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A white supremacist, Patrick Purdy, blamed minorities for his failings in life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Purdy singled out the Southeast Asians who were his neighbors, deciding to shoot the Cambodian and Vietnamese children enjoying recess. He fired 105 rounds in three minutes, killing five children. Before killing himself, Purdy, who was dressed in combat gear, also wounded 32 other people, including more students and teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All the victims killed were Cambodian and Vietnamese immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One was Ai’s cousin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That changed my life,” said Ai, who was 8 and on the playground at the time of the shooting. “That was the message — you’re not wanted here. Someone is trying to kill you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1980s and 1990s, thousands of Cambodian refugees were resettled in Stockton. According to the \u003ca href=\"https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/Purdy%20-%20official%20report.pdf\">report on the massacre\u003c/a>,\u003ca href=\"https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/Purdy%20-%20official%20report.pdf\"> released\u003c/a> by the state attorney general in October 1989, one in six residents in the city of about 250,000 was a Southeast Asian immigrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966573\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231016-APSC4-014-JY-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11966573 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231016-APSC4-014-JY-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231016-APSC4-014-JY-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231016-APSC4-014-JY-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231016-APSC4-014-JY-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231016-APSC4-014-JY-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231016-APSC4-014-JY-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Borey “Peejay” Ai, 41, outside the Asian Prisoner Support Committee offices in Oakland on Monday, Oct. 16, 2023. Ai, who was formerly incarcerated, was born in Cambodia and is now at risk of being deported back there. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the United States, Southeast Asian refugees found living conditions similar to what they had left behind. Plagued with lingering trauma, they were forced to live in deteriorating buildings and work low-paying jobs while dodging constant attacks. Many children were so young they could barely read or write in their native language, let alone speak and write English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gangs became an outlet for some Southeast Asian youth struggling to adjust. Two of the most prominent Asian gangs in the 1980s, Asian Boyz and Tiny Rascal Gang, were created by Cambodians living in Long Beach as a means of protection. Young Southeast Asians, like Ai, found themselves committing crimes for a gang. Also, like Ai, many were caught and sentenced to long prison sentences. Their releases often came with deportation orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, the \u003ca href=\"https://chu.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/chu.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/seadra-final-text-updated-8-18-2023.pdf\">Southeast Asian Deportation Relief Act of 2023\u003c/a> was introduced in Congress. The legislation aims to end deportations of Southeast Asian American refugees and provide protections for the more than 15,000 people with final orders of removal. The legislation also seeks to establish a path to return to the U.S. for refugees who have already been deported to Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Borey Ai, a formerly incarcerated Cambodian refugee\"]‘As a young person growing up in prison, no one was there for me. As I got into counseling, I fell in love with it because it’s also healing for me to be able to help someone else.[/pullquote]To advocate for the right to stay in the U.S., four employees of the Asian Prisoner Support Committee, an organization supporting formerly incarcerated Asians and Pacific Islanders, formed the APSC Four. Ai is joined by Chanthon Bun, Nghiep Lam and Maria Legarda. Because of the nature of their felonies, each group member had been stripped of their legal permanent resident status and issued removal orders. The group advocates for Gov. Gavin Newsom to grant them pardons to remain in the only country they’ve ever called home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three group members met KQED reporters in the lobby of the organization’s downtown Oakland headquarters one October morning. Inside the former massage parlor, the men, who met while incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison, sat in plastic chairs and exchanged weathered smiles and inside jokes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ai’s family fled the Khmer Rouge, the Cambodian communist regime that committed a genocidal purge from 1975-1978. About 2 million people were killed, nearly a quarter of the Cambodian population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of thousands of Cambodians were forced to flee. Ai was born in Thailand under the shadow of the walls that enclosed a refugee camp. As a child in the camp, he would climb a nearby hill to harvest chilies as sounds of gunfire echoed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 1.2 million Southeast Asian refugees settled in the U.S. after the Vietnam War.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing up in the U.S., Ai said he was consumed by fear and anger. He changed his routes to school to avoid racial harassment and getting beaten up. His father, in the throes of drug addiction, would disappear for months at a time, Ai told KQED. After the 1989 mass shooting incident, he began to isolate himself. By the time he was 12, a neighborhood gang had become his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years later, Ai and his friends attempted to rob a convenience store in San José. During the robbery, the store owner tried to grab Ai’s gun. When he yanked it away from her, the gun fired and the bullet went through her neck. Ai ran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Months later, he turned himself in. He was tried as an adult and sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. He was 15 when he was sentenced, becoming one of the state’s youngest “lifers.” After serving 19 years, Ai was granted parole. But he wasn’t released. Instead, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers picked him up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966575\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231016-APSC4-019-JY-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11966575\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231016-APSC4-019-JY-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A photo portrait of a middle-aged Southeast Asian man wearing a blue T-shirt and baseball cap, and sitting outside in front of a storefront.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231016-APSC4-019-JY-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231016-APSC4-019-JY-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231016-APSC4-019-JY-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231016-APSC4-019-JY-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231016-APSC4-019-JY-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nghiep “Ke” Lam poses for a portrait on his motorcycle outside the Asian Prisoner Support Committee offices in Oakland on Monday, Oct. 16, 2023. Lam, a Vietnamese immigrant, was incarcerated as a teenager and has been at risk for deportation since his release. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ai, now 41, wears an ankle monitor, and the low battery beep reminds him that his current life is in jeopardy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a young person growing up in prison, no one was there for me,” Ai said. “As I got into counseling, I fell in love with it because it’s also healing for me to be able to help someone else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A surge of Southeast Asians resettled in the U.S. as refugees after 1975, and today, more than 3 million people of Southeast Asian descent live here, according to the Southeast Asia Resource Action Center, or SEARAC, a national civil rights organization serving people of Cambodian, Laotian and Vietnamese descent. Since 1998, 17,000 have received final orders of removal for prior convictions and 2,000 have been deported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the formerly incarcerated Southeast Asians that have been deported, less than 10 have been able to return to the United States, said Quyên Đinh, the executive director of SEARAC. Southeast Asians are at least three times more likely to be deported based on an old criminal conviction compared to other immigrants, according to the group.[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"deportation\"]Đinh said refugees were often resettled into historically low-income communities without support or resources. This led them to join gangs and participate in crime, placing them in what she referred to as “the school-to-prison-to-deportation pipeline.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The model minority myth is at the root of why the APSC Four and some individuals are in this position in the first place because they weren’t seen and they weren’t heard in the school system when they should have had the resources to be supported and to thrive and heal as refugees and as children of refugees,” Đinh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lam, of the APSC Four, was born in Vietnam, but his family fled after the Vietnam War. He said they were stranded in the South China Sea for six months before being rescued by fishermen. They were taken to a refugee camp in Hong Kong, where they stayed for two years before immigrating to the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lam said he lived with the weight of feeling unwanted in his neighborhood. The family eventually put bars on their home, creating, according to Lam, a “mini prison inside our own apartment.” While living in Richmond as a teen, Lam found security with the Asian gang at his school. He was drawn to their stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were just like me — refugees. And so they dealt with discrimination, being bullied,” said Lam, 47. “We’re the same, even though we’re different Asian nationalities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lam stopped playing sports and started getting into petty theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It led from just hanging out, chilling, to getting into gang fights,” said Lam, who began to dress in the gang’s blue colors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sept. 30, 1983, Lam said his mother paged him to come home. On the way, he saw rival gang members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘Let’s go beat them up,’” he recalled saying to his friends. “We parked the car, got out of the car — there were three of us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They chased the gang members. When they caught up, Lam repeatedly stabbed one in the back. After the attack, the group drove back to a friend’s house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The detail that still haunts Lam was the silence — nobody said a word in the car or at the house. The next day, he was arrested for murder. He later learned his friends had gone to the police and identified him. Lam spent the next 23 years in prisons across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966574\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231016-APSC4-017-JY-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11966574\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231016-APSC4-017-JY-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A photo portrait of a middle-aged Southeast Asian man wearing a white T-shirt and standing outside against a wall.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231016-APSC4-017-JY-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231016-APSC4-017-JY-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231016-APSC4-017-JY-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231016-APSC4-017-JY-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231016-APSC4-017-JY-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chanthon Bun stands for a portrait outside the Asian Prisoner Support Committee offices in Oakland on Monday, Oct. 16, 2023. Bun, a Cambodian refugee, is at risk of being deported due to being incarcerated in his youth. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bun, 44, was born in Cambodia, but grew up in a refugee camp in Thailand until churches sponsored his family to come to the U.S. After originally settling in Fort Worth, Texas, the family moved to Los Angeles to live in a Cambodian community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To avoid constant bullying at school, he and his cousins started traveling in a pack. It wasn’t long before the pack morphed into a gang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By the age of 17, I was a lookout in a robbery. Nobody was harmed. And we were arrested right away. And I was sentenced to 49 years,” said Bun, who at the time was already a father of one and had another on the way. “Receiving all that time, I really gave up on life. I really didn’t care for my life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phoeun You knows the hardship of being deported. He never called Cambodia home, but that’s where he has lived since his removal from the U.S. last year. His immigrant story is similar to that of the APSC Four, people he referred to as friends in a video interview with KQED.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Phoeun You, who was deported to Cambodia last year\"]‘I’m just shocked looking around. I’m in a new world, a world I don’t know, a language I don’t speak.[/pullquote]Before his first birthday, You’s family left the country seeking a life untainted by violence. But it followed them to the U.S., where You coped with alcohol and found security in gangs. When he was 20 and moving away from gang life, You and his nephew were jumped by gang members in Long Beach. He got a gun two days later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We went around looking for these guys. We saw a group that I thought looked like one of the guys,” You said. “My nephew drove. I was in the passenger seat with a shotgun. I took the gun out and fired six rounds. I murdered one person and injured four.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less than a day before he was released from prison after serving 25 years, You was transferred to an ICE detention center. He stayed there for several months. One day, without warning, he was shackled and put on a flight. He was not allowed to call his family, friends or the advocates pushing for his release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost 24 hours later, You landed in Cambodia, where the heat stuck to his skin. ICE, which didn’t respond to requests for comment, turned him over to the Cambodian government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m just shocked, looking around. I’m in a new world, a world I don’t know, a language I don’t speak,” You recalled when asked about his immediate thoughts upon arrival. “I couldn’t eat the food, because my stomach couldn’t take it down. I couldn’t sleep the first week. The place I had had metal bunks, which reminded me of a jail cell, a prison cell.”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nYou said he became depressed. The only family he had in Cambodia were distant cousins and uncles he’d never met. Before he was deported, You said he had planned to live in Oakland after his release. He had jobs lined up in mental health and restorative justice work. You also wanted to counsel domestic violence survivors to honor his sister, who an abusive boyfriend killed during his incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You, who is teaching English, has not hugged his parents in decades, and due to their old age, they are unable to visit him in Cambodia. He’s not giving up on his fight to return home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The APSC Four now focuses on mentorship and reentry services for at-risk youth, providing the support they didn’t have when they first arrived in America. Lam is a reentry navigator, helping with housing, education enrollment and job assistance. Legarda is a reentry consultant focused on women’s rights and overcoming the trauma of incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bun is a reentry coordinator and speaks publicly about the impact of incarceration and deportation. He doesn’t want to be forcibly removed, because he wants to spend time with his adult children and grandchildren and his 2-year-old son. The anxiety of deportation is constant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Family visits would be over the phone,” he said. “The only time I’d probably get to see my son grow up is through FaceTime or phone calls, so it’s like serving a life sentence I can never come back from.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ai fears being deported to Cambodia, a country he’s never stepped foot in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From my knowledge, people view us as rejects, criminals who just got deported to the country. They don’t trust us. We’re ostracized by our own community,” he said. “To me, it’s double punishment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Since 1998, about 17,000 Southeast Asian refugees have received final orders of removal after completing lengthy prison sentences. And some 2,000 of them have already been deported to countries they know very little about.\r\n","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1699321239,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":46,"wordCount":2482},"headData":{"title":"'Double Punishment': Thousands of Southeast Asian Refugees Face Deportation After Decades-Old Convictions | KQED","description":"Since 1998, about 17,000 Southeast Asian refugees have received final orders of removal after completing lengthy prison sentences. And some 2,000 of them have already been deported to countries they know very little about.\r\n","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NaomiVanderlip\">Naomi Vanderlip\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11966564/double-punishment-thousands-of-southeast-asian-refugees-face-deportation-after-decades-old-convictions","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On Jan. 17, 1989, Borey Ai’s life was dramatically altered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the day a 24-year-old man, armed with an AK-47, strode onto the playground at Cleveland Elementary School in Stockton. A white supremacist, Patrick Purdy, blamed minorities for his failings in life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Purdy singled out the Southeast Asians who were his neighbors, deciding to shoot the Cambodian and Vietnamese children enjoying recess. He fired 105 rounds in three minutes, killing five children. Before killing himself, Purdy, who was dressed in combat gear, also wounded 32 other people, including more students and teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All the victims killed were Cambodian and Vietnamese immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One was Ai’s cousin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That changed my life,” said Ai, who was 8 and on the playground at the time of the shooting. “That was the message — you’re not wanted here. Someone is trying to kill you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1980s and 1990s, thousands of Cambodian refugees were resettled in Stockton. According to the \u003ca href=\"https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/Purdy%20-%20official%20report.pdf\">report on the massacre\u003c/a>,\u003ca href=\"https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/Purdy%20-%20official%20report.pdf\"> released\u003c/a> by the state attorney general in October 1989, one in six residents in the city of about 250,000 was a Southeast Asian immigrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966573\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231016-APSC4-014-JY-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11966573 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231016-APSC4-014-JY-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231016-APSC4-014-JY-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231016-APSC4-014-JY-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231016-APSC4-014-JY-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231016-APSC4-014-JY-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231016-APSC4-014-JY-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Borey “Peejay” Ai, 41, outside the Asian Prisoner Support Committee offices in Oakland on Monday, Oct. 16, 2023. Ai, who was formerly incarcerated, was born in Cambodia and is now at risk of being deported back there. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the United States, Southeast Asian refugees found living conditions similar to what they had left behind. Plagued with lingering trauma, they were forced to live in deteriorating buildings and work low-paying jobs while dodging constant attacks. Many children were so young they could barely read or write in their native language, let alone speak and write English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gangs became an outlet for some Southeast Asian youth struggling to adjust. Two of the most prominent Asian gangs in the 1980s, Asian Boyz and Tiny Rascal Gang, were created by Cambodians living in Long Beach as a means of protection. Young Southeast Asians, like Ai, found themselves committing crimes for a gang. Also, like Ai, many were caught and sentenced to long prison sentences. Their releases often came with deportation orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, the \u003ca href=\"https://chu.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/chu.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/seadra-final-text-updated-8-18-2023.pdf\">Southeast Asian Deportation Relief Act of 2023\u003c/a> was introduced in Congress. The legislation aims to end deportations of Southeast Asian American refugees and provide protections for the more than 15,000 people with final orders of removal. The legislation also seeks to establish a path to return to the U.S. for refugees who have already been deported to Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘As a young person growing up in prison, no one was there for me. As I got into counseling, I fell in love with it because it’s also healing for me to be able to help someone else.","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Borey Ai, a formerly incarcerated Cambodian refugee","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>To advocate for the right to stay in the U.S., four employees of the Asian Prisoner Support Committee, an organization supporting formerly incarcerated Asians and Pacific Islanders, formed the APSC Four. Ai is joined by Chanthon Bun, Nghiep Lam and Maria Legarda. Because of the nature of their felonies, each group member had been stripped of their legal permanent resident status and issued removal orders. The group advocates for Gov. Gavin Newsom to grant them pardons to remain in the only country they’ve ever called home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three group members met KQED reporters in the lobby of the organization’s downtown Oakland headquarters one October morning. Inside the former massage parlor, the men, who met while incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison, sat in plastic chairs and exchanged weathered smiles and inside jokes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ai’s family fled the Khmer Rouge, the Cambodian communist regime that committed a genocidal purge from 1975-1978. About 2 million people were killed, nearly a quarter of the Cambodian population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of thousands of Cambodians were forced to flee. Ai was born in Thailand under the shadow of the walls that enclosed a refugee camp. As a child in the camp, he would climb a nearby hill to harvest chilies as sounds of gunfire echoed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 1.2 million Southeast Asian refugees settled in the U.S. after the Vietnam War.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing up in the U.S., Ai said he was consumed by fear and anger. He changed his routes to school to avoid racial harassment and getting beaten up. His father, in the throes of drug addiction, would disappear for months at a time, Ai told KQED. After the 1989 mass shooting incident, he began to isolate himself. By the time he was 12, a neighborhood gang had become his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years later, Ai and his friends attempted to rob a convenience store in San José. During the robbery, the store owner tried to grab Ai’s gun. When he yanked it away from her, the gun fired and the bullet went through her neck. Ai ran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Months later, he turned himself in. He was tried as an adult and sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. He was 15 when he was sentenced, becoming one of the state’s youngest “lifers.” After serving 19 years, Ai was granted parole. But he wasn’t released. Instead, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers picked him up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966575\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231016-APSC4-019-JY-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11966575\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231016-APSC4-019-JY-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A photo portrait of a middle-aged Southeast Asian man wearing a blue T-shirt and baseball cap, and sitting outside in front of a storefront.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231016-APSC4-019-JY-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231016-APSC4-019-JY-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231016-APSC4-019-JY-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231016-APSC4-019-JY-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231016-APSC4-019-JY-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nghiep “Ke” Lam poses for a portrait on his motorcycle outside the Asian Prisoner Support Committee offices in Oakland on Monday, Oct. 16, 2023. Lam, a Vietnamese immigrant, was incarcerated as a teenager and has been at risk for deportation since his release. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ai, now 41, wears an ankle monitor, and the low battery beep reminds him that his current life is in jeopardy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a young person growing up in prison, no one was there for me,” Ai said. “As I got into counseling, I fell in love with it because it’s also healing for me to be able to help someone else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A surge of Southeast Asians resettled in the U.S. as refugees after 1975, and today, more than 3 million people of Southeast Asian descent live here, according to the Southeast Asia Resource Action Center, or SEARAC, a national civil rights organization serving people of Cambodian, Laotian and Vietnamese descent. Since 1998, 17,000 have received final orders of removal for prior convictions and 2,000 have been deported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the formerly incarcerated Southeast Asians that have been deported, less than 10 have been able to return to the United States, said Quyên Đinh, the executive director of SEARAC. Southeast Asians are at least three times more likely to be deported based on an old criminal conviction compared to other immigrants, according to the group.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"deportation"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Đinh said refugees were often resettled into historically low-income communities without support or resources. This led them to join gangs and participate in crime, placing them in what she referred to as “the school-to-prison-to-deportation pipeline.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The model minority myth is at the root of why the APSC Four and some individuals are in this position in the first place because they weren’t seen and they weren’t heard in the school system when they should have had the resources to be supported and to thrive and heal as refugees and as children of refugees,” Đinh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lam, of the APSC Four, was born in Vietnam, but his family fled after the Vietnam War. He said they were stranded in the South China Sea for six months before being rescued by fishermen. They were taken to a refugee camp in Hong Kong, where they stayed for two years before immigrating to the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lam said he lived with the weight of feeling unwanted in his neighborhood. The family eventually put bars on their home, creating, according to Lam, a “mini prison inside our own apartment.” While living in Richmond as a teen, Lam found security with the Asian gang at his school. He was drawn to their stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were just like me — refugees. And so they dealt with discrimination, being bullied,” said Lam, 47. “We’re the same, even though we’re different Asian nationalities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lam stopped playing sports and started getting into petty theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It led from just hanging out, chilling, to getting into gang fights,” said Lam, who began to dress in the gang’s blue colors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sept. 30, 1983, Lam said his mother paged him to come home. On the way, he saw rival gang members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘Let’s go beat them up,’” he recalled saying to his friends. “We parked the car, got out of the car — there were three of us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They chased the gang members. When they caught up, Lam repeatedly stabbed one in the back. After the attack, the group drove back to a friend’s house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The detail that still haunts Lam was the silence — nobody said a word in the car or at the house. The next day, he was arrested for murder. He later learned his friends had gone to the police and identified him. Lam spent the next 23 years in prisons across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966574\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231016-APSC4-017-JY-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11966574\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231016-APSC4-017-JY-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A photo portrait of a middle-aged Southeast Asian man wearing a white T-shirt and standing outside against a wall.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231016-APSC4-017-JY-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231016-APSC4-017-JY-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231016-APSC4-017-JY-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231016-APSC4-017-JY-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20231016-APSC4-017-JY-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chanthon Bun stands for a portrait outside the Asian Prisoner Support Committee offices in Oakland on Monday, Oct. 16, 2023. Bun, a Cambodian refugee, is at risk of being deported due to being incarcerated in his youth. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bun, 44, was born in Cambodia, but grew up in a refugee camp in Thailand until churches sponsored his family to come to the U.S. After originally settling in Fort Worth, Texas, the family moved to Los Angeles to live in a Cambodian community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To avoid constant bullying at school, he and his cousins started traveling in a pack. It wasn’t long before the pack morphed into a gang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By the age of 17, I was a lookout in a robbery. Nobody was harmed. And we were arrested right away. And I was sentenced to 49 years,” said Bun, who at the time was already a father of one and had another on the way. “Receiving all that time, I really gave up on life. I really didn’t care for my life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phoeun You knows the hardship of being deported. He never called Cambodia home, but that’s where he has lived since his removal from the U.S. last year. His immigrant story is similar to that of the APSC Four, people he referred to as friends in a video interview with KQED.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘I’m just shocked looking around. I’m in a new world, a world I don’t know, a language I don’t speak.","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Phoeun You, who was deported to Cambodia last year","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Before his first birthday, You’s family left the country seeking a life untainted by violence. But it followed them to the U.S., where You coped with alcohol and found security in gangs. When he was 20 and moving away from gang life, You and his nephew were jumped by gang members in Long Beach. He got a gun two days later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We went around looking for these guys. We saw a group that I thought looked like one of the guys,” You said. “My nephew drove. I was in the passenger seat with a shotgun. I took the gun out and fired six rounds. I murdered one person and injured four.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less than a day before he was released from prison after serving 25 years, You was transferred to an ICE detention center. He stayed there for several months. One day, without warning, he was shackled and put on a flight. He was not allowed to call his family, friends or the advocates pushing for his release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost 24 hours later, You landed in Cambodia, where the heat stuck to his skin. ICE, which didn’t respond to requests for comment, turned him over to the Cambodian government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m just shocked, looking around. I’m in a new world, a world I don’t know, a language I don’t speak,” You recalled when asked about his immediate thoughts upon arrival. “I couldn’t eat the food, because my stomach couldn’t take it down. I couldn’t sleep the first week. The place I had had metal bunks, which reminded me of a jail cell, a prison cell.”\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>\u003cbr>\nYou said he became depressed. The only family he had in Cambodia were distant cousins and uncles he’d never met. Before he was deported, You said he had planned to live in Oakland after his release. He had jobs lined up in mental health and restorative justice work. You also wanted to counsel domestic violence survivors to honor his sister, who an abusive boyfriend killed during his incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You, who is teaching English, has not hugged his parents in decades, and due to their old age, they are unable to visit him in Cambodia. He’s not giving up on his fight to return home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The APSC Four now focuses on mentorship and reentry services for at-risk youth, providing the support they didn’t have when they first arrived in America. Lam is a reentry navigator, helping with housing, education enrollment and job assistance. Legarda is a reentry consultant focused on women’s rights and overcoming the trauma of incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bun is a reentry coordinator and speaks publicly about the impact of incarceration and deportation. He doesn’t want to be forcibly removed, because he wants to spend time with his adult children and grandchildren and his 2-year-old son. The anxiety of deportation is constant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Family visits would be over the phone,” he said. “The only time I’d probably get to see my son grow up is through FaceTime or phone calls, so it’s like serving a life sentence I can never come back from.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ai fears being deported to Cambodia, a country he’s never stepped foot in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From my knowledge, people view us as rejects, criminals who just got deported to the country. They don’t trust us. We’re ostracized by our own community,” he said. “To me, it’s double punishment.”\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/11966564/double-punishment-thousands-of-southeast-asian-refugees-face-deportation-after-decades-old-convictions","authors":["byline_news_11966564"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_18123","news_27626","news_2997","news_19006","news_33457"],"featImg":"news_11966572","label":"news"},"news_11961237":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11961237","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11961237","score":null,"sort":[1694800406000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"cambodian-americans-heal-cycle-intergenerational-trauma","title":"How Cambodian Americans Heal the Cycle of Intergenerational Trauma","publishDate":1694800406,"format":"standard","headTitle":"How Cambodian Americans Heal the Cycle of Intergenerational Trauma | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":26731,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>If you or someone you know may be considering suicide or is in crisis, call or text\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://988lifeline.org/\">\u003cem> 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]L[/dropcap]ions and angels guard the perimeter of the main pagoda at Fresno’s largest Cambodian Buddhist temple, resplendent in gold, green and red hues. They were witness to the inauguration of the temple’s first-ever abbot, a lifelong appointment so rare that dozens of Cambodian Buddhist monks from around the world flew in to offer blessings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A sea of orange robes lined the procession route winding around the pagoda. At the center, the new abbot, Say Bunthon, sat atop a chariot serenely taking in the scene. Temple-goers began their circular march as a boisterous band of musicians and singers set the rhythm. This was where I met Nancy Meas a year ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Aren’t they gorgeous?” she asked, smiling from behind a row of lush flower bouquets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11960677\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11960677\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The pagoda at the Fresno Cambodian Buddhist Society temple on Sept. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Designed to mimic the colors of the Buddhist flag, blue, orange, red, yellow and white bursts of delphiniums, snapdragons and mums were arranged on the dais. There are 12 in all, and together, they symbolize completion. For Meas, they were a hopeful sign that things were moving in a new direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s dealt with more than her fair share of pain and loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 36-year-old was born and raised in Fresno to parents who fled the Khmer Rouge. From 1975 to 1979, soldiers under communist leader Pol Pot, murdered, tortured and starved people in an attempt to rebuild a society free of Western influences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 40 years after \u003ca href=\"https://sfi.usc.edu/collections/cambodian-genocide\">the genocide killed some 2 million Cambodians\u003c/a>, the refugees who survived are still struggling to move past the trauma they endured. And that brutal past is often echoed in the next generation — children of refugees like Meas and her siblings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Piecing life back together after a genocide\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Nancy’s father, Kong Meas, became a monk at the Fresno temple in 2014, a few years after his mother died. She was a nun and Kong felt the need to carry on the family tradition. Through his practice, he found a measure of peace after surviving brutal working conditions under the Khmer Rouge regime. There wasn’t always enough food and many people starved to death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’d work so hard every day, but they would only give us a little bit of porridge,” he said, speaking in Khmer. “Since I didn’t have food to eat, I became really skinny and I couldn’t walk. I would almost fall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11960680\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11960680\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-07-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-07-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-07-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nancy Meas (left) and her father Kong Meas hold a photo of Phay Prak, Nancy’s grandmother and Kong’s mother in the garden at the Fresno Cambodian Buddhist Society temple on Sept. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of his children died from starvation. His older brother was executed by Khmer Rouge soldiers. He never knew what happened to his remains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They killed soldiers from the former Lon Nol government. They took them away by carloads, including my brother,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1979, when the regime fell, Kong and his family fled to Thailand. While they waited for exit visas, he risked his life to help other people sneak into their camp, Khao-I-Dang. \u003ca href=\"https://www.unhcr.org/news/stories/famed-cambodian-refugee-camp-reopens-educational-centre\">It was the main place people could get visas to immigrate.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1L6eMymNr0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes, I would see others on the path having a difficult time,” Kong said. “Or sometimes, the people were lost and didn’t know the path. I would see them and just help guide them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kong Meas recalled how risky the missions were. Most of the time, they had to travel at night. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Kong Meas, monk, Fresno Cambodian Buddhist Society \"]‘We’d work so hard every day, but they would only give us a little bit of porridge. Since I didn’t have food to eat, I became really skinny and I couldn’t walk. I would almost fall.’[/pullquote] They encountered thieves who searched travelers for hidden jewelry and he was always on the lookout for armed guards that prowled the jungle paths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even when we arrived, we wouldn’t go in immediately for fear that soldiers would see us and shoot us,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One day, it was his family’s turn to leave. They received a visa for the United States and immigrated to Fresno in 1984. Nancy was born two years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 40 years after the genocide, Nancy knows her parents suffer from the trauma of what they witnessed, but they don’t talk much about the details. Even if her parents were willing to share more about what they went through, Nancy might not understand them. She grew up in the U.S., speaking English, while her parents mostly speak Khmer. Things get lost in translation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s broken English, broken Khmer all mixed up. There’s a lot of miscommunication,” Nancy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11960678\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11960678\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Community members offer alms to the monks at the Fresno Cambodian Buddhist Society temple on Sept. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are cultural differences at play between the generations too. Nancy said her parents didn’t understand the way their kids dressed or acted once they moved to Fresno. Cambodian society, where they had grown up, is a more reserved society, one with more rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard to understand their parents, where they came from,” Nancy said. “It’s just a culture clash.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Nancy said her parents didn’t have a lot of time to spend with their kids to overcome these barriers. They were busy adjusting to a foreign country and finding work, which left Nancy and her siblings fending for themselves in the lower-income neighborhood where they lived.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Second-generation trauma looks different\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Meas family survived a genocide, but they couldn’t escape more tragedy in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nancy Meas is one of eight kids, but only five are still alive today. One child died in Cambodia, and Fresno claimed two more. Nancy’s older sister, Kunnea Meas, died by suicide in 2010 at age 25. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Nancy Meas\"]‘It’s hard to understand their parents, where they came from. It’s just a culture clash.’[/pullquote] “We didn’t expect it to happen,” Nancy said. “My sister was a very bubbly person, loving, caring, kind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kunnea was only a year older than Nancy and they were close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was just so hurtful that she couldn’t at least share what was going inside, what was bothering her because we were really best friends,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kunnea had been struggling with depression for months, but it was taboo in their family to talk about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to be happy and move forward,” Nancy said. “And [my parents] would always tell me the kids back in Cambodia have it much worse than us. You know, we are blessed to be here in America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nancy knows this is how her parents learned to cope with all they suffered, but she wonders about the impact it had on her sister’s mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11960681\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11960681\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-08-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-08-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-08-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-08-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nancy Meas at the Fresno Cambodian Buddhist Society temple on Sept. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I felt like they were dismissing what we felt internally,” Nancy said. “[I don’t want] to blame them, but I feel, in a sense, that’s the reason why my sister hid everything inside and didn’t dare to let anything out. And she dealt with it by herself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the same time, one of Nancy’s brothers, Chantha, was detained for gang activity. She said gangs were hard to avoid in the Southeast Fresno neighborhood where they grew up. Gangs were a way for boys, in particular, to protect themselves. Two of Nancy’s four brothers got involved. Because of his gang connections, Chantha was deported to Cambodia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He doesn’t even know Cambodia,” she said. “He doesn’t know the culture. He can barely speak the language.” [aside postID=news_11954142 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg'] Just after he was detained, Kunnea died by suicide. Chantha was in shackles when he attended Kunnea’s viewing. He wasn’t even allowed to stay in the country long enough to attend her funeral, which took place several days later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He took it really hard. He was able to go to her viewing for literally 30 minutes and it broke my heart to see him drop down to his knees and just bawl,” Nancy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers for the family have been working to bring him back home for the past seven years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rocked by these losses, Nancy planned a trip to Cambodia the following year. She wanted to visit sacred religious sites, check on her brother and ground herself. While there, she experienced something profound, what she calls an “awakening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I completely changed. I just completely prioritized my life and filtered out what wasn’t important and what was,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she returned to Fresno, she leaned into her faith, spending time at the temple meditating and praying. It helped her feel spiritually connected to her ancestors and able to accept what had happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt like I had a huge role in bringing the family together in a sense, spiritually,” she said. “And if I don’t do that, I feel like we’re gonna fall apart again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Nancy’s faith was put to the test once again. Just a few years ago, her oldest sister died from complications related to alcohol, a way of coping with all the other losses.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Culturally responsive mental health care could help\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Throughout her grief and loss, Nancy Meas continues to turn to her religion and culture for comfort. She saw a therapist when Kunnea died, but didn’t feel the need to continue sessions. She said if the care focused more specifically on the experience of Cambodian Americans, it might have been different. She would even be open to getting her parents to try it too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a model for that type of culturally responsive care in Fresno already. But it’s geared toward the Hmong population, many of whom are older and don’t like direct questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11960682\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11960682\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-09-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-09-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-09-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-09-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Fresno Center in Fresno on Sept. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s almost like a dance,” said Ze Vang, the clinical director at \u003ca href=\"https://fresnocenter.org/\">The Fresno Center\u003c/a> whose mission is to offer health and immigration services to the Southeast Asian community. “They come in, we have to talk about, ‘So what did you do today?’ That type of thing, and they’re like, ‘Oh nothing.’ And we have to kind of dance around what they do and how they’re feeling. And then, 10 minutes into the session, they finally say, ‘Oh, I feel really depressed.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Fresno Center’s success with the Hmong community started with destigmatizing mental health, a huge obstacle to accessing mental health care. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dr. Ghia Xiong, clinical psychologist and program director, The Fresno Center\"]‘Generation after generation told them that if you have mental health, you’re actually crazy.’[/pullquote] “Generation after generation told them that if you have mental health [treatment], you’re actually crazy,” said clinical psychologist and program director Dr. Ghia Xiong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It turned out that people were turned off by terms like “mental health” or “clinic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We actually have the ladies test this out with their husbands,” Xiong said. “When he asks you where you’re going, you just say, ‘I’m going to the Happy House,’ rather than, ‘going and seeking mental health.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, crucially, the center offers therapy in the Hmong language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you provide mental health services with the interpreter, it completely changes the context of therapy,” Vang said. “Because then you have to translate what the client is saying to the interpreter, then the interpreter translates to you. You lose all the emotions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://mhsoac.ca.gov/transparency-suite/fiscal-transparency-dashboard/\">In California, mental health programs are growing in size and scope\u003c/a> and becoming more widely available for underserved populations like Hmong and Cambodian Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11960679\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11960679\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-04-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-04-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The photos of community elders adorn the walls at the Fresno Cambodian Buddhist Society temple on Sept. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2004, California voters passed Proposition 63, a ballot initiative known as the Mental Health Services Fund. It places a 1% tax on incomes over $1 million, which funds mental health programs like The Fresno Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Vang and Xiong are both Hmong and specialize in treating Hmong patients, they say the intergenerational trauma and barriers to accessing care are similar across the Southeast Asian community. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Ze Vang, clinical director, The Fresno Center\"]‘Sometimes, the parents are just so busy making a living, so busy with making sure that there’s food on the table, they don’t have time for their kids.’