Immigration Enforcement in CaliforniaImmigration Enforcement in California
California – with its 10 million immigrants – is ground zero in the current immigration debate. More people go through immigration court here than in any other state. And a growing number of detainees are held in local jails and private prisons in the Golden State, including children.
As the Trump Administration works to ramp up immigration detention and deportations, many California advocates and public officials are pushing back – while others are working closely with ICE. How will the political battle between California and the Trump Administration play out? And what are the legal and human consequences?
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When months of rain flooded the fields and made most of his usual work in February and March impossible, he struggled to earn enough to cover rent and allow his family “to live well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His family cut back on the amount and type of food they purchased. They rarely left the house, to save money on gas. They tried to buy only what they absolutely needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Months later, Villanueva still isn’t working his usual hours because rainy weather delayed planting some crops by at least two months. California set aside \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/inforesources/cdss-programs/immigration-services/immigrant-storm-services\">$95 million\u003c/a> in \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/inforesources/cdss-programs/immigration-services/immigrant-storm-services\">state funds\u003c/a> to help people like him \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2023/05/california-flooding-fund/\">who lost work\u003c/a> or experienced hardships due to storms and floods, but Villanueva told CalMatters in June he didn’t know how to access it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So many of us who work in the fields are undocumented,” he said in Spanish. “We who are the most affected receive the least. I would like there to be support for the undocumented workers — and not just those working in the fields.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Villanueva can’t receive unemployment insurance because he’s undocumented — one of about \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/immigrants-in-california/\">2.3 million Californians\u003c/a> whose immigration status bars them from receiving a variety of social safety net benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His predicament illustrates the gaps that remain in California’s safety net for undocumented immigrants despite a two-decade-long expansion of social and health services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Arturo Villanueva, Oxnard farmworker\"]‘So many of us who work in the fields are undocumented. We who are the most affected receive the least. I would like there to be support for the undocumented workers.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a major reversal since the 1990s, California has opened up government programs to undocumented residents more than any other state — issuing driver’s licenses, college scholarships, low-income tax credits, direct cash aid during the pandemic and now Medi-Cal health coverage. In 2025 California will be the first state to issue food stamps to undocumented immigrants, allowing those 55 and older to qualify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But budget realities are putting the brakes on other expansions that advocates want like a $330 million proposal to offer unemployment benefits to undocumented workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lucas Zucker, co-executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://causenow.org/\">Central Coast nonprofit CAUSE\u003c/a>, which advocates for working class and immigrant workers\u003cstrong>,\u003c/strong> said it can be a difficult hurdle to extend benefits because some Americans view immigrants primarily as a source of labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Providing someone a social safety net when they’re not able to work is almost counterintuitive to this racist and kind of exploitative way that we’ve been viewing immigrants in this country,” Zucker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955364\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11955364\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/CalMattersFarmworkers02.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a blue T-shirt walks through rows of lettuce crops in a field in Oxnard, California. The sky is gray above and farm equipment is seen in the background.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/CalMattersFarmworkers02.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/CalMattersFarmworkers02-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/CalMattersFarmworkers02-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/CalMattersFarmworkers02-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arturo Villanueva, 37, a tractor driver, walks through a lettuce field in Oxnard on July 2, 2023. \u003ccite>(Julie Leopo-Bermudez/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California has worked around limits in federal law that bar many immigrants — those with and without legal status — from social programs. That has meant building its own, state-funded programs during years of flush budget surpluses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this year, lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom had to plug a $31.5 billion deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has backed several program expansions including public health coverage for immigrants, which will total $2.6 billion annually. But he has said he wants to avoid cutting services in deficit years, so he \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2022/12/california-budget-deficit-safety-net/\">won’t commit\u003c/a> to further expanding programs unless the state has funds to sustain them long-term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal for an unemployment program for workers like Villanueva failed to gain funding in the state budget for the second year in a row. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB227\">A bill\u003c/a> to create the program at a cost of $330 million a year — not counting implementation costs — has passed the Senate and awaits a hearing in the Assembly Appropriations Committee. Newsom vetoed a similar measure last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Governor will weigh the merits of any bill that eventually reaches his desk,” Daniel Lopez, a spokesperson for Newsom, said in an email. “The state will continue to be a leader and uphold the dignity and respect of everyone who calls California home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics argue further expanding services to undocumented immigrants is financially unsustainable for the state.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Bill Essayli, a Riverside Republican, opposes the unemployment proposal, saying the state should instead spend its funds paying off the existing unemployment system’s $20 billion loan from the federal government, to avoid raising payroll taxes on businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to prioritize,” he said. “If you really care about getting people out of poverty, you’d help ease the burden on businesses so they can hire people and pay them living wages.”[aside postID=news_11946661 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/SB_277_SafetyNet-1020x680.jpg']Still, to advocates, some proposals are popular enough with the Democratic supermajority to seem inevitable. Nourish California, a food policy advocacy group, is pushing the state to open its food stamps program to all low-income undocumented immigrants, regardless of age, said Betzabel Estudillo, director of engagement at Nourish California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Legislature has been very supportive and so has the governor,” she said. “The question is about when.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s 1.1 million undocumented workers \u003ca href=\"https://clc.ucmerced.edu/sites/clc.ucmerced.edu/files/page/documents/essential_fairness.pdf\">make up 6%\u003c/a> of its labor force, according to UC Merced’s Community and Labor Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, undocumented immigrants paid an estimated $3.7 billion in state and local taxes, \u003ca href=\"https://immigrantdataca.org/about\">according to\u003c/a> USC’s California Immigrant Data Portal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, like the rest of the population, immigrant workers are aging, so they’ll increasingly need retirement support and health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a report this year UC Merced estimated 165,000 of \u003ca href=\"https://clc.ucmerced.edu/sites/clc.ucmerced.edu/files/page/documents/a_golden_age.pdf\">California’s undocumented workers\u003c/a> were older than 55 in 2019, the highest “since Mexican mass migration began in the 1970s.” Undocumented immigrants also make up \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1876285921003752#:~:text=Children%20in%20immigrant%20families%20are%20becoming%20a%20larger%20share%20of,of%20all%20children%20in%20poverty.&text=The%20vast%20majority%20of%20children,91%25)%20are%20US%20citizens.\">the largest share\u003c/a> of Californians without health insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leisy Abrego, chair of Chicana/o Studies at UCLA, said California has shown it can do more to help immigrants\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>in the absence of federal immigration policy reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s an economic need for immigrant labor, and California, they realize that that need is being met,” Abrego said. “And advocates are wanting to treat those people meeting those needs as human beings who also need health care, who also need educational opportunities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>California’s road to inclusion\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Before she qualified for full Medi-Cal coverage in 2022, Oliva Huerta had learned to live with little or sporadic medical care for a host of illnesses, including anxiety and pain linked to diabetes, high blood pressure and a cancer battle in the 1990s. Medi-Cal was paying for emergency care only.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 61, she’s unable to do much besides care for her four grandkids while their parents work in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when staff at \u003ca href=\"https://locator.lacounty.gov/dcfs/Location/3173568/maternal-and-child-health-access\">Maternal and Child Health Access\u003c/a>, a health nonprofit in Los Angeles, helped Huerta switch her emergency coverage to full coverage, she noticed an immediate difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was able to select a primary care doctor at the clinic where she usually went for specialist care. She could see a doctor for non-emergency care much quicker. Recently she scheduled a mammogram and consulted with a urologist in a virtual appointment.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can be hard for undocumented people,” Huerta said in Spanish. “I imagine a lot of other people are benefitting like we are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medi-Cal began covering undocumented children in 2018 and adults up to age 26 in 2020. Last May, older undocumented immigrants like Huerta became eligible. She is \u003ca href=\"https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/eligible-older-adult-expansion-individuals-enrolled-in-medi-cal/resource/7271b885-7340-49e2-ba56-5435b698a972\">one of nearly 350,000\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>who have signed up for full, state-funded coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955365\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11955365\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/CalMattersFarmworkers03.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with a relaxed expression poses with her hands clasped in front of her beside some large plants.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/CalMattersFarmworkers03.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/CalMattersFarmworkers03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/CalMattersFarmworkers03-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/CalMattersFarmworkers03-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oliva Huerta, outside the Maternal and Child Health Access office in Los Angeles on July 5, 2023. \u003ccite>(Julie A Hotz/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Next January coverage will open to low-income immigrants of all ages; an estimated 700,000 will be eligible. The full-fledged expansion will cost $2.6 billion a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It marks a significant turnaround from the policy debates of 1994 when California voters passed a measure barring immigrants without legal status from public services such as non-emergency health care, elementary and secondary schools and public colleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure drew mass protests, but passed with 59% of the vote. A federal judge ultimately blocked it from taking effect on constitutional grounds. But activists saw xenophobic sentiments that galvanized them to rally around immigrants’ rights. Abrego said many Latino advocates and politicians today \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2019/11/looking-back-on-proposition-187-the-initiative-that-transformed-california-politics/\">remain fueled\u003c/a> by opposition to the policies of the 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2001, California became one of the first states to make undocumented students eligible for in-state tuition at public colleges, if they’d graduated from high school in-state. Ten years later, it allowed undocumented students to get state financial aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, California allowed undocumented residents to get driver’s licenses. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2023/01/drivers-licenses-undocumented-immigrants/\">More than 1 million\u003c/a> have received them since 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, the state \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/09/18/governor-newsom-signs-bill-putting-money-back-into-the-pockets-of-more-california-workers-and-their-families/#:~:text=SACRAMENTO%20%E2%80%93%20Governor%20Gavin%20Newsom%20today,Child%20Tax%20Credit%20(YCTC).\">allowed\u003c/a> undocumented tax filers to receive the state’s earned income tax credit, returning thousands of dollars to low-income families each year. That year Californians \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftb.ca.gov/about-ftb/data-reports-plans/California-Earned-Income-Tax-Credit-and-Young-Child-Tax-credit-Report.pdf\">claimed $120 million more\u003c/a> in tax credits than the year before, according to the Franchise Tax Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Policymakers continue to make new proposals for immigrants living without legal status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bill \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1536\">introduced this year\u003c/a> would give undocumented residents access to the Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants, a state-funded\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>benefit created for elderly and disabled residents who don’t qualify for Social Security because federal law bars most noncitizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB4\">Another bill\u003c/a> aims to let undocumented residents who earn too much to qualify for Medi-Cal get subsidized health insurance in the Covered California marketplace\u003cstrong>. \u003c/strong>That move would require federal approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Immigrant poverty\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Poverty plunged in California from 16.4% in 2019 to nearly 12% in 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2022/11/child-tax-credit/\">thanks to such pandemic aid programs\u003c/a> as expanded child tax credits and food and cash assistance, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/poverty-in-california/\">according to\u003c/a> the Public Policy Institute of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But undocumented immigrants were much harder hit. While 16% of immigrant Californians lived in poverty in 2021, 25% of undocumented immigrants did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1876285921003752#:~:text=Children%20in%20immigrant%20families%20are%20becoming%20a%20larger%20share%20of,of%20all%20children%20in%20poverty.&text=The%20vast%20majority%20of%20children,91%25)%20are%20US%20citizens.\">disparities extend\u003c/a> to immigrants’ children — many of whom are U.S.-born. Thirteen percent of children in immigrant families live in poverty in California, which is double the rate for children of parents who are U.S. citizens, according to Patricia Malagon, a Public Policy Institute researcher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A March analysis by the Public Policy Institute predicts that fully expanding Medi-Cal next year could \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/the-impact-of-health-insurance-on-poverty-in-california/\">lower poverty\u003c/a> among non-citizen Californians by up to 3%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The programs that reduce poverty the most are tax credits and CalFresh — the state’s food stamps program, said Paulette Cha, a Public Policy Institute researcher.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Lucas Zucker, co-executive director, CAUSE\"]‘Providing someone a social safety net when they’re not able to work is almost counterintuitive to this racist and kind of exploitative way that we’ve been viewing immigrants.’[/pullquote]California already uses its own funds to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2022/06/california-food-assistance/\">pay for food assistance\u003c/a> for about 35,000 legally present immigrants — primarily recent green card holders — who are barred from the traditional food stamps program by federal law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Undocumented immigrants who are 55 and older \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2022/06/california-food-assistance/\">will qualify\u003c/a> in October 2025; administration officials said they \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/05/california-budget-deficit-newsom/\">need time\u003c/a> to make computer system upgrades before enrolling new recipients. At its peak, the state estimates 75,000 older immigrants will get food assistance at a cost of $113 million annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Unemployment benefits battle\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Advocates want California officials to commit to food stamps for undocumented immigrants of all ages. And they’re disappointed at the lack of action on unemployment benefits. Colorado and New York have started programs to pay jobless benefits to undocumented workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California lawmakers passed a bill last year to start a pilot program that would pay unemployment benefits to workers who are ineligible because of immigration status, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/AB-2847-VETO.pdf?emrc=87cd0d\">Newsom vetoed\u003c/a> it, citing costs amid signs of a deficit. This spring hundreds of activists and workers marched on the Capitol to demand the benefits, pointing to those who lost work in both the pandemic and this year’s floods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bill this year would give undocumented workers who lose work $300 in weekly benefits for up to 20 weeks, the maximum time allowed in the traditional unemployment program. Aside from the cost of benefits, the Economic Development Department estimates it would need at least $271 million to implement the program.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Assemblymember Bill Essayli (R-Bakersfield)\"]‘We have to prioritize. If you really care about getting people out of poverty, you’d help ease the burden on businesses so they can hire people and pay them living wages.’[/pullquote]In May, after Newsom presented a bigger deficit than previously predicted, advocates pared down their proposal to instead seek a working group to study the issue. Still, that failed to make it into the budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates with the Safety Net For All Coalition said they hoped lawmakers could still reach a deal to fund the working group during this\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>legislative session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That leaves relief still unavailable for California farmworkers — over half of whom are undocumented — still recovering from the winter floods, and the pandemic before them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jorge Ruiz, a Santa Maria area farmworker, is one of them. Usually, he works year-round, rotating between labor-intensive crops like lettuce, broccoli, grapes and other vegetables. Beginning in December, months of heavy rain cost him $3,000 to $4,000 in lost wages, he said. Plus his family is still recovering from the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Simply put, the government has tossed us aside,” Ruiz said in Spanish. “Even though we use all of our strength to get those products to the store, the government leaves us behind and doesn’t help us. So we are left without money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"As California gives immigrants access to more public programs, its poverty rate declines, some say. But budget and recession worries slow that progress.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1689116220,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":57,"wordCount":2444},"headData":{"title":"In California, Immigrant Status Bars Many Undocumented Workers From Benefits | KQED","description":"As California gives immigrants access to more public programs, its poverty rate declines, some say. But budget and recession worries slow that progress.","ogTitle":"In California, Immigrant Status Bars Many Undocumented Workers From Benefits","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"In California, Immigrant Status Bars Many Undocumented Workers From Benefits","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"In California, Immigrant Status Bars Many Undocumented Workers From Benefits","datePublished":"2023-07-11T19:41:50.000Z","dateModified":"2023-07-11T22:57:00.000Z","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"}}},"source":"CalMatters","sourceUrl":"https://calmatters.org/","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2023/07/undocumented-immigrants-california/\">Jeanne Kuang, Nicole Foy\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11955359/california-immigrant-status-bars-many-undocumented-workers-from-benefits","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Driving a tractor for his job in the Oxnard lettuce fields doesn’t make Arturo Villanueva rich, but it’s usually been enough to make rent and support his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farm labor is the only thing the 37-year-old father of five says he knows how to do well. When months of rain flooded the fields and made most of his usual work in February and March impossible, he struggled to earn enough to cover rent and allow his family “to live well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His family cut back on the amount and type of food they purchased. They rarely left the house, to save money on gas. They tried to buy only what they absolutely needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Months later, Villanueva still isn’t working his usual hours because rainy weather delayed planting some crops by at least two months. California set aside \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/inforesources/cdss-programs/immigration-services/immigrant-storm-services\">$95 million\u003c/a> in \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/inforesources/cdss-programs/immigration-services/immigrant-storm-services\">state funds\u003c/a> to help people like him \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2023/05/california-flooding-fund/\">who lost work\u003c/a> or experienced hardships due to storms and floods, but Villanueva told CalMatters in June he didn’t know how to access it.\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>“So many of us who work in the fields are undocumented,” he said in Spanish. “We who are the most affected receive the least. I would like there to be support for the undocumented workers — and not just those working in the fields.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Villanueva can’t receive unemployment insurance because he’s undocumented — one of about \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/immigrants-in-california/\">2.3 million Californians\u003c/a> whose immigration status bars them from receiving a variety of social safety net benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His predicament illustrates the gaps that remain in California’s safety net for undocumented immigrants despite a two-decade-long expansion of social and health services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘So many of us who work in the fields are undocumented. We who are the most affected receive the least. I would like there to be support for the undocumented workers.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Arturo Villanueva, Oxnard farmworker","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a major reversal since the 1990s, California has opened up government programs to undocumented residents more than any other state — issuing driver’s licenses, college scholarships, low-income tax credits, direct cash aid during the pandemic and now Medi-Cal health coverage. In 2025 California will be the first state to issue food stamps to undocumented immigrants, allowing those 55 and older to qualify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But budget realities are putting the brakes on other expansions that advocates want like a $330 million proposal to offer unemployment benefits to undocumented workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lucas Zucker, co-executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://causenow.org/\">Central Coast nonprofit CAUSE\u003c/a>, which advocates for working class and immigrant workers\u003cstrong>,\u003c/strong> said it can be a difficult hurdle to extend benefits because some Americans view immigrants primarily as a source of labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Providing someone a social safety net when they’re not able to work is almost counterintuitive to this racist and kind of exploitative way that we’ve been viewing immigrants in this country,” Zucker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955364\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11955364\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/CalMattersFarmworkers02.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a blue T-shirt walks through rows of lettuce crops in a field in Oxnard, California. The sky is gray above and farm equipment is seen in the background.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/CalMattersFarmworkers02.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/CalMattersFarmworkers02-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/CalMattersFarmworkers02-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/CalMattersFarmworkers02-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arturo Villanueva, 37, a tractor driver, walks through a lettuce field in Oxnard on July 2, 2023. \u003ccite>(Julie Leopo-Bermudez/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California has worked around limits in federal law that bar many immigrants — those with and without legal status — from social programs. That has meant building its own, state-funded programs during years of flush budget surpluses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this year, lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom had to plug a $31.5 billion deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has backed several program expansions including public health coverage for immigrants, which will total $2.6 billion annually. But he has said he wants to avoid cutting services in deficit years, so he \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2022/12/california-budget-deficit-safety-net/\">won’t commit\u003c/a> to further expanding programs unless the state has funds to sustain them long-term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal for an unemployment program for workers like Villanueva failed to gain funding in the state budget for the second year in a row. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB227\">A bill\u003c/a> to create the program at a cost of $330 million a year — not counting implementation costs — has passed the Senate and awaits a hearing in the Assembly Appropriations Committee. Newsom vetoed a similar measure last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Governor will weigh the merits of any bill that eventually reaches his desk,” Daniel Lopez, a spokesperson for Newsom, said in an email. “The state will continue to be a leader and uphold the dignity and respect of everyone who calls California home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics argue further expanding services to undocumented immigrants is financially unsustainable for the state.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Bill Essayli, a Riverside Republican, opposes the unemployment proposal, saying the state should instead spend its funds paying off the existing unemployment system’s $20 billion loan from the federal government, to avoid raising payroll taxes on businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to prioritize,” he said. “If you really care about getting people out of poverty, you’d help ease the burden on businesses so they can hire people and pay them living wages.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11946661","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/SB_277_SafetyNet-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Still, to advocates, some proposals are popular enough with the Democratic supermajority to seem inevitable. Nourish California, a food policy advocacy group, is pushing the state to open its food stamps program to all low-income undocumented immigrants, regardless of age, said Betzabel Estudillo, director of engagement at Nourish California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Legislature has been very supportive and so has the governor,” she said. “The question is about when.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s 1.1 million undocumented workers \u003ca href=\"https://clc.ucmerced.edu/sites/clc.ucmerced.edu/files/page/documents/essential_fairness.pdf\">make up 6%\u003c/a> of its labor force, according to UC Merced’s Community and Labor Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, undocumented immigrants paid an estimated $3.7 billion in state and local taxes, \u003ca href=\"https://immigrantdataca.org/about\">according to\u003c/a> USC’s California Immigrant Data Portal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, like the rest of the population, immigrant workers are aging, so they’ll increasingly need retirement support and health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a report this year UC Merced estimated 165,000 of \u003ca href=\"https://clc.ucmerced.edu/sites/clc.ucmerced.edu/files/page/documents/a_golden_age.pdf\">California’s undocumented workers\u003c/a> were older than 55 in 2019, the highest “since Mexican mass migration began in the 1970s.” Undocumented immigrants also make up \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1876285921003752#:~:text=Children%20in%20immigrant%20families%20are%20becoming%20a%20larger%20share%20of,of%20all%20children%20in%20poverty.&text=The%20vast%20majority%20of%20children,91%25)%20are%20US%20citizens.\">the largest share\u003c/a> of Californians without health insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leisy Abrego, chair of Chicana/o Studies at UCLA, said California has shown it can do more to help immigrants\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>in the absence of federal immigration policy reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s an economic need for immigrant labor, and California, they realize that that need is being met,” Abrego said. “And advocates are wanting to treat those people meeting those needs as human beings who also need health care, who also need educational opportunities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>California’s road to inclusion\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Before she qualified for full Medi-Cal coverage in 2022, Oliva Huerta had learned to live with little or sporadic medical care for a host of illnesses, including anxiety and pain linked to diabetes, high blood pressure and a cancer battle in the 1990s. Medi-Cal was paying for emergency care only.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 61, she’s unable to do much besides care for her four grandkids while their parents work in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when staff at \u003ca href=\"https://locator.lacounty.gov/dcfs/Location/3173568/maternal-and-child-health-access\">Maternal and Child Health Access\u003c/a>, a health nonprofit in Los Angeles, helped Huerta switch her emergency coverage to full coverage, she noticed an immediate difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was able to select a primary care doctor at the clinic where she usually went for specialist care. She could see a doctor for non-emergency care much quicker. Recently she scheduled a mammogram and consulted with a urologist in a virtual appointment.