press-secretary-sean-spicer-2222017-14\" target=\"_blank\">replied that they would shape up\u003c/a>, but for now illegal immigration was a priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And ultimately, experts say that key elements of the program, including the number of the visas that get issued, are written into statute, meaning Congress holds the power to change them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"President Trump has said he wants to crack down on abuses and protect American workers. But it's Congress that holds the power to fundamentally reform the program, and work there is underway.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1488333212,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":31,"wordCount":1110},"headData":{"title":"Trump May Weigh in on H-1B Visas, But Major Reform Depends on Congress | KQED","description":"President Trump has said he wants to crack down on abuses and protect American workers. But it's Congress that holds the power to fundamentally reform the program, and work there is underway.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Trump May Weigh in on H-1B Visas, But Major Reform Depends on Congress","datePublished":"2017-03-01T08:30:02.000Z","dateModified":"2017-03-01T01:53:32.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11338167 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11338167","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/03/01/trump-may-weigh-in-on-h-1b-visas-but-major-reform-depends-on-congress/","disqusTitle":"Trump May Weigh in on H-1B Visas, But Major Reform Depends on Congress","source":"NPR","sourceUrl":"http://www.npr.org/","nprImageCredit":"Pablo Martinez Monsivais","nprByline":"Alina Selyukh","nprImageAgency":"AP","nprStoryId":"517496648","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=517496648&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/02/28/517496648/trump-may-weigh-in-on-h-1b-visas-but-major-reform-depends-on-congress?ft=nprml&f=517496648","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Tue, 28 Feb 2017 16:33:00 -0500","nprStoryDate":"Tue, 28 Feb 2017 13:15:00 -0500","nprLastModifiedDate":"Tue, 28 Feb 2017 14:44:44 -0500","path":"/news/11338167/trump-may-weigh-in-on-h-1b-visas-but-major-reform-depends-on-congress","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>President Trump has pushed aggressively against illegal immigration, while his specific plans for legal immigration — including the popular but troubled H-1B work visa — remain unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has said he wants to crack down on abuses and protect American workers, but it's Congress that holds the power to fundamentally reform the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Broken System\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For months last year, California lawmakers Darrell Issa and Zoe Lofgren tried to hash out a joint bipartisan bill to reform the H-1B visa, the popular program that lets thousands of highly skilled foreigners work in the U.S., particularly in tech jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as immigration reforms go, high-skilled immigration programs are some of the least controversial. The H-1B program covers many fields, but is especially known to benefit tech companies. Its description often invokes a recurring line about America's interest in attracting the world's \"best and brightest.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But H-1B also has elements known to be broken: A lottery decides who gets the visa; the demand has far eclipsed the quota; and options for permanent stay differ by country of origin. And the biggest complaint is that Indian IT companies like Wipro, Infosys and Tata have hijacked the system. They are three of the top H-1B employers.\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!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/517496648/517779845\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're taking the H-1B visas a real U.S. tech company needs,\" says Gary Shapiro, head of the Consumer Technology Association. \"And they're using them ... to basically replace American workers at a cheaper rate by having people come here temporarily, not paid well, not housed well, not on any way to becoming citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everyone loses under the system today,\" he says, \"so it's part of the reason we need an H-1B overhaul.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Efforts to do that kind of overhaul have been undertaken by federal legislators over recent years, but haven't progressed. The latest concerted effort came under President Barack Obama — but stalled in Congress, folded into a massive, broad immigration reform bill, Shapiro says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"President Obama meant well, but ... he had the chance and he lost it,\" he says. \"Now we have another chance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Attempted Joint Effort\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Lofgren is the top Democrat on the immigration subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee, where Issa is one of her Republican colleagues. Her district covers a chunk of Silicon Valley; his is in San Diego County. She is, by profession, an immigration lawyer. He is a former electronics executive with family members from Lebanon balancing lives in several countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We tried to work before the election with the ranking member on the subcommittee and she pulled out of it, preferring partisan politics,\" Issa says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We talked for probably six, seven months ... every day it was a new\" thing, says Lofgren. \"I tried to work with Darrell, but it's impossible to work with Darrell.