[/pullquote]“Sometimes, the parents are just so busy making a living, so busy with making sure that there’s food on the table, they don’t have time for their kids,” Vang said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said many don’t understand why their children are struggling in the U.S., where life is so much easier than in Cambodia. On the flip side, the younger generation can feel abandoned and misunderstood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s really no sense of belonging with the family,” Vang said. “There’s no sort of relationship at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make up for that, children often try to find supportive relationships somewhere else, sometimes in gangs. Many also suffer from anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But it’s because their parents have their own trauma,” Vang said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Fostering a sense of belonging\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Formal therapy isn’t the only way to help folks dealing with trauma. As Nancy Meas found, volunteering at the Cambodian Buddhist temple and maintaining a connection to the older generation through language and tradition can go a long way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It offers a sense of belonging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though I’m American-born, I feel like to make my ancestors proud, to make my parents and family proud, I have to carry on the tradition,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/UKCP.org/\">United Khmer Cultural Preservation\u003c/a> is trying to do the same thing for more Cambodian kids. It runs a weekly language and cultural arts class for children and teens as a way of bridging the cultural gap between generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11960687\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11960687\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cahoeun (Chantao) Gov helps her granddaughters Zora Sanchez and Kai Sanchez pray at the Fresno Cambodian Buddhist Society temple on Sept. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Setha Nhim teaches on weekends, teaching children how to play traditional Cambodian instruments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I started practicing a little before with Yeh Yeh,” said 8-year-old Nadine Gov as she tapped along on a drum. “I knew a little bit before we came.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, she can count to 100 in Khmer, which makes her grandmother — her Yeh Yeh — proud. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Chhoeun Gov, grandmother\"]‘I bring my grandchildren to learn about culture. I don’t want to forget Cambodian culture. And I like my culture a lot.’[/pullquote] “I bring my grandchildren to learn about culture,” said Chhoeun Gov, Nadine’s grandmother. “I don’t want to forget Cambodian culture. And I like my culture a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phany Sor enrolled all four of her kids in language classes at the cultural center because her husband is Lao and the kids mostly speak English at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s kind of hard, like how you have two parents, different languages,” she said. “I want them to learn our language too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nancy Meas doesn’t want to forget either. That’s why she often visits the Cambodian temple, taking a meditation walk each time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So each step that I take around the perimeter, you know the shrine, I feel like it brings me more healing, brings more peace, more comfort,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She often lingers at her favorite spot, the pond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love seeing the lotus flowers,” she said gazing at a sea of green. The flowers sprout from green lily pads as tall, thin stalks blooming with white and pink flowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In order for it to become the beautiful flower, it has to go through mud and all the dirt and challenges, the weather,” Nancy said. “But at the end of all the challenges and the winds and the storms it blooms so beautifully.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cbr>\nThis reporting was supported by the Carter Center’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.cartercenter.org/health/mental_health/fellowships/\">Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Thousands of Cambodians fled the Khmer Rouge and ended up in California. Now, their children are trying to cope with the collective trauma.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1697577546,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":70,"wordCount":2972},"headData":{"title":"How Cambodian Americans Heal the Cycle of Intergenerational Trauma | KQED","description":"Thousands of Cambodians fled the Khmer Rouge and ended up in California. Now, their children are trying to cope with the collective trauma.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/d69a3948-62ea-4c44-9d90-b07e015c811d/audio.mp3","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SoreathH\">Soreath Hok\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Exclude","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11961237/cambodian-americans-heal-cycle-intergenerational-trauma","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>If you or someone you know may be considering suicide or is in crisis, call or text\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://988lifeline.org/\">\u003cem> 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">L\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>ions and angels guard the perimeter of the main pagoda at Fresno’s largest Cambodian Buddhist temple, resplendent in gold, green and red hues. They were witness to the inauguration of the temple’s first-ever abbot, a lifelong appointment so rare that dozens of Cambodian Buddhist monks from around the world flew in to offer blessings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A sea of orange robes lined the procession route winding around the pagoda. At the center, the new abbot, Say Bunthon, sat atop a chariot serenely taking in the scene. Temple-goers began their circular march as a boisterous band of musicians and singers set the rhythm. This was where I met Nancy Meas a year ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Aren’t they gorgeous?” she asked, smiling from behind a row of lush flower bouquets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11960677\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11960677\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The pagoda at the Fresno Cambodian Buddhist Society temple on Sept. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Designed to mimic the colors of the Buddhist flag, blue, orange, red, yellow and white bursts of delphiniums, snapdragons and mums were arranged on the dais. There are 12 in all, and together, they symbolize completion. For Meas, they were a hopeful sign that things were moving in a new direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s dealt with more than her fair share of pain and loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 36-year-old was born and raised in Fresno to parents who fled the Khmer Rouge. From 1975 to 1979, soldiers under communist leader Pol Pot, murdered, tortured and starved people in an attempt to rebuild a society free of Western influences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 40 years after \u003ca href=\"https://sfi.usc.edu/collections/cambodian-genocide\">the genocide killed some 2 million Cambodians\u003c/a>, the refugees who survived are still struggling to move past the trauma they endured. And that brutal past is often echoed in the next generation — children of refugees like Meas and her siblings.\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\u003ch2>Piecing life back together after a genocide\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Nancy’s father, Kong Meas, became a monk at the Fresno temple in 2014, a few years after his mother died. She was a nun and Kong felt the need to carry on the family tradition. Through his practice, he found a measure of peace after surviving brutal working conditions under the Khmer Rouge regime. There wasn’t always enough food and many people starved to death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’d work so hard every day, but they would only give us a little bit of porridge,” he said, speaking in Khmer. “Since I didn’t have food to eat, I became really skinny and I couldn’t walk. I would almost fall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11960680\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11960680\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-07-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-07-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-07-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nancy Meas (left) and her father Kong Meas hold a photo of Phay Prak, Nancy’s grandmother and Kong’s mother in the garden at the Fresno Cambodian Buddhist Society temple on Sept. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of his children died from starvation. His older brother was executed by Khmer Rouge soldiers. He never knew what happened to his remains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They killed soldiers from the former Lon Nol government. They took them away by carloads, including my brother,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1979, when the regime fell, Kong and his family fled to Thailand. While they waited for exit visas, he risked his life to help other people sneak into their camp, Khao-I-Dang. \u003ca href=\"https://www.unhcr.org/news/stories/famed-cambodian-refugee-camp-reopens-educational-centre\">It was the main place people could get visas to immigrate.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/B1L6eMymNr0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/B1L6eMymNr0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes, I would see others on the path having a difficult time,” Kong said. “Or sometimes, the people were lost and didn’t know the path. I would see them and just help guide them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kong Meas recalled how risky the missions were. Most of the time, they had to travel at night. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘We’d work so hard every day, but they would only give us a little bit of porridge. Since I didn’t have food to eat, I became really skinny and I couldn’t walk. I would almost fall.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Kong Meas, monk, Fresno Cambodian Buddhist Society ","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> They encountered thieves who searched travelers for hidden jewelry and he was always on the lookout for armed guards that prowled the jungle paths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even when we arrived, we wouldn’t go in immediately for fear that soldiers would see us and shoot us,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One day, it was his family’s turn to leave. They received a visa for the United States and immigrated to Fresno in 1984. Nancy was born two years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 40 years after the genocide, Nancy knows her parents suffer from the trauma of what they witnessed, but they don’t talk much about the details. Even if her parents were willing to share more about what they went through, Nancy might not understand them. She grew up in the U.S., speaking English, while her parents mostly speak Khmer. Things get lost in translation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s broken English, broken Khmer all mixed up. There’s a lot of miscommunication,” Nancy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11960678\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11960678\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Community members offer alms to the monks at the Fresno Cambodian Buddhist Society temple on Sept. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are cultural differences at play between the generations too. Nancy said her parents didn’t understand the way their kids dressed or acted once they moved to Fresno. Cambodian society, where they had grown up, is a more reserved society, one with more rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard to understand their parents, where they came from,” Nancy said. “It’s just a culture clash.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Nancy said her parents didn’t have a lot of time to spend with their kids to overcome these barriers. They were busy adjusting to a foreign country and finding work, which left Nancy and her siblings fending for themselves in the lower-income neighborhood where they lived.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Second-generation trauma looks different\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Meas family survived a genocide, but they couldn’t escape more tragedy in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nancy Meas is one of eight kids, but only five are still alive today. One child died in Cambodia, and Fresno claimed two more. Nancy’s older sister, Kunnea Meas, died by suicide in 2010 at age 25. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘It’s hard to understand their parents, where they came from. It’s just a culture clash.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Nancy Meas","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> “We didn’t expect it to happen,” Nancy said. “My sister was a very bubbly person, loving, caring, kind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kunnea was only a year older than Nancy and they were close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was just so hurtful that she couldn’t at least share what was going inside, what was bothering her because we were really best friends,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kunnea had been struggling with depression for months, but it was taboo in their family to talk about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to be happy and move forward,” Nancy said. “And [my parents] would always tell me the kids back in Cambodia have it much worse than us. You know, we are blessed to be here in America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nancy knows this is how her parents learned to cope with all they suffered, but she wonders about the impact it had on her sister’s mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11960681\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11960681\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-08-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-08-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-08-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-08-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nancy Meas at the Fresno Cambodian Buddhist Society temple on Sept. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I felt like they were dismissing what we felt internally,” Nancy said. “[I don’t want] to blame them, but I feel, in a sense, that’s the reason why my sister hid everything inside and didn’t dare to let anything out. And she dealt with it by herself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the same time, one of Nancy’s brothers, Chantha, was detained for gang activity. She said gangs were hard to avoid in the Southeast Fresno neighborhood where they grew up. Gangs were a way for boys, in particular, to protect themselves. Two of Nancy’s four brothers got involved. Because of his gang connections, Chantha was deported to Cambodia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He doesn’t even know Cambodia,” she said. “He doesn’t know the culture. He can barely speak the language.” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11954142","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> Just after he was detained, Kunnea died by suicide. Chantha was in shackles when he attended Kunnea’s viewing. He wasn’t even allowed to stay in the country long enough to attend her funeral, which took place several days later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He took it really hard. He was able to go to her viewing for literally 30 minutes and it broke my heart to see him drop down to his knees and just bawl,” Nancy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers for the family have been working to bring him back home for the past seven years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rocked by these losses, Nancy planned a trip to Cambodia the following year. She wanted to visit sacred religious sites, check on her brother and ground herself. While there, she experienced something profound, what she calls an “awakening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I completely changed. I just completely prioritized my life and filtered out what wasn’t important and what was,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she returned to Fresno, she leaned into her faith, spending time at the temple meditating and praying. It helped her feel spiritually connected to her ancestors and able to accept what had happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt like I had a huge role in bringing the family together in a sense, spiritually,” she said. “And if I don’t do that, I feel like we’re gonna fall apart again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Nancy’s faith was put to the test once again. Just a few years ago, her oldest sister died from complications related to alcohol, a way of coping with all the other losses.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Culturally responsive mental health care could help\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Throughout her grief and loss, Nancy Meas continues to turn to her religion and culture for comfort. She saw a therapist when Kunnea died, but didn’t feel the need to continue sessions. She said if the care focused more specifically on the experience of Cambodian Americans, it might have been different. She would even be open to getting her parents to try it too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a model for that type of culturally responsive care in Fresno already. But it’s geared toward the Hmong population, many of whom are older and don’t like direct questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11960682\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11960682\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-09-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-09-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-09-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-09-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Fresno Center in Fresno on Sept. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s almost like a dance,” said Ze Vang, the clinical director at \u003ca href=\"https://fresnocenter.org/\">The Fresno Center\u003c/a> whose mission is to offer health and immigration services to the Southeast Asian community. “They come in, we have to talk about, ‘So what did you do today?’ That type of thing, and they’re like, ‘Oh nothing.’ And we have to kind of dance around what they do and how they’re feeling. And then, 10 minutes into the session, they finally say, ‘Oh, I feel really depressed.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Fresno Center’s success with the Hmong community started with destigmatizing mental health, a huge obstacle to accessing mental health care. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Generation after generation told them that if you have mental health, you’re actually crazy.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Dr. Ghia Xiong, clinical psychologist and program director, The Fresno Center","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> “Generation after generation told them that if you have mental health [treatment], you’re actually crazy,” said clinical psychologist and program director Dr. Ghia Xiong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It turned out that people were turned off by terms like “mental health” or “clinic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We actually have the ladies test this out with their husbands,” Xiong said. “When he asks you where you’re going, you just say, ‘I’m going to the Happy House,’ rather than, ‘going and seeking mental health.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, crucially, the center offers therapy in the Hmong language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you provide mental health services with the interpreter, it completely changes the context of therapy,” Vang said. “Because then you have to translate what the client is saying to the interpreter, then the interpreter translates to you. You lose all the emotions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://mhsoac.ca.gov/transparency-suite/fiscal-transparency-dashboard/\">In California, mental health programs are growing in size and scope\u003c/a> and becoming more widely available for underserved populations like Hmong and Cambodian Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11960679\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11960679\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-04-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-04-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The photos of community elders adorn the walls at the Fresno Cambodian Buddhist Society temple on Sept. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2004, California voters passed Proposition 63, a ballot initiative known as the Mental Health Services Fund. It places a 1% tax on incomes over $1 million, which funds mental health programs like The Fresno Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Vang and Xiong are both Hmong and specialize in treating Hmong patients, they say the intergenerational trauma and barriers to accessing care are similar across the Southeast Asian community. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Sometimes, the parents are just so busy making a living, so busy with making sure that there’s food on the table, they don’t have time for their kids.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Ze Vang, clinical director, The Fresno Center","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Sometimes, the parents are just so busy making a living, so busy with making sure that there’s food on the table, they don’t have time for their kids,” Vang said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said many don’t understand why their children are struggling in the U.S., where life is so much easier than in Cambodia. On the flip side, the younger generation can feel abandoned and misunderstood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s really no sense of belonging with the family,” Vang said. “There’s no sort of relationship at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make up for that, children often try to find supportive relationships somewhere else, sometimes in gangs. Many also suffer from anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But it’s because their parents have their own trauma,” Vang said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Fostering a sense of belonging\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Formal therapy isn’t the only way to help folks dealing with trauma. As Nancy Meas found, volunteering at the Cambodian Buddhist temple and maintaining a connection to the older generation through language and tradition can go a long way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It offers a sense of belonging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though I’m American-born, I feel like to make my ancestors proud, to make my parents and family proud, I have to carry on the tradition,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/UKCP.org/\">United Khmer Cultural Preservation\u003c/a> is trying to do the same thing for more Cambodian kids. It runs a weekly language and cultural arts class for children and teens as a way of bridging the cultural gap between generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11960687\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11960687\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/091023-CAMBODIAN-MENTAL-HEALTH-MD-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cahoeun (Chantao) Gov helps her granddaughters Zora Sanchez and Kai Sanchez pray at the Fresno Cambodian Buddhist Society temple on Sept. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Setha Nhim teaches on weekends, teaching children how to play traditional Cambodian instruments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I started practicing a little before with Yeh Yeh,” said 8-year-old Nadine Gov as she tapped along on a drum. “I knew a little bit before we came.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, she can count to 100 in Khmer, which makes her grandmother — her Yeh Yeh — proud. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘I bring my grandchildren to learn about culture. I don’t want to forget Cambodian culture. And I like my culture a lot.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Chhoeun Gov, grandmother","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> “I bring my grandchildren to learn about culture,” said Chhoeun Gov, Nadine’s grandmother. “I don’t want to forget Cambodian culture. And I like my culture a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phany Sor enrolled all four of her kids in language classes at the cultural center because her husband is Lao and the kids mostly speak English at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s kind of hard, like how you have two parents, different languages,” she said. “I want them to learn our language too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nancy Meas doesn’t want to forget either. That’s why she often visits the Cambodian temple, taking a meditation walk each time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So each step that I take around the perimeter, you know the shrine, I feel like it brings me more healing, brings more peace, more comfort,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She often lingers at her favorite spot, the pond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love seeing the lotus flowers,” she said gazing at a sea of green. The flowers sprout from green lily pads as tall, thin stalks blooming with white and pink flowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In order for it to become the beautiful flower, it has to go through mud and all the dirt and challenges, the weather,” Nancy said. “But at the end of all the challenges and the winds and the storms it blooms so beautifully.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cbr>\nThis reporting was supported by the Carter Center’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.cartercenter.org/health/mental_health/fellowships/\">Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\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/11961237/cambodian-americans-heal-cycle-intergenerational-trauma","authors":["byline_news_11961237"],"programs":["news_72","news_26731"],"categories":["news_31795","news_1169","news_8"],"tags":["news_30864","news_27626","news_2109","news_20463","news_19006","news_6616"],"featImg":"news_11960676","label":"news_26731"},"news_11936453":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11936453","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11936453","score":null,"sort":[1672344375000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"border-confusion-and-financial-woes-loom-as-california-braces-for-lifting-of-title-42-in-new-year","title":"Border Confusion and Financial Woes Loom as California Braces for Lifting of Title 42 in New Year","publishDate":1672344375,"format":"standard","headTitle":"CALmatters | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":18481,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The Supreme Court’s latest move allows \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/27/us/politics/title-42-border-supreme-court.html\">a short-term reprieve to an anticipated increase in asylum seekers trying to cross from Mexico\u003c/a> into California and other states, but recent confusion at the border is a preview of what may soon come should a pandemic-era measure known as Title 42 be lifted in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The situation, and its use as a political backdrop, has prompted local officials to ask what state resources will be available next year with California facing a potential budget shortfall and the possibility that Title 42 will end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Title 42 is a Trump-era immigration policy that has continued under President Joe Biden. It allows border agents to rapidly expel migrants at official ports of entry during public health emergencies. The policy has resulted in the expulsion of tens of thousands of people seeking asylum and has discouraged many others from crossing the border.