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can be hard for undocumented people,” Huerta said in Spanish. “I imagine a lot of other people are benefitting like we are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medi-Cal began covering undocumented children in 2018 and adults up to age 26 in 2020. Last May, older undocumented immigrants like Huerta became eligible. She is \u003ca href=\"https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/eligible-older-adult-expansion-individuals-enrolled-in-medi-cal/resource/7271b885-7340-49e2-ba56-5435b698a972\">one of nearly 350,000\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>who have signed up for full, state-funded coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955365\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11955365\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/CalMattersFarmworkers03.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with a relaxed expression poses with her hands clasped in front of her beside some large plants.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/CalMattersFarmworkers03.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/CalMattersFarmworkers03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/CalMattersFarmworkers03-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/CalMattersFarmworkers03-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oliva Huerta, outside the Maternal and Child Health Access office in Los Angeles on July 5, 2023. \u003ccite>(Julie A Hotz/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Next January coverage will open to low-income immigrants of all ages; an estimated 700,000 will be eligible. The full-fledged expansion will cost $2.6 billion a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It marks a significant turnaround from the policy debates of 1994 when California voters passed a measure barring immigrants without legal status from public services such as non-emergency health care, elementary and secondary schools and public colleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure drew mass protests, but passed with 59% of the vote. A federal judge ultimately blocked it from taking effect on constitutional grounds. But activists saw xenophobic sentiments that galvanized them to rally around immigrants’ rights. Abrego said many Latino advocates and politicians today \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2019/11/looking-back-on-proposition-187-the-initiative-that-transformed-california-politics/\">remain fueled\u003c/a> by opposition to the policies of the 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2001, California became one of the first states to make undocumented students eligible for in-state tuition at public colleges, if they’d graduated from high school in-state. Ten years later, it allowed undocumented students to get state financial aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, California allowed undocumented residents to get driver’s licenses. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2023/01/drivers-licenses-undocumented-immigrants/\">More than 1 million\u003c/a> have received them since 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, the state \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/09/18/governor-newsom-signs-bill-putting-money-back-into-the-pockets-of-more-california-workers-and-their-families/#:~:text=SACRAMENTO%20%E2%80%93%20Governor%20Gavin%20Newsom%20today,Child%20Tax%20Credit%20(YCTC).\">allowed\u003c/a> undocumented tax filers to receive the state’s earned income tax credit, returning thousands of dollars to low-income families each year. That year Californians \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftb.ca.gov/about-ftb/data-reports-plans/California-Earned-Income-Tax-Credit-and-Young-Child-Tax-credit-Report.pdf\">claimed $120 million more\u003c/a> in tax credits than the year before, according to the Franchise Tax Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Policymakers continue to make new proposals for immigrants living without legal status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bill \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1536\">introduced this year\u003c/a> would give undocumented residents access to the Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants, a state-funded\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>benefit created for elderly and disabled residents who don’t qualify for Social Security because federal law bars most noncitizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB4\">Another bill\u003c/a> aims to let undocumented residents who earn too much to qualify for Medi-Cal get subsidized health insurance in the Covered California marketplace\u003cstrong>. \u003c/strong>That move would require federal approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Immigrant poverty\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Poverty plunged in California from 16.4% in 2019 to nearly 12% in 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2022/11/child-tax-credit/\">thanks to such pandemic aid programs\u003c/a> as expanded child tax credits and food and cash assistance, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/poverty-in-california/\">according to\u003c/a> the Public Policy Institute of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But undocumented immigrants were much harder hit. While 16% of immigrant Californians lived in poverty in 2021, 25% of undocumented immigrants did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1876285921003752#:~:text=Children%20in%20immigrant%20families%20are%20becoming%20a%20larger%20share%20of,of%20all%20children%20in%20poverty.&text=The%20vast%20majority%20of%20children,91%25)%20are%20US%20citizens.\">disparities extend\u003c/a> to immigrants’ children — many of whom are U.S.-born. Thirteen percent of children in immigrant families live in poverty in California, which is double the rate for children of parents who are U.S. citizens, according to Patricia Malagon, a Public Policy Institute researcher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A March analysis by the Public Policy Institute predicts that fully expanding Medi-Cal next year could \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/the-impact-of-health-insurance-on-poverty-in-california/\">lower poverty\u003c/a> among non-citizen Californians by up to 3%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The programs that reduce poverty the most are tax credits and CalFresh — the state’s food stamps program, said Paulette Cha, a Public Policy Institute researcher.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Providing someone a social safety net when they’re not able to work is almost counterintuitive to this racist and kind of exploitative way that we’ve been viewing immigrants.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Lucas Zucker, co-executive director, CAUSE","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>California already uses its own funds to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2022/06/california-food-assistance/\">pay for food assistance\u003c/a> for about 35,000 legally present immigrants — primarily recent green card holders — who are barred from the traditional food stamps program by federal law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Undocumented immigrants who are 55 and older \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2022/06/california-food-assistance/\">will qualify\u003c/a> in October 2025; administration officials said they \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/05/california-budget-deficit-newsom/\">need time\u003c/a> to make computer system upgrades before enrolling new recipients. At its peak, the state estimates 75,000 older immigrants will get food assistance at a cost of $113 million annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Unemployment benefits battle\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Advocates want California officials to commit to food stamps for undocumented immigrants of all ages. And they’re disappointed at the lack of action on unemployment benefits. Colorado and New York have started programs to pay jobless benefits to undocumented workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California lawmakers passed a bill last year to start a pilot program that would pay unemployment benefits to workers who are ineligible because of immigration status, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/AB-2847-VETO.pdf?emrc=87cd0d\">Newsom vetoed\u003c/a> it, citing costs amid signs of a deficit. This spring hundreds of activists and workers marched on the Capitol to demand the benefits, pointing to those who lost work in both the pandemic and this year’s floods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bill this year would give undocumented workers who lose work $300 in weekly benefits for up to 20 weeks, the maximum time allowed in the traditional unemployment program. Aside from the cost of benefits, the Economic Development Department estimates it would need at least $271 million to implement the program.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘We have to prioritize. If you really care about getting people out of poverty, you’d help ease the burden on businesses so they can hire people and pay them living wages.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Assemblymember Bill Essayli (R-Bakersfield)","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In May, after Newsom presented a bigger deficit than previously predicted, advocates pared down their proposal to instead seek a working group to study the issue. Still, that failed to make it into the budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates with the Safety Net For All Coalition said they hoped lawmakers could still reach a deal to fund the working group during this\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>legislative session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That leaves relief still unavailable for California farmworkers — over half of whom are undocumented — still recovering from the winter floods, and the pandemic before them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jorge Ruiz, a Santa Maria area farmworker, is one of them. Usually, he works year-round, rotating between labor-intensive crops like lettuce, broccoli, grapes and other vegetables. Beginning in December, months of heavy rain cost him $3,000 to $4,000 in lost wages, he said. Plus his family is still recovering from the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Simply put, the government has tossed us aside,” Ruiz said in Spanish. “Even though we use all of our strength to get those products to the store, the government leaves us behind and doesn’t help us. So we are left without money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11955359/california-immigrant-status-bars-many-undocumented-workers-from-benefits","authors":["byline_news_11955359"],"categories":["news_31795","news_1169","news_8"],"tags":["news_18538","news_32224","news_21072","news_24303","news_244","news_32380"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11955363","label":"source_news_11955359"},"news_11900546":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11900546","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11900546","score":null,"sort":[1641204019000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"i-hope-a-lawyer-will-answer-asylum-seekers-risk-deportation-in-expedited-process","title":"'I Hope a Lawyer Will Answer': Asylum-Seekers Risk Deportation in Expedited Process","publishDate":1641204019,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Pablo López sat on the small balcony of an apartment in a Walnut Creek housing complex, dialing phone numbers for legal aid groups across the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just above his head, the freshly washed Chick-fil-A uniforms of his housemates were hanging to dry. He was focused on a printed list of nonprofit legal service groups and private immigration attorneys, hoping that one of them might help him make his case for asylum in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He doesn’t have long to find an attorney because his case falls under the expedited asylum process created in May by the Biden administration for recently arrived families. The aim of the so-called \"dedicated docket\" is \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/dhs-and-doj-announce-dedicated-docket-process-more-efficient-immigration-hearings\">to resolve asylum cases more quickly\u003c/a>, with a loose goal of a judge issuing a decision within 300 days of the initial court appearance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an effort to prevent such cases from slipping into an immigration court backlog that recently surpassed 1.5 million cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11883227\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/GettyImages-1150824330-1020x680.jpg\"]“Families who have recently arrived should not languish in a multiyear backlog,” said Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas when the program was launched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But without legal help, López and thousands like him must navigate an unfamiliar system on their own — and face deportation if they fail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two-bedroom apartment in Walnut Creek is the home of an old friend from Nicaragua. López and his 12-year-old son have been bunking in the living room since they arrived in July. The guest room is occupied by a family of four who also fled political violence in Nicaragua last summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>López said he and his son abruptly left their town in the Nicaraguan mountains after local government officials came to his house and tried to strong-arm him into working for the reelection campaign of President Daniel Ortega, flashing a gun and threatening to kill him if he resisted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the next town over, they beat people up and took them away, and nobody knew where they’d gone,” said López, speaking in Spanish, of Ortega’s supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re using a variation on his name to protect his identity because he fears for his family’s safety — and his own if he were forced to return to Nicaragua.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>López, 37, said he was never involved in politics. Instead, he worked in construction to support his parents, his wife and two kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wishes he could send money home to the wife and toddler he had to leave behind, but the cash he earns from odd jobs is just enough to feed him and his son. He said his wife tells him she and their daughter are fine, but he’s not convinced. Ortega’s supporters have been asking his family and his neighbors about his whereabouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The journey north took a month, and López and his son traveled much of it on foot, resting in migrant shelters when they could find them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11886227\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51127_010_SanJose_Immigration_08232021-qut-1020x680.jpg\"]One night they were on a bus somewhere in central Mexico, López said, when Mexican police officers stopped the bus and made him and other Central American migrants get off. Then the officers took all their money before allowing them to continue on their journey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So when we reached the border, we had nothing, no money. We were hungry,” he said. “The hardest thing was not being able to care for my son. I had to beg people for food and water. That’s how we made it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were held for three days by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Arizona, then released with a notice to appear in immigration court.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The ups and downs of the 'rocket docket'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Both the Obama and Trump administrations implemented versions of an expedited “rocket docket” to handle the growing number of asylum seekers arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border. The Trump administration, in particular, stripped away due-process protections, and well over 90% of cases ended in a deportation order, \u003ca href=\"https://www.migrationpolicy.org/news/due-process-questions-rocket-dockets-family-migrants\">according to analysis by the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say the current system has more safeguards for migrant families and isn’t placing them in detention facilities, but the accelerated pace still makes it tough for asylum seekers like López to find legal representation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People in the federal immigration court system do not have the right to a court-appointed lawyer if they can’t find their own, unlike defendants in criminal court. Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://trac.syr.edu/phptools/immigration/asyfile/\">a third of all immigrants in asylum cases did not have representation\u003c/a>, according to \u003ca href=\"https://trac.syr.edu/aboutTRACgeneral.html\">data analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse\u003c/a>, or TRAC, a research center at Syracuse University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='large' align='right']People in the federal immigration court system do not have the right to a court-appointed lawyer if they can't find their own, unlike defendants in criminal court.[/pullquote]The Biden administration has taken steps to increase access to lawyers, \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/07/27/fact-sheet-the-biden-administration-blueprint-for-a-fair-orderly-and-humane-immigration-system/\">including asking Congress to budget $15 million to provide representation to families and children\u003c/a>, as well as $23 million for legal orientation programs. But Congress has yet to act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stakes are high. Over the last two decades, just 10% of asylum seekers without legal representation won their cases, \u003ca href=\"https://trac.syr.edu/phptools/immigration/asyfile/\">while those with lawyers were nearly four times as likely to win protection\u003c/a>, according to TRAC’s data.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>An impossible situation\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>López said he calls lawyers every day. He’s spoken to at least half a dozen. Most say they’re overloaded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said one private attorney quoted him a fee of $17,000, money he simply doesn’t have. Mostly, though, he’s gotten voicemail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know it’s better to have a lawyer because there’s a higher chance of winning asylum that way,” said López. “But the judge said she’s going to move my case forward even if I don’t have one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late October, López went before an immigration judge in San Francisco and told her he’d had no luck finding a lawyer. He had been to court twice before, and both times the judge had given him a few more weeks to try.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The third time she granted him three months, setting his next hearing for Jan. 26. But if he didn’t bring a completed asylum application to court next time, she said, she would deem his asylum claim abandoned and order him and his son deported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>López, who speaks only Spanish, has no idea how to complete the detailed, \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/forms/i-589.pdf\">12-page asylum application form in English\u003c/a>. But that’s the necessary first step to explain why he fears persecution, one of the five legal grounds — race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social group — for seeking asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johanna Torres, an immigration attorney with a private practice in San Leandro, met López in October. Once a week, she fills in as “attorney of the day” at the San Francisco court as part of a Bar Association of San Francisco program to give immigrants basic legal guidance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres gave López the handout with the phone numbers he’s been calling. She said attorneys are not allowed to help with asylum forms unless they officially represent the person. Without help, she knows, the process is bewildering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11900568\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1917px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11900568\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/JohannaTorres2.jpg\" alt=\"A person sits at their desk in an office, facing a monitor.\" width=\"1917\" height=\"1279\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/JohannaTorres2.jpg 1917w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/JohannaTorres2-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/JohannaTorres2-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/JohannaTorres2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/JohannaTorres2-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1917px) 100vw, 1917px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Immigration attorney Johanna Torres says it’s hard for lawyers to take on asylum seekers like López because the fast-track “dedicated docket” doesn’t allow enough time to prepare their cases. With a shortage of lawyers and no right to court-appointed counsel, Torres, seen here in her San Leandro office on Nov. 15, 2021, says asylum seekers are in “an impossible situation.” \u003ccite>(Tyche Hendricks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I put myself in their position,” she said. “I’m in a country that’s speaking a language that I don’t understand and I’m afraid of going back to whatever country I'm from. And they’re like, ‘Fill out this application that’s in a different language. I know you don’t know anyone. You don’t have the money to hire anyone. But if you don’t bring it, then we’re going to have to deport you.’ It’s an impossible situation for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres knows about the political repression in Nicaragua, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/05/1052968032/having-jailed-opposition-candidates-daniel-ortega-is-set-to-win-nicaragua-presid\">where Ortega jailed seven opposition candidates in the lead-up to his reelection in November\u003c/a>. She believes López could be in serious peril if he were returned there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she and other immigration lawyers say the swift pace of the dedicated docket makes it tricky for attorneys to accept clients like López.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do not have the resources to complete a case in two months,” she said. “It's harder for [asylum seekers] to find representation because it’s hard for us to take on cases that are that fast.”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Room for improvement\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the Executive Office for Immigration Review, as the federal immigration court system is known, said that while the goal of the dedicated docket is to resolve cases in less than a year, judges do have leeway to give immigrants more time to look for a lawyer. In a statement, she said “fairness will not be compromised.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres said she thinks the dedicated docket was Biden’s corrective to the Trump administration’s controversial strategy of holding court in tents erected at the border where immigration lawyers can be scarce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Johanna Torres, immigration attorney\"]'I don’t know if the people that are being named to supervise this actually know what's happening in the trenches.'[/pullquote]“I think we’re doing better than under the previous administration,” Torres said. “But there’s a lot of room for improvement, and I don’t know if the people that are being named to supervise this actually know what’s happening in the trenches.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mimi Tsankov, president of the National Association of Immigration Judges, said she’s also concerned about fairness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fair notice and access to counsel, adequate time periods within which to seek representation — [that’s] certainly an important component of providing due process,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tsankov said she’s encouraged that the director of EOIR sent a memo to the judges in November instructing them to work closely with the pro bono lawyers in their area to “accommodate and facilitate” getting free legal services to more immigrants in deportation proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='immigration']Still, \u003ca href=\"https://trac.syr.edu/phptools/immigration/asyfile/\">the number of people seeking asylum has grown in recent years\u003c/a>. Without more federal funds or a mandate to ensure every person in immigration court has representation, such initiatives are likely to fall short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>López paced the tiny balcony at his friend’s place in Walnut Creek as the sun sank low in the sky, repeatedly dialing the numbers on his list. Inside the apartment, his son and the children of the other newly arrived family played on the couch. The mother of those kids prepared tortillas for supper as ranchera music played on the radio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope a lawyer will answer,” López said. “The journey was hard, and crossing Mexico was dangerous. But we’ve come this far, with God’s help.”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"To cut down backlogs in courts, the federal government has expedited the asylum process. 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He was focused on a printed list of nonprofit legal service groups and private immigration attorneys, hoping that one of them might help him make his case for asylum in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He doesn’t have long to find an attorney because his case falls under the expedited asylum process created in May by the Biden administration for recently arrived families. The aim of the so-called \"dedicated docket\" is \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/dhs-and-doj-announce-dedicated-docket-process-more-efficient-immigration-hearings\">to resolve asylum cases more quickly\u003c/a>, with a loose goal of a judge issuing a decision within 300 days of the initial court appearance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an effort to prevent such cases from slipping into an immigration court backlog that recently surpassed 1.5 million cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11883227","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/GettyImages-1150824330-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Families who have recently arrived should not languish in a multiyear backlog,” said Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas when the program was launched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But without legal help, López and thousands like him must navigate an unfamiliar system on their own — and face deportation if they fail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two-bedroom apartment in Walnut Creek is the home of an old friend from Nicaragua. López and his 12-year-old son have been bunking in the living room since they arrived in July. The guest room is occupied by a family of four who also fled political violence in Nicaragua last summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>López said he and his son abruptly left their town in the Nicaraguan mountains after local government officials came to his house and tried to strong-arm him into working for the reelection campaign of President Daniel Ortega, flashing a gun and threatening to kill him if he resisted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the next town over, they beat people up and took them away, and nobody knew where they’d gone,” said López, speaking in Spanish, of Ortega’s supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re using a variation on his name to protect his identity because he fears for his family’s safety — and his own if he were forced to return to Nicaragua.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>López, 37, said he was never involved in politics. Instead, he worked in construction to support his parents, his wife and two kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wishes he could send money home to the wife and toddler he had to leave behind, but the cash he earns from odd jobs is just enough to feed him and his son. He said his wife tells him she and their daughter are fine, but he’s not convinced. Ortega’s supporters have been asking his family and his neighbors about his whereabouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The journey north took a month, and López and his son traveled much of it on foot, resting in migrant shelters when they could find them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11886227","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51127_010_SanJose_Immigration_08232021-qut-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>One night they were on a bus somewhere in central Mexico, López said, when Mexican police officers stopped the bus and made him and other Central American migrants get off. Then the officers took all their money before allowing them to continue on their journey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So when we reached the border, we had nothing, no money. We were hungry,” he said. “The hardest thing was not being able to care for my son. I had to beg people for food and water. That’s how we made it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were held for three days by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Arizona, then released with a notice to appear in immigration court.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The ups and downs of the 'rocket docket'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Both the Obama and Trump administrations implemented versions of an expedited “rocket docket” to handle the growing number of asylum seekers arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border. The Trump administration, in particular, stripped away due-process protections, and well over 90% of cases ended in a deportation order, \u003ca href=\"https://www.migrationpolicy.org/news/due-process-questions-rocket-dockets-family-migrants\">according to analysis by the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say the current system has more safeguards for migrant families and isn’t placing them in detention facilities, but the accelerated pace still makes it tough for asylum seekers like López to find legal representation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People in the federal immigration court system do not have the right to a court-appointed lawyer if they can’t find their own, unlike defendants in criminal court. Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://trac.syr.edu/phptools/immigration/asyfile/\">a third of all immigrants in asylum cases did not have representation\u003c/a>, according to \u003ca href=\"https://trac.syr.edu/aboutTRACgeneral.html\">data analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse\u003c/a>, or TRAC, a research center at Syracuse University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"People in the federal immigration court system do not have the right to a court-appointed lawyer if they can't find their own, unlike defendants in criminal court.","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"large","align":"right","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The Biden administration has taken steps to increase access to lawyers, \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/07/27/fact-sheet-the-biden-administration-blueprint-for-a-fair-orderly-and-humane-immigration-system/\">including asking Congress to budget $15 million to provide representation to families and children\u003c/a>, as well as $23 million for legal orientation programs. But Congress has yet to act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stakes are high. Over the last two decades, just 10% of asylum seekers without legal representation won their cases, \u003ca href=\"https://trac.syr.edu/phptools/immigration/asyfile/\">while those with lawyers were nearly four times as likely to win protection\u003c/a>, according to TRAC’s data.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>An impossible situation\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>López said he calls lawyers every day. He’s spoken to at least half a dozen. Most say they’re overloaded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said one private attorney quoted him a fee of $17,000, money he simply doesn’t have. Mostly, though, he’s gotten voicemail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know it’s better to have a lawyer because there’s a higher chance of winning asylum that way,” said López. “But the judge said she’s going to move my case forward even if I don’t have one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late October, López went before an immigration judge in San Francisco and told her he’d had no luck finding a lawyer. He had been to court twice before, and both times the judge had given him a few more weeks to try.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The third time she granted him three months, setting his next hearing for Jan. 26. But if he didn’t bring a completed asylum application to court next time, she said, she would deem his asylum claim abandoned and order him and his son deported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>López, who speaks only Spanish, has no idea how to complete the detailed, \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/forms/i-589.pdf\">12-page asylum application form in English\u003c/a>. But that’s the necessary first step to explain why he fears persecution, one of the five legal grounds — race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social group — for seeking asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johanna Torres, an immigration attorney with a private practice in San Leandro, met López in October. Once a week, she fills in as “attorney of the day” at the San Francisco court as part of a Bar Association of San Francisco program to give immigrants basic legal guidance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres gave López the handout with the phone numbers he’s been calling. She said attorneys are not allowed to help with asylum forms unless they officially represent the person. Without help, she knows, the process is bewildering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11900568\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1917px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11900568\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/JohannaTorres2.jpg\" alt=\"A person sits at their desk in an office, facing a monitor.