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11338169\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11338169\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/gettyimages-457785174-37b8d050f4d5ab580deca4b967b285e0dd7691fe-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., says he's got the votes to pass his narrow H-1B bill in the House and hopes for support in the Senate.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., says he's got the votes to pass his narrow H-1B bill in the House and hopes for support in the Senate. \u003ccite>(Mark Wilson/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Each says the other kept moving the goal post or altering the bill. In the end, the two of them introduced separate bills. With Republicans controlling the majority, Issa's has more potential — at least he says he's got the votes to pass it in the House. Shapiro's CTA supports it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"\u003c/strong>This piece of legislation is small, it's focused, and it's highly bipartisan,\" Issa says, \"and that gives it an opportunity to break a logjam that has gone on for approaching two decades.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Dueling Bills\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Issa's bill is small indeed. Without reaching for changes to the quota or how the system operates, \u003ca href=\"https://issa.house.gov/news-room/press-releases/issa-introduces-bill-stop-outsourcing-american-jobs\" target=\"_blank\">Issa's legislation\u003c/a> — in simplest terms — raises the bar for companies with more than 15 percent of H-1B employees to \"attest\" that they could not hire Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, these \"H-1B-dependent\" companies have to certify this only if a foreigner displaces an American worker for a job that pays less than $60,000 — far less than an average tech wage. Under Issa's bill, the threshold would rise to $100,000 and holders of master's degrees would lose an exemption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Lofgren and other critics — which include \u003ca href=\"http://www.ieeeusa.org/communications/releases/2017/10617.asp\" target=\"_blank\">the engineering group IEEE-USA\u003c/a> — say that this won't do much. They argue companies have figured out how to game the so-called attestation process, and in a highly paid field of tech work, even the new wage threshold would allow for displacement of Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11338249\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11338249\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Lofgren-800x527.jpg\" alt=\"Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., says the H-1B program needs a broad reform, including changes to the lottery process that awards the visas.\" width=\"800\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Lofgren-800x527.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Lofgren-160x105.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Lofgren-1020x672.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Lofgren.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Lofgren-1180x777.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Lofgren-960x633.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Lofgren-240x158.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Lofgren-375x247.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Lofgren-520x343.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., says the H-1B program needs a broad reform, including changes to the lottery process that awards the visas. \u003ccite>(Alex Wong/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Some people think (attestation) works, but my observation is it doesn't work and it hasn't worked,\" Lofgren says. \"I think if we place all eggs in that basket, we're going to be disappointed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lofgren's \u003ca href=\"https://lofgren.house.gov/uploadedfiles/high_skilled_bill_sxs_and_analysis_-1-2017__final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">bill sweeps wider\u003c/a>. It proposes replacing the lottery process with a system that prioritizes the highest-paying companies. Then it goes beyond H-1B, suggesting changes to work-based immigration and other types of visas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Issa sees merit in Lofgren's bill — he says parts of it came from their joint effort. But, he says, the time for broader legislation is \u003cem>after \u003c/em>a narrow bill passes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I support comprehensive high-skilled reform,\" Issa says. \"But there's a difference between plugging a leak and building a better ship. ... In this particular structure of Republicans and Democrats, simplicity may be the best way to at least get a partial fix.