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11936012,news_11910789,news_11936184\"]The policy states that if the U.S. surgeon general determines there is a communicable disease in another country, \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/265\">health officials have the authority, with the approval of the president, to prohibit\u003c/a> “the introduction of persons and property from such countries or places” for as long as health officials determine that action is necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure had been set to lift last week by order of a federal court, which would have allowed many asylum-seekers waiting in limbo at the border to go ahead and cross into the United States. Some experts say that because smugglers in Mexico use any shift in U.S. immigration policy to exploit migrants, mere conversation about the possibility of lifting Title 42 triggered even more people to try to cross into the U.S. in recent weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/22a544_n758.pdf\">Supreme Court’s brief order (PDF)\u003c/a> Tuesday stayed — meaning delayed — the trial judge’s ruling that would have lifted Title 42 until the high court hears arguments in the case in February. The political and legal ping-pong in the case is hard enough for U.S. audiences to follow, making it nearly impossible to explain south of the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court’s order is a response to a request filed by 19 Republican-led states that they be heard in the case. It does not overrule the lower court’s decision that Title 42 is illegal; it merely leaves the measure in place while the legal challenges play out in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal court order that was supposed to lift Title 42 came as a result of a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of asylum-seeking families. Asylum is a protection codified in international law for foreign nationals who meet the legal definition of “refugee.” The United Nations 1951 Convention and 1967 Protocol define refugees as people unable or unwilling to return to their home country, and who cannot obtain protection in that country, due to past persecution or a well-founded fear of being persecuted in the future “on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.” Congress incorporated this definition into U.S. immigration law in the Refugee Act of 1980.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those stuck in Mexico because of Title 42, waiting can be perilous. Human Rights First has documented more than 13,000 attacks on asylum seekers waiting in Mexico during the Biden administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936462\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11936462\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122222-Title-42-Migrants-MC-CM-08-copy-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Latinx migrants of various ages from adults to children look on with concerned expressions as they stand next to white steel barriers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122222-Title-42-Migrants-MC-CM-08-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122222-Title-42-Migrants-MC-CM-08-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122222-Title-42-Migrants-MC-CM-08-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122222-Title-42-Migrants-MC-CM-08-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122222-Title-42-Migrants-MC-CM-08-copy-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122222-Title-42-Migrants-MC-CM-08-copy.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Migrants wait in line while California border activists organize the group to enter the U.S. and seek asylum through the Chaparral entryway in Tijuana, Mexico on Dec. 22, 2022. \u003ccite>(Carlos A. Moreno for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Because it takes time for news of shifts in U.S. immigration policy to reach areas in rural Mexico and Central America, the numbers of migrants arriving in Tijuana and San Diego this week in anticipation of the end of Title 42 could be elevated right now — and it may take some time before those numbers drop-off as news travels, experts said. Migration numbers typically increase through the first half of the year before dropping off in the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego County Supervisor Joel Anderson, a former Republican state senator, was among a group of political leaders who recently complained that the state and federal governments have not provided the funds local leaders have requested to handle the expected influx of asylum seekers and other migrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not even talking about whether these are good policies or not,” he said. “But whatever the policy is, we become the targets of it. We’re willing to step up, but they have to step up, too, by giving us the resources we need to deal with it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He joined several local Republican and Democratic leaders in San Diego in urging in letters and news conferences that the state and the feds should provide more support ahead of the expected end of Title 42.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local officials pointed to needing more funding for schools, hospitals, and police services, among other resources, if Title 42 eventually lifts. The near constant legal back-and-forth has also provided a convenient conversation starter for politicians wanting to debate larger immigration policy issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the state budget projecting a $25 billion deficit, I’d like to know what the plan is for our schools and to help lift all of our students,” said Andrew Hayes, board president of the Lakeside school district in rural eastern San Diego. Hayes said increases in immigration causes strains to the local educational systems because students fleeing persecution in other countries often have increased mental health needs and sometimes require special instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego County Supervisors Nathan Fletcher and Nora Vargas, both Democrats, wrote to Alejandro Mayorkas, the U.S. homeland security secretary, on December 19, also requesting federal resources and “a comprehensive plan to ensure humane entry into the United States for those seeking asylum into our country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When Title 42 is lifted, we will need additional resources and personnel on the ground to process and arrange for the onward travel of asylum seekers to their final destination,” they wrote. ”We will also need the federal government to set up temporary shelters on federal property to ensure access to needed social and health services. Our hospitals, our public health department, our social services, and our homeless service providers are already at maximum capacity serving vulnerable residents in San Diego.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>El Cajon not 'the governor's neighborhood'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Title 42 policy’s end “will likely increase” migration flows, the Department of Homeland Security officially said last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The burden will unfairly fall on a few border cities, Anderson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re not talking about releasing people into Sacramento or putting people in the governor’s neighborhood,” said Anderson. “No, they’re talking about releasing people right here in El Cajon, where the median household income is just over $58,000 per year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office responded that the state has done what it can to support local jurisdictions.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Joel Anderson, supervisor, San Diego County\"]'It is irresponsible to ask the City of El Cajon to shoulder the burden and costs necessary to address the needs of these individuals without assistance from the [state] and federal government.'[/pullquote]“While the federal government is responsible for immigration, California has invested more than any other state to ensure the safety and dignity of asylum seekers. Roughly $1 billion has been invested to provide critical services to migrants, including medical screenings, vaccinations, temporary shelter, food, clothes, and other aid. However, with looming budget deficits, the state cannot continue to fund these efforts at scale without significant support from Congress,” said Daniel Lopez, the deputy communications director for Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state has advocated for additional resources to help communities like San Diego provide services to recently arrived migrants,” Lopez added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson wrote to Gov. Gavin Newsom on December 14 complaining that a plan that San Diego County officials proposed to the state was rejected. Though he declined to discuss the plan’s specifics, he said it included opening a temporary emergency shelter, providing food, clothing, healthcare and wrap-around services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is irresponsible to ask the City of El Cajon to shoulder the burden and costs necessary to address the needs of these individuals without assistance from the State and federal government,” wrote Anderson in the letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, Newsom has been complaining of a lack of federal support for asylum seekers and immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said earlier this month that, because of the federal government’s lackluster support, the state has had to spend nearly $1 billion in the last three years, working with nonprofits to provide immigrants released from federal detention with health screenings, temporary shelter and help connecting with sponsors. The immigrants had been held at nine facilities in Imperial, San Diego and Riverside counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the respect to the federal government, we’ve been doing their job for the last few years at scale,” Newsom said. “But we cannot continue to absorb that responsibility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Legislative Analyst’s Office recently said in its annual forecast that Newsom and the Democratic Party-controlled Legislature are facing a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2022/12/california-budget-deficit-safety-net/\">$24 billion projected budget deficit\u003c/a> for the next fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the state enters a recession the outlook is even worse, with revenues predicted to fall short by $30 billion to $50 billion. The governor signed a record-breaking \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/06/california-budget-deal-2/\">$308 billion budget\u003c/a> in June.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Gov. Gavin Newsom\"]'With the respect to the federal government, we've been doing their job for the last few years at scale. But we cannot continue to absorb that responsibility.'[/pullquote]Advocates say that while migrants sometimes require services when they first enter the country, research shows they ultimately contribute to the larger economy. In California undocumented immigrants collectively pay $3.1 billion a year in state and local taxes, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://itep.sfo2.digitaloceanspaces.com/ITEP-2017-Undocumented-Immigrants-State-and-Local-Contributions.pdf\">Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, some migrants in Mexico last week expressed disappointment, concern and confusion about the delay in lifting Title 42.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several people said they had left shelters with the expectation that the order would be released last week and now they had no place to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the scene outside El Chaparral, a pedestrian border crossing between San Ysidro and Tijuana that has been closed since the pandemic began, looked far different than images coming out of Texas. There, members of the National Guard, armed with rifles, have put up razor wire and are blocking migrants from entering the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Waiting patiently, but getting desperate\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Here in Baja California, just south of San Diego, migrants wearing masks stood patiently in lines last week waiting for services or to receive news about any policy changes that may impact their ability to cross the border. The flow of people in the area was orderly, mirroring any other normal mid-week day during the lunch hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A migrant from Michoacán said being out on the streets in Tijuana was extremely uncomfortable for his wife, who has been diagnosed with a brain tumor. He asked not to be named because people in Tijuana were looking for him, putting him in danger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We haven’t been able to receive any help from anywhere,” he said. “We’re getting desperate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson said that the county was willing to welcome asylum seekers “with open arms,” but it needs more funds to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if it’s only 10 more people coming in, that’s 10 people too many without additional funding because we already have so many people living on our streets needing services,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936463\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11936463\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122222-Title-42-Migrants-MC-CM-05-copy-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A migrant mother with her baby in her arms and her daughter by her side sit among other asylum seekers in a crowded room with iron bars on windows.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122222-Title-42-Migrants-MC-CM-05-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122222-Title-42-Migrants-MC-CM-05-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122222-Title-42-Migrants-MC-CM-05-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122222-Title-42-Migrants-MC-CM-05-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122222-Title-42-Migrants-MC-CM-05-copy.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Migrants line up to get health services near the free non-profit clinic in Tijuana, Mexico on Dec. 22, 2022. \u003ccite>(Carlos A. Moreno/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Newsom toured a state-funded migrant center that provides services to asylum seekers near the Imperial County border with Mexico on December 12. There the governor criticized Republicans in Congress for politicizing immigration while failing to support comprehensive reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Homeland Security said it plans to boost resources at the border, “increasing processing efficiency, imposing consequences for unlawful entry, bolstering nonprofit capacity, targeting smugglers and working with international partners,” a DHS spokesperson said Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Title 42 is ultimately lifted, the process for processing migrants at the border would return to the way it was before the start of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asylum seekers who don’t have prior permission to be in the country would have to pass what’s called a “credible fear” test. They would have to prove to a processing agent or asylum officer that they have a well-founded fear that if they are deported home, they would face persecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that test, migrants would either be removed from the country, detained in immigration custody or released into the U.S. to wait while their asylum cases make their way through immigration court — a \u003ca href=\"https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/672/\">process that can take years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"With a projected budget deficit of $24 billion for the next fiscal year and a possible recession, California has yet to figure out how to meet the needs of an influx of migrants when Title 42 ends.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1672787746,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":43,"wordCount":2236},"headData":{"title":"Border Confusion and Financial Woes Loom as California Braces for Lifting of Title 42 in New Year | KQED","description":"With a projected budget deficit of $24 billion for the next fiscal year and a possible recession, California has yet to figure out how to meet the needs of an influx of migrants when Title 42 ends.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/author/wendy-fry/\">Wendy Fry\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11936453/border-confusion-and-financial-woes-loom-as-california-braces-for-lifting-of-title-42-in-new-year","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The Supreme Court’s latest move allows \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/27/us/politics/title-42-border-supreme-court.html\">a short-term reprieve to an anticipated increase in asylum seekers trying to cross from Mexico\u003c/a> into California and other states, but recent confusion at the border is a preview of what may soon come should a pandemic-era measure known as Title 42 be lifted in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The situation, and its use as a political backdrop, has prompted local officials to ask what state resources will be available next year with California facing a potential budget shortfall and the possibility that Title 42 will end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Title 42 is a Trump-era immigration policy that has continued under President Joe Biden. It allows border agents to rapidly expel migrants at official ports of entry during public health emergencies. The policy has resulted in the expulsion of tens of thousands of people seeking asylum and has discouraged many others from crossing the border.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"news_11936012,news_11910789,news_11936184"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The policy states that if the U.S. surgeon general determines there is a communicable disease in another country, \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/265\">health officials have the authority, with the approval of the president, to prohibit\u003c/a> “the introduction of persons and property from such countries or places” for as long as health officials determine that action is necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure had been set to lift last week by order of a federal court, which would have allowed many asylum-seekers waiting in limbo at the border to go ahead and cross into the United States. Some experts say that because smugglers in Mexico use any shift in U.S. immigration policy to exploit migrants, mere conversation about the possibility of lifting Title 42 triggered even more people to try to cross into the U.S. in recent weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/22a544_n758.pdf\">Supreme Court’s brief order (PDF)\u003c/a> Tuesday stayed — meaning delayed — the trial judge’s ruling that would have lifted Title 42 until the high court hears arguments in the case in February. The political and legal ping-pong in the case is hard enough for U.S. audiences to follow, making it nearly impossible to explain south of the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court’s order is a response to a request filed by 19 Republican-led states that they be heard in the case. It does not overrule the lower court’s decision that Title 42 is illegal; it merely leaves the measure in place while the legal challenges play out in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal court order that was supposed to lift Title 42 came as a result of a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of asylum-seeking families. Asylum is a protection codified in international law for foreign nationals who meet the legal definition of “refugee.” The United Nations 1951 Convention and 1967 Protocol define refugees as people unable or unwilling to return to their home country, and who cannot obtain protection in that country, due to past persecution or a well-founded fear of being persecuted in the future “on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.” Congress incorporated this definition into U.S. immigration law in the Refugee Act of 1980.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those stuck in Mexico because of Title 42, waiting can be perilous. Human Rights First has documented more than 13,000 attacks on asylum seekers waiting in Mexico during the Biden administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936462\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11936462\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122222-Title-42-Migrants-MC-CM-08-copy-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Latinx migrants of various ages from adults to children look on with concerned expressions as they stand next to white steel barriers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122222-Title-42-Migrants-MC-CM-08-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122222-Title-42-Migrants-MC-CM-08-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122222-Title-42-Migrants-MC-CM-08-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122222-Title-42-Migrants-MC-CM-08-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122222-Title-42-Migrants-MC-CM-08-copy-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122222-Title-42-Migrants-MC-CM-08-copy.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Migrants wait in line while California border activists organize the group to enter the U.S. and seek asylum through the Chaparral entryway in Tijuana, Mexico on Dec. 22, 2022. \u003ccite>(Carlos A. Moreno for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Because it takes time for news of shifts in U.S. immigration policy to reach areas in rural Mexico and Central America, the numbers of migrants arriving in Tijuana and San Diego this week in anticipation of the end of Title 42 could be elevated right now — and it may take some time before those numbers drop-off as news travels, experts said. Migration numbers typically increase through the first half of the year before dropping off in the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego County Supervisor Joel Anderson, a former Republican state senator, was among a group of political leaders who recently complained that the state and federal governments have not provided the funds local leaders have requested to handle the expected influx of asylum seekers and other migrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not even talking about whether these are good policies or not,” he said. “But whatever the policy is, we become the targets of it. We’re willing to step up, but they have to step up, too, by giving us the resources we need to deal with it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He joined several local Republican and Democratic leaders in San Diego in urging in letters and news conferences that the state and the feds should provide more support ahead of the expected end of Title 42.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local officials pointed to needing more funding for schools, hospitals, and police services, among other resources, if Title 42 eventually lifts. The near constant legal back-and-forth has also provided a convenient conversation starter for politicians wanting to debate larger immigration policy issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the state budget projecting a $25 billion deficit, I’d like to know what the plan is for our schools and to help lift all of our students,” said Andrew Hayes, board president of the Lakeside school district in rural eastern San Diego. Hayes said increases in immigration causes strains to the local educational systems because students fleeing persecution in other countries often have increased mental health needs and sometimes require special instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego County Supervisors Nathan Fletcher and Nora Vargas, both Democrats, wrote to Alejandro Mayorkas, the U.S. homeland security secretary, on December 19, also requesting federal resources and “a comprehensive plan to ensure humane entry into the United States for those seeking asylum into our country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When Title 42 is lifted, we will need additional resources and personnel on the ground to process and arrange for the onward travel of asylum seekers to their final destination,” they wrote. ”We will also need the federal government to set up temporary shelters on federal property to ensure access to needed social and health services. Our hospitals, our public health department, our social services, and our homeless service providers are already at maximum capacity serving vulnerable residents in San Diego.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>El Cajon not 'the governor's neighborhood'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Title 42 policy’s end “will likely increase” migration flows, the Department of Homeland Security officially said last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The burden will unfairly fall on a few border cities, Anderson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re not talking about releasing people into Sacramento or putting people in the governor’s neighborhood,” said Anderson. “No, they’re talking about releasing people right here in El Cajon, where the median household income is just over $58,000 per year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office responded that the state has done what it can to support local jurisdictions.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'It is irresponsible to ask the City of El Cajon to shoulder the burden and costs necessary to address the needs of these individuals without assistance from the [state] and federal government.