\" width=\"1917\" height=\"1279\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/JohannaTorres2.jpg 1917w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/JohannaTorres2-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/JohannaTorres2-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/JohannaTorres2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/JohannaTorres2-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1917px) 100vw, 1917px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Immigration attorney Johanna Torres says it’s hard for lawyers to take on asylum seekers like López because the fast-track “dedicated docket” doesn’t allow enough time to prepare their cases. With a shortage of lawyers and no right to court-appointed counsel, Torres, seen here in her San Leandro office on Nov. 15, 2021, says asylum seekers are in “an impossible situation.” \u003ccite>(Tyche Hendricks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I put myself in their position,” she said. “I’m in a country that’s speaking a language that I don’t understand and I’m afraid of going back to whatever country I'm from. And they’re like, ‘Fill out this application that’s in a different language. I know you don’t know anyone. You don’t have the money to hire anyone. But if you don’t bring it, then we’re going to have to deport you.’ It’s an impossible situation for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres knows about the political repression in Nicaragua, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/05/1052968032/having-jailed-opposition-candidates-daniel-ortega-is-set-to-win-nicaragua-presid\">where Ortega jailed seven opposition candidates in the lead-up to his reelection in November\u003c/a>. She believes López could be in serious peril if he were returned there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she and other immigration lawyers say the swift pace of the dedicated docket makes it tricky for attorneys to accept clients like López.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do not have the resources to complete a case in two months,” she said. “It's harder for [asylum seekers] to find representation because it’s hard for us to take on cases that are that fast.”\u003cbr>\n\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\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Room for improvement\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the Executive Office for Immigration Review, as the federal immigration court system is known, said that while the goal of the dedicated docket is to resolve cases in less than a year, judges do have leeway to give immigrants more time to look for a lawyer. In a statement, she said “fairness will not be compromised.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres said she thinks the dedicated docket was Biden’s corrective to the Trump administration’s controversial strategy of holding court in tents erected at the border where immigration lawyers can be scarce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'I don’t know if the people that are being named to supervise this actually know what's happening in the trenches.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Johanna Torres, immigration attorney","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I think we’re doing better than under the previous administration,” Torres said. “But there’s a lot of room for improvement, and I don’t know if the people that are being named to supervise this actually know what’s happening in the trenches.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mimi Tsankov, president of the National Association of Immigration Judges, said she’s also concerned about fairness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fair notice and access to counsel, adequate time periods within which to seek representation — [that’s] certainly an important component of providing due process,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tsankov said she’s encouraged that the director of EOIR sent a memo to the judges in November instructing them to work closely with the pro bono lawyers in their area to “accommodate and facilitate” getting free legal services to more immigrants in deportation proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"immigration"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Still, \u003ca href=\"https://trac.syr.edu/phptools/immigration/asyfile/\">the number of people seeking asylum has grown in recent years\u003c/a>. Without more federal funds or a mandate to ensure every person in immigration court has representation, such initiatives are likely to fall short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>López paced the tiny balcony at his friend’s place in Walnut Creek as the sun sank low in the sky, repeatedly dialing the numbers on his list. Inside the apartment, his son and the children of the other newly arrived family played on the couch. The mother of those kids prepared tortillas for supper as ranchera music played on the radio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope a lawyer will answer,” López said. “The journey was hard, and crossing Mexico was dangerous. But we’ve come this far, with God’s help.”\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11900546/i-hope-a-lawyer-will-answer-asylum-seekers-risk-deportation-in-expedited-process","authors":["259"],"categories":["news_1169","news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_30454","news_27626","news_21027","news_20202","news_23454","news_6883","news_29105","news_21791","news_21072","news_28162","news_24303","news_21920","news_2281"],"featImg":"news_11900569","label":"news"},"news_11735694":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11735694","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11735694","score":null,"sort":[1553670083000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"californias-sanctuary-law-drives-down-immigration-arrests-at-jails-by-41-percent","title":"California's Sanctuary Law Drives Down Immigration Arrests at Jails By 41 Percent","publishDate":1553670083,"format":"audio","headTitle":"California’s Sanctuary Law Drives Down Immigration Arrests at Jails By 41 Percent | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Immigration arrests at local jails in California plunged 41 percent in the first five months following adoption of a state-wide sanctuary law last year, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.advancingjustice-alc.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/SB54-Report_FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report\u003c/a> released Wednesday by a legal advocacy group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sanctuary laws can really reduce the number of people turned over to ICE by local law enforcement and also can make a dent in the overall number of people deported from a state,” said Angela Chan, who managed the research project for the Asian Law Caucus and helped draft \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB54\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SB54\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately,” she added, “there are a number of departments who are not in compliance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data gathered from nearly 200 law enforcement agencies in the state showed that implementation of the state sanctuary law has been uneven across counties, with many departments following outdated policies and procedures or adopting ones that fail to incorporate the new rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Key Findings\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>In the first five months of the law’s implementation, ICE arrests at local jails fell by 41 percent compared to the preceding five months.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Some 40 percent of law enforcement agencies in California are not fully complying with the law.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>41 percent of sheriff’s departments in California publish release information for all inmates on their website, including the date of release, upcoming court dates and locations, the city where the person lives and their occupation.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Screen-Shot-2023-06-21-at-3.00.45-PM.png\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Screen-Shot-2023-06-21-at-3.00.45-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1476\" height=\"1254\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11953622\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Screen-Shot-2023-06-21-at-3.00.45-PM.png 1476w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Screen-Shot-2023-06-21-at-3.00.45-PM-800x680.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Screen-Shot-2023-06-21-at-3.00.45-PM-1020x867.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Screen-Shot-2023-06-21-at-3.00.45-PM-160x136.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1476px) 100vw, 1476px\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Patchwork Implementation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Documents obtained from 121 out of the 300 police departments in California, and from 48 of the 58 sheriff’s departments, revealed a patchwork implementation of the state sanctuary law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the 169 agencies that responded to public records requests, the report found that 23 of them use out-of-date or inadequate policies. Another 40 agencies adopted policies drafted by a private company, Lexipol, that do not comply with the new law, while five agencies have no immigration enforcement policies at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jail Transfers to ICE\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the most \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11660374/conservative-california-cities-revolt-against-states-anti-trump-policies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">controversial\u003c/a> provisions of the state sanctuary law prohibits sheriff’s departments from informing ICE about the release dates of undocumented immigrant inmates, except in cases where the person has a serious or violent conviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='sanctuary-state' label=\"California's sanctuary state law\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa County Sheriff David Livingston, president of the California State Sheriffs’ Association, did not respond to KQED requests for comment about the report’s findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriffs’ group fought passage of the state sanctuary law, saying they believed it would have a negative effect on public safety. Communication between local and federal law enforcement officers should not be limited in any way, they said. They feared doing so could result in the release of dangerous criminals who would otherwise have been deported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deadly shooting of a police officer in December is the most recent violence committed by an undocumented immigrant in California, with critics blaming sanctuary policies for letting him stay in the country. The 2015 killing of Kathryn \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11624387/how-a-san-francisco-killing-became-part-of-the-u-s-immigration-debate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steinle\u003c/a> sparked similar outrage over San Francisco policies that limited cooperation with immigration authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sharing Release Information\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s sanctuary law allows agencies to publicly post release information about an undocumented inmate if they publish such information for all inmates in their custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of sheriff’s departments already had a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11658435/california-attorney-general-sanctuary-law-doesnt-prohibit-police-from-talking-to-ice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">practice\u003c/a> of posting release information online before the law passed, but the Asian Law Caucus found that some departments adopted the practice afterwards, specifically so they could share information with immigration officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other sheriff’s departments are mis-interpreting the rules on sharing information with ICE, Chan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What some sheriffs are doing is that they’re saying, ‘Because we’ve posted all of these release dates online that means now they’re publicly available, and so we can go ahead and specifically contact ICE or respond to ICE with a release date for a specific person,'” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-two counties publicly posted release information for all inmates held in county jails as of Jan. 27, 2019.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Data shows implementation of the state sanctuary law has been uneven across counties, with many departments following outdated policies and procedures or adopting ones that fail to incorporate the new 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according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.advancingjustice-alc.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/SB54-Report_FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report\u003c/a> released Wednesday by a legal advocacy group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sanctuary laws can really reduce the number of people turned over to ICE by local law enforcement and also can make a dent in the overall number of people deported from a state,” said Angela Chan, who managed the research project for the Asian Law Caucus and helped draft \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB54\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SB54\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately,” she added, “there are a number of departments who are not in compliance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data gathered from nearly 200 law enforcement agencies in the state showed that implementation of the state sanctuary law has been uneven across counties, with many departments following outdated policies and procedures or adopting ones that fail to incorporate the new rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Key Findings\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>In the first five months of the law’s implementation, ICE arrests at local jails fell by 41 percent compared to the preceding five months.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Some 40 percent of law enforcement agencies in California are not fully complying with the law.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>41 percent of sheriff’s departments in California publish release information for all inmates on their website, including the date of release, upcoming court dates and locations, the city where the person lives and their occupation.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Screen-Shot-2023-06-21-at-3.00.45-PM.png\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Screen-Shot-2023-06-21-at-3.00.45-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1476\" height=\"1254\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11953622\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Screen-Shot-2023-06-21-at-3.00.45-PM.png 1476w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Screen-Shot-2023-06-21-at-3.00.45-PM-800x680.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Screen-Shot-2023-06-21-at-3.00.45-PM-1020x867.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Screen-Shot-2023-06-21-at-3.00.45-PM-160x136.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1476px) 100vw, 1476px\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Patchwork Implementation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Documents obtained from 121 out of the 300 police departments in California, and from 48 of the 58 sheriff’s departments, revealed a patchwork implementation of the state sanctuary law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the 169 agencies that responded to public records requests, the report found that 23 of them use out-of-date or inadequate policies. Another 40 agencies adopted policies drafted by a private company, Lexipol, that do not comply with the new law, while five agencies have no immigration enforcement policies at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jail Transfers to ICE\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the most \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11660374/conservative-california-cities-revolt-against-states-anti-trump-policies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">controversial\u003c/a> provisions of the state sanctuary law prohibits sheriff’s departments from informing ICE about the release dates of undocumented immigrant inmates, except in cases where the person has a serious or violent conviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"sanctuary-state","label":"California's sanctuary state law "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa County Sheriff David Livingston, president of the California State Sheriffs’ Association, did not respond to KQED requests for comment about the report’s findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriffs’ group fought passage of the state sanctuary law, saying they believed it would have a negative effect on public safety. Communication between local and federal law enforcement officers should not be limited in any way, they said. They feared doing so could result in the release of dangerous criminals who would otherwise have been deported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deadly shooting of a police officer in December is the most recent violence committed by an undocumented immigrant in California, with critics blaming sanctuary policies for letting him stay in the country. The 2015 killing of Kathryn \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11624387/how-a-san-francisco-killing-became-part-of-the-u-s-immigration-debate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steinle\u003c/a> sparked similar outrage over San Francisco policies that limited cooperation with immigration authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sharing Release Information\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s sanctuary law allows agencies to publicly post release information about an undocumented inmate if they publish such information for all inmates in their custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of sheriff’s departments already had a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11658435/california-attorney-general-sanctuary-law-doesnt-prohibit-police-from-talking-to-ice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">practice\u003c/a> of posting release information online before the law passed, but the Asian Law Caucus found that some departments adopted the practice afterwards, specifically so they could share information with immigration officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other sheriff’s departments are mis-interpreting the rules on sharing information with ICE, Chan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What some sheriffs are doing is that they’re saying, ‘Because we’ve posted all of these release dates online that means now they’re publicly available, and so we can go ahead and specifically contact ICE or respond to ICE with a release date for a specific person,'” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-two counties publicly posted release information for all inmates held in county jails as of Jan. 27, 2019.\u003cbr>\n\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/11735694/californias-sanctuary-law-drives-down-immigration-arrests-at-jails-by-41-percent","authors":["6625"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_21027","news_21072","news_23272","news_22999","news_20529"],"featImg":"news_11315414","label":"news_72"},"news_11690601":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11690601","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11690601","score":null,"sort":[1536235249000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"toddlers-death-after-detention-casts-doubt-on-medical-care-for-migrant-families","title":"Toddler's Death After ICE Detention Casts Doubt on Medical Care for Migrant Families","publishDate":1536235249,"format":"image","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>[dropcap]A[/dropcap]dvocates for immigrant children in California and beyond are raising concerns about medical care in family detention centers run by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, after news that a toddler who got sick in ICE custody subsequently died. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 2,000 parents and children are currently being held in three ICE family detention facilities. Among them are roughly 220 children who were reunited with their parents on the orders of a federal judge in San Diego, reversing a government strategy of separating families at the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Advocates Claim ICE Staff Fails to Treat Serious or Chronic Illness\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At the \u003ca href=\"http://www.correctionscorp.com/facilities/south-texas-family-residential-center\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">South Texas Family Residential Center\u003c/a> in Dilley, Texas, the largest of the three family detention centers, advocates have long complained that medical care is inadequate. The allegation snapped into focus in August, when reports surfaced that a 19-month-old Guatemalan girl, who had been detained there with her mother, died just weeks after the family's release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mariee Juarez contracted a respiratory infection a week after she arrived at the Dilley detention center in March. Her mother, Yazmin Juarez, took her to the hospital after they were released but by then her condition was so severe that she died May 10. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mariee’s mother plans to sue ICE for failing to treat the girl. An August 28 \u003ca href=\"https://www.arnoldporter.com/en/perspectives/news/2018/08/ap-files-claim-on-behalf-of-mother\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">claim\u003c/a> notice, filed by her attorneys, alleges that insufficient care at the center caused the toddler’s death. The family is seeking $40 million in damages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of kids, and mothers as well, aren't getting the medical care that they need,\" said Katy Murdza, the advocacy coordinator for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.immigrationjustice.us/volunteeropportunities/dilley-pro-bono-project\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dilley Pro Bono Project\u003c/a>, a non-profit that provides legal help to thousands of families who pass through the facility each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Murdza said the news of the toddler’s death shortly after her release was devastating but not surprising, given what advocates witness daily. She said mothers complain that medical staff rebuff their requests for care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People ... consistently bring their children back, saying ‘I haven't seen my child this sick, I really think there's something bigger going on here.’ And the medical staff [are] just continuing to give them Vick's VapoRub and saying, to ‘drink more water,’\" said Murdza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers with the American Immigration Council and the American Immigration Lawyers Association have filed formal \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/news/deplorable-medical-treatment-family-detention-centers\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">complaints\u003c/a> with ICE almost daily since the facility opened in 2014, following a surge of families fleeing violence in Central America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Murdza said the lawyers request better care for sick detainees, \"and about once a week, we're saying ‘We don't believe this family should be here at all. They have a condition that your medical staff isn't able to treat here.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>ICE Officials Tout Investments, Commitment to Medical Care\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A statement from ICE says the agency spends $250 million a year on comprehensive health care for all detainees, and “takes very seriously the health, safety and welfare of those in our care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statement goes on:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>ICE is committed to ensuring the welfare of all those in the agency’s custody, including providing access to necessary and appropriate medical care. Comprehensive medical care is provided to all individuals in ICE custody. Staffing includes registered nurses and licensed practical nurses, licensed mental health providers, mid-level providers that include a physician’s assistant and nurse practitioner, a physician, dental care, and access to 24-hour emergency care.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The agency also points to a June 2017 \u003ca href=\"https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/assets/2017/OIG-17-65-Jun17.pdf?utm_source=E-mail+Updates&utm_campaign=e1d1c3e779-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_7dc4c5d977-e1d1c3e779-45096257\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">report\u003c/a> by the Department of Homeland Security’s Inspector General that found family residential centers “clean, well-organized, and efficiently run.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Peter Schey, a Los Angeles attorney advocating for the humane treatment of migrant children, says ICE is understaffed and under pressure to keep costs down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think one of the ways they keep costs down is by not providing adequate medical attention to the children who are in these facilities,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schey is part of a legal team for plaintiffs in a 1997 consent decree known as the Flores settlement agreement, that governs the care of children in immigration custody. He said ICE does not have to keep parents and children locked up. Instead, officials could return to their previous practice of paroling families from custody to await their immigration court hearings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For decades various administrations released parents with the children shortly after apprehension,\" Schey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE was holding 2,185 adults and children in family detention, as of Aug. 21, according to an agency spokeswoman. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The South Texas Family Residential Center held 1,684 people. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detention-facility/karnes-county-residential-center#wcm-survey-target-id\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Karnes County Residential Center\u003c/a> in Texas held 461, and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detention-facility/berks-family-residential-center\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Berks County Residential Center\u003c/a>, in Pennsylvania, had 40 residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump administration officials have signaled their intention to expand ICE’s capacity to detain families. In June, immigration authorities issued a notice that they may seek up to 15,000 beds to detain families. The judge overseeing the Flores agreement has ruled that children should not be held in locked facilities such as these for more than 20 days.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The child’s death raises questions and criticism on the adequacy of care for migrant families in detention at a time when the Trump administration has signaled it wants to expand the practice of detaining children with their parents.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1536201567,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":856},"headData":{"title":"Toddler's Death After ICE Detention Casts Doubt on Medical Care for Migrant Families | KQED","description":"The child’s death raises questions and criticism on the adequacy of care for migrant families in detention at a time when the Trump administration has signaled it wants to expand the practice of detaining children with their parents.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Toddler's Death After ICE Detention Casts Doubt on Medical Care for Migrant Families","datePublished":"2018-09-06T12:00:49.000Z","dateModified":"2018-09-06T02:39:27.000Z","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":"11690601 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11690601","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/09/06/toddlers-death-after-detention-casts-doubt-on-medical-care-for-migrant-families/","disqusTitle":"Toddler's Death After ICE Detention Casts Doubt on Medical Care for Migrant Families","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2018/09/TCRAM20180905SmallICEChildDetention.mp3","audioTrackLength":132,"path":"/news/11690601/toddlers-death-after-detention-casts-doubt-on-medical-care-for-migrant-families","audioDuration":146000,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">A\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>dvocates for immigrant children in California and beyond are raising concerns about medical care in family detention centers run by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, after news that a toddler who got sick in ICE custody subsequently died. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 2,000 parents and children are currently being held in three ICE family detention facilities. Among them are roughly 220 children who were reunited with their parents on the orders of a federal judge in San Diego, reversing a government strategy of separating families at the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Advocates Claim ICE Staff Fails to Treat Serious or Chronic Illness\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At the \u003ca href=\"http://www.correctionscorp.com/facilities/south-texas-family-residential-center\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">South Texas Family Residential Center\u003c/a> in Dilley, Texas, the largest of the three family detention centers, advocates have long complained that medical care is inadequate. The allegation snapped into focus in August, when reports surfaced that a 19-month-old Guatemalan girl, who had been detained there with her mother, died just weeks after the family's release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mariee Juarez contracted a respiratory infection a week after she arrived at the Dilley detention center in March. Her mother, Yazmin Juarez, took her to the hospital after they were released but by then her condition was so severe that she died May 10. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mariee’s mother plans to sue ICE for failing to treat the girl. An August 28 \u003ca href=\"https://www.arnoldporter.com/en/perspectives/news/2018/08/ap-files-claim-on-behalf-of-mother\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">claim\u003c/a> notice, filed by her attorneys, alleges that insufficient care at the center caused the toddler’s death. The family is seeking $40 million in damages.\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>\"A lot of kids, and mothers as well, aren't getting the medical care that they need,\" said Katy Murdza, the advocacy coordinator for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.immigrationjustice.us/volunteeropportunities/dilley-pro-bono-project\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dilley Pro Bono Project\u003c/a>, a non-profit that provides legal help to thousands of families who pass through the facility each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Murdza said the news of the toddler’s death shortly after her release was devastating but not surprising, given what advocates witness daily. She said mothers complain that medical staff rebuff their requests for care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People ... consistently bring their children back, saying ‘I haven't seen my child this sick, I really think there's something bigger going on here.’ And the medical staff [are] just continuing to give them Vick's VapoRub and saying, to ‘drink more water,’\" said Murdza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers with the American Immigration Council and the American Immigration Lawyers Association have filed formal \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/news/deplorable-medical-treatment-family-detention-centers\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">complaints\u003c/a> with ICE almost daily since the facility opened in 2014, following a surge of families fleeing violence in Central America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Murdza said the lawyers request better care for sick detainees, \"and about once a week, we're saying ‘We don't believe this family should be here at all. They have a condition that your medical staff isn't able to treat here.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>ICE Officials Tout Investments, Commitment to Medical Care\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A statement from ICE says the agency spends $250 million a year on comprehensive health care for all detainees, and “takes very seriously the health, safety and welfare of those in our care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statement goes on:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>ICE is committed to ensuring the welfare of all those in the agency’s custody, including providing access to necessary and appropriate medical care. Comprehensive medical care is provided to all individuals in ICE custody. Staffing includes registered nurses and licensed practical nurses, licensed mental health providers, mid-level providers that include a physician’s assistant and nurse practitioner, a physician, dental care, and access to 24-hour emergency care.