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Presidential Power\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Issa's and Lofgren's bills aren't the only ones \u003ca href=\"http://www.computerworld.com/article/3159596/it-careers/new-senate-bill-seeks-sweeping-h-1b-changes.html\" target=\"_blank\">under consideration\u003c/a> in Congress. And Trump \u003cem>is \u003c/em>expected to weigh in on the matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A leaked \u003ca href=\"http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/30/technology/trump-h1b-visa-immigration-reform/?iid=EL\" target=\"_blank\">draft of his executive order\u003c/a> earlier this year took aim at H-1B and other work visas, but with few specifics. It recommended a review of the programs to ensure protections for American workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The president made it clear when he was asked by [Apple CEO] Tim Cook and other tech leaders to put a priority on this that he would and they agreed with him,\" Issa says about Trump's \u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/us-trump-immigration-tech-idUSKBN14W1CZ\" target=\"_blank\">December meeting\u003c/a> with tech executives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White House spokesman Sean Spicer was asked about plans for legal immigration earlier this month. He \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/02/22/press-briefing-press-secretary-sean-spicer-2222017-14\" target=\"_blank\">replied that they would shape up\u003c/a>, but for now illegal immigration was a priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And ultimately, experts say that key elements of the program, including the number of the visas that get issued, are written into statute, meaning Congress holds the power to change them.\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>Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11338167/trump-may-weigh-in-on-h-1b-visas-but-major-reform-depends-on-congress","authors":["byline_news_11338167"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_1758","news_1169","news_8","news_13","news_248"],"tags":["news_20059","news_1323","news_20526","news_17286","news_2013"],"affiliates":["news_253"],"featImg":"news_11338176","label":"source_news_11338167"},"news_11304045":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11304045","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11304045","score":null,"sort":[1486767451000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"pge-is-using-h-1b-visas-to-send-it-jobs-overseas","title":"PG&E Is Using H-1B Visas to Send IT Jobs Overseas","publishDate":1486767451,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Pacific Gas and Electric Co. is cutting some 70 IT jobs and sending them to a contractor based in India. This kind of outsourcing has become commonplace in the IT industry. It has been criticized for years, and there is a lot of talk in Washington, D.C., these days about how to slow it down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E is sending the jobs overseas as part of a larger restructuring plan to cut costs. The San Francisco Business Times first reported on how the offshoring of jobs to India \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2017/01/19/exclusive-pg-e-pcg-layoffs-india-tata.html\" target=\"_blank\">fits into the plan\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The focus is really on doing the right thing for our customers and the right thing for the business over the long term. 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The H-1B workers are going to learn the ropes for the IT jobs and then send those tasks to workers in India who are far cheaper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s knowledge transfer,” said Paul Almeida, president of the AFL-CIO's Department for Professional Employees, and a critic of the practice. “They’re just transferring the knowledge of the business to these foreign countries through these outsourcing firms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outsourcing firms used by companies like PG&E to offload IT jobs are mostly based in India and get thousands of H-1B visas for their workers. This shouldn’t happen, Almeida said. The visa is designed for high-skilled workers who can’t be found in the U.S., not people doing routine IT work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almeida said these outsourcers are abusing the H-1B system and undercutting American workers like those at PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When this was happening 10 years ago, it wasn’t as blatant,” Almeida said. “But it has gone on for so long. It’s become part of the business model.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E is far from the first to use a contractor that depends heavily on H-1B visas. Disney \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/14/us/judge-says-disney-didnt-violate-visa-laws-in-layoffs.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">has done it\u003c/a>. So has Toys R Us, other utilities like Southern California Edison, and recently a public university. UC San Francisco is \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/12/14/ucsf-losing-some-it-staff-to-outsourcing/\" target=\"_blank\">outsourcing IT jobs right now\u003c/a>. 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This kind of outsourcing has become commonplace in the IT industry. It has been criticized for years, and there is a lot of talk in Washington, D.C., these days about how to slow it down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E is sending the jobs overseas as part of a larger restructuring plan to cut costs. The San Francisco Business Times first reported on how the offshoring of jobs to India \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2017/01/19/exclusive-pg-e-pcg-layoffs-india-tata.html\" target=\"_blank\">fits into the plan\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The focus is really on doing the right thing for our customers and the right thing for the business over the long term. 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