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Joel Anderson, supervisor, San Diego County","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“While the federal government is responsible for immigration, California has invested more than any other state to ensure the safety and dignity of asylum seekers. Roughly $1 billion has been invested to provide critical services to migrants, including medical screenings, vaccinations, temporary shelter, food, clothes, and other aid. However, with looming budget deficits, the state cannot continue to fund these efforts at scale without significant support from Congress,” said Daniel Lopez, the deputy communications director for Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state has advocated for additional resources to help communities like San Diego provide services to recently arrived migrants,” Lopez added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson wrote to Gov. Gavin Newsom on December 14 complaining that a plan that San Diego County officials proposed to the state was rejected. Though he declined to discuss the plan’s specifics, he said it included opening a temporary emergency shelter, providing food, clothing, healthcare and wrap-around services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is irresponsible to ask the City of El Cajon to shoulder the burden and costs necessary to address the needs of these individuals without assistance from the State and federal government,” wrote Anderson in the letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, Newsom has been complaining of a lack of federal support for asylum seekers and immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said earlier this month that, because of the federal government’s lackluster support, the state has had to spend nearly $1 billion in the last three years, working with nonprofits to provide immigrants released from federal detention with health screenings, temporary shelter and help connecting with sponsors. The immigrants had been held at nine facilities in Imperial, San Diego and Riverside counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the respect to the federal government, we’ve been doing their job for the last few years at scale,” Newsom said. “But we cannot continue to absorb that responsibility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Legislative Analyst’s Office recently said in its annual forecast that Newsom and the Democratic Party-controlled Legislature are facing a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2022/12/california-budget-deficit-safety-net/\">$24 billion projected budget deficit\u003c/a> for the next fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the state enters a recession the outlook is even worse, with revenues predicted to fall short by $30 billion to $50 billion. The governor signed a record-breaking \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/06/california-budget-deal-2/\">$308 billion budget\u003c/a> in June.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'With the respect to the federal government, we've been doing their job for the last few years at scale. But we cannot continue to absorb that responsibility.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Gov. Gavin Newsom","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Advocates say that while migrants sometimes require services when they first enter the country, research shows they ultimately contribute to the larger economy. In California undocumented immigrants collectively pay $3.1 billion a year in state and local taxes, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://itep.sfo2.digitaloceanspaces.com/ITEP-2017-Undocumented-Immigrants-State-and-Local-Contributions.pdf\">Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, some migrants in Mexico last week expressed disappointment, concern and confusion about the delay in lifting Title 42.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several people said they had left shelters with the expectation that the order would be released last week and now they had no place to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the scene outside El Chaparral, a pedestrian border crossing between San Ysidro and Tijuana that has been closed since the pandemic began, looked far different than images coming out of Texas. There, members of the National Guard, armed with rifles, have put up razor wire and are blocking migrants from entering the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Waiting patiently, but getting desperate\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Here in Baja California, just south of San Diego, migrants wearing masks stood patiently in lines last week waiting for services or to receive news about any policy changes that may impact their ability to cross the border. The flow of people in the area was orderly, mirroring any other normal mid-week day during the lunch hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A migrant from Michoacán said being out on the streets in Tijuana was extremely uncomfortable for his wife, who has been diagnosed with a brain tumor. He asked not to be named because people in Tijuana were looking for him, putting him in danger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We haven’t been able to receive any help from anywhere,” he said. “We’re getting desperate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson said that the county was willing to welcome asylum seekers “with open arms,” but it needs more funds to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if it’s only 10 more people coming in, that’s 10 people too many without additional funding because we already have so many people living on our streets needing services,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936463\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11936463\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122222-Title-42-Migrants-MC-CM-05-copy-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A migrant mother with her baby in her arms and her daughter by her side sit among other asylum seekers in a crowded room with iron bars on windows.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122222-Title-42-Migrants-MC-CM-05-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122222-Title-42-Migrants-MC-CM-05-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122222-Title-42-Migrants-MC-CM-05-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122222-Title-42-Migrants-MC-CM-05-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122222-Title-42-Migrants-MC-CM-05-copy.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Migrants line up to get health services near the free non-profit clinic in Tijuana, Mexico on Dec. 22, 2022. \u003ccite>(Carlos A. Moreno/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Newsom toured a state-funded migrant center that provides services to asylum seekers near the Imperial County border with Mexico on December 12. There the governor criticized Republicans in Congress for politicizing immigration while failing to support comprehensive reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Homeland Security said it plans to boost resources at the border, “increasing processing efficiency, imposing consequences for unlawful entry, bolstering nonprofit capacity, targeting smugglers and working with international partners,” a DHS spokesperson said Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Title 42 is ultimately lifted, the process for processing migrants at the border would return to the way it was before the start of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asylum seekers who don’t have prior permission to be in the country would have to pass what’s called a “credible fear” test. They would have to prove to a processing agent or asylum officer that they have a well-founded fear that if they are deported home, they would face persecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that test, migrants would either be removed from the country, detained in immigration custody or released into the U.S. to wait while their asylum cases make their way through immigration court — a \u003ca href=\"https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/672/\">process that can take years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\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/11936453/border-confusion-and-financial-woes-loom-as-california-braces-for-lifting-of-title-42-in-new-year","authors":["byline_news_11936453"],"categories":["news_1758","news_1169","news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_26233","news_27946","news_32224","news_28844","news_19006","news_30868"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11936471","label":"news_18481"},"news_11908642":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11908642","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11908642","score":null,"sort":[1647698427000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-a-bay-area-journalists-tweet-led-to-the-rescue-of-her-father-and-grandmother-trapped-in-kyiv","title":"How a Bay Area Journalist's Tweet Led to the Rescue of Her Father and Grandmother Trapped in Kyiv","publishDate":1647698427,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>If his daughter in the Bay Area hadn’t sent a tweet asking for help, 69-year-old Yevgenii Burdol and his 94-year-old mother likely would still be stranded in their apartment in Kyiv, as bombing continues to devastate the Ukrainian capital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just decided to go on Twitter and try to do what I do as a journalist, which is look for information, talk to people. So I put out a tweet,” said Katia Savchuk, a freelance journalist in San Rafael.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/katiasav/status/1500226852647890944\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Savchuk has written for multiple major media outlets and developed a substantial Twitter presence, with more than 6,500 followers. But she still didn’t expect the response she got: more than 30,000 retweets and more than 90,000 likes, along with at least 100 direct messages of support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the tens of thousands of people who saw the tweet, one would eventually help them find a path to safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 3 million refugees now have fled Ukraine since Russia launched its unprovoked invasion at the end of February. This week, UNICEF shared the harrowing statistic that the conflict is creating a new child refugee \u003ca href=\"https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/03/1113942#:~:text=More%20than%203%20million%20people,in%20the%20last%2020%20days.&text=Some%201.5%20million%20children%20have,invasion%20began%20on%2024%20February.\">almost every second\u003c/a>. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday \u003ca href=\"https://www.c-span.org/video/?518685-1/ukrainian-president-zelensky-calls-us-back-fly-zone-provide-defensive-weapons\">addressed U.S. lawmakers\u003c/a>, imploring them and President Biden to send more support, and sharing a jarring video documenting the devastation in his country.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Katia Savchuk, Bay Area journalist\"]'I just decided to go on Twitter and try to do what I do as a journalist, which is look for information, talk to people. So I put out a tweet.'[/pullquote]While officials have some sense of the number of people the war is displacing, it’s harder to keep track of how many have made it to safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Yevgenii and Zoia Burdol are two of the lucky ones. They reached a hotel in Heidelberg, Germany late last week – it’s now their temporary home until they figure out what’s next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Savchuk, who has a Jewish background, was born in Kyiv and emigrated to the United States in 1989, at age 3, when her mother and maternal grandmother fled antisemitism in the Soviet Union. Her father stayed behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908669\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Katia-Savchuk-Yvgenii-Burdol.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11908669\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Katia-Savchuk-Yvgenii-Burdol.jpeg\" alt=\"Katia Savchuk with her father Yvgenii Burdol when she visited Kyiv in 2016.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Katia-Savchuk-Yvgenii-Burdol.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Katia-Savchuk-Yvgenii-Burdol-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Katia-Savchuk-Yvgenii-Burdol-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Katia-Savchuk-Yvgenii-Burdol-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Katia-Savchuk-Yvgenii-Burdol-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Katia Savchuk (left) with her father, Yvgenii Burdol, during a visit to Kyiv in 2016. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Katia Savchuk)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Savchuk says she didn't see him again in person until she was 21, nearly two decades later. They’ve kept in touch through phone calls and messaging apps, and she had been checking in on him often as the prospect of war grew increasingly imminent. Her father didn’t initially believe the invasion would happen, she says, but not long after Putin launched the attacks, he told her that he was seriously considering evacuation options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He's a man of few words and not very emotive … so when he told me, you know, ‘I'm worried. I'm concerned,’” Savchuk said, “that really scared me because he doesn't normally admit that kind of thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her father and grandmother, Zoia, had been living for days amid air sirens and keeping their lights out at night to avoid being an easier target for Russian aircraft. Because of her mobility issues, Zoia did not feel safe getting all the way down to their building's basement bomb shelter, where she would likely have been packed into a crowded, confined space. Savchuk decided she needed to do what she could to find help for them before things got worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Escaping Kyiv\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A lot of the advice Savchuk received in response to her tweet wasn’t applicable to her family’s situation. Her grandmother has limited mobility and recently had recovered from COVID-19. Savchuk said she probably hadn’t left the house in a year. Because of her condition, making the journey on a bus or a train, with the potential for long stops in freezing weather, wasn't an option.[aside label=\"Related coverage\" tag=\"ukraine\"]Finding a car was the ideal route, but Savchuk’s father has a disability related to his eye and neck that prevents him from driving. So they needed to find someone willing to take them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the people who responded to the tweet was a German journalist whom Savchuk had never met.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He knew Wladimir Klitschko, who is a famous Ukrainian boxer, and his brother, Vitali Klitschko, who's the mayor of Kyiv. And he mentioned the situation to them, and they decided that they wanted to help,” Savchuk said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Klitschkos requested assistance from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-russia-military-citizen-reservist-defense/\">Territorial Defense Forces\u003c/a>, Ukraine’s new military branch that everyday civilians have been joining to defend their homeland. Volunteers from the force and a logistics group informed the Burdols of their departure date, set for March 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So they found a Toyota minivan that the dealership just lent to them, really,” Savchuk said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Savchuk’s father and grandmother, along with a family friend — and that friend’s pet parrot — loaded into the van and set off on their multiday journey across multiple borders from Ukraine to Germany.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908672\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 763px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Zoia-Oles-Igor-in-front-of-van.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11908672\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Zoia-Oles-Igor-in-front-of-van.jpeg\" alt=\"An elderly woman surrounded by two men in camouflage.\" width=\"763\" height=\"671\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Zoia-Oles-Igor-in-front-of-van.jpeg 763w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Zoia-Oles-Igor-in-front-of-van-160x141.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 763px) 100vw, 763px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zoia Burdol (center) with Territorial Defense Forces escorts Oles Maliarevych (left) and Igor Silchenko on their journey from Kyiv, Ukraine, to Germany. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Katia Savchuk)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Just weeks earlier, their heavily armed escorts were regular civilians, Savchuk notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In normal times, you know, one of them's a film producer and on the city council. But now they're wearing bulletproof vests. They have Kalashnikovs,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two days later, on March 10, the Burdols arrived safely at their hotel in Heidelberg. Savchuk says her grandmother surprised everyone involved with how well she handled the long journey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think one of the first things she did when they arrived in the hotel was to ask for some cognac,” Savchuk said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the two already have been embraced in their first week there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know they have been invited to take part in a press conference. They've been featured in at least two German newspapers and also in TV broadcasts,” she said. “I know that they had a visit with the mayor of Heidelberg and with the chief rabbi of Heidelberg, so they're being warmly welcomed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/katiasav/status/1502182321398509569\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Savchuk’s grandmother — who lost both of her parents in the Holocaust — told one news outlet that she was relieved to no longer fear dying in a hail of gunfire and bombs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Savchuk said that while her family will be able to stay at the hotel for the immediate future, their longer-term horizon is unclear at this point.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'You did the impossible'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“I think it's all a big question mark right now, and they're just trying to rest and recover and probably just feel the weight of the fact that they left their homeland … where they've lived all their lives and just left with a couple of suitcases,” Savchuk said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the midst of all of this, Savchuk was caring for her 11-month-old baby and working on a freelance project — \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/03/21/vlogging-the-war\">her first piece for The New Yorker\u003c/a>, which also was centered on the war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a journalist with an online profile, Savchuk knows her platform undoubtedly gave her access to resources and suggestions that many others don’t have.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Katia Savchuk, Bay Area journalist\"]'I think one of the first things [my grandmother] did when they arrived in the hotel was to ask for some cognac.'[/pullquote]“A sense of guilt or privilege that, you know, I was able to tap this network and sort of move mountains,” she said. “My dad's friend who went with them said, ‘You did the impossible.’” Now, Savchuk has been trying to use the knowledge she’s gained to help people in similar situations, and she’s \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yoIgWVG6FWhGCMlpvs_mPvrQkkTf7o5Pw24SDxC18FM/edit?usp=sharing\">compiled a Google Doc\u003c/a> with a list of support services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as the devastation in Ukraine continues, she is grappling with conflicting emotions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's a very confusing mix of relief, you know, that my grandmother doesn't have to cower in fear after everything that she's been through,” she said, “and while at the same time, just realizing that we kind of just got really lucky. It was really a one-off solution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction: In the radio version of this story, which aired on KQED’s The California Report on March 11, Katia Savchuk’s father, Yevgenii Burdol, was described as being 70 years old. He is actually 69. Also, the radio story said the Burdols have family in San Francisco; Savchuk, who previously lived in San Francisco, now lives in San Rafael.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Among the tens of thousands of people who saw her tweet, one would eventually help her father and 94-year-old grandmother find a path to safety.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1647882392,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":32,"wordCount":1505},"headData":{"title":"How a Bay Area Journalist's Tweet Led to the Rescue of Her Father and Grandmother Trapped in Kyiv | KQED","description":"Among the tens of thousands of people who saw her tweet, one would eventually help her father and 94-year-old grandmother find a path to safety.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11908642 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11908642","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/03/19/how-a-bay-area-journalists-tweet-led-to-the-rescue-of-her-father-and-grandmother-trapped-in-kyiv/","disqusTitle":"How a Bay Area Journalist's Tweet Led to the Rescue of Her Father and Grandmother Trapped in Kyiv","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2022/03/FleeingKyivHarvinfeature.mp3","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11908642/how-a-bay-area-journalists-tweet-led-to-the-rescue-of-her-father-and-grandmother-trapped-in-kyiv","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>If his daughter in the Bay Area hadn’t sent a tweet asking for help, 69-year-old Yevgenii Burdol and his 94-year-old mother likely would still be stranded in their apartment in Kyiv, as bombing continues to devastate the Ukrainian capital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just decided to go on Twitter and try to do what I do as a journalist, which is look for information, talk to people. 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But she still didn’t expect the response she got: more than 30,000 retweets and more than 90,000 likes, along with at least 100 direct messages of support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the tens of thousands of people who saw the tweet, one would eventually help them find a path to safety.\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>More than 3 million refugees now have fled Ukraine since Russia launched its unprovoked invasion at the end of February. This week, UNICEF shared the harrowing statistic that the conflict is creating a new child refugee \u003ca href=\"https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/03/1113942#:~:text=More%20than%203%20million%20people,in%20the%20last%2020%20days.&text=Some%201.5%20million%20children%20have,invasion%20began%20on%2024%20February.\">almost every second\u003c/a>. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday \u003ca href=\"https://www.c-span.org/video/?518685-1/ukrainian-president-zelensky-calls-us-back-fly-zone-provide-defensive-weapons\">addressed U.S. lawmakers\u003c/a>, imploring them and President Biden to send more support, and sharing a jarring video documenting the devastation in his country.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'I just decided to go on Twitter and try to do what I do as a journalist, which is look for information, talk to people. So I put out a tweet.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Katia Savchuk, Bay Area journalist","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>While officials have some sense of the number of people the war is displacing, it’s harder to keep track of how many have made it to safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Yevgenii and Zoia Burdol are two of the lucky ones. They reached a hotel in Heidelberg, Germany late last week – it’s now their temporary home until they figure out what’s next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Savchuk, who has a Jewish background, was born in Kyiv and emigrated to the United States in 1989, at age 3, when her mother and maternal grandmother fled antisemitism in the Soviet Union. Her father stayed behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908669\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Katia-Savchuk-Yvgenii-Burdol.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11908669\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Katia-Savchuk-Yvgenii-Burdol.jpeg\" alt=\"Katia Savchuk with her father Yvgenii Burdol when she visited Kyiv in 2016.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Katia-Savchuk-Yvgenii-Burdol.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Katia-Savchuk-Yvgenii-Burdol-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Katia-Savchuk-Yvgenii-Burdol-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Katia-Savchuk-Yvgenii-Burdol-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Katia-Savchuk-Yvgenii-Burdol-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Katia Savchuk (left) with her father, Yvgenii Burdol, during a visit to Kyiv in 2016. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Katia Savchuk)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Savchuk says she didn't see him again in person until she was 21, nearly two decades later. They’ve kept in touch through phone calls and messaging apps, and she had been checking in on him often as the prospect of war grew increasingly imminent. Her father didn’t initially believe the invasion would happen, she says, but not long after Putin launched the attacks, he told her that he was seriously considering evacuation options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He's a man of few words and not very emotive … so when he told me, you know, ‘I'm worried. I'm concerned,’” Savchuk said, “that really scared me because he doesn't normally admit that kind of thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her father and grandmother, Zoia, had been living for days amid air sirens and keeping their lights out at night to avoid being an easier target for Russian aircraft. Because of her mobility issues, Zoia did not feel safe getting all the way down to their building's basement bomb shelter, where she would likely have been packed into a crowded, confined space. Savchuk decided she needed to do what she could to find help for them before things got worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Escaping Kyiv\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A lot of the advice Savchuk received in response to her tweet wasn’t applicable to her family’s situation. Her grandmother has limited mobility and recently had recovered from COVID-19. Savchuk said she probably hadn’t left the house in a year. Because of her condition, making the journey on a bus or a train, with the potential for long stops in freezing weather, wasn't an option.