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The agency also points to a June 2017 \u003ca href=\"https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/assets/2017/OIG-17-65-Jun17.pdf?utm_source=E-mail+Updates&utm_campaign=e1d1c3e779-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_7dc4c5d977-e1d1c3e779-45096257\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">report\u003c/a> by the Department of Homeland Security’s Inspector General that found family residential centers “clean, well-organized, and efficiently run.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Peter Schey, a Los Angeles attorney advocating for the humane treatment of migrant children, says ICE is understaffed and under pressure to keep costs down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think one of the ways they keep costs down is by not providing adequate medical attention to the children who are in these facilities,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schey is part of a legal team for plaintiffs in a 1997 consent decree known as the Flores settlement agreement, that governs the care of children in immigration custody. He said ICE does not have to keep parents and children locked up. Instead, officials could return to their previous practice of paroling families from custody to await their immigration court hearings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For decades various administrations released parents with the children shortly after apprehension,\" Schey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE was holding 2,185 adults and children in family detention, as of Aug. 21, according to an agency spokeswoman. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The South Texas Family Residential Center held 1,684 people. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detention-facility/karnes-county-residential-center#wcm-survey-target-id\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Karnes County Residential Center\u003c/a> in Texas held 461, and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detention-facility/berks-family-residential-center\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Berks County Residential Center\u003c/a>, in Pennsylvania, had 40 residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump administration officials have signaled their intention to expand ICE’s capacity to detain families. In June, immigration authorities issued a notice that they may seek up to 15,000 beds to detain families. The judge overseeing the Flores agreement has ruled that children should not be held in locked facilities such as these for more than 20 days.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11690601/toddlers-death-after-detention-casts-doubt-on-medical-care-for-migrant-families","authors":["6625"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_457","news_1169","news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_23720","news_23456","news_22527","news_23628","news_21504","news_6904","news_20606","news_23687","news_22215","news_20579","news_23454","news_21072","news_23792","news_23838","news_23978","news_17041"],"featImg":"news_11690734","label":"news_72"},"news_11688241":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11688241","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11688241","score":null,"sort":[1535138246000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"attorneys-say-streamlined-hearings-in-san-diego-court-violate-immigrants-rights","title":"Attorneys Say 'Streamlined' Hearings in San Diego Court Violate Immigrants' Rights","publishDate":1535138246,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Criminal charges against migrants entering the U.S. illegally have spiked in California since the Trump administration adopted its \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1049751/download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">zero tolerance\u003c/a> policy in the spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The increase in cases has led to dramatic changes in the federal court that handles them -- changes defense attorneys say violate the due process rights of undocumented immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Attorney's Office\u003c/a> for the Southern District of California went from bringing 50 charges for illegal entry each month to prosecuting more than 150 cases a week, according to the Federal Defenders of San Diego, the publicly funded agency that represents many migrants in criminal proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jump in cases has filled federal jails along the border and forced some court proceedings to last late into the night. To cope, in July the federal district court in San Diego agreed to a Justice Department request to designate a separate courtroom where judges could arraign and sentence the migrants in a single day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These speedy mass hearings, better known as Operation Streamline, were adopted in other southern border states starting in 2005. The federal court in San Diego was the lone holdout until early July, when the changes took effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys with \u003ca href=\"https://fdsdi.com/mission_statement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Federal Defenders of San Diego\u003c/a> opposed the move and still do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You are entitled to due process,” said attorney Leila Morgan. “It's not just about what's fast and what's easy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Operation Streamline, Morgan said migrants rarely faced charges for entering the U.S. illegally and usually only if they had a serious criminal history. The court proceedings, from charging to sentencing, could take a couple of weeks. Now all of that happens in a single day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Federal Defenders, who normally decline to go on the record, allowed KQED to follow a group of staff attorneys through a day of proceedings in the new court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11688391\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11688391\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DefenderMain-800x543.jpg\" alt=\"Leila Morgan is one of the attorneys defending migrants facing federal criminal charges for illegal entry in San Diego.\" width=\"800\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DefenderMain-800x543.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DefenderMain-160x109.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DefenderMain-1020x693.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DefenderMain-1200x815.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DefenderMain.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DefenderMain-1180x801.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DefenderMain-960x652.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DefenderMain-240x163.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DefenderMain-375x255.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DefenderMain-520x353.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leila Morgan is one of the attorneys defending migrants facing federal criminal charges for illegal entry in San Diego. \u003ccite>(Julie Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Day in Defense of Migrants\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leila Morgan, Ben Davis and Roxana Sandoval are part of the team within the Federal Defenders office dedicated to handling the increased caseload.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>8:40 a.m.: Case Assignments\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First thing Monday morning, Morgan, Davis and Sandoval were waiting to receive an email from the court assigning them cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes we wait, and sometimes we go get coffee,” Morgan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They opted for java, but a couple of blocks out, Morgan exclaimed, “Guys, we got our email!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three attorneys were soon scrolling through a list of cases on their smartphones. Morgan counted a total of 50 defendants. Each defender was assigned four cases, and the remainder went to private lawyers who also represent migrants who can’t afford their own attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Davis dashed into a store to buy bottles of water, Morgan and Sandoval joined a half-dozen people lined up to enter the courthouse. U.S. marshals were expected to bring the defendants to meeting rooms, and the attorneys wanted to be there, waiting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>9:30 a.m.: Meeting With Clients\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Monday is the busiest day,” Morgan explained, “because it’s everyone who was arrested from 6 a.m. Friday morning until 6 a.m. this morning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defense attorneys would get just 45 minutes to interview each person they'd represent later that day in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s not very much time, when you think about everything we have to accomplish,” Morgan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After three hours, Morgan and Davis emerged from the courthouse looking a little worn. Declining to talk about the specifics of their cases for confidentiality reasons, they said the types of cases were “fairly typical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also typical: The U.S. attorney had offered to release most of the clients if they would plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of illegal entry. Most of the defendants opted to do so in order to get out of jail. Then they would most likely be transferred to the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's mostly folks with minimal or little criminal record, minimal or zero deportation history either,” Davis said. “They're people who just a few months ago would have been processed for deportation and told, 'You know, you can't be in the country.' But now they're trying to give them criminal convictions that can affect the rest their lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis doubted whether his clients understood that they were being criminally prosecuted or that a guilty plea could prevent them from ever returning to the U.S. legally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>12:45 p.m.: Lunch at 'The Sandbox'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorneys have roughly an hour each day to eat lunch, which they usually do together at a table in a dusty yard between the courthouses they affectionately call “The Sandbox.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawyers have developed a practice of raising objections to the judge at every possible opportunity. It’s a way to put into the court record their belief that the expedited hearings violate their clients’ rights. At lunch, they strategized about how to do that without running afoul of the judge’s rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately, I think we have to obey the protocol or be held in contempt,” Davis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lunch also served as a time to blow off steam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis pushed a bag of M&M cookies out of reach, exclaiming, “Get those away from me!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do a lot of eating our feelings,\" Morgan said, laughing. She and her colleagues say they find Operation Streamline discouraging and unjust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After an hour, the defenders swept up their lunch trash and headed to court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11688394\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11688394\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/ICEBus-800x512.jpg\" alt=\"Migrants facing criminal charges for entering the U.S. illegally are bused to the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown San Diego.\" width=\"800\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/ICEBus-800x512.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/ICEBus-160x102.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/ICEBus-1020x652.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/ICEBus-1200x768.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/ICEBus.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/ICEBus-1180x755.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/ICEBus-960x614.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/ICEBus-240x154.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/ICEBus-375x240.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/ICEBus-520x333.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Migrants facing criminal charges for entering the U.S. illegally are bused to the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown San Diego. \u003ccite>(Julie Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2 p.m.: The '1325' Court\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Courtroom 2A is on the second floor of a squat cement building with tinted windows and bare of decor. Every afternoon from 2 p.m., the presiding judge hears only one kind of case: misdemeanor charges against migrants for illegal entry into the United States. Defense attorneys call it the “1325” court, for the section of the federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1325\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statute\u003c/a> that sets out charges and fines for the crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of magistrate judges rotates through 2A. On the day KQED observed, Judge Barbara Major presided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Each of you are here because the United States has charged you with the misdemeanor crime of improper entry by an alien,” Major told a group of defendants sitting in a jury box, shackled at the ankles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the course of the next three hours, Major arraigned, sentenced and set bond for about a dozen people at a time. The Federal Defenders raised objection after objection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, Sandoval objected to a new rule judges have implemented that limits motions by defense attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand the court’s orders that we're not allowed to raise motions,” Sandoval said. “And if we would like to ...”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You are allowed to,” Major responded. “You just have to do it in writing. And it can't be today. I'm not going to get through my criminal calendar as it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the new system, federal marshals bring migrants to the court directly from Border Patrol stations, where many detainees say they do not get enough food or sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandoval questioned whether the conditions of her client’s confinement could be a form of coercion, pushing him to plead guilty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To which Major, clearly exasperated, said, “Stop! Which one? Does he want to plead guilty today?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He does,” Sandoval said. “But I just haven't had ...”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“OK,” Major interrupted. “Then we're good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Major decided to hold Sandoval's two cases over another day. She said she could not accept a plea unless it was made willingly and knowingly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 5 p.m., Judge Major announced that the court had run out of time and she would carry over the cases of roughly a dozen defendants. These clients would spend another night in jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>6:30 p.m.: Regroup at the Federal Defenders Office\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morgan, Davis and Sandoval retrieved their belongings and headed for home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis left to help his wife, who was taking care of their newborn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morgan needed to get home to her 11-month-old twins, but she and Sandoval stayed a few minutes longer to discuss what had happened in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new court procedures put defense attorneys and judges at cross-purposes, Sandoval said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a tension: We want to make sure that we are asserting our client's rights during their initial appearance,” she said. But the court’s interest “is to make sure that these clients are processed as quickly as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandoval said that friction was evident in the courtroom where Judge Major had “50-plus matters on calendar and not enough time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morgan echoed that concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This separate court is just about processing a number of cases as quickly as possible,” she said. “The only way that happens is when people are complicit in giving up the rights that their clients have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morgan said Federal Defenders plans to keep pushing back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our plan honestly is to keep it up until either we’re all held in contempt, or we're shackled ourselves, or until this stops,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why Adopt Operation Streamline Now?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear why \u003ca href=\"https://www.casd.uscourts.gov/SitePages/Judges.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barry Moskowitz\u003c/a>, the chief judge of the federal court in San Diego, agreed to the expedited hearings. Moskowitz declined to answer questions about the changes at the court and did not issue a public order when they took effect in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, Moskowitz convened a \u003ca href=\"https://www.casd.uscourts.gov/Rules/GeneralOrders/Lists/General%20Orders/Attachments/205/General%20Order%20671%20Criminal%20Case%20Management%20Committee.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">committee\u003c/a> of judges and attorneys to discuss how to handle the increased caseload under the Trump administration's zero tolerance policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The U.S. Attorney has advised the Court that he intends to substantially increase the prosecution of illegal entry cases, including at least 100 misdemeanor cases a week,\" Moskowitz wrote in a court order. \"The increase has and will cause strains, issues and problems.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Federal Defenders office won some concessions, such as setting a maximum caseload of four clients for each of its attorneys. Federal prosecutors also agreed that if they could not provide clients’ records to defense attorneys by a daily deadline, they would drop the charges. An unknown number of cases have been dismissed since Operation Streamline took effect in San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Prosecutions of Other Federal Crimes\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics believe the administration’s policy of prosecuting all illegal border-crossers is a misuse of resources that has resulted in a drop in prosecutions for more serious drug and trafficking crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent \u003ca href=\"http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/524/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report\u003c/a> by \u003ca href=\"http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse\u003c/a>, a data research organization at Syracuse University, found that in border region courts the number of prosecutions of non-immigration related crimes dropped from a total of 1,093 in March 2018 to 703 prosecutions in June 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unless crimes are suddenly less prevalent in the districts along the southwest border, the odds of being prosecuted for many federal offenses have declined,” the report found. “The declining number of prosecutions has already begun to show up in the Southern District of California, in New Mexico, and in the Southern District of Texas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of California disputed the TRAC findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an Aug. 10 email, Kelly Thornton wrote, “Our overall prosecutions of non-immigration matters are on track to exceed last year’s.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"As part of effort called Operation Streamline, court aims to arraign and sentence defendants in a single day. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1535153628,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":72,"wordCount":1991},"headData":{"title":"Attorneys Say 'Streamlined' Hearings in San Diego Court Violate Immigrants' Rights | KQED","description":"As part of effort called Operation Streamline, court aims to arraign and sentence defendants in a single day. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Attorneys Say 'Streamlined' Hearings in San Diego Court Violate Immigrants' Rights","datePublished":"2018-08-24T19:17:26.000Z","dateModified":"2018-08-24T23:33:48.000Z","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":"11688241 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11688241","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/08/24/attorneys-say-streamlined-hearings-in-san-diego-court-violate-immigrants-rights/","disqusTitle":"Attorneys Say 'Streamlined' Hearings in San Diego Court Violate Immigrants' Rights","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2018/08/SmallFederalDefendersTCRAM180824.mp3","audioTrackLength":248,"path":"/news/11688241/attorneys-say-streamlined-hearings-in-san-diego-court-violate-immigrants-rights","audioDuration":264000,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Criminal charges against migrants entering the U.S. illegally have spiked in California since the Trump administration adopted its \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1049751/download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">zero tolerance\u003c/a> policy in the spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The increase in cases has led to dramatic changes in the federal court that handles them -- changes defense attorneys say violate the due process rights of undocumented immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Attorney's Office\u003c/a> for the Southern District of California went from bringing 50 charges for illegal entry each month to prosecuting more than 150 cases a week, according to the Federal Defenders of San Diego, the publicly funded agency that represents many migrants in criminal proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jump in cases has filled federal jails along the border and forced some court proceedings to last late into the night. To cope, in July the federal district court in San Diego agreed to a Justice Department request to designate a separate courtroom where judges could arraign and sentence the migrants in a single day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These speedy mass hearings, better known as Operation Streamline, were adopted in other southern border states starting in 2005. The federal court in San Diego was the lone holdout until early July, when the changes took effect.\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>Attorneys with \u003ca href=\"https://fdsdi.com/mission_statement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Federal Defenders of San Diego\u003c/a> opposed the move and still do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You are entitled to due process,” said attorney Leila Morgan. “It's not just about what's fast and what's easy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Operation Streamline, Morgan said migrants rarely faced charges for entering the U.S. illegally and usually only if they had a serious criminal history. The court proceedings, from charging to sentencing, could take a couple of weeks. Now all of that happens in a single day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Federal Defenders, who normally decline to go on the record, allowed KQED to follow a group of staff attorneys through a day of proceedings in the new court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11688391\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11688391\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DefenderMain-800x543.jpg\" alt=\"Leila Morgan is one of the attorneys defending migrants facing federal criminal charges for illegal entry in San Diego.\" width=\"800\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DefenderMain-800x543.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DefenderMain-160x109.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DefenderMain-1020x693.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DefenderMain-1200x815.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DefenderMain.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DefenderMain-1180x801.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DefenderMain-960x652.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DefenderMain-240x163.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DefenderMain-375x255.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DefenderMain-520x353.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leila Morgan is one of the attorneys defending migrants facing federal criminal charges for illegal entry in San Diego. \u003ccite>(Julie Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Day in Defense of Migrants\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leila Morgan, Ben Davis and Roxana Sandoval are part of the team within the Federal Defenders office dedicated to handling the increased caseload.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>8:40 a.m.: Case Assignments\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First thing Monday morning, Morgan, Davis and Sandoval were waiting to receive an email from the court assigning them cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes we wait, and sometimes we go get coffee,” Morgan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They opted for java, but a couple of blocks out, Morgan exclaimed, “Guys, we got our email!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three attorneys were soon scrolling through a list of cases on their smartphones. Morgan counted a total of 50 defendants. Each defender was assigned four cases, and the remainder went to private lawyers who also represent migrants who can’t afford their own attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Davis dashed into a store to buy bottles of water, Morgan and Sandoval joined a half-dozen people lined up to enter the courthouse. U.S. marshals were expected to bring the defendants to meeting rooms, and the attorneys wanted to be there, waiting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>9:30 a.m.: Meeting With Clients\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Monday is the busiest day,” Morgan explained, “because it’s everyone who was arrested from 6 a.m. Friday morning until 6 a.m. this morning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defense attorneys would get just 45 minutes to interview each person they'd represent later that day in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s not very much time, when you think about everything we have to accomplish,” Morgan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After three hours, Morgan and Davis emerged from the courthouse looking a little worn. Declining to talk about the specifics of their cases for confidentiality reasons, they said the types of cases were “fairly typical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also typical: The U.S. attorney had offered to release most of the clients if they would plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of illegal entry. Most of the defendants opted to do so in order to get out of jail. Then they would most likely be transferred to the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's mostly folks with minimal or little criminal record, minimal or zero deportation history either,” Davis said. “They're people who just a few months ago would have been processed for deportation and told, 'You know, you can't be in the country.' But now they're trying to give them criminal convictions that can affect the rest their lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis doubted whether his clients understood that they were being criminally prosecuted or that a guilty plea could prevent them from ever returning to the U.S. legally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>12:45 p.m.: Lunch at 'The Sandbox'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorneys have roughly an hour each day to eat lunch, which they usually do together at a table in a dusty yard between the courthouses they affectionately call “The Sandbox.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawyers have developed a practice of raising objections to the judge at every possible opportunity. It’s a way to put into the court record their belief that the expedited hearings violate their clients’ rights. At lunch, they strategized about how to do that without running afoul of the judge’s rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately, I think we have to obey the protocol or be held in contempt,” Davis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lunch also served as a time to blow off steam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis pushed a bag of M&M cookies out of reach, exclaiming, “Get those away from me!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do a lot of eating our feelings,\" Morgan said, laughing. She and her colleagues say they find Operation Streamline discouraging and unjust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After an hour, the defenders swept up their lunch trash and headed to court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11688394\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11688394\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/ICEBus-800x512.jpg\" alt=\"Migrants facing criminal charges for entering the U.S. illegally are bused to the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown San Diego.\" width=\"800\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/ICEBus-800x512.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/ICEBus-160x102.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/ICEBus-1020x652.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/ICEBus-1200x768.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/ICEBus.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/ICEBus-1180x755.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/ICEBus-960x614.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/ICEBus-240x154.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/ICEBus-375x240.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/ICEBus-520x333.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Migrants facing criminal charges for entering the U.S. illegally are bused to the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown San Diego. \u003ccite>(Julie Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2 p.m.: The '1325' Court\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Courtroom 2A is on the second floor of a squat cement building with tinted windows and bare of decor. Every afternoon from 2 p.m., the presiding judge hears only one kind of case: misdemeanor charges against migrants for illegal entry into the United States. Defense attorneys call it the “1325” court, for the section of the federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1325\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statute\u003c/a> that sets out charges and fines for the crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of magistrate judges rotates through 2A. On the day KQED observed, Judge Barbara Major presided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Each of you are here because the United States has charged you with the misdemeanor crime of improper entry by an alien,” Major told a group of defendants sitting in a jury box, shackled at the ankles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the course of the next three hours, Major arraigned, sentenced and set bond for about a dozen people at a time. The Federal Defenders raised objection after objection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, Sandoval objected to a new rule judges have implemented that limits motions by defense attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand the court’s orders that we're not allowed to raise motions,” Sandoval said. “And if we would like to ...”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You are allowed to,” Major responded. “You just have to do it in writing. And it can't be today. I'm not going to get through my criminal calendar as it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the new system, federal marshals bring migrants to the court directly from Border Patrol stations, where many detainees say they do not get enough food or sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandoval questioned whether the conditions of her client’s confinement could be a form of coercion, pushing him to plead guilty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To which Major, clearly exasperated, said, “Stop! Which one? Does he want to plead guilty today?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He does,” Sandoval said. “But I just haven't had ...”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“OK,” Major interrupted. “Then we're good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Major decided to hold Sandoval's two cases over another day. She said she could not accept a plea unless it was made willingly and knowingly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 5 p.m., Judge Major announced that the court had run out of time and she would carry over the cases of roughly a dozen defendants. These clients would spend another night in jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>6:30 p.m.: Regroup at the Federal Defenders Office\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morgan, Davis and Sandoval retrieved their belongings and headed for home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis left to help his wife, who was taking care of their newborn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morgan needed to get home to her 11-month-old twins, but she and Sandoval stayed a few minutes longer to discuss what had happened in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new court procedures put defense attorneys and judges at cross-purposes, Sandoval said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a tension: We want to make sure that we are asserting our client's rights during their initial appearance,” she said. But the court’s interest “is to make sure that these clients are processed as quickly as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandoval said that friction was evident in the courtroom where Judge Major had “50-plus matters on calendar and not enough time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morgan echoed that concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This separate court is just about processing a number of cases as quickly as possible,” she said. “The only way that happens is when people are complicit in giving up the rights that their clients have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morgan said Federal Defenders plans to keep pushing back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our plan honestly is to keep it up until either we’re all held in contempt, or we're shackled ourselves, or until this stops,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why Adopt Operation Streamline Now?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear why \u003ca href=\"https://www.casd.uscourts.gov/SitePages/Judges.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barry Moskowitz\u003c/a>, the chief judge of the federal court in San Diego, agreed to the expedited hearings. Moskowitz declined to answer questions about the changes at the court and did not issue a public order when they took effect in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, Moskowitz convened a \u003ca href=\"https://www.casd.uscourts.gov/Rules/GeneralOrders/Lists/General%20Orders/Attachments/205/General%20Order%20671%20Criminal%20Case%20Management%20Committee.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">committee\u003c/a> of judges and attorneys to discuss how to handle the increased caseload under the Trump administration's zero tolerance policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The U.S. Attorney has advised the Court that he intends to substantially increase the prosecution of illegal entry cases, including at least 100 misdemeanor cases a week,\" Moskowitz wrote in a court order. \"The increase has and will cause strains, issues and problems.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Federal Defenders office won some concessions, such as setting a maximum caseload of four clients for each of its attorneys. Federal prosecutors also agreed that if they could not provide clients’ records to defense attorneys by a daily deadline, they would drop the charges. An unknown number of cases have been dismissed since Operation Streamline took effect in San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Prosecutions of Other Federal Crimes\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics believe the administration’s policy of prosecuting all illegal border-crossers is a misuse of resources that has resulted in a drop in prosecutions for more serious drug and trafficking crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent \u003ca href=\"http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/524/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report\u003c/a> by \u003ca href=\"http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse\u003c/a>, a data research organization at Syracuse University, found that in border region courts the number of prosecutions of non-immigration related crimes dropped from a total of 1,093 in March 2018 to 703 prosecutions in June 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unless crimes are suddenly less prevalent in the districts along the southwest border, the odds of being prosecuted for many federal offenses have declined,” the report found. “The declining number of prosecutions has already begun to show up in the Southern District of California, in New Mexico, and in the Southern District of Texas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of California disputed the TRAC findings.\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>In an Aug. 10 email, Kelly Thornton wrote, “Our overall prosecutions of non-immigration matters are on track to exceed last year’s.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11688241/attorneys-say-streamlined-hearings-in-san-diego-court-violate-immigrants-rights","authors":["6625"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_1169","news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_23687","news_21072","news_23796"],"affiliates":["news_7054","news_253"],"featImg":"news_11684315","label":"news_72"},"news_11440627":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11440627","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11440627","score":null,"sort":[1505149233000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"could-congress-and-california-thwart-trumps-mass-immigration-detention-plans","title":"Could Congress and California Thwart Trump's Mass Immigration Detention Plans?","publishDate":1505149233,"format":"image","headTitle":"Could Congress and California Thwart Trump’s Mass Immigration Detention Plans? | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Sept. 15, 2017\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill passed the state Senate and Assembly and now goes to the governor who has until Oct. 15 to decide whether to enact it into law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Sept. 8, 2017\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s legislators amended a bill on Friday that would have phased out immigration detention contracts at private prisons. Now, the bill, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SB 29\u003c/a>, would only bar local governments from renewing their contracts with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement if they sought to expand the number of beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are four privately run immigration detention facilities in California: Adelanto Correctional Facility north of San Bernardino, Mesa Verde Detention Facility in Bakersfield, Otay Mesa Detention Center near San Diego and the Imperial Regional Detention Facility south of Calexico. About 3,950 people were detained in those facilities on an average day in fiscal year 2017, according to data from ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would still prohibit local governments from entering into new contracts with ICE to hold detainees after Jan. 1, 2018. It also would hold the facilities to a higher standard of care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, May 5, 2017\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Inauguration Day, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has detained thousands of undocumented immigrants across the country. But now the administration might have to scale back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new budget bill authorizes spending for only about 5,000 new detention beds and 100 additional immigration officers throughout the United States. Earlier this year, President Trump \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/03/17/immigration-judges-to-be-sent-to-border-detention-centers/\">had asked\u003c/a> for far more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, state legislators in California are also finding new ways to thwart detention expansion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Trump administration and their stated goal to deport millions of U.S. residents would require a mass expansion of detention centers,” says California state Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens). “California would obviously be one of the major states that would be impacted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lara has reintroduced a bill that would end private prison contracts in four California cities and would hold local counties and cities to a higher set of detention standards. But opponents say his plan would cost hundreds of jobs, while immigrant detainees would just go elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2017/05/immigration2.mp3\" title=\"Trump Administration and Lawmakers Tussle Over Detention Standards\" program=\"The California Report\" image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS22944_GettyImages-450371255-qut.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Immigration and the Budget Battle\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Following \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/13/us/detained-immigrants-may-face-harsher-conditions-under-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">media reports\u003c/a> that the Trump administration was going to scrap Obama-era detention standards, congressional leaders are making funding for ICE contingent on keeping them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Obama administration established the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detention-standards/2011\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2011 Performance-Based National Detention Standards\u003c/a> for ICE to ensure that people awaiting their day in immigration court have access to legal services, medical and mental health care, recreation and a complaint process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE recently closed the division in charge of implementing those standards: the Office of Detention Policy and Planning. Kevin Landy, an Obama appointee, used to direct that work.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=”AoBtE9mz3Dxj2Jt0AupLumPTiYWdOGKg”]\u003cbr>\n“ICE detainees are powerless,” says Landy. “I think the federal government in this case needs to step up and make sure that it’s taking adequate care of the otherwise powerless people that it’s responsible for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Landy worries about any easing of standards at a time when the federal government is arresting more immigrants who have no history of crime. He says he’s especially concerned because “individuals with no criminal convictions are particularly vulnerable to physical and sexual assault, especially when you’re housing them in facilities that also detain convicted criminals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Detention facilities run by private companies and local jails would have to adhere to the 2011 standards if they significantly modify their current contracts or sign new ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, about two-thirds of adult detainees are covered by the higher 2011 standards, mostly at large private prisons. Some local jails are allowed to follow a looser set of rules. On an average day in November 40,875 people were detained by ICE across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>ICE Says Standards Are Sufficient\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In a statement, spokeswoman Danielle Bennett wrote “detainees in ICE custody reside in safe and secure environments and under appropriate conditions of confinement”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Responding to questions about whether the agency is loosening detention standards, Bennett acknowledges that officials are “examining a variety of detention models” to expand the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As new options are explored, ICE’s commitment to maintaining excellent facilities and providing first-class medical care to those in our custody remains unchanged.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary Small, policy director at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Detention Watch Network\u003c/a>, says the current administration has shown it’s not too concerned about conditions for immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve already signaled to their detention contractors that they don’t take this stuff seriously and it’s not important to them,” Small says. “And so they’ve given folks free rein to cut corners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, none of the California jails detaining immigrants for ICE have agreed to meet the agency’s 2011 level of care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jails in Contra Costa, Orange, Sacramento, San Bernardino and Yuba counties all hold long-standing contracts with ICE, along with a handful of city jails in Los Angeles County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fiscal year 2016 those jails combined held on average nearly 1,400 immigrants a day, with thousands more passing through facilities every year, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/03/08/how-trump-could-detain-more-immigrants-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to data from ICE\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In exchange, the counties and cities receive millions of dollars from ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>State Senator Says California Jails Must Improve Conditions\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>California jails are facing complaints, even lawsuits, for allegedly neglecting or abusing detainees and violating their due process rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the most recent example, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3514968-Management-Alert-on-Issues-Requiring-Immediate.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ICE inspectors found\u003c/a> dirty moldy facilities at the Theo Lacy jail in Orange County, and rotten meat being served to detainees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Lara says the jails must do better. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">His bill\u003c/a> would force them to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Access to medication, being able to call an attorney, call family or a friend, to let them know where they are housed — these are all minimum rights that any person that’s incarcerated currently has,” says Lara. “But not if you’re an immigrant, refugee or asylum seeker in a detention center in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2017/05/20170504ctcr.mp3\" title=\"As State Lawmakers Look to Change Immigration Detention Policies, What Will Happen to Adelanto?\" program=\"The California Report\" image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS17233_GettyImages-450371241-qut.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cory Salzillo, with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.calsheriffs.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California State Sheriffs’ Association\u003c/a>, says it’s not the state’s job. ICE sets the standards for immigrant detainees with local jails, and those standards are written into legally binding contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salzillo says that as long as the federal government continues to detain immigrants, they have to go somewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Say the Contra Costa beds went away for whatever reason, then those people are ostensibly going to be housed in Yuba or Sacramento or Orange County or a private facility, or out of state. You squeeze a water balloon and it’s going to show up somewhere else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those contracts are also very financially appealing to local municipalities, according to Daniel Stagemen, research director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.jjay.cuny.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Jay College of Criminal Justice\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Detentions are a really good way to fill those budget holes,” he says. “The temptation of this funding is going to be very difficult for some of these jurisdictions to resist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Ending Private Prison Contracts\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11440693\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11440693\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25061_GettyImages-450371267-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25061_GettyImages-450371267-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25061_GettyImages-450371267-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25061_GettyImages-450371267-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25061_GettyImages-450371267-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25061_GettyImages-450371267-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25061_GettyImages-450371267-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25061_GettyImages-450371267-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25061_GettyImages-450371267-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25061_GettyImages-450371267-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A family member walks into the Adelanto Detention Facility. \u003ccite>(John Moore/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Lara’s bill would end some of those contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state senator says he is opposed to how some California cities contract with ICE to detain undocumented immigrants in facilities run by private companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Immigration detention centers operate solely for the purpose to house immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers, which also make the local jurisdictions money, and I feel it’s just morally wrong for us to do that,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the bill passes, four California cities would be impacted: Adelanto, Calexico, Bakersfield and San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the high desert of Southern California, Adelanto is known as a prison town. It has more detention facilities than supermarkets.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003cstrong>Read Adelanto’s Letter of Opposition\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3696587-SB-1289-City-of-Adelanto-Oppose.html\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-11440832\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Screen-Shot-2017-05-04-at-6.18.45-PM-160x207.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Screen-Shot-2017-05-04-at-6.18.45-PM-160x207.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Screen-Shot-2017-05-04-at-6.18.45-PM-240x311.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Screen-Shot-2017-05-04-at-6.18.45-PM-375x485.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Screen-Shot-2017-05-04-at-6.18.45-PM-520x673.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Screen-Shot-2017-05-04-at-6.18.45-PM.png 626w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>For years Adelanto has depended on revenue from detention. The city of almost 33,000 receives about $4 million a month from Immigration and Customs Enforcement to hold detainees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the outside, Adelanto Detention Facility looks like a business park rising from the sand, rocks and scrub. It’s California’s biggest immigration detention facility, and can hold as many as 1,940 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the city of Adelanto holds the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3700660-Adelanto-ICE-Contract.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">contract\u003c/a> with ICE for the immigration detention facility, the private prison company \u003ca href=\"https://www.geogroup.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GEO Group\u003c/a> owns and operates it. In fact, GEO Group owns and operates two out of the three penitentiaries within the city limits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a great rapport with GEO,” says City Councilman John “Bug” Woodard. “They do a great job for our country, for our state, for our city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Advocates Troubled by Conditions at Adelanto Detention Facility\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But immigration advocates say they are very concerned about conditions at the Adelanto Detention Facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last five years, five people have died while detained at the Adelanto Detention Facility. Two of them died in the last six weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE’s own investigators found problems at the facility, including health care delays, poor record keeping and failures to properly report sexual assaults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3480650-Ddr-Morales.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">federal investigation\u003c/a> into one of the California deaths, inspectors noted that the person who died had waited more than a year to see a specialist, that the high turnover of medical staff led to inadequate care and that a dearth of laboratory services led to delays in treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Independent medical experts \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrw.org/report/2017/05/08/systemic-indifference/dangerous-substandard-medical-care-us-immigration-detention\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">for Human Rights Watch\u003c/a> analyzing ICE’s investigation found that the man probably suffered from the symptoms of cancer for two years.*\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocate Mary Small says that her organization has received a wide range of complaints about the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything from retaliatory punishment against people for demanding access to the law library and demanding the right to copy their legal documents, to some pretty serious medical complaints,” Small says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A New Kind of Economy?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11441930\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25063_GettyImages-607371924-qut-1.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11441930\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25063_GettyImages-607371924-qut-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25063_GettyImages-607371924-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25063_GettyImages-607371924-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25063_GettyImages-607371924-qut-1-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25063_GettyImages-607371924-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25063_GettyImages-607371924-qut-1-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25063_GettyImages-607371924-qut-1-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25063_GettyImages-607371924-qut-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25063_GettyImages-607371924-qut-1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25063_GettyImages-607371924-qut-1-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adelanto City Council Member John “Bug” Woodard, Jr., is framed by the branches of a native creosote bush on undeveloped desert land in the “green zone”, an area designated by the city for the development of industrial scale marijuana cultivation. \u003ccite>(David McNew/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A new majority on the City Council is pushing a different kind of business: Marijuana. Last year Adelanto became one of the first places in California to legalize commercially grown weed, issuing dozens of permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, \u003ca href=\"http://www.ocregister.com/2016/02/15/prison-town-goes-to-pot-desert-city-adelanto-hopes-cultivating-marijuana-will-save-it/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">investors and celebrities\u003c/a> like Tommy Chong (of Cheech and Chong), Ky-Mani Marley, one of Bob Marley’s sons, and other high-profile musicians and athletes are stopping in the little city off Highway 395. Taxes could potentially provide more than $1 million a month to Adelanto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council is weighing offers for land for marijuana cultivation and from the GEO Group, Woodard says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year an \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1289\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">identical bill\u003c/a> passed the state Assembly and Senate. Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed it, saying he wanted to see if the Department of Homeland Security would end for-profit contracts. At the time, the Obama administration was phasing out private prison contracts for federal detainees. Now, the Trump administration is on the opposite course. GEO Group’s stock is up 57 percent since January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woodard says that if Lara’s first bill had passed, it would have been disastrous for Adelanto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This city would be gone,” Woodard says. “You know we gotta pay for pensions and employees, I mean they would have to let off even more employees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The GEO detention facilities create about 500 full- and part-time jobs, Woodard wrote in a letter to the senator. The city also receives hundreds of thousands of dollars annually from property, sales and use taxes, an administration fee and funding for an additional law enforcement officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lara thinks his bill will succeed this time because of Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re in a completely different environment now,” Lara says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adelanto wouldn’t immediately lose its contract if SB 29 is signed into law. The bill phases out the contracts as they come up for renewal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The middle ground here is that we provide still an avenue for the detention of immigrants at the county level, where we can protect our rights, and we phase out with time the centers,” Lara says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Senate is set to vote at the end of May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>*This story was updated on May 8, 2017 with more information from a report by Human Rights Watch.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The president asked for more immigration detention beds and lower standards of care. Congress and California lawmakers are pushing back.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1687379725,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":67,"wordCount":2190},"headData":{"title":"Could Congress and California Thwart Trump's Mass Immigration Detention Plans? | KQED","description":"The president asked for more immigration detention beds and lower standards of care. Congress and California lawmakers are pushing back.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Could Congress and California Thwart Trump's Mass Immigration Detention Plans?","datePublished":"2017-09-11T17:00:33.000Z","dateModified":"2023-06-21T20:35:25.000Z","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"}}},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11440627/could-congress-and-california-thwart-trumps-mass-immigration-detention-plans","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Sept. 15, 2017\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill passed the state Senate and Assembly and now goes to the governor who has until Oct. 15 to decide whether to enact it into law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Sept. 8, 2017\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s legislators amended a bill on Friday that would have phased out immigration detention contracts at private prisons. Now, the bill, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SB 29\u003c/a>, would only bar local governments from renewing their contracts with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement if they sought to expand the number of beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are four privately run immigration detention facilities in California: Adelanto Correctional Facility north of San Bernardino, Mesa Verde Detention Facility in Bakersfield, Otay Mesa Detention Center near San Diego and the Imperial Regional Detention Facility south of Calexico. About 3,950 people were detained in those facilities on an average day in fiscal year 2017, according to data from ICE.\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 bill would still prohibit local governments from entering into new contracts with ICE to hold detainees after Jan. 1, 2018. It also would hold the facilities to a higher standard of care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, May 5, 2017\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Inauguration Day, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has detained thousands of undocumented immigrants across the country. But now the administration might have to scale back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new budget bill authorizes spending for only about 5,000 new detention beds and 100 additional immigration officers throughout the United States. Earlier this year, President Trump \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/03/17/immigration-judges-to-be-sent-to-border-detention-centers/\">had asked\u003c/a> for far more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, state legislators in California are also finding new ways to thwart detention expansion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Trump administration and their stated goal to deport millions of U.S. residents would require a mass expansion of detention centers,” says California state Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens). “California would obviously be one of the major states that would be impacted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lara has reintroduced a bill that would end private prison contracts in four California cities and would hold local counties and cities to a higher set of detention standards. But opponents say his plan would cost hundreds of jobs, while immigrant detainees would just go elsewhere.\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/tcr/2017/05/immigration2.mp3","title":"Trump Administration and Lawmakers Tussle Over Detention Standards","program":"The California Report","image":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS22944_GettyImages-450371255-qut.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Immigration and the Budget Battle\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Following \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/13/us/detained-immigrants-may-face-harsher-conditions-under-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">media reports\u003c/a> that the Trump administration was going to scrap Obama-era detention standards, congressional leaders are making funding for ICE contingent on keeping them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Obama administration established the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detention-standards/2011\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2011 Performance-Based National Detention Standards\u003c/a> for ICE to ensure that people awaiting their day in immigration court have access to legal services, medical and mental health care, recreation and a complaint process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE recently closed the division in charge of implementing those standards: the Office of Detention Policy and Planning. Kevin Landy, an Obama appointee, used to direct that work.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\n“ICE detainees are powerless,” says Landy. “I think the federal government in this case needs to step up and make sure that it’s taking adequate care of the otherwise powerless people that it’s responsible for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Landy worries about any easing of standards at a time when the federal government is arresting more immigrants who have no history of crime. He says he’s especially concerned because “individuals with no criminal convictions are particularly vulnerable to physical and sexual assault, especially when you’re housing them in facilities that also detain convicted criminals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Detention facilities run by private companies and local jails would have to adhere to the 2011 standards if they significantly modify their current contracts or sign new ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, about two-thirds of adult detainees are covered by the higher 2011 standards, mostly at large private prisons. Some local jails are allowed to follow a looser set of rules. On an average day in November 40,875 people were detained by ICE across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>ICE Says Standards Are Sufficient\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In a statement, spokeswoman Danielle Bennett wrote “detainees in ICE custody reside in safe and secure environments and under appropriate conditions of confinement”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Responding to questions about whether the agency is loosening detention standards, Bennett acknowledges that officials are “examining a variety of detention models” to expand the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As new options are explored, ICE’s commitment to maintaining excellent facilities and providing first-class medical care to those in our custody remains unchanged.