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related coverage ","tag":"ukraine"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Finding a car was the ideal route, but Savchuk’s father has a disability related to his eye and neck that prevents him from driving. So they needed to find someone willing to take them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the people who responded to the tweet was a German journalist whom Savchuk had never met.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He knew Wladimir Klitschko, who is a famous Ukrainian boxer, and his brother, Vitali Klitschko, who's the mayor of Kyiv. And he mentioned the situation to them, and they decided that they wanted to help,” Savchuk said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Klitschkos requested assistance from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-russia-military-citizen-reservist-defense/\">Territorial Defense Forces\u003c/a>, Ukraine’s new military branch that everyday civilians have been joining to defend their homeland. Volunteers from the force and a logistics group informed the Burdols of their departure date, set for March 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So they found a Toyota minivan that the dealership just lent to them, really,” Savchuk said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Savchuk’s father and grandmother, along with a family friend — and that friend’s pet parrot — loaded into the van and set off on their multiday journey across multiple borders from Ukraine to Germany.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908672\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 763px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Zoia-Oles-Igor-in-front-of-van.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11908672\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Zoia-Oles-Igor-in-front-of-van.jpeg\" alt=\"An elderly woman surrounded by two men in camouflage.\" width=\"763\" height=\"671\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Zoia-Oles-Igor-in-front-of-van.jpeg 763w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Zoia-Oles-Igor-in-front-of-van-160x141.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 763px) 100vw, 763px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zoia Burdol (center) with Territorial Defense Forces escorts Oles Maliarevych (left) and Igor Silchenko on their journey from Kyiv, Ukraine, to Germany. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Katia Savchuk)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Just weeks earlier, their heavily armed escorts were regular civilians, Savchuk notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In normal times, you know, one of them's a film producer and on the city council. But now they're wearing bulletproof vests. They have Kalashnikovs,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two days later, on March 10, the Burdols arrived safely at their hotel in Heidelberg. Savchuk says her grandmother surprised everyone involved with how well she handled the long journey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think one of the first things she did when they arrived in the hotel was to ask for some cognac,” Savchuk said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the two already have been embraced in their first week there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know they have been invited to take part in a press conference. They've been featured in at least two German newspapers and also in TV broadcasts,” she said. “I know that they had a visit with the mayor of Heidelberg and with the chief rabbi of Heidelberg, so they're being warmly welcomed.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1502182321398509569"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Savchuk’s grandmother — who lost both of her parents in the Holocaust — told one news outlet that she was relieved to no longer fear dying in a hail of gunfire and bombs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Savchuk said that while her family will be able to stay at the hotel for the immediate future, their longer-term horizon is unclear at this point.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'You did the impossible'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“I think it's all a big question mark right now, and they're just trying to rest and recover and probably just feel the weight of the fact that they left their homeland … where they've lived all their lives and just left with a couple of suitcases,” Savchuk said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the midst of all of this, Savchuk was caring for her 11-month-old baby and working on a freelance project — \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/03/21/vlogging-the-war\">her first piece for The New Yorker\u003c/a>, which also was centered on the war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a journalist with an online profile, Savchuk knows her platform undoubtedly gave her access to resources and suggestions that many others don’t have.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'I think one of the first things [my grandmother] did when they arrived in the hotel was to ask for some cognac.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Katia Savchuk, Bay Area journalist","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“A sense of guilt or privilege that, you know, I was able to tap this network and sort of move mountains,” she said. “My dad's friend who went with them said, ‘You did the impossible.’” Now, Savchuk has been trying to use the knowledge she’s gained to help people in similar situations, and she’s \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yoIgWVG6FWhGCMlpvs_mPvrQkkTf7o5Pw24SDxC18FM/edit?usp=sharing\">compiled a Google Doc\u003c/a> with a list of support services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as the devastation in Ukraine continues, she is grappling with conflicting emotions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's a very confusing mix of relief, you know, that my grandmother doesn't have to cower in fear after everything that she's been through,” she said, “and while at the same time, just realizing that we kind of just got really lucky. It was really a one-off solution.”\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>Correction: In the radio version of this story, which aired on KQED’s The California Report on March 11, Katia Savchuk’s father, Yevgenii Burdol, was described as being 70 years old. He is actually 69. Also, the radio story said the Burdols have family in San Francisco; Savchuk, who previously lived in San Francisco, now lives in San Rafael.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11908642/how-a-bay-area-journalists-tweet-led-to-the-rescue-of-her-father-and-grandmother-trapped-in-kyiv","authors":["11583"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_27626","news_19006","news_26723","news_30819","news_30818"],"featImg":"news_11908481","label":"news"},"news_11899667":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11899667","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11899667","score":null,"sort":[1640095255000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"a-look-at-the-bay-areas-perseverance-in-2021-through-photos","title":"A Look at the Bay Area's Perseverance in 2021 Through Photos","publishDate":1640095255,"format":"aside","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>If any of us hoped that 2021 would somehow be less eventful than the year that came before it, we didn't get our wish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the pandemic continued into its second full year, our Bay Area communities also grappled with a rise in hate crime against the Asian American and Pacific Islander community, rose up against sexual harassment and assault in schools, and tried to mobilize to aid refugees from Afghanistan — all of which KQED photographer Beth LaBerge endeavored to capture in still images.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Telling these stories requires words both written and spoken, yes, but sometimes photos have a unique ability to let people tell their own stories, to show you their own plights, and bring the audience face-to-face with an issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here, LaBerge has chosen the images she captured in 2021 that help do exactly that — that paint a portrait of a complex, challenging year, but also one with frequent moments of joy and community togetherness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899779\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11899779 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021-800x533.jpg\" alt='A woman stands in the foreground in a purple sweatshirt with the words \"Class of 21\" with trees and sky in the background.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shavonne Hines-Foster, a Lowell High School senior and student delegate for the district, stands outside of her school in San Francisco on Jan. 29, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This year, a new reckoning in the #MeToo movement emerged from within San Francisco’s prestigious Lowell High School. The effort empowered current and former students to call for systemic change while curating and promoting allegations on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shavonne Hines-Foster, a former Lowell student, pictured here, said that movement helped the floodgates open for current San Francisco students to speak out on Twitter and Instagram. \"That served as a catalyst for everything else,” she said. “Students came forward about their experiences with racism, sexual assault, harassment and mental health at Lowell.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11859164/lowell-students-say-metoo-sexual-abuse-allegations-spark-reckoning-at-sf-high-school\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lowell Students Say #MeToo. Sexual Abuse Allegations Spark Reckoning at SF High\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11859164/lowell-students-say-metoo-sexual-abuse-allegations-spark-reckoning-at-sf-high-school\"> School\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899781\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11899781 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/030_SanFrancisco_StopAAPIHateRally_0320201-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A girl with a mask in the bottom left of the frame flies a kite with the background of buildings in San Francisco \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/030_SanFrancisco_StopAAPIHateRally_0320201-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/030_SanFrancisco_StopAAPIHateRally_0320201-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/030_SanFrancisco_StopAAPIHateRally_0320201-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/030_SanFrancisco_StopAAPIHateRally_0320201-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/030_SanFrancisco_StopAAPIHateRally_0320201.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cliff Lee and Joao Lee Ramirez, 12, fly a kite on Portsmouth Square Bridge in San Francisco on March 20, 2021, during a vigil and rally in support of the AAPI community on March 20, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hundreds gathered in San Francisco's Portsmouth Square in March to mourn the lives of eight people shot and killed in Atlanta, including six Asian women. Those at the rally also called for an end to anti-AAPI violence, which had risen throughout the pandemic. Organizers supplied markers for signs and kite-making kits for the community to express their grief and create joy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of us, including women and low-wage workers, deserve to be safe,\" said Shaw San Liu, executive director of the Chinese Progressive Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11865791/bay-area-vigils-remember-atlanta-shooting-victims-challenge-white-supremacy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bay Area Vigils Remember Atlanta Shooting Victims, Challenge White Supremacy\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899675\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11899675 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS48652_043_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An image from above. A child sits in a red chair at a blue table with a book open at a computer. The reflection can be seen in a mirror in the bottom of the frame.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS48652_043_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS48652_043_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS48652_043_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS48652_043_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS48652_043_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Onyx attends school at home with his parents in Oakland on April 14, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As districts across California have grappled with difficult conversations around reopening, Ryan Austin, an artist-educator, said she's been troubled by a certain aspect of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11858457/as-battle-over-reopening-san-francisco-schools-turns-ugly-equity-emerges-as-fault-line\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">school reopening conversation\u003c/a>: Organizations and advocates — both for and against reopening the Bay Area’s schools — have both cited the needs and experiences of Black and brown parents to support their viewpoints\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their community, however, is not a monolith, Austin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this photo, Austin, helps her son Onyx with school through Zoom at their home in Oakland on April 14, 2021. According to Austin, Onyx has thrived during distance learning because the family can actively engage in his learning. However, Austin is quick to point out that this is only possible due to the fact that both she and her husband, Michael, work from home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11869776/were-not-a-monolith-some-black-and-brown-parents-in-oakland-feel-conflicted-as-in-person-learning-returns\">'\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11869776/were-not-a-monolith-some-black-and-brown-parents-in-oakland-feel-conflicted-as-in-person-learning-returns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">We're Not a Monolith': Some Black and Brown Parents in Oakland Feel Conflicted as In-Person Learning Returns\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870699\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11870699 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48713_026_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg\" alt='A woman wearing a black sweatshirt and a mask places a candle at an altar above the words \"Justice 4 Mario G.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48713_026_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48713_026_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48713_026_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48713_026_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48713_026_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman places a candle at a memorial for Mario Gonzalez during a vigil on April 21, 2021. Gonzalez died in Alameda police custody Monday. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>26-year-old Oakland Mario Gonzalez died in Alameda police custody this year after what the Alameda Police Department termed a \"scuffle\" with officers in a small park near the city's Park Street corridor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a vigil in April in Alameda, community members and activists demanded answers in Gonzalez's death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11870691/we-need-justice-mourners-demand-alameda-police-provide-answers-in-death-of-mario-gonzalez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">‘We Need Justice’: Mourners Demand Alameda Police Provide Answers in Death of Mario Gonzalez\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11875061\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11875061 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49144_007_UpperLake_BloodyIslandSunriseCeremony_05152021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The silhouette of a person against the blue-sky of sunrise.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49144_007_UpperLake_BloodyIslandSunriseCeremony_05152021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49144_007_UpperLake_BloodyIslandSunriseCeremony_05152021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49144_007_UpperLake_BloodyIslandSunriseCeremony_05152021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49144_007_UpperLake_BloodyIslandSunriseCeremony_05152021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49144_007_UpperLake_BloodyIslandSunriseCeremony_05152021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Bell, a Vietnam veteran and a Cahto tribe member, stands in a circle during the Bloody Island Sunrise Ceremony near Upper Lake, California, on May 15, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over 170 years ago, the small island of Bonopoti in Lake County was still a haven for the people who had lived there for centuries: the Pomo. On May 15, 1850, a U.S Army regiment arrived on the island and killed every Pomo man, woman and child they could find.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From then on, Bonopoti became known as Bloody Island. And for two decades, the island has hosted a Sunrise Ceremony of Forgiveness every May: A space where people from different Indigenous tribes gather to honor those ancestors claimed in the massacre, and to look to the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11874585/we-always-have-our-ancestors-within-us-scenes-from-bloody-islands-sunrise-ceremony\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">'We Always Have Our Ancestors Within Us': Scenes From Bloody Island's Sunrise Ceremony\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899818\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11899818 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/016_Oakland_JuneteenthBBPMiniMuseum_06192021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl is hoisted onto a horse in front of a Black Panther Party mural honoring the women of the Black Panther Party\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/016_Oakland_JuneteenthBBPMiniMuseum_06192021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/016_Oakland_JuneteenthBBPMiniMuseum_06192021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/016_Oakland_JuneteenthBBPMiniMuseum_06192021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/016_Oakland_JuneteenthBBPMiniMuseum_06192021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/016_Oakland_JuneteenthBBPMiniMuseum_06192021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donnell McAlister gives kids a chance to sit on top of his horse JJ, named after Jesse James, during a Juneteenth block party to celebrate the opening of the Black Panther Party Mini Museum in West Oakland on June 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In celebration of Juneteenth this year, The West Oakland Mural Project opened a small museum to highlight Black Panther Party history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the block party held to celebrate, Donnell McAlister gave kids a chance to sit on top of his horse, JJ, named after Jesse James.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878694/this-is-american-history-oakland-mini-museum-on-the-black-panther-party-opens-juneteenth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">'This Is American History': Oakland Mini Museum on the Black Panther Party Opens on Juneteenth\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899762\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11899762 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/017_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A colorful scene with a large banner in the foreground and many people in the background waving rainbow flags and signs.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/017_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/017_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/017_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/017_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/017_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds march head down Polk Street towards City Hall during the People's March and Rally in San Francisco on June 27, 2021, during Pride weekend in the Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The absence of an official San Francisco Pride Parade made room for things to get a lot weirder, more political, and more D.I.Y. this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of corporate-sponsored floats with rainbow advertisements, a People’s March organized by artists and activists took over the streets on Sunday, June 27, connecting the celebration back to its radical roots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13899473/photos-lgbtq-pride-lights-up-the-bay-area-in-all-its-rainbow-glory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">PHOTOS: LGBTQ+ Pride Lights Up the Bay Area In All Its Rainbow Glory\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899764\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11899764\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/022_Oakland_ChefSmellys_08072021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/022_Oakland_ChefSmellys_08072021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/022_Oakland_ChefSmellys_08072021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/022_Oakland_ChefSmellys_08072021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/022_Oakland_ChefSmellys_08072021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/022_Oakland_ChefSmellys_08072021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edward Wooley, known as Chef Smelly, prepares garlic noodles at Smelly's Creole and Soul Food pop-up on Broadway in Oakland on August 7, 2021. Garlic noodles are one of the most popular dishes at the pop-up. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Steam rises off of a fresh batch of chef Edward Wooley's garlic noodles at his Oakland restaurant, Smelly's Creole and Soul Food. Here in the Bay Area, Asian Americans love garlic noodles. Black and Latino folks love garlic noodles. Indeed, once you start looking for garlic noodles, it seems, you find them everywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My business is soul fusion,” Wooley says. “I take my Black seasonings and style, and mix it with the Asian cuisine. It’s a blend of everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13900855/garlic-noodles-sf-bay-area-iconic-foods-thanh-long-smellys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How Garlic Noodles Became one of the Bay Area's Most Iconic Foods\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899820\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11899820 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/046_Porterville_Farm_08102021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a cowboy hat stands next to a tractor with the background of a field behind him. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/046_Porterville_Farm_08102021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/046_Porterville_Farm_08102021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/046_Porterville_Farm_08102021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/046_Porterville_Farm_08102021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/046_Porterville_Farm_08102021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Borba and his son Joseph repair a broken irrigation line on their family-owned farm in Porterville, California, on August 10, 2021. Record droughts in California’s Central Valley, the country’s most lucrative agricultural area, have made life difficult for growers in the region. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Record droughts in California’s Central Valley, the country’s most lucrative agricultural area, have made life difficult for growers in the region. The lack of rain, over-pumping of aquifers, and the rising temperatures from climate change, which dry out the soil, have contributed to many farmers removing crops that they’ve grown for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As seen above, Chris Borba and his family have farmed in the Central Valley for several generations, but he worries that their farm might not survive if there is another year as dry as 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1976510/central-valley-farmers-weigh-in-on-californias-historic-drought\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Central Valley Farmers Weigh in on California's Historic Drought\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899766\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11899766\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_Fresno_FosterFarmsCOVID_08112021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_Fresno_FosterFarmsCOVID_08112021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_Fresno_FosterFarmsCOVID_08112021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_Fresno_FosterFarmsCOVID_08112021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_Fresno_FosterFarmsCOVID_08112021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_Fresno_FosterFarmsCOVID_08112021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jatinderpal Singh sits at his home in Fresno on August 11, 2021. Singh is a former employee of the Foster Farms’ Cherry facility. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jatinderpal Singh, 71, a former line worker at Foster Farms’ Cherry plant, equated the loss of his cousin, Baljinder Dhillon, 65, a mechanic at the plant, to losing an arm. Dhillon tested positive for COVID-19 in December of 2020 during an outbreak at Foster Farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My legs still shake,” Singh said in an interview on Aug. 11, speaking in Punjabi through an interpreter. “I still feel it, even today. Sometimes I feel weakness in my legs when I think about him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11892838/there-is-anger-he-should-be-alive-an-investigation-into-deadly-covid-19-outbreaks-at-foster-farms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>'\u003c/strong>There Is Anger. He Should Be Alive.' An Investigation Into Deadly COVID-19 Outbreaks at Foster Farms\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899767\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11899767\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/026_SanJose_Immigration_08232021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/026_SanJose_Immigration_08232021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/026_SanJose_Immigration_08232021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/026_SanJose_Immigration_08232021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/026_SanJose_Immigration_08232021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/026_SanJose_Immigration_08232021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Herrera and Gonzalez hold hands in their yard on Aug. 23, 2021. Along with their three children, the couple fled Mexico and are seeking asylum in the U.S. But their case has dragged on for six years in immigration court. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2015 a man named Herrera fled to the U.S. with his family after he says he became the target of political violence in his hometown in central Mexico. When they reached the San Francisco Bay Area, he applied for asylum. But security still feels elusive: His case in immigration court has dragged on for six years, and it involves grueling cross-examinations that he says rekindle the terror he experienced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I didn’t want to remember the kidnapping or anything else because it’s really ugly,\" said Herrera, now 50 and a construction worker in San José. \"But I have to keep opening up the trunk and pulling out those memories.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11886227/like-living-through-it-all-over-again-new-biden-plan-could-ease-impact-on-asylum-seekers-asked-to-recount-their-trauma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>'\u003c/strong>Like Living Through It All Over Again': New Biden Plan Could Ease Impact on Asylum Seekers Asked to Recount Their Trauma\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899768\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11899768 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/038_CaldorFire_08312021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Redwood trees, smoke and a firefighter pointing his hose at a blazing fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/038_CaldorFire_08312021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/038_CaldorFire_08312021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/038_CaldorFire_08312021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/038_CaldorFire_08312021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/038_CaldorFire_08312021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Storey County Fire District crew battles the Caldor Fire off of Highway 50 near South Lake Tahoe on Aug. 31, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The state is in a dangerous place. Scorching summers coupled with tinderbox dry forests render fire containment ineffective — especially when it's hot, windy, or a combination of the two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Caldor Fire burned into the Tahoe Basin, it looked like this city, a center of gravity for culture in this part of the Sierra, could (and many thought, \u003cem>would\u003c/em>) burn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it did not, thanks to the 3,500 firefighters, a timely shift in the winds and years of fire preparations by a myriad of players.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1977037/wildfire-torched-the-sierra-all-summer-evading-containment-heres-how-tahoe-protected-itself\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wildfire Torched the Sierra All Summer, Evading Containment. Here’s How Tahoe Protected Itself\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899830\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11899830 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman sits at a computer in the background of a home, while a man plays with two kids in the foreground.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">While Nazia Gabar teaches English classes to women from Afghanistan who have resettled in the United States, her husband Hassam plays with their two children at their home in San Leandro on Sept. 8, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nazia Gabar arrived from Afghanistan and landed in the Bay Area in 2017 with her husband and baby. “At first it's very difficult to adapt to a new culture, a new environment, new people,” she said. “At that time when we came, we were very stressful about everything because there was no home and no jobs. We didn't have any money, and the rent was very high.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They had friends who had come earlier who helped them transition, and now they both do the same to help newly arrived Afghan refugees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11890467/i-know-exactly-what-you-feel-bay-area-afghans-work-overtime-to-welcome-new-refugees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">'I Know Exactly What You Feel': Bay Area Afghans Work Overtime to Welcome New Refugees\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899769\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11899769 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/031_SanJose_MardoniaGaleana_10072021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An older woman with glasses and a slight stands in the sunlight.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/031_SanJose_MardoniaGaleana_10072021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/031_SanJose_MardoniaGaleana_10072021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/031_SanJose_MardoniaGaleana_10072021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/031_SanJose_MardoniaGaleana_10072021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/031_SanJose_MardoniaGaleana_10072021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mardonia Galeana poses for a portrait at her home in San Jose on Oct. 7, 2021. During the 1990s, she ran an informal restaurant out of her apartment. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In The Bay Area's Great Immigrant Food City, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/sanjosefood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">series of stories\u003c/a> exploring San Jose's wonderfully diverse immigrant food scene, we meet Mardonia Galeana, also known as Abuela, through the eyes of her grandson, Yosimar Reyes. In the early 1990s, Abuela started an informal business selling home-cooked meals and offered them at a reduced price to the immigrant community in their neighborhood. Her clientele grew, and for several nights a week, men crowded into their apartment, sharing laughs and hardships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For those men, the camaraderie of sitting around Abuela’s table helped make being in this country feel less lonely.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13904861/abuela-mexican-kitchen-undocumented-workers-san-jose\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">My Abuela’s East San Jose Kitchen Fed Dozens of Undocumented Workers Every Week\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899770\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11899770 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/033_SanFrancisco_DiadelosMuertos_11022021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Five people stand in different brightly colored dresses and face paint against a backdrop of a mural in the Mission.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/033_SanFrancisco_DiadelosMuertos_11022021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/033_SanFrancisco_DiadelosMuertos_11022021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/033_SanFrancisco_DiadelosMuertos_11022021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/033_SanFrancisco_DiadelosMuertos_11022021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/033_SanFrancisco_DiadelosMuertos_11022021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The group Eveyln's Whisper perform a tribute to Evelyn Hernandez during a community healing vigil and living ofrenda celebration on 24th and Capp streets in San Francisco on Nov. 2, 2021, part of the neighborhood's Día de Los Muertos festivities. The event honored the memory of womxn, QTPOC, and children lost to violence. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of residents filled the streets of the Mission District in San Francisco on the evening of November 2 to honor and celebrate the dead on Día de los Muertos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sidewalks of 24th Street, from Mission Street to Potrero Avenue, were packed with families, some holding candles, others wearing delicately crafted dresses, face paint, and hair arrangements made out of cempasúchil, or marigolds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894929/to-also-celebrate-the-living-dia-de-los-muertos-returns-to-the-mission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">'To Also Celebrate the Living': Día de los Muertos Returns to the Mission\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899771\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11899771 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/008_SanFrancisco_UnitedinHealthKidsCOVIDVaccination_11092021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A kid sits in a chair receiving a bandaid from a nurse while a woman holds his hand.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/008_SanFrancisco_UnitedinHealthKidsCOVIDVaccination_11092021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/008_SanFrancisco_UnitedinHealthKidsCOVIDVaccination_11092021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/008_SanFrancisco_UnitedinHealthKidsCOVIDVaccination_11092021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/008_SanFrancisco_UnitedinHealthKidsCOVIDVaccination_11092021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/008_SanFrancisco_UnitedinHealthKidsCOVIDVaccination_11092021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Registered Nurse Elia Moreno administers a COVID-19 vaccine to Fergus, 10, while his mother, Kyre Osburn, holds his hand at the United in Health vaccine site in San Francisco's Mission District on Nov. 9, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On November 2, kids aged 5-11 became eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine in California. Families filled the United in Health vaccine site in San Francisco's Mission District, including Fergus, who wore a tuxedo shirt to celebrate the long-awaited day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894546/pfizer-covid-vaccine-kids-5-11-near-me\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Where Can I Get a Pfizer COVID Vaccine for Kids Age 5-11 Near Me?\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899772\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11899772 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/078_Alcatraz_InteriorSecretaryDebHaaland_11202021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman stands with arms outstretched in a beautifully outfit lit by the window.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/078_Alcatraz_InteriorSecretaryDebHaaland_11202021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/078_Alcatraz_InteriorSecretaryDebHaaland_11202021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/078_Alcatraz_InteriorSecretaryDebHaaland_11202021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/078_Alcatraz_InteriorSecretaryDebHaaland_11202021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/078_Alcatraz_InteriorSecretaryDebHaaland_11202021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Genesis Rosales dances with family at the 52nd Anniversary of the Alcatraz Occupation on Alcatraz Island on Nov. 20, 2021, during a visit to Alcatraz by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>2021 marked 52 years since Native American activists occupied Alcatraz Island to bring attention to past and ongoing injustices against Native peoples — and it's a day that brought promises for more inclusion from the Biden administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The anniversary also was marked by a visit and speech from U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/15/977558590/deb-haaland-confirmed-as-first-native-american-interior-secretary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the nation’s first Native American cabinet secretary\u003c/a>. \"The occupation of Alcatraz Island by Indigenous people in 1969 was more than a call for action. It was a cry for a sense of community and the life ways that were stolen from us,\" she said. \"We're in a new era, an era in which we can embrace our identities as Indigenous people and be proud of how much we have accomplished.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897041/were-in-a-new-era-on-52nd-anniversary-of-alcatraz-occupation-biden-administration-commits-to-native-american-inclusion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">'We're in a New Era': On 52nd Anniversary of Alcatraz Occupation, Biden Administration Commits to Native American Inclusion\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"From wildfires to refugee crises to a jubilant Juneteenth, photos from Northern California's turbulent and uplifting 2021 chosen by KQED photographer Beth LaBerge.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1640725723,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":58,"wordCount":2595},"headData":{"title":"A Look at the Bay Area's Perseverance in 2021 Through Photos | KQED","description":"From wildfires to refugee crises to a jubilant Juneteenth, photos from Northern California's turbulent and uplifting 2021 chosen by KQED photographer Beth LaBerge.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11899667 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11899667","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/12/21/a-look-at-the-bay-areas-perseverance-in-2021-through-photos/","disqusTitle":"A Look at the Bay Area's Perseverance in 2021 Through Photos","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11899667/a-look-at-the-bay-areas-perseverance-in-2021-through-photos","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>If any of us hoped that 2021 would somehow be less eventful than the year that came before it, we didn't get our wish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the pandemic continued into its second full year, our Bay Area communities also grappled with a rise in hate crime against the Asian American and Pacific Islander community, rose up against sexual harassment and assault in schools, and tried to mobilize to aid refugees from Afghanistan — all of which KQED photographer Beth LaBerge endeavored to capture in still images.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Telling these stories requires words both written and spoken, yes, but sometimes photos have a unique ability to let people tell their own stories, to show you their own plights, and bring the audience face-to-face with an issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here, LaBerge has chosen the images she captured in 2021 that help do exactly that — that paint a portrait of a complex, challenging year, but also one with frequent moments of joy and community togetherness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899779\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11899779 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021-800x533.jpg\" alt='A woman stands in the foreground in a purple sweatshirt with the words \"Class of 21\" with trees and sky in the background.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shavonne Hines-Foster, a Lowell High School senior and student delegate for the district, stands outside of her school in San Francisco on Jan. 29, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This year, a new reckoning in the #MeToo movement emerged from within San Francisco’s prestigious Lowell High School. The effort empowered current and former students to call for systemic change while curating and promoting allegations on social media.\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>Shavonne Hines-Foster, a former Lowell student, pictured here, said that movement helped the floodgates open for current San Francisco students to speak out on Twitter and Instagram. \"That served as a catalyst for everything else,” she said. “Students came forward about their experiences with racism, sexual assault, harassment and mental health at Lowell.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11859164/lowell-students-say-metoo-sexual-abuse-allegations-spark-reckoning-at-sf-high-school\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lowell Students Say #MeToo. Sexual Abuse Allegations Spark Reckoning at SF High\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11859164/lowell-students-say-metoo-sexual-abuse-allegations-spark-reckoning-at-sf-high-school\"> School\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899781\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11899781 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/030_SanFrancisco_StopAAPIHateRally_0320201-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A girl with a mask in the bottom left of the frame flies a kite with the background of buildings in San Francisco \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/030_SanFrancisco_StopAAPIHateRally_0320201-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/030_SanFrancisco_StopAAPIHateRally_0320201-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/030_SanFrancisco_StopAAPIHateRally_0320201-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/030_SanFrancisco_StopAAPIHateRally_0320201-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/030_SanFrancisco_StopAAPIHateRally_0320201.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cliff Lee and Joao Lee Ramirez, 12, fly a kite on Portsmouth Square Bridge in San Francisco on March 20, 2021, during a vigil and rally in support of the AAPI community on March 20, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hundreds gathered in San Francisco's Portsmouth Square in March to mourn the lives of eight people shot and killed in Atlanta, including six Asian women. Those at the rally also called for an end to anti-AAPI violence, which had risen throughout the pandemic. Organizers supplied markers for signs and kite-making kits for the community to express their grief and create joy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of us, including women and low-wage workers, deserve to be safe,\" said Shaw San Liu, executive director of the Chinese Progressive Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11865791/bay-area-vigils-remember-atlanta-shooting-victims-challenge-white-supremacy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bay Area Vigils Remember Atlanta Shooting Victims, Challenge White Supremacy\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899675\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11899675 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS48652_043_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An image from above. A child sits in a red chair at a blue table with a book open at a computer. The reflection can be seen in a mirror in the bottom of the frame.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS48652_043_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS48652_043_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS48652_043_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS48652_043_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS48652_043_Oakland_AustinFamily_04142021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Onyx attends school at home with his parents in Oakland on April 14, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As districts across California have grappled with difficult conversations around reopening, Ryan Austin, an artist-educator, said she's been troubled by a certain aspect of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11858457/as-battle-over-reopening-san-francisco-schools-turns-ugly-equity-emerges-as-fault-line\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">school reopening conversation\u003c/a>: Organizations and advocates — both for and against reopening the Bay Area’s schools — have both cited the needs and experiences of Black and brown parents to support their viewpoints\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their community, however, is not a monolith, Austin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this photo, Austin, helps her son Onyx with school through Zoom at their home in Oakland on April 14, 2021. According to Austin, Onyx has thrived during distance learning because the family can actively engage in his learning. However, Austin is quick to point out that this is only possible due to the fact that both she and her husband, Michael, work from home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11869776/were-not-a-monolith-some-black-and-brown-parents-in-oakland-feel-conflicted-as-in-person-learning-returns\">'\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11869776/were-not-a-monolith-some-black-and-brown-parents-in-oakland-feel-conflicted-as-in-person-learning-returns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">We're Not a Monolith': Some Black and Brown Parents in Oakland Feel Conflicted as In-Person Learning Returns\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870699\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11870699 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48713_026_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg\" alt='A woman wearing a black sweatshirt and a mask places a candle at an altar above the words \"Justice 4 Mario G.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48713_026_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48713_026_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48713_026_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48713_026_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48713_026_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman places a candle at a memorial for Mario Gonzalez during a vigil on April 21, 2021. Gonzalez died in Alameda police custody Monday. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>26-year-old Oakland Mario Gonzalez died in Alameda police custody this year after what the Alameda Police Department termed a \"scuffle\" with officers in a small park near the city's Park Street corridor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a vigil in April in Alameda, community members and activists demanded answers in Gonzalez's death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11870691/we-need-justice-mourners-demand-alameda-police-provide-answers-in-death-of-mario-gonzalez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">‘We Need Justice’: Mourners Demand Alameda Police Provide Answers in Death of Mario Gonzalez\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11875061\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11875061 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49144_007_UpperLake_BloodyIslandSunriseCeremony_05152021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The silhouette of a person against the blue-sky of sunrise.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49144_007_UpperLake_BloodyIslandSunriseCeremony_05152021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49144_007_UpperLake_BloodyIslandSunriseCeremony_05152021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49144_007_UpperLake_BloodyIslandSunriseCeremony_05152021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49144_007_UpperLake_BloodyIslandSunriseCeremony_05152021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49144_007_UpperLake_BloodyIslandSunriseCeremony_05152021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Bell, a Vietnam veteran and a Cahto tribe member, stands in a circle during the Bloody Island Sunrise Ceremony near Upper Lake, California, on May 15, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over 170 years ago, the small island of Bonopoti in Lake County was still a haven for the people who had lived there for centuries: the Pomo. On May 15, 1850, a U.S Army regiment arrived on the island and killed every Pomo man, woman and child they could find.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From then on, Bonopoti became known as Bloody Island. And for two decades, the island has hosted a Sunrise Ceremony of Forgiveness every May: A space where people from different Indigenous tribes gather to honor those ancestors claimed in the massacre, and to look to the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11874585/we-always-have-our-ancestors-within-us-scenes-from-bloody-islands-sunrise-ceremony\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">'We Always Have Our Ancestors Within Us': Scenes From Bloody Island's Sunrise Ceremony\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899818\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11899818 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/016_Oakland_JuneteenthBBPMiniMuseum_06192021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl is hoisted onto a horse in front of a Black Panther Party mural honoring the women of the Black Panther Party\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/016_Oakland_JuneteenthBBPMiniMuseum_06192021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/016_Oakland_JuneteenthBBPMiniMuseum_06192021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/016_Oakland_JuneteenthBBPMiniMuseum_06192021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/016_Oakland_JuneteenthBBPMiniMuseum_06192021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/016_Oakland_JuneteenthBBPMiniMuseum_06192021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donnell McAlister gives kids a chance to sit on top of his horse JJ, named after Jesse James, during a Juneteenth block party to celebrate the opening of the Black Panther Party Mini Museum in West Oakland on June 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In celebration of Juneteenth this year, The West Oakland Mural Project opened a small museum to highlight Black Panther Party history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the block party held to celebrate, Donnell McAlister gave kids a chance to sit on top of his horse, JJ, named after Jesse James.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878694/this-is-american-history-oakland-mini-museum-on-the-black-panther-party-opens-juneteenth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">'This Is American History': Oakland Mini Museum on the Black Panther Party Opens on Juneteenth\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899762\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11899762 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/017_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A colorful scene with a large banner in the foreground and many people in the background waving rainbow flags and signs.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/017_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/017_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/017_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/017_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/017_SanFrancisco_PeoplesMarch_06272021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds march head down Polk Street towards City Hall during the People's March and Rally in San Francisco on June 27, 2021, during Pride weekend in the Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The absence of an official San Francisco Pride Parade made room for things to get a lot weirder, more political, and more D.I.Y. this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of corporate-sponsored floats with rainbow advertisements, a People’s March organized by artists and activists took over the streets on Sunday, June 27, connecting the celebration back to its radical roots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13899473/photos-lgbtq-pride-lights-up-the-bay-area-in-all-its-rainbow-glory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">PHOTOS: LGBTQ+ Pride Lights Up the Bay Area In All Its Rainbow Glory\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899764\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11899764\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/022_Oakland_ChefSmellys_08072021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/022_Oakland_ChefSmellys_08072021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/022_Oakland_ChefSmellys_08072021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/022_Oakland_ChefSmellys_08072021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/022_Oakland_ChefSmellys_08072021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/022_Oakland_ChefSmellys_08072021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edward Wooley, known as Chef Smelly, prepares garlic noodles at Smelly's Creole and Soul Food pop-up on Broadway in Oakland on August 7, 2021. Garlic noodles are one of the most popular dishes at the pop-up. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Steam rises off of a fresh batch of chef Edward Wooley's garlic noodles at his Oakland restaurant, Smelly's Creole and Soul Food. Here in the Bay Area, Asian Americans love garlic noodles. Black and Latino folks love garlic noodles. Indeed, once you start looking for garlic noodles, it seems, you find them everywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My business is soul fusion,” Wooley says. “I take my Black seasonings and style, and mix it with the Asian cuisine. It’s a blend of everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13900855/garlic-noodles-sf-bay-area-iconic-foods-thanh-long-smellys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How Garlic Noodles Became one of the Bay Area's Most Iconic Foods\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899820\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11899820 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/046_Porterville_Farm_08102021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a cowboy hat stands next to a tractor with the background of a field behind him. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/046_Porterville_Farm_08102021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/046_Porterville_Farm_08102021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/046_Porterville_Farm_08102021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/046_Porterville_Farm_08102021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/046_Porterville_Farm_08102021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Borba and his son Joseph repair a broken irrigation line on their family-owned farm in Porterville, California, on August 10, 2021. Record droughts in California’s Central Valley, the country’s most lucrative agricultural area, have made life difficult for growers in the region. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Record droughts in California’s Central Valley, the country’s most lucrative agricultural area, have made life difficult for growers in the region. The lack of rain, over-pumping of aquifers, and the rising temperatures from climate change, which dry out the soil, have contributed to many farmers removing crops that they’ve grown for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As seen above, Chris Borba and his family have farmed in the Central Valley for several generations, but he worries that their farm might not survive if there is another year as dry as 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1976510/central-valley-farmers-weigh-in-on-californias-historic-drought\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Central Valley Farmers Weigh in on California's Historic Drought\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899766\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11899766\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_Fresno_FosterFarmsCOVID_08112021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_Fresno_FosterFarmsCOVID_08112021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_Fresno_FosterFarmsCOVID_08112021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_Fresno_FosterFarmsCOVID_08112021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_Fresno_FosterFarmsCOVID_08112021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_Fresno_FosterFarmsCOVID_08112021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jatinderpal Singh sits at his home in Fresno on August 11, 2021. Singh is a former employee of the Foster Farms’ Cherry facility. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jatinderpal Singh, 71, a former line worker at Foster Farms’ Cherry plant, equated the loss of his cousin, Baljinder Dhillon, 65, a mechanic at the plant, to losing an arm. Dhillon tested positive for COVID-19 in December of 2020 during an outbreak at Foster Farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My legs still shake,” Singh said in an interview on Aug. 11, speaking in Punjabi through an interpreter. “I still feel it, even today. Sometimes I feel weakness in my legs when I think about him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11892838/there-is-anger-he-should-be-alive-an-investigation-into-deadly-covid-19-outbreaks-at-foster-farms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>'\u003c/strong>There Is Anger. He Should Be Alive.' An Investigation Into Deadly COVID-19 Outbreaks at Foster Farms\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899767\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11899767\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/026_SanJose_Immigration_08232021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/026_SanJose_Immigration_08232021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/026_SanJose_Immigration_08232021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/026_SanJose_Immigration_08232021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/026_SanJose_Immigration_08232021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/026_SanJose_Immigration_08232021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Herrera and Gonzalez hold hands in their yard on Aug. 23, 2021. Along with their three children, the couple fled Mexico and are seeking asylum in the U.S. But their case has dragged on for six years in immigration court. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2015 a man named Herrera fled to the U.S. with his family after he says he became the target of political violence in his hometown in central Mexico. When they reached the San Francisco Bay Area, he applied for asylum. But security still feels elusive: His case in immigration court has dragged on for six years, and it involves grueling cross-examinations that he says rekindle the terror he experienced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I didn’t want to remember the kidnapping or anything else because it’s really ugly,\" said Herrera, now 50 and a construction worker in San José. \"But I have to keep opening up the trunk and pulling out those memories.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11886227/like-living-through-it-all-over-again-new-biden-plan-could-ease-impact-on-asylum-seekers-asked-to-recount-their-trauma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>'\u003c/strong>Like Living Through It All Over Again': New Biden Plan Could Ease Impact on Asylum Seekers Asked to Recount Their Trauma\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899768\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11899768 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/038_CaldorFire_08312021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Redwood trees, smoke and a firefighter pointing his hose at a blazing fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/038_CaldorFire_08312021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/038_CaldorFire_08312021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/038_CaldorFire_08312021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/038_CaldorFire_08312021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/038_CaldorFire_08312021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Storey County Fire District crew battles the Caldor Fire off of Highway 50 near South Lake Tahoe on Aug. 31, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The state is in a dangerous place. Scorching summers coupled with tinderbox dry forests render fire containment ineffective — especially when it's hot, windy, or a combination of the two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Caldor Fire burned into the Tahoe Basin, it looked like this city, a center of gravity for culture in this part of the Sierra, could (and many thought, \u003cem>would\u003c/em>) burn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it did not, thanks to the 3,500 firefighters, a timely shift in the winds and years of fire preparations by a myriad of players.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1977037/wildfire-torched-the-sierra-all-summer-evading-containment-heres-how-tahoe-protected-itself\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wildfire Torched the Sierra All Summer, Evading Containment. Here’s How Tahoe Protected Itself\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899830\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11899830 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman sits at a computer in the background of a home, while a man plays with two kids in the foreground.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/024_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">While Nazia Gabar teaches English classes to women from Afghanistan who have resettled in the United States, her husband Hassam plays with their two children at their home in San Leandro on Sept. 8, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nazia Gabar arrived from Afghanistan and landed in the Bay Area in 2017 with her husband and baby. “At first it's very difficult to adapt to a new culture, a new environment, new people,” she said. “At that time when we came, we were very stressful about everything because there was no home and no jobs. We didn't have any money, and the rent was very high.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They had friends who had come earlier who helped them transition, and now they both do the same to help newly arrived Afghan refugees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11890467/i-know-exactly-what-you-feel-bay-area-afghans-work-overtime-to-welcome-new-refugees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">'I Know Exactly What You Feel': Bay Area Afghans Work Overtime to Welcome New Refugees\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899769\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11899769 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/031_SanJose_MardoniaGaleana_10072021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An older woman with glasses and a slight stands in the sunlight.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/031_SanJose_MardoniaGaleana_10072021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/031_SanJose_MardoniaGaleana_10072021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/031_SanJose_MardoniaGaleana_10072021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/031_SanJose_MardoniaGaleana_10072021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/031_SanJose_MardoniaGaleana_10072021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mardonia Galeana poses for a portrait at her home in San Jose on Oct. 7, 2021. During the 1990s, she ran an informal restaurant out of her apartment. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In The Bay Area's Great Immigrant Food City, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/sanjosefood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">series of stories\u003c/a> exploring San Jose's wonderfully diverse immigrant food scene, we meet Mardonia Galeana, also known as Abuela, through the eyes of her grandson, Yosimar Reyes. In the early 1990s, Abuela started an informal business selling home-cooked meals and offered them at a reduced price to the immigrant community in their neighborhood. Her clientele grew, and for several nights a week, men crowded into their apartment, sharing laughs and hardships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For those men, the camaraderie of sitting around Abuela’s table helped make being in this country feel less lonely.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13904861/abuela-mexican-kitchen-undocumented-workers-san-jose\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">My Abuela’s East San Jose Kitchen Fed Dozens of Undocumented Workers Every Week\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899770\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11899770 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/033_SanFrancisco_DiadelosMuertos_11022021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Five people stand in different brightly colored dresses and face paint against a backdrop of a mural in the Mission.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/033_SanFrancisco_DiadelosMuertos_11022021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/033_SanFrancisco_DiadelosMuertos_11022021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/033_SanFrancisco_DiadelosMuertos_11022021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/033_SanFrancisco_DiadelosMuertos_11022021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/033_SanFrancisco_DiadelosMuertos_11022021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The group Eveyln's Whisper perform a tribute to Evelyn Hernandez during a community healing vigil and living ofrenda celebration on 24th and Capp streets in San Francisco on Nov. 2, 2021, part of the neighborhood's Día de Los Muertos festivities. The event honored the memory of womxn, QTPOC, and children lost to violence. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of residents filled the streets of the Mission District in San Francisco on the evening of November 2 to honor and celebrate the dead on Día de los Muertos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sidewalks of 24th Street, from Mission Street to Potrero Avenue, were packed with families, some holding candles, others wearing delicately crafted dresses, face paint, and hair arrangements made out of cempasúchil, or marigolds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894929/to-also-celebrate-the-living-dia-de-los-muertos-returns-to-the-mission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">'To Also Celebrate the Living': Día de los Muertos Returns to the Mission\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899771\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11899771 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/008_SanFrancisco_UnitedinHealthKidsCOVIDVaccination_11092021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A kid sits in a chair receiving a bandaid from a nurse while a woman holds his hand.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/008_SanFrancisco_UnitedinHealthKidsCOVIDVaccination_11092021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/008_SanFrancisco_UnitedinHealthKidsCOVIDVaccination_11092021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/008_SanFrancisco_UnitedinHealthKidsCOVIDVaccination_11092021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/008_SanFrancisco_UnitedinHealthKidsCOVIDVaccination_11092021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/008_SanFrancisco_UnitedinHealthKidsCOVIDVaccination_11092021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Registered Nurse Elia Moreno administers a COVID-19 vaccine to Fergus, 10, while his mother, Kyre Osburn, holds his hand at the United in Health vaccine site in San Francisco's Mission District on Nov. 9, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On November 2, kids aged 5-11 became eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine in California. Families filled the United in Health vaccine site in San Francisco's Mission District, including Fergus, who wore a tuxedo shirt to celebrate the long-awaited day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894546/pfizer-covid-vaccine-kids-5-11-near-me\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Where Can I Get a Pfizer COVID Vaccine for Kids Age 5-11 Near Me?\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899772\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11899772 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/078_Alcatraz_InteriorSecretaryDebHaaland_11202021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman stands with arms outstretched in a beautifully outfit lit by the window.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/078_Alcatraz_InteriorSecretaryDebHaaland_11202021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/078_Alcatraz_InteriorSecretaryDebHaaland_11202021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/078_Alcatraz_InteriorSecretaryDebHaaland_11202021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/078_Alcatraz_InteriorSecretaryDebHaaland_11202021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/078_Alcatraz_InteriorSecretaryDebHaaland_11202021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Genesis Rosales dances with family at the 52nd Anniversary of the Alcatraz Occupation on Alcatraz Island on Nov. 20, 2021, during a visit to Alcatraz by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>2021 marked 52 years since Native American activists occupied Alcatraz Island to bring attention to past and ongoing injustices against Native peoples — and it's a day that brought promises for more inclusion from the Biden administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The anniversary also was marked by a visit and speech from U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/15/977558590/deb-haaland-confirmed-as-first-native-american-interior-secretary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the nation’s first Native American cabinet secretary\u003c/a>. \"The occupation of Alcatraz Island by Indigenous people in 1969 was more than a call for action. It was a cry for a sense of community and the life ways that were stolen from us,\" she said. \"We're in a new era, an era in which we can embrace our identities as Indigenous people and be proud of how much we have accomplished.\"\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>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Read the full story: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897041/were-in-a-new-era-on-52nd-anniversary-of-alcatraz-occupation-biden-administration-commits-to-native-american-inclusion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">'We're in a New Era': On 52nd Anniversary of Alcatraz Occupation, Biden Administration Commits to Native American Inclusion\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11899667/a-look-at-the-bay-areas-perseverance-in-2021-through-photos","authors":["236"],"categories":["news_28250","news_8"],"tags":["news_29711","news_29803","news_29380","news_165","news_27951","news_30414","news_393","news_30282","news_27626","news_28400","news_30413","news_23528","news_18411","news_29127","news_29381","news_1262","news_29611","news_26066","news_19006","news_29159","news_30412"],"featImg":"news_11899818","label":"news"},"news_11890467":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11890467","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11890467","score":null,"sort":[1633006831000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"i-know-exactly-what-you-feel-bay-area-afghans-work-overtime-to-welcome-new-refugees","title":"'I Know Exactly What You Feel': Bay Area Afghans Work Overtime to Welcome New Refugees","publishDate":1633006831,"format":"audio","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>On a recent morning at the Concord office of \u003ca href=\"https://jfcs-eastbay.org/urgent-afghan-evacuation/\">Jewish Family and Community Services East Bay\u003c/a>, staff members filled an enormous laundry cart with basic supplies for a new household — a family of seven, just arrived from Afghanistan. They loaded up new pillows, sheets, comforters, towel sets, pots and pans, and a microwave oven still in the box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he helped wheel the cart to an elevator and out to the street, the father of the family looked bleary. He said they had gotten on a flight out of Kabul on Aug. 27, the day after a suicide bombing at the airport killed at least 175, and then spent over a week in transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man said he had worked for U.S. Army Special Forces as an interpreter, and asked not to be identified because he feared the Taliban could harm his relatives back home if they knew he had left the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man, his wife and their five children are among at least 2,000 Afghan evacuees who have arrived in California since July — most coming to the Bay Area and Sacramento. The East Bay office of JFCS has resettled 137.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as the new arrivals begin to put the pieces of their lives together, the established Afghan community here is stepping up to help. It turns out Afghans who call Northern California home know a lot about what the newcomers are going through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re helping them, the same as if they were our family or our friends,” said Ashraf Hussain, the JFCS case manager who pushed the cart to the curb. “I feel so happy when I’m helping.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11890515\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11890515 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/012_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a mask pulls against a doorframe to help himself pull a massive laundry cart on wheels laden with items in black garbage bags through it.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/012_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/012_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/012_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/012_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/012_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Walid Aziz (L) and Ashraf Hussain from Jewish Family and Community Services East Bay bring household goods from the organization's offices in Concord on Sept. 10, 2021, to a family who recently arrived from Afghanistan. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hussain loaded the bedding and kitchenware into a U-Haul, along with donated mattresses and furniture. He says when he arrived from Afghanistan in 2017, he did not get connected with a resettlement agency and had to fend for himself. Now, he wants his clients to have an easier path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hussain also was a U.S. Army interpreter. And, like this new family, he arrived on a \u003ca href=\"https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/special-immg-visa-afghans-employed-us-gov.html\">special immigrant visa\u003c/a>, which qualifies recipients for refugee benefits. Hussain’s job is to help this new family apply for food stamps and Medi-Cal, find housing in the costly Bay Area and enroll the kids in school.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Establishing stability for families fleeing chaos\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Typically, Afghans airlifted out of Kabul were flown to Qatar and then to U.S. military bases in Germany, Italy or Uganda, says Fouzia Azizi, JFCS's director of refugee services. From there they travel to bases in the U.S. where they get medical screenings, coronavirus vaccinations and paperwork processed. Jewish Family and Community Services estimates that there are currently more than 53,000 Afghan evacuees at military bases in the U.S. and at least another 12,000 who will eventually arrive here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azizi says all the practical help Hussain and other staff members provide is the first step to establishing stability for families who have fled chaos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11890505\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11890505 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/020_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two women and a man sit at a table in a conference room, two with papers in front of them and one on a laptop. On the wall is a large framed print of a bouquet in a vase.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/020_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/020_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/020_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/020_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/020_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fouzia Azizi (R), director of refugee services, meets with her team at Jewish Family and Community Services East Bay in Concord on Sept. 10, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There's trauma involved. There’s fear involved. And the anxiety level is so high,” she said. “Folks that are getting here, they are extremely overwhelmed due to the long process. ... And also, they left their loved ones at home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the new arrivals need more than beds and kitchenware. They need a sense of connection and emotional support, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11887630,news_11889134,news_11885170\" label=\"Related Posts\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To be in touch with somebody that has a similar culture and also went through a similar experience,” she said. “It's a huge difference when you come and you have community members.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her staff at Jewish Family and Community Services works with refugees from Guatemala, Burma, Eritrea and elsewhere around the globe. But many case managers in the agency’s Concord office are Afghans who came to the Bay Area over the past four decades of war and upheaval in their homeland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azizi herself knows firsthand what these new families are feeling. She was a refugee once, too, fleeing Afghanistan with her family in 1994.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Islamic regime came to power and my house was put on fire. We left our house in the middle of the night,” she said. “And when I see my clients, and sometimes they are trying to explain their situation, I just say, ‘You don't need to tell me. I have been there ... And I know exactly what you feel.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Afghan diaspora steps up to support new arrivals\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It’s not just refugee resettlement agencies that are reaching out to help the new arrivals. Across the Bay Area’s Afghan diaspora, community groups are raising money and organizing volunteers. And the cities of \u003ca href=\"https://www.fremont.gov/4058/Afghan-Refugee-Help\">Fremont\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://hayward-ca.gov/residents/equity-inclusion/afghan-relief-and-assistance-efforts\">Hayward\u003c/a>, home to long-established Afghan communities, are collecting donations and coordinating legal aid and other services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the Afghans that have been working with me have slept very little in the last couple of weeks,” said Aisha Wahab, a Hayward city councilmember who is the daughter of Afghan refugees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Aisha Wahab, Hayward city councilmember\"]'Kids bounce back pretty quickly. The concern that a lot of us tend to have is with the women. Women still have to be under these rigid cultural norms. ... They may not be able to potentially get