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary Small, policy director at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Detention Watch Network\u003c/a>, says the current administration has shown it’s not too concerned about conditions for immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve already signaled to their detention contractors that they don’t take this stuff seriously and it’s not important to them,” Small says. “And so they’ve given folks free rein to cut corners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, none of the California jails detaining immigrants for ICE have agreed to meet the agency’s 2011 level of care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jails in Contra Costa, Orange, Sacramento, San Bernardino and Yuba counties all hold long-standing contracts with ICE, along with a handful of city jails in Los Angeles County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fiscal year 2016 those jails combined held on average nearly 1,400 immigrants a day, with thousands more passing through facilities every year, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/03/08/how-trump-could-detain-more-immigrants-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to data from ICE\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In exchange, the counties and cities receive millions of dollars from ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>State Senator Says California Jails Must Improve Conditions\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>California jails are facing complaints, even lawsuits, for allegedly neglecting or abusing detainees and violating their due process rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the most recent example, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3514968-Management-Alert-on-Issues-Requiring-Immediate.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ICE inspectors found\u003c/a> dirty moldy facilities at the Theo Lacy jail in Orange County, and rotten meat being served to detainees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Lara says the jails must do better. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">His bill\u003c/a> would force them to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Access to medication, being able to call an attorney, call family or a friend, to let them know where they are housed — these are all minimum rights that any person that’s incarcerated currently has,” says Lara. “But not if you’re an immigrant, refugee or asylum seeker in a detention center in California.”\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/tcr/2017/05/20170504ctcr.mp3","title":"As State Lawmakers Look to Change Immigration Detention Policies, What Will Happen to Adelanto?","program":"The California Report","image":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS17233_GettyImages-450371241-qut.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cory Salzillo, with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.calsheriffs.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California State Sheriffs’ Association\u003c/a>, says it’s not the state’s job. ICE sets the standards for immigrant detainees with local jails, and those standards are written into legally binding contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salzillo says that as long as the federal government continues to detain immigrants, they have to go somewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Say the Contra Costa beds went away for whatever reason, then those people are ostensibly going to be housed in Yuba or Sacramento or Orange County or a private facility, or out of state. You squeeze a water balloon and it’s going to show up somewhere else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those contracts are also very financially appealing to local municipalities, according to Daniel Stagemen, research director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.jjay.cuny.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Jay College of Criminal Justice\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Detentions are a really good way to fill those budget holes,” he says. “The temptation of this funding is going to be very difficult for some of these jurisdictions to resist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Ending Private Prison Contracts\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11440693\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11440693\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25061_GettyImages-450371267-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25061_GettyImages-450371267-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25061_GettyImages-450371267-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25061_GettyImages-450371267-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25061_GettyImages-450371267-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25061_GettyImages-450371267-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25061_GettyImages-450371267-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25061_GettyImages-450371267-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25061_GettyImages-450371267-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25061_GettyImages-450371267-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A family member walks into the Adelanto Detention Facility. \u003ccite>(John Moore/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Lara’s bill would end some of those contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state senator says he is opposed to how some California cities contract with ICE to detain undocumented immigrants in facilities run by private companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Immigration detention centers operate solely for the purpose to house immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers, which also make the local jurisdictions money, and I feel it’s just morally wrong for us to do that,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the bill passes, four California cities would be impacted: Adelanto, Calexico, Bakersfield and San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the high desert of Southern California, Adelanto is known as a prison town. It has more detention facilities than supermarkets.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003cstrong>Read Adelanto’s Letter of Opposition\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3696587-SB-1289-City-of-Adelanto-Oppose.html\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-11440832\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Screen-Shot-2017-05-04-at-6.18.45-PM-160x207.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Screen-Shot-2017-05-04-at-6.18.45-PM-160x207.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Screen-Shot-2017-05-04-at-6.18.45-PM-240x311.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Screen-Shot-2017-05-04-at-6.18.45-PM-375x485.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Screen-Shot-2017-05-04-at-6.18.45-PM-520x673.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Screen-Shot-2017-05-04-at-6.18.45-PM.png 626w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>For years Adelanto has depended on revenue from detention. The city of almost 33,000 receives about $4 million a month from Immigration and Customs Enforcement to hold detainees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the outside, Adelanto Detention Facility looks like a business park rising from the sand, rocks and scrub. It’s California’s biggest immigration detention facility, and can hold as many as 1,940 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the city of Adelanto holds the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3700660-Adelanto-ICE-Contract.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">contract\u003c/a> with ICE for the immigration detention facility, the private prison company \u003ca href=\"https://www.geogroup.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GEO Group\u003c/a> owns and operates it. In fact, GEO Group owns and operates two out of the three penitentiaries within the city limits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a great rapport with GEO,” says City Councilman John “Bug” Woodard. “They do a great job for our country, for our state, for our city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Advocates Troubled by Conditions at Adelanto Detention Facility\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But immigration advocates say they are very concerned about conditions at the Adelanto Detention Facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last five years, five people have died while detained at the Adelanto Detention Facility. Two of them died in the last six weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE’s own investigators found problems at the facility, including health care delays, poor record keeping and failures to properly report sexual assaults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3480650-Ddr-Morales.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">federal investigation\u003c/a> into one of the California deaths, inspectors noted that the person who died had waited more than a year to see a specialist, that the high turnover of medical staff led to inadequate care and that a dearth of laboratory services led to delays in treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Independent medical experts \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrw.org/report/2017/05/08/systemic-indifference/dangerous-substandard-medical-care-us-immigration-detention\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">for Human Rights Watch\u003c/a> analyzing ICE’s investigation found that the man probably suffered from the symptoms of cancer for two years.*\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocate Mary Small says that her organization has received a wide range of complaints about the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything from retaliatory punishment against people for demanding access to the law library and demanding the right to copy their legal documents, to some pretty serious medical complaints,” Small says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A New Kind of Economy?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11441930\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25063_GettyImages-607371924-qut-1.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11441930\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25063_GettyImages-607371924-qut-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25063_GettyImages-607371924-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25063_GettyImages-607371924-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25063_GettyImages-607371924-qut-1-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25063_GettyImages-607371924-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25063_GettyImages-607371924-qut-1-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25063_GettyImages-607371924-qut-1-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25063_GettyImages-607371924-qut-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25063_GettyImages-607371924-qut-1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25063_GettyImages-607371924-qut-1-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adelanto City Council Member John “Bug” Woodard, Jr., is framed by the branches of a native creosote bush on undeveloped desert land in the “green zone”, an area designated by the city for the development of industrial scale marijuana cultivation. \u003ccite>(David McNew/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A new majority on the City Council is pushing a different kind of business: Marijuana. Last year Adelanto became one of the first places in California to legalize commercially grown weed, issuing dozens of permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, \u003ca href=\"http://www.ocregister.com/2016/02/15/prison-town-goes-to-pot-desert-city-adelanto-hopes-cultivating-marijuana-will-save-it/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">investors and celebrities\u003c/a> like Tommy Chong (of Cheech and Chong), Ky-Mani Marley, one of Bob Marley’s sons, and other high-profile musicians and athletes are stopping in the little city off Highway 395. Taxes could potentially provide more than $1 million a month to Adelanto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council is weighing offers for land for marijuana cultivation and from the GEO Group, Woodard says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year an \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1289\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">identical bill\u003c/a> passed the state Assembly and Senate. Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed it, saying he wanted to see if the Department of Homeland Security would end for-profit contracts. At the time, the Obama administration was phasing out private prison contracts for federal detainees. Now, the Trump administration is on the opposite course. GEO Group’s stock is up 57 percent since January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woodard says that if Lara’s first bill had passed, it would have been disastrous for Adelanto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This city would be gone,” Woodard says. “You know we gotta pay for pensions and employees, I mean they would have to let off even more employees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The GEO detention facilities create about 500 full- and part-time jobs, Woodard wrote in a letter to the senator. The city also receives hundreds of thousands of dollars annually from property, sales and use taxes, an administration fee and funding for an additional law enforcement officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lara thinks his bill will succeed this time because of Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re in a completely different environment now,” Lara says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adelanto wouldn’t immediately lose its contract if SB 29 is signed into law. The bill phases out the contracts as they come up for renewal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The middle ground here is that we provide still an avenue for the detention of immigrants at the county level, where we can protect our rights, and we phase out with time the centers,” Lara says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Senate is set to vote at the end of May.\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>*This story was updated on May 8, 2017 with more information from a report by Human Rights Watch.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11440627/could-congress-and-california-thwart-trumps-mass-immigration-detention-plans","authors":["6625","199"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_1169","news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_20901","news_20584","news_21072","news_2687","news_102","news_17286","news_20529"],"featImg":"news_11440694","label":"news_72"},"news_11353297":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11353297","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11353297","score":null,"sort":[1489186364000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"what-happens-to-immigrants-detained-by-ice-a-cartoon-explainer","title":"What Happens to Immigrants Detained by ICE? A Cartoon Explainer","publishDate":1489186364,"format":"aside","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>President Donald Trump has promised to deport 2 million to 3 million people this year alone. To do so, the government typically must detain them first. But with the system already at capacity, where will all these new detainees go? A \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/03/08/how-trump-could-detain-more-immigrants-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\">KQED investigation found\u003c/a> the government can likely ramp up detention capacity quickly -- and California's jails could play a key part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11353298\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DetentionFiorePage1-800x1459.jpg\" alt=\"DetentionFiorePage1\" width=\"800\" height=\"1459\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DetentionFiorePage1-800x1459.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DetentionFiorePage1-160x292.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DetentionFiorePage1-1020x1860.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DetentionFiorePage1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DetentionFiorePage1-1180x2152.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DetentionFiorePage1-960x1751.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DetentionFiorePage1-240x438.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DetentionFiorePage1-375x684.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DetentionFiorePage1-520x948.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11353299\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DetentionFiorePage2-800x1412.jpg\" alt=\"DetentionFiorePage2\" width=\"800\" height=\"1412\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DetentionFiorePage2-800x1412.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DetentionFiorePage2-160x282.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DetentionFiorePage2-1020x1800.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DetentionFiorePage2.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DetentionFiorePage2-1180x2082.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DetentionFiorePage2-960x1694.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DetentionFiorePage2-240x424.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DetentionFiorePage2-375x662.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DetentionFiorePage2-520x918.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11353300\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DetentionFiorePage3-800x1930.jpg\" alt=\"DetentionFiorePage3\" width=\"800\" height=\"1930\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DetentionFiorePage3-800x1930.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DetentionFiorePage3-160x386.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DetentionFiorePage3-1020x2460.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DetentionFiorePage3.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DetentionFiorePage3-1180x2846.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DetentionFiorePage3-960x2316.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DetentionFiorePage3-240x579.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DetentionFiorePage3-375x904.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DetentionFiorePage3-520x1254.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11353301\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DetentionFiorePage4-800x1883.jpg\" alt=\"DetentionFiorePage4\" width=\"800\" height=\"1883\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DetentionFiorePage4-800x1883.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DetentionFiorePage4-160x377.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DetentionFiorePage4-1020x2400.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DetentionFiorePage4.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DetentionFiorePage4-1180x2777.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DetentionFiorePage4-960x2259.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DetentionFiorePage4-240x565.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DetentionFiorePage4-375x882.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DetentionFiorePage4-520x1224.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"President Trump has promised to deport up to 3 million people this year. 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To do so, the government typically must detain them first. But with the system already at capacity, where will all these new detainees go? 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He Could -- With California's Help","publishDate":1488960112,"format":"video","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">W\u003c/span>hen his three young children woke up in their small house in Oakland one morning a few weeks ago, Maguiber wasn’t home. That wasn’t so unusual. The 27-year-old dad worked long hours, juggling three different jobs cleaning in two hotels and a restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then the children’s mother told Kevin, 8, Gabriela, 4, and Christopher, 2, that their father had been taken away to jail. Before dawn that morning, two officers had knocked on the door. They said they were investigating a hit-and-run, and they asked to see Maguiber. (His attorney asked that we not use his last name until his immigration status is resolved.) He walked out to the driveway, while Yibi Heras, his wife, watched from the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was only after Maguiber took out his car registration that he realized the officers were Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, not local police, she said. There had been no hit-and-run. The agents handcuffed Maguiber and put him into their SUV. They told Heras that her husband could call her later, after he had been booked into immigration detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"C4ITOQRcIe3FHuEqVzNlmBwj11UN7tic\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, President Donald Trump signed an executive order greatly expanding the categories of undocumented people that law enforcement officials should prioritize for deportation. Since then, thousands of people have been detained around the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has promised to deport 2 million to 3 million people this year alone. For comparison, President Barack Obama deported \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/removal-statistics/2016\" target=\"_blank\">2.75 million people\u003c/a> over the course of eight years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In order to deport people, the government typically must detain them first. But if the system is already at capacity, where will all these new detainees go? A KQED investigation found the government can likely ramp up detention capacity quickly -- and California's jails could play a key part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2017/03/2017-03-09c-tcr.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS22944_GettyImages-450371255-qut-672x372.jpg\" Title=\"Trump Wants to Detain More Immigrants. He Could -- With California's Help\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new president has inherited a deportation system already straining to remove historically high numbers of people -- though illegal immigration is just a fraction of what it was 10 or 15 years ago. On one typical day in November, 40,875 people in the United States were being held in detention -- though ICE is budgeted for just \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/FY_2016_DHS_Budget_in_Brief.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">34,000 detention beds\u003c/a>, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement data. ICE officials declined repeated requests to comment or answer questions for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3480644-17-0220-S1-Enforcement-of-the-Immigration-Laws.html\" target=\"_blank\">memo\u003c/a> that fleshes out President Trump’s executive order, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly specified that the default for the new administration will be detention, rather than allowing people to be released, for example, on bond or with an ankle-worn GPS monitor, while they await their day in immigration court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That wait can take years, because immigration courts are so understaffed and there has been an increase in asylum cases. On average, all immigrants, detained and not, \u003ca href=\"http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/438/\" target=\"_blank\">were waiting\u003c/a> for 677 days as of January 2017 for their case to be resolved in immigration court. In California, the average was 718 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11342699\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS17233_GettyImages-450371241-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11342699\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS17233_GettyImages-450371241-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\" Immigrants prepare to be unshackled and set free from the Adelanto Detention Facility. The facility is managed by the private GEO Group.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS17233_GettyImages-450371241-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS17233_GettyImages-450371241-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS17233_GettyImages-450371241-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS17233_GettyImages-450371241-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS17233_GettyImages-450371241-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS17233_GettyImages-450371241-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS17233_GettyImages-450371241-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS17233_GettyImages-450371241-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS17233_GettyImages-450371241-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Immigrants prepare to be unshackled and set free from the Adelanto Detention Facility. The California facility is managed by the private prison company GEO Group. \u003ccite>(John Moore/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Detention of Maguiber\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maguiber was born in Guatemala and has been living in the United States illegally for about a decade. His one offense (and the thing that may have put him on ICE’s radar) is a recent misdemeanor conviction for reckless driving. His lawyer believes that he may have come to ICE agents’ attention after he was booked or appeared in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That morning, Feb. 8, ICE agents took Maguiber to the West County Detention Facility, a county jail in Richmond, California. Like any other jail, its primary purpose is to hold people awaiting trial and inmates serving short sentences for low-level crimes. But Contra Costa County also rents 318 jail beds here to ICE. That makes the West County facility a small part of a vast and growing immigration detention system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE operates the largest federal detention system in the country. In 2015, it held almost twice as many people as the federal Bureau of Prisons, according to the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security. ICE runs its own detention centers in some parts of the country, but mostly it contracts out to private prison companies and local jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, 16 different jails and private prisons had contracts with ICE, and held 5,269 ICE detainees on a day in late 2016. Nationally, California holds the second-highest number of detainees, after Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s executive orders are meant to deter people from coming into the country illegally and discourage people like Maguiber, who was previously deported as a teenager, from returning again. Jessica Vaughan, director of \u003ca href=\"http://cis.org/\" target=\"_blank\">policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies\u003c/a>, a think tank that favors restricting immigration, believes that Trump’s plan for stronger immigration enforcement will prevent people from returning to the United States illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was necessary to do these executive orders to let these government agencies do their job and do the job that Americans expect them to do, which is to enforce the immigration laws we have,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many attorneys say it makes little sense to hold immigrants in prolonged detention. The vast majority, especially when they have an immigration lawyer, do appear for their day in immigration court as required, according to data from \u003ca href=\"http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/438/\" target=\"_blank\">Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse\u003c/a> (known as TRAC) and a\u003ca href=\"http://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=9502&context=penn_law_review\" target=\"_blank\"> study by the University of Pennsylvania Law Review\u003c/a>. And attorneys emphasize that immigration detention is not supposed to be punitive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's important to remember that these individuals are not serving time pursuant to a criminal conviction. Most of them have absolutely no criminal history at all,” said Denise L. Gilman, who directs the \u003ca href=\"https://law.utexas.edu/clinics/immigration/\" target=\"_blank\">Immigration Clinic\u003c/a> at the \u003ca href=\"https://law.ucdavis.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">University of Texas Law School\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yibi Heras says her husband is not a criminal. “Like all of us, he has made mistakes,” she said. “But he's not dangerous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heras is working hard to keep life as normal as possible for her children. Maguiber manages to call from jail almost every day, but the children are confused about why he can’t video chat with them as he used to do between his jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heras said her 4-year-old daughter, Gabriela, asked to move in with her father recently, saying she was ready to go as soon as she gathered up her toys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11342683\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24471_ICE_4-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11342683\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24471_ICE_4-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Maguiber lived in the United States for more than 10 years. He was detained by ICE in February.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24471_ICE_4-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24471_ICE_4-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24471_ICE_4-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24471_ICE_4-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24471_ICE_4-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24471_ICE_4-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24471_ICE_4-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24471_ICE_4-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24471_ICE_4-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maguiber has lived in the United States for more than a decade. He was detained by ICE in February. \u003ccite>(Erasmo Martinez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California is poised to be a key part of ICE’s detention expansion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think California’s going to be ground zero when it comes to immigration removals during the Trump administration,” said Kevin Johnson, dean of the UC Davis School of Law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While ICE may have reached the limits of its budgeted detention space, the KQED investigation found that, if new funds are made available, the agency could quickly expand detention to take advantage of idle bed space in jails and private prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Private Detention Companies See Profits in Trump Policies\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe majority of immigrant detainees in California and nationwide wind up in facilities run by for-profit companies, according to data from ICE released in December 2016. And, with President Trump’s heightened focus on deportation, these companies are seeing opportunities for expansion and profit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the expansion began last year, as the Obama administration sought to respond to a continuing flow of children and families fleeing to the U.S. from Central America. \u003ca href=\"http://www.corecivic.com/\" target=\"_blank\">CoreCivic\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.geogroup.com/\" target=\"_blank\">GEO Group\u003c/a> and Emerald Correctional Management signed contracts in 2016 to open more facilities for immigrant detainees, which will supply an additional 3,087 beds.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"GHhn8ekEkX5x6qPzPdgcPMzGQ1K8wnqK\"]\u003cbr>\n“Our financial performance in the fourth quarter of 2016 was well above our initial forecast due, in large part, to heightened utilization by ICE across the portfolio,” CoreCivic CEO Damon Hininger told shareholders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in February, executives at the two largest companies, CoreCivic and GEO Group, told their shareholders that they had many empty beds nationally -- totaling 13,700 -- into which ICE could move detainees immediately. (Roughly 500 of those beds are in California.) A vacant 3,000-bed detention center in Texas, owned by Management and Training Corp., could also reopen for ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One reason bed space is available is that the federal government last year determined that private prisons had inferior safety and security, and began phasing out their use. Three private prison companies currently hold contracts with the U.S. Bureau of Prisons for 27,000 beds -- 2,200 of those are in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump Justice Department \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/23/516916688/private-prisons-back-in-mix-for-federal-inmates-as-sessions-rescinds-order\" target=\"_blank\">has since rescinded\u003c/a> the Obama administration’s decision not to use private prisons for federal inmates. But the number of federal inmates held in private prisons has been declining in recent years, so some of those beds could still become available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some advocates question why prisons that were found to be substandard for federal prisoners can be considered safe for immigrant detainees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is [for-profit companies’] desperate interest to keep costs as low as possible, and they do that by skimping on food, on health care, on mental health care and anything else so that they can maximize their profits for every individual detained,” said Gilman, of the University of Texas Law School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2012, three people have died while detained at the Adelanto Correctional Facility, run by GEO Group in San Bernardino, California. \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3480649-adelantoCorrectionalFac-Adelanto-CA-Sept-18-20.html\" target=\"_blank\">ICE investigators\u003c/a> found problems at the facility, including health care delays, poor record keeping, bad communication between staff and failures to properly report sexual assaults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3480650-Ddr-Morales.html\" target=\"_blank\">federal investigation\u003c/a> into one of the California deaths, inspectors noted that the person who died had waited more than a year to see a specialist, that the high turnover of medical staff led to inadequate care and that a dearth of laboratory services led to delays in treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, after the \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/08/18/490498158/justice-department-will-phase-out-its-use-of-private-prisons\" target=\"_blank\">Bureau of Prisons decided\u003c/a> to stop using private prisons, Homeland Security officials asked an advisory council composed of government officials, attorneys, advocates and private prison executives to examine ICE’s reliance on private prisons. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3480651-DHS-HSAC-PIDF-Final-Report.html\" target=\"_blank\">council's report concluded\u003c/a> that despite problems with private, for-profit detention, DHS must continue to rely on it to control costs and “handle sudden increases in detention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But about three-quarters of the members who approved the report took issue with that central recommendation. In a dissenting opinion they said the review showed conditions in private prisons were inferior to ICE-run detention, and suggested shifting away from a private prison model. The dissenters also encouraged further investigation to find “the most effective and humane approach,” to detention, including looking at alternatives to physically jailing people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">Where Were People Detained in Fiscal Year 2016?\u003c/span>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"520\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https://kqednews.carto.com/builder/9cb4f780-827c-412a-96f1-d29ccf160b1b/embed\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size:14px;\">Data from ICE. Fiscal year 2016 ran from Oct.1 2015 to Sept. 30, 2016. | Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tens of Thousands of Immigrants Detained in Local Jails\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIn the same report, the council recommended that ICE reduce its reliance on another type of facility: local jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“County jails are, in general, the most problematic facilities for immigration detention,” the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local jails, like the one on Richmond, California, where Maguiber is in custody, held 25 percent of immigrant detainees last year, according to ICE. And, despite the council's recommendation to avoid them, ICE is likely to rely more heavily on jails, as it seeks to lock up more people in the deportation process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would expect them to also look at expanding capacity by using space that's not currently used in local jails that are already inspected and certified by ICE to be appropriate for immigration detention,” said Vaughan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A greater expansion into jails is likely to take place in many states, but California, in particular, has plenty of available jail beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California county jails with ICE contracts had, on average, nearly 2,500 open beds in 2015, but ICE had specifically contracted only for 530 of them, according to data from ICE and the state agency that regulates county jails. That doesn’t include open jail beds in local cities with ICE contracts, including Glendale, Pomona and Alhambra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, California is likely to have more jail space sitting empty soon. That’s because a 2012 criminal justice reform known as “realignment” gave counties money to expand their jails so they could accept some inmates from state prisons. Then, just as that building boom got underway, voters passed a measure in 2014 that reduced penalties for some crimes and led to a decrease of 9,000 inmates. So California counties are in the process of adding an estimated 10,000 beds, just as their jail populations are declining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe id=\"datawrapper-chart-agxRB\" src=\"//datawrapper.dwcdn.net/agxRB/8/\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitallowfullscreen\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\" oallowfullscreen=\"oallowfullscreen\" msallowfullscreen=\"msallowfullscreen\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cscript type=\"text/javascript\">if(\"undefined\"==typeof window.datawrapper)window.datawrapper={};window.datawrapper[\"agxRB\"]={},window.datawrapper[\"agxRB\"].embedDeltas={\"100\":1212,\"200\":829,\"300\":689,\"400\":675,\"500\":600,\"600\":600,\"700\":586,\"800\":586,\"900\":586,\"1000\":586},window.datawrapper[\"agxRB\"].iframe=document.getElementById(\"datawrapper-chart-agxRB\"),window.datawrapper[\"agxRB\"].iframe.style.height=window.datawrapper[\"agxRB\"].embedDeltas[Math.min(1e3,Math.max(100*Math.floor(window.datawrapper[\"agxRB\"].iframe.offsetWidth/100),100))]+\"px\",window.addEventListener(\"message\",function(a){if(\"undefined\"!=typeof a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"])for(var b in a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"])if(\"agxRB\"==b)window.datawrapper[\"agxRB\"].iframe.style.height=a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"][b]+\"px\"});\u003c/script>\u003cbr>\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.6255em;\">Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some local counties say they depend financially on their contracts with ICE. Contra Costa Sheriff David Livingston said that the county receives about $2 million a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That money goes to defray the cost of running the jail and reduce the operating cost to the taxpayers of Contra Costa County,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not always easy mixing immigrant detainees with jail inmates, however. ICE’s standards are higher for detainee health care and recreation time, for example. And the Homeland Security advisory council found that local officials are sometimes “resistant to changes” that require treating ICE detainees differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Immigration Court Slowdown Leaves Detainees in Detention for Longer\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the main reasons so many immigrants are detained in California is that the state has the largest immigration court workload in the country, analysts say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And part of the reason that ICE needs more bed space is because it’s taking longer for detainees to get a court date. Sending more people into deportation proceedings -- and declining to release them on bond -- will exacerbate the need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are currently just 301 immigration judges nationwide -- and they’re handling more than 542,000 pending cases, according to the Department of Justice and data from Syracuse University's \u003ca href=\"http://<a%20href=\" target=\"_blank\">TRAC\u003c/a> research center. Even if the immigration courts didn’t accept a single additional case, it would take 2½ years to go through the backlog, according to TRAC. (The Department of Justice, which oversees immigration courts, is trying to speed up the system. It is working to fill 61 open positions, and requesting that Congress fund an additional 25 immigration judges.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waiting months or years for a hearing in detention can be extremely hard for detainees -- and also for their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11345541\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24469_ICE_2-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11345541\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24469_ICE_2-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Yibi and Maguiber’s 8-year-old son, Kevin, is disabled and Yibi is worried about the financial burden her partner’s detention is causing.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24469_ICE_2-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24469_ICE_2-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24469_ICE_2-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24469_ICE_2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24469_ICE_2-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24469_ICE_2-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24469_ICE_2-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24469_ICE_2-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24469_ICE_2-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yibi Heras cares for her disabled 8-year-old son, Kevin, and her two preschoolers. With Maguiber in detention, Heras is worried about how she will support her family. \u003ccite>(Erasmo Martinez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Right now Heras is trying to figure out how to support her family while her husband is detained. Her younger children, Gabriela and Christopher, are not yet in school, and her oldest, Kevin, has cerebral palsy and needs extra care. So Heras has her hands full as a stay-at-home mom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I stopped working because my oldest son had to have an operation,” she said. “But now I have to look for other resources to keep surviving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the help of a \u003cem>pro bono\u003c/em> lawyer, Heras and her husband are trying to keep him from being deported. An asylum officer found that Maguiber has grounds to request protection from deportation. His attorney has asked ICE to release him while he awaits his first hearing, which is scheduled for March 29. Heras says the court should not worry that Maguiber will flee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My husband has three children,” she said. “He wasn't going to run away from them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Another Deportation Method: Expedited Removal\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe Trump administration has another tool to deport some undocumented immigrants, one that would put less strain on immigration courts and detention facilities, but that civil liberties advocates say will unfairly deprive people of their right to due process of law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The policy, called expedited removal, is a fast-track deportation without a hearing before an immigration judge. It was formerly applied only to unauthorized immigrants encountered within 100 miles of the border who had been in the country less than two weeks. Recently, Kelly expanded expedited removal to include people caught by agents anywhere in the United States who cannot prove that they have been in the country at least two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Expedited removal would not apply to the majority of people living in the country illegally. The Pew Research Center estimates that two-thirds of the estimated 11.1 million undocumented people in the United States have been here for more than a decade. Maguiber is one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another reason that the Trump administration may be increasing expedited removals is to save money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homeland Security is already budgeted to spend $2.6 billion a year on ICE detention. Congress would have to appropriate more to expand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary Small, the policy director for Detention Watch Network, says that Congress has a track record of paying for this type of enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the entirety of the Obama administration, Congress gave ICE more money than the president asked for in the president's budget,” Small said. “There is a real willingness to throw large amounts of money at locking immigrants up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vaughan believes that while the initial cost to carry out Trump’s policies may be high, over time it will deter illegal immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When people get the message that you’re not necessarily home free if you make it to the United States,” she said, “I think it’s pretty clear fewer people are going to come here illegally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, she says, people who are already here illegally may think about going home -- when faced with these tougher consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Maguiber is ready to fight to stay in the country. His father named him after the hero of the 1980s TV show, \"MacGyver,\" that was popular across Latin America. Angus MacGyver was famous for his knack at getting himself out of tricky situations. Maguiber’s family isn't looking for him to bust out of jail like an action hero, but they are hoping he'll find a way out of this bind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was edited by Tyche Hendricks.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The president has promised to deport 2 to 3 million people this year alone. KQED investigates how an already straining immigration system could handle the surge.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1520441668,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":72,"wordCount":3260},"headData":{"title":"Trump Wants to Detain More Immigrants. 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He Could -- With California's Help","videoEmbed":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPbCIPVZLXA","path":"/news/11341338/how-trump-could-detain-more-immigrants-in-california","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">W\u003c/span>hen his three young children woke up in their small house in Oakland one morning a few weeks ago, Maguiber wasn’t home. That wasn’t so unusual. The 27-year-old dad worked long hours, juggling three different jobs cleaning in two hotels and a restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then the children’s mother told Kevin, 8, Gabriela, 4, and Christopher, 2, that their father had been taken away to jail. Before dawn that morning, two officers had knocked on the door. They said they were investigating a hit-and-run, and they asked to see Maguiber. (His attorney asked that we not use his last name until his immigration status is resolved.) He walked out to the driveway, while Yibi Heras, his wife, watched from the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was only after Maguiber took out his car registration that he realized the officers were Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, not local police, she said. There had been no hit-and-run. The agents handcuffed Maguiber and put him into their SUV. They told Heras that her husband could call her later, after he had been booked into immigration detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, President Donald Trump signed an executive order greatly expanding the categories of undocumented people that law enforcement officials should prioritize for deportation. Since then, thousands of people have been detained around the country.\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>Trump has promised to deport 2 million to 3 million people this year alone. For comparison, President Barack Obama deported \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/removal-statistics/2016\" target=\"_blank\">2.75 million people\u003c/a> over the course of eight years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In order to deport people, the government typically must detain them first. But if the system is already at capacity, where will all these new detainees go? A KQED investigation found the government can likely ramp up detention capacity quickly -- and California's jails could play a key part.\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/tcr/2017/03/2017-03-09c-tcr.mp3","image":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS22944_GettyImages-450371255-qut-672x372.jpg","title":"Trump Wants to Detain More Immigrants. He Could -- With California's Help","program":"The California Report","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new president has inherited a deportation system already straining to remove historically high numbers of people -- though illegal immigration is just a fraction of what it was 10 or 15 years ago. On one typical day in November, 40,875 people in the United States were being held in detention -- though ICE is budgeted for just \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/FY_2016_DHS_Budget_in_Brief.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">34,000 detention beds\u003c/a>, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement data. ICE officials declined repeated requests to comment or answer questions for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3480644-17-0220-S1-Enforcement-of-the-Immigration-Laws.html\" target=\"_blank\">memo\u003c/a> that fleshes out President Trump’s executive order, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly specified that the default for the new administration will be detention, rather than allowing people to be released, for example, on bond or with an ankle-worn GPS monitor, while they await their day in immigration court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That wait can take years, because immigration courts are so understaffed and there has been an increase in asylum cases. On average, all immigrants, detained and not, \u003ca href=\"http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/438/\" target=\"_blank\">were waiting\u003c/a> for 677 days as of January 2017 for their case to be resolved in immigration court. In California, the average was 718 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11342699\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS17233_GettyImages-450371241-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11342699\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS17233_GettyImages-450371241-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\" Immigrants prepare to be unshackled and set free from the Adelanto Detention Facility. The facility is managed by the private GEO Group.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS17233_GettyImages-450371241-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS17233_GettyImages-450371241-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS17233_GettyImages-450371241-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS17233_GettyImages-450371241-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS17233_GettyImages-450371241-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS17233_GettyImages-450371241-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS17233_GettyImages-450371241-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS17233_GettyImages-450371241-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS17233_GettyImages-450371241-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Immigrants prepare to be unshackled and set free from the Adelanto Detention Facility. The California facility is managed by the private prison company GEO Group. \u003ccite>(John Moore/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Detention of Maguiber\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maguiber was born in Guatemala and has been living in the United States illegally for about a decade. His one offense (and the thing that may have put him on ICE’s radar) is a recent misdemeanor conviction for reckless driving. His lawyer believes that he may have come to ICE agents’ attention after he was booked or appeared in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That morning, Feb. 8, ICE agents took Maguiber to the West County Detention Facility, a county jail in Richmond, California. Like any other jail, its primary purpose is to hold people awaiting trial and inmates serving short sentences for low-level crimes. But Contra Costa County also rents 318 jail beds here to ICE. That makes the West County facility a small part of a vast and growing immigration detention system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE operates the largest federal detention system in the country. In 2015, it held almost twice as many people as the federal Bureau of Prisons, according to the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security. ICE runs its own detention centers in some parts of the country, but mostly it contracts out to private prison companies and local jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, 16 different jails and private prisons had contracts with ICE, and held 5,269 ICE detainees on a day in late 2016. Nationally, California holds the second-highest number of detainees, after Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s executive orders are meant to deter people from coming into the country illegally and discourage people like Maguiber, who was previously deported as a teenager, from returning again. Jessica Vaughan, director of \u003ca href=\"http://cis.org/\" target=\"_blank\">policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies\u003c/a>, a think tank that favors restricting immigration, believes that Trump’s plan for stronger immigration enforcement will prevent people from returning to the United States illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was necessary to do these executive orders to let these government agencies do their job and do the job that Americans expect them to do, which is to enforce the immigration laws we have,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many attorneys say it makes little sense to hold immigrants in prolonged detention. The vast majority, especially when they have an immigration lawyer, do appear for their day in immigration court as required, according to data from \u003ca href=\"http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/438/\" target=\"_blank\">Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse\u003c/a> (known as TRAC) and a\u003ca href=\"http://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=9502&context=penn_law_review\" target=\"_blank\"> study by the University of Pennsylvania Law Review\u003c/a>. And attorneys emphasize that immigration detention is not supposed to be punitive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's important to remember that these individuals are not serving time pursuant to a criminal conviction. Most of them have absolutely no criminal history at all,” said Denise L. Gilman, who directs the \u003ca href=\"https://law.utexas.edu/clinics/immigration/\" target=\"_blank\">Immigration Clinic\u003c/a> at the \u003ca href=\"https://law.ucdavis.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">University of Texas Law School\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yibi Heras says her husband is not a criminal. “Like all of us, he has made mistakes,” she said. “But he's not dangerous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heras is working hard to keep life as normal as possible for her children. Maguiber manages to call from jail almost every day, but the children are confused about why he can’t video chat with them as he used to do between his jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heras said her 4-year-old daughter, Gabriela, asked to move in with her father recently, saying she was ready to go as soon as she gathered up her toys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11342683\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24471_ICE_4-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11342683\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24471_ICE_4-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Maguiber lived in the United States for more than 10 years. He was detained by ICE in February.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24471_ICE_4-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24471_ICE_4-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24471_ICE_4-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24471_ICE_4-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24471_ICE_4-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24471_ICE_4-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24471_ICE_4-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24471_ICE_4-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24471_ICE_4-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maguiber has lived in the United States for more than a decade. He was detained by ICE in February. \u003ccite>(Erasmo Martinez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California is poised to be a key part of ICE’s detention expansion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think California’s going to be ground zero when it comes to immigration removals during the Trump administration,” said Kevin Johnson, dean of the UC Davis School of Law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While ICE may have reached the limits of its budgeted detention space, the KQED investigation found that, if new funds are made available, the agency could quickly expand detention to take advantage of idle bed space in jails and private prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Private Detention Companies See Profits in Trump Policies\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe majority of immigrant detainees in California and nationwide wind up in facilities run by for-profit companies, according to data from ICE released in December 2016. And, with President Trump’s heightened focus on deportation, these companies are seeing opportunities for expansion and profit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the expansion began last year, as the Obama administration sought to respond to a continuing flow of children and families fleeing to the U.S. from Central America. \u003ca href=\"http://www.corecivic.com/\" target=\"_blank\">CoreCivic\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.geogroup.com/\" target=\"_blank\">GEO Group\u003c/a> and Emerald Correctional Management signed contracts in 2016 to open more facilities for immigrant detainees, which will supply an additional 3,087 beds.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\n“Our financial performance in the fourth quarter of 2016 was well above our initial forecast due, in large part, to heightened utilization by ICE across the portfolio,” CoreCivic CEO Damon Hininger told shareholders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in February, executives at the two largest companies, CoreCivic and GEO Group, told their shareholders that they had many empty beds nationally -- totaling 13,700 -- into which ICE could move detainees immediately. (Roughly 500 of those beds are in California.) A vacant 3,000-bed detention center in Texas, owned by Management and Training Corp., could also reopen for ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One reason bed space is available is that the federal government last year determined that private prisons had inferior safety and security, and began phasing out their use. Three private prison companies currently hold contracts with the U.S. Bureau of Prisons for 27,000 beds -- 2,200 of those are in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump Justice Department \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/23/516916688/private-prisons-back-in-mix-for-federal-inmates-as-sessions-rescinds-order\" target=\"_blank\">has since rescinded\u003c/a> the Obama administration’s decision not to use private prisons for federal inmates. But the number of federal inmates held in private prisons has been declining in recent years, so some of those beds could still become available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some advocates question why prisons that were found to be substandard for federal prisoners can be considered safe for immigrant detainees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is [for-profit companies’] desperate interest to keep costs as low as possible, and they do that by skimping on food, on health care, on mental health care and anything else so that they can maximize their profits for every individual detained,” said Gilman, of the University of Texas Law School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2012, three people have died while detained at the Adelanto Correctional Facility, run by GEO Group in San Bernardino, California. \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3480649-adelantoCorrectionalFac-Adelanto-CA-Sept-18-20.html\" target=\"_blank\">ICE investigators\u003c/a> found problems at the facility, including health care delays, poor record keeping, bad communication between staff and failures to properly report sexual assaults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3480650-Ddr-Morales.html\" target=\"_blank\">federal investigation\u003c/a> into one of the California deaths, inspectors noted that the person who died had waited more than a year to see a specialist, that the high turnover of medical staff led to inadequate care and that a dearth of laboratory services led to delays in treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, after the \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/08/18/490498158/justice-department-will-phase-out-its-use-of-private-prisons\" target=\"_blank\">Bureau of Prisons decided\u003c/a> to stop using private prisons, Homeland Security officials asked an advisory council composed of government officials, attorneys, advocates and private prison executives to examine ICE’s reliance on private prisons. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3480651-DHS-HSAC-PIDF-Final-Report.html\" target=\"_blank\">council's report concluded\u003c/a> that despite problems with private, for-profit detention, DHS must continue to rely on it to control costs and “handle sudden increases in detention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But about three-quarters of the members who approved the report took issue with that central recommendation. In a dissenting opinion they said the review showed conditions in private prisons were inferior to ICE-run detention, and suggested shifting away from a private prison model. The dissenters also encouraged further investigation to find “the most effective and humane approach,” to detention, including looking at alternatives to physically jailing people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">Where Were People Detained in Fiscal Year 2016?\u003c/span>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"520\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https://kqednews.carto.com/builder/9cb4f780-827c-412a-96f1-d29ccf160b1b/embed\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size:14px;\">Data from ICE. Fiscal year 2016 ran from Oct.1 2015 to Sept. 30, 2016. | Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tens of Thousands of Immigrants Detained in Local Jails\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIn the same report, the council recommended that ICE reduce its reliance on another type of facility: local jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“County jails are, in general, the most problematic facilities for immigration detention,” the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local jails, like the one on Richmond, California, where Maguiber is in custody, held 25 percent of immigrant detainees last year, according to ICE. And, despite the council's recommendation to avoid them, ICE is likely to rely more heavily on jails, as it seeks to lock up more people in the deportation process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would expect them to also look at expanding capacity by using space that's not currently used in local jails that are already inspected and certified by ICE to be appropriate for immigration detention,” said Vaughan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A greater expansion into jails is likely to take place in many states, but California, in particular, has plenty of available jail beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California county jails with ICE contracts had, on average, nearly 2,500 open beds in 2015, but ICE had specifically contracted only for 530 of them, according to data from ICE and the state agency that regulates county jails. That doesn’t include open jail beds in local cities with ICE contracts, including Glendale, Pomona and Alhambra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, California is likely to have more jail space sitting empty soon. That’s because a 2012 criminal justice reform known as “realignment” gave counties money to expand their jails so they could accept some inmates from state prisons. Then, just as that building boom got underway, voters passed a measure in 2014 that reduced penalties for some crimes and led to a decrease of 9,000 inmates. So California counties are in the process of adding an estimated 10,000 beds, just as their jail populations are declining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe id=\"datawrapper-chart-agxRB\" src=\"//datawrapper.dwcdn.net/agxRB/8/\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitallowfullscreen\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\" oallowfullscreen=\"oallowfullscreen\" msallowfullscreen=\"msallowfullscreen\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cscript type=\"text/javascript\">if(\"undefined\"==typeof window.datawrapper)window.datawrapper={};window.datawrapper[\"agxRB\"]={},window.datawrapper[\"agxRB\"].embedDeltas={\"100\":1212,\"200\":829,\"300\":689,\"400\":675,\"500\":600,\"600\":600,\"700\":586,\"800\":586,\"900\":586,\"1000\":586},window.datawrapper[\"agxRB\"].iframe=document.getElementById(\"datawrapper-chart-agxRB\"),window.datawrapper[\"agxRB\"].iframe.style.height=window.datawrapper[\"agxRB\"].embedDeltas[Math.min(1e3,Math.max(100*Math.floor(window.datawrapper[\"agxRB\"].iframe.offsetWidth/100),100))]+\"px\",window.addEventListener(\"message\",function(a){if(\"undefined\"!=typeof a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"])for(var b in a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"])if(\"agxRB\"==b)window.datawrapper[\"agxRB\"].iframe.style.height=a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"][b]+\"px\"});\u003c/script>\u003cbr>\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.6255em;\">Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some local counties say they depend financially on their contracts with ICE. Contra Costa Sheriff David Livingston said that the county receives about $2 million a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That money goes to defray the cost of running the jail and reduce the operating cost to the taxpayers of Contra Costa County,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not always easy mixing immigrant detainees with jail inmates, however. ICE’s standards are higher for detainee health care and recreation time, for example. And the Homeland Security advisory council found that local officials are sometimes “resistant to changes” that require treating ICE detainees differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Immigration Court Slowdown Leaves Detainees in Detention for Longer\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the main reasons so many immigrants are detained in California is that the state has the largest immigration court workload in the country, analysts say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And part of the reason that ICE needs more bed space is because it’s taking longer for detainees to get a court date. Sending more people into deportation proceedings -- and declining to release them on bond -- will exacerbate the need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are currently just 301 immigration judges nationwide -- and they’re handling more than 542,000 pending cases, according to the Department of Justice and data from Syracuse University's \u003ca href=\"http://<a%20href=\" target=\"_blank\">TRAC\u003c/a> research center. Even if the immigration courts didn’t accept a single additional case, it would take 2½ years to go through the backlog, according to TRAC. (The Department of Justice, which oversees immigration courts, is trying to speed up the system. It is working to fill 61 open positions, and requesting that Congress fund an additional 25 immigration judges.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waiting months or years for a hearing in detention can be extremely hard for detainees -- and also for their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11345541\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24469_ICE_2-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11345541\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24469_ICE_2-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Yibi and Maguiber’s 8-year-old son, Kevin, is disabled and Yibi is worried about the financial burden her partner’s detention is causing.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24469_ICE_2-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24469_ICE_2-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24469_ICE_2-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24469_ICE_2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24469_ICE_2-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24469_ICE_2-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24469_ICE_2-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24469_ICE_2-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24469_ICE_2-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yibi Heras cares for her disabled 8-year-old son, Kevin, and her two preschoolers. With Maguiber in detention, Heras is worried about how she will support her family. \u003ccite>(Erasmo Martinez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Right now Heras is trying to figure out how to support her family while her husband is detained. Her younger children, Gabriela and Christopher, are not yet in school, and her oldest, Kevin, has cerebral palsy and needs extra care. So Heras has her hands full as a stay-at-home mom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I stopped working because my oldest son had to have an operation,” she said. “But now I have to look for other resources to keep surviving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the help of a \u003cem>pro bono\u003c/em> lawyer, Heras and her husband are trying to keep him from being deported. An asylum officer found that Maguiber has grounds to request protection from deportation. His attorney has asked ICE to release him while he awaits his first hearing, which is scheduled for March 29. Heras says the court should not worry that Maguiber will flee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My husband has three children,” she said. “He wasn't going to run away from them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Another Deportation Method: Expedited Removal\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe Trump administration has another tool to deport some undocumented immigrants, one that would put less strain on immigration courts and detention facilities, but that civil liberties advocates say will unfairly deprive people of their right to due process of law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The policy, called expedited removal, is a fast-track deportation without a hearing before an immigration judge. It was formerly applied only to unauthorized immigrants encountered within 100 miles of the border who had been in the country less than two weeks. Recently, Kelly expanded expedited removal to include people caught by agents anywhere in the United States who cannot prove that they have been in the country at least two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Expedited removal would not apply to the majority of people living in the country illegally. The Pew Research Center estimates that two-thirds of the estimated 11.1 million undocumented people in the United States have been here for more than a decade. Maguiber is one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another reason that the Trump administration may be increasing expedited removals is to save money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homeland Security is already budgeted to spend $2.6 billion a year on ICE detention. Congress would have to appropriate more to expand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary Small, the policy director for Detention Watch Network, says that Congress has a track record of paying for this type of enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the entirety of the Obama administration, Congress gave ICE more money than the president asked for in the president's budget,” Small said. “There is a real willingness to throw large amounts of money at locking immigrants up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vaughan believes that while the initial cost to carry out Trump’s policies may be high, over time it will deter illegal immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When people get the message that you’re not necessarily home free if you make it to the United States,” she said, “I think it’s pretty clear fewer people are going to come here illegally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, she says, people who are already here illegally may think about going home -- when faced with these tougher consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Maguiber is ready to fight to stay in the country. His father named him after the hero of the 1980s TV show, \"MacGyver,\" that was popular across Latin America. Angus MacGyver was famous for his knack at getting himself out of tricky situations. Maguiber’s family isn't looking for him to bust out of jail like an action hero, but they are hoping he'll find a way out of this bind.\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>\u003cem>This story was edited by Tyche Hendricks.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11341338/how-trump-could-detain-more-immigrants-in-california","authors":["6625","199"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_1169","news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_19542","news_20606","news_21072","news_2728","news_17286","news_17041","news_244"],"featImg":"news_11342684","label":"news_72"},"news_11342705":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11342705","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11342705","score":null,"sort":[1488580569000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"fresno-sheriffs-ice-partnership-may-give-a-glimpse-of-trump-era-deportations","title":"Fresno Sheriff's ICE Partnership May Give a Glimpse of Trump-Era Deportations","publishDate":1488580569,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the Fresno County Jail, Sgt. Elisa Magallanes walks a newly arrested man from a holding cell to a small locked booth where she’ll book him. She talks to him through a glass barrier with a small window in it. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Where were you born at?” Magallanes asks.\u003c/span>\u003cb> \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He says Mexico. “Are you a U.S. citizen?” He says he is. “I gotta give you this consent form,” she says, passing him a slip of paper. “It’s pertaining to ICE,” as in \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Immigration and Customs Enforcement\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Magallanes explains that ICE agents may come into the jail to interview the man, but he has the right not to speak with them. On the other side of the glass, the man nods. He doesn’t have any questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11342775\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11342775 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3281-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Sergeant Elisa Magallanes holds a consent form provided to inmates at the Fresno County Jail\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3281-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3281-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3281-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3281-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3281-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3281-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3281-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3281-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3281-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sgt. Elisa Magallanes holds a consent form provided to inmates at the Fresno County Jail\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She's still getting used to explaining this -- the jail only started using the consent forms Jan. 1, when a state law requiring them went into effect. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes they ask me questions as far as: 'Am I getting deported?' ” Magallanes says. “I explain to them, 'At this time, no. But I do have to advise you that it is a possibility.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It's more of a possibility here than in many California jails. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnosheriff.org/645\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Fresno County Sheriff’s Department has a special partnership with ICE\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Immigration agents have unfettered access to the jail’s database. So the info that Magallanes collected at booking? They can see that -- plus any details about charges or criminal history in the database.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on what agents find there, they decide who to question and who they’ll eventually put in deportation proceedings. The Fresno County Sheriff’s Department isn’t privy to how these decisions are made. And ICE didn’t provide any details about how the program works for this story. Correctional officers at the Fresno jail say ICE agents come into the jail at least twice per week with lists of inmates to interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last summer, Edgar Torres was one of those inmates. He was lying in his bunk when he heard his inmate number blaring from a loudspeaker. He had a visitor, but he wasn’t expecting anyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A guard escorted him from his cell to an interview room -- an uncomfortably tight space; it just fits two chairs and a small metal table attached to the wall.\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Inside the room, a man wearing a badge was waiting for him. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“He said ‘Do you know who I am?’ ” Torres explains, “I said ‘No.’ He said, ‘I’m ICE.’ ”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2017/03/2017-03-03b-tcr.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/151341-full-800x534.jpeg\" Title=\"Fresno Sheriff's ICE Partnership May Give a Glimpse of Trump-Era Deportations\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Torres was floored. This was before the jail started handing out those consent forms, so he didn’t know ICE might approach him in the jail, and he didn't know he had a right to refuse the interview. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Torres says the agent handed him a paper to sign and told him, “I want you to sign this so you leave the country. You don’t belong in this county. We know you came in illegally.” \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE was right. Torres had been caught crossing the border almost a decade ago. He crossed again soon after and didn’t get caught. The agent was trying to get him to sign a \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/tools/glossary/voluntary-departure\">voluntary departure\u003c/a> order. Despite the pressure, Torres says he wanted to fight to stay with his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres has only one misdemeanor conviction on his record -- but it’s a serious one: domestic violence. He and his wife have had a rocky relationship. They got in some bad fights and she got a restraining order. A judge ordered him to attend classes, but when he and his wife got back together he stopped going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and his wife were working things out. They’d just had a baby last summer when Torres got pulled over for a broken tail light. He had a warrant because of the missed classes and ended up in jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ACLU attorney Angelica Salceda says this is a common scenario.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“One of the biggest flaws of this program is that you can have someone who committed a mistake and they paid the price for it and turned their lives around. Then they get arrested for something minor,\" she says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you’re undocumented, or even a legal permanent resident, the consequence isn’t just jail time -- it can mean deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11342773\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11342773\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3268-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Interview rooms where ICE agents question inmates at the Fresno County Jail \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3268-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3268-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3268-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3268-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3268-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3268-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3268-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3268-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3268-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Interview rooms where ICE agents question inmates at the Fresno County Jail \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Salceda also worries people who get arrested -- but are never actually charged or convicted -- can end up getting deported. “Those are the types of practices that we think are incredibly problematic and that lead to separation of families and fear in our communities,” she says. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, ICE defended its practices in jails: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“When criminal custody transfers occur outside the secure confines of a jail or prison, regardless of the security precautions we take, there are greater safety risks for all concerned -- our arrest target, ICE officers, and the general public. It needlessly puts our personnel and innocent bystanders in harm’s way.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Torres was in jail, he says ICE agents met with him three times. Every time the pressure to sign himself out of the country got worse. “They would grab me hard by the arm and sit me down,” he says. “They’d slam the papers down in front of me, making loud sounds to intimidate me. They’d say ‘You’re gonna sign, because if not you’re gonna be in prison. Do it for your own good. We’re coming for you anyway -- we know your release date.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They weren’t bluffing. When Torres got out of jail, ICE representatives were waiting for him. He spent six months at a detention center. Eventually it was clear he wasn’t going to win his case. On the advice of his lawyer, Torres finally signed a voluntary removal order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"HRivJpoXYTzl64X6SvDbtdNu7AAqJ6nC\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In my perspective it truly is a win-win,” says Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims. “It keeps people from being released back into our communities that have committed crimes -- many times multiple crimes -- and it keeps ICE in our jail and they don't have to go out into the community, which raises fear among people that ICE may not be looking for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Mims launched her program in 2015, other California sheriffs followed her lead, including in Kern and Stanislaus Counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This isn’t the only way police in our state work with ICE. Today, every jail in California -- and around the country -- shares fingerprints with immigration authorities. But local law enforcement agencies cooperate with federal immigration authorities to different degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It creates a very complex framework around California because there’s a lack of uniformity,” says \u003ca href=\"http://www.advancingjustice-alc.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Asian Law Caucus\u003c/a> attorney Saira Hussain. “People don’t always know, ‘If I end up in jail here, how will ICE try to access me?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one extreme, there are \u003ca href=\"http://sfgov.org/oceia/sanctuary-city-ordinance-0\" target=\"_blank\">counties like San Francisco with its strong sanctuary ordinance\u003c/a>. ICE is allowed into the jails to conduct interviews only in rare instances there. Orange County sits at the other end of the spectrum. It’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/factsheets/287g\" target=\"_blank\">the only county in California that empowers sheriff’s deputies in jails to act as immigration agents\u003c/a> under a federal partnership called the 287(g) program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"2cBLJH43J267Vv1z2ggHNdDoy70UsBC6\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In between, there are counties like Fresno. Hussain says they may be a sign of what’s to come in the Trump age. “When the message from the administration to local law enforcement is, ‘We want you to help us deport people,’ I’d say that Fresno is already sort of setting that path to really just unfettered cooperation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edgar Torres is back in Mexico now. His mother, wife and 10-year-old daughter are still in Fresno, and they're undocumented. His 5-month-old daughter, who's also with her mom, is a U.S. citizen. “I wouldn’t wish this on anyone,” Torres says. “I’m thinking about them all the time. I can’t move on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His mother, Maria, is now the sole breadwinner for six people. She’s paying off more than $7,000 in legal fees for her son. Torres’ wife is severely depressed and his younger daughter is seeing a therapist, because she had started gnawing her fingertips raw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now I’m just asking God for things to get better,” says Maria. “I know so many people are going through the same thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California already limits how police can work with immigration authorities. But the state Legislature is weighing a bill that would tighten things further. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB54\" target=\"_blank\">The California Values Act\u003c/a> would bar Fresno -- or any sheriff’s department -- from dedicating any resources to immigration enforcement. And it would stop them from letting ICE into jails to do interviews.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Many California counties are curbing cooperation with ICE -- but Fresno is doing the opposite.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1496774893,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":36,"wordCount":1622},"headData":{"title":"Fresno Sheriff's ICE Partnership May Give a Glimpse of Trump-Era Deportations | KQED","description":"Many California counties are curbing cooperation with ICE -- but Fresno is doing the opposite.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Fresno Sheriff's ICE Partnership May Give a Glimpse of Trump-Era Deportations","datePublished":"2017-03-03T22:36:09.000Z","dateModified":"2017-06-06T18:48:13.000Z","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":"11342705 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11342705","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/03/03/fresno-sheriffs-ice-partnership-may-give-a-glimpse-of-trump-era-deportations/","disqusTitle":"Fresno Sheriff's ICE Partnership May Give a Glimpse of Trump-Era Deportations","path":"/news/11342705/fresno-sheriffs-ice-partnership-may-give-a-glimpse-of-trump-era-deportations","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the Fresno County Jail, Sgt. Elisa Magallanes walks a newly arrested man from a holding cell to a small locked booth where she’ll book him. She talks to him through a glass barrier with a small window in it. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Where were you born at?” Magallanes asks.\u003c/span>\u003cb> \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He says Mexico. “Are you a U.S. citizen?” He says he is. “I gotta give you this consent form,” she says, passing him a slip of paper. “It’s pertaining to ICE,” as in \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Immigration and Customs Enforcement\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Magallanes explains that ICE agents may come into the jail to interview the man, but he has the right not to speak with them. On the other side of the glass, the man nods. He doesn’t have any questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11342775\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11342775 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3281-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Sergeant Elisa Magallanes holds a consent form provided to inmates at the Fresno County Jail\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3281-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3281-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3281-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3281-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3281-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3281-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3281-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3281-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3281-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sgt. Elisa Magallanes holds a consent form provided to inmates at the Fresno County Jail\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She's still getting used to explaining this -- the jail only started using the consent forms Jan. 1, when a state law requiring them went into effect. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes they ask me questions as far as: 'Am I getting deported?' ” Magallanes says. “I explain to them, 'At this time, no. But I do have to advise you that it is a possibility.'”\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>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It's more of a possibility here than in many California jails. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnosheriff.org/645\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Fresno County Sheriff’s Department has a special partnership with ICE\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Immigration agents have unfettered access to the jail’s database. So the info that Magallanes collected at booking? They can see that -- plus any details about charges or criminal history in the database.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on what agents find there, they decide who to question and who they’ll eventually put in deportation proceedings. The Fresno County Sheriff’s Department isn’t privy to how these decisions are made. And ICE didn’t provide any details about how the program works for this story. Correctional officers at the Fresno jail say ICE agents come into the jail at least twice per week with lists of inmates to interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last summer, Edgar Torres was one of those inmates. He was lying in his bunk when he heard his inmate number blaring from a loudspeaker. He had a visitor, but he wasn’t expecting anyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A guard escorted him from his cell to an interview room -- an uncomfortably tight space; it just fits two chairs and a small metal table attached to the wall.\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Inside the room, a man wearing a badge was waiting for him. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“He said ‘Do you know who I am?’ ” Torres explains, “I said ‘No.’ He said, ‘I’m ICE.’ ”\u003c/span>\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/tcr/2017/03/2017-03-03b-tcr.mp3","image":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/151341-full-800x534.jpeg","title":"Fresno Sheriff's ICE Partnership May Give a Glimpse of Trump-Era Deportations","program":"The California Report","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Torres was floored. This was before the jail started handing out those consent forms, so he didn’t know ICE might approach him in the jail, and he didn't know he had a right to refuse the interview. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Torres says the agent handed him a paper to sign and told him, “I want you to sign this so you leave the country. You don’t belong in this county. We know you came in illegally.” \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE was right. Torres had been caught crossing the border almost a decade ago. He crossed again soon after and didn’t get caught. The agent was trying to get him to sign a \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/tools/glossary/voluntary-departure\">voluntary departure\u003c/a> order. Despite the pressure, Torres says he wanted to fight to stay with his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres has only one misdemeanor conviction on his record -- but it’s a serious one: domestic violence. He and his wife have had a rocky relationship. They got in some bad fights and she got a restraining order. A judge ordered him to attend classes, but when he and his wife got back together he stopped going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and his wife were working things out. They’d just had a baby last summer when Torres got pulled over for a broken tail light. He had a warrant because of the missed classes and ended up in jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ACLU attorney Angelica Salceda says this is a common scenario.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“One of the biggest flaws of this program is that you can have someone who committed a mistake and they paid the price for it and turned their lives around. Then they get arrested for something minor,\" she says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you’re undocumented, or even a legal permanent resident, the consequence isn’t just jail time -- it can mean deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11342773\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11342773\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3268-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Interview rooms where ICE agents question inmates at the Fresno County Jail \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3268-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3268-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3268-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3268-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3268-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3268-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3268-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3268-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3268-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Interview rooms where ICE agents question inmates at the Fresno County Jail \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Salceda also worries people who get arrested -- but are never actually charged or convicted -- can end up getting deported. “Those are the types of practices that we think are incredibly problematic and that lead to separation of families and fear in our communities,” she says. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, ICE defended its practices in jails: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“When criminal custody transfers occur outside the secure confines of a jail or prison, regardless of the security precautions we take, there are greater safety risks for all concerned -- our arrest target, ICE officers, and the general public. It needlessly puts our personnel and innocent bystanders in harm’s way.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Torres was in jail, he says ICE agents met with him three times. Every time the pressure to sign himself out of the country got worse. “They would grab me hard by the arm and sit me down,” he says. “They’d slam the papers down in front of me, making loud sounds to intimidate me. They’d say ‘You’re gonna sign, because if not you’re gonna be in prison. Do it for your own good. We’re coming for you anyway -- we know your release date.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They weren’t bluffing. When Torres got out of jail, ICE representatives were waiting for him. He spent six months at a detention center. Eventually it was clear he wasn’t going to win his case. On the advice of his lawyer, Torres finally signed a voluntary removal order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In my perspective it truly is a win-win,” says Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims. “It keeps people from being released back into our communities that have committed crimes -- many times multiple crimes -- and it keeps ICE in our jail and they don't have to go out into the community, which raises fear among people that ICE may not be looking for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Mims launched her program in 2015, other California sheriffs followed her lead, including in Kern and Stanislaus Counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This isn’t the only way police in our state work with ICE. Today, every jail in California -- and around the country -- shares fingerprints with immigration authorities. But local law enforcement agencies cooperate with federal immigration authorities to different degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It creates a very complex framework around California because there’s a lack of uniformity,” says \u003ca href=\"http://www.advancingjustice-alc.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Asian Law Caucus\u003c/a> attorney Saira Hussain. “People don’t always know, ‘If I end up in jail here, how will ICE try to access me?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one extreme, there are \u003ca href=\"http://sfgov.org/oceia/sanctuary-city-ordinance-0\" target=\"_blank\">counties like San Francisco with its strong sanctuary ordinance\u003c/a>. ICE is allowed into the jails to conduct interviews only in rare instances there. Orange County sits at the other end of the spectrum. It’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/factsheets/287g\" target=\"_blank\">the only county in California that empowers sheriff’s deputies in jails to act as immigration agents\u003c/a> under a federal partnership called the 287(g) program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In between, there are counties like Fresno. Hussain says they may be a sign of what’s to come in the Trump age. “When the message from the administration to local law enforcement is, ‘We want you to help us deport people,’ I’d say that Fresno is already sort of setting that path to really just unfettered cooperation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edgar Torres is back in Mexico now. His mother, wife and 10-year-old daughter are still in Fresno, and they're undocumented. His 5-month-old daughter, who's also with her mom, is a U.S. citizen. “I wouldn’t wish this on anyone,” Torres says. “I’m thinking about them all the time. I can’t move on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His mother, Maria, is now the sole breadwinner for six people. She’s paying off more than $7,000 in legal fees for her son. Torres’ wife is severely depressed and his younger daughter is seeing a therapist, because she had started gnawing her fingertips raw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now I’m just asking God for things to get better,” says Maria. “I know so many people are going through the same thing.”\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>California already limits how police can work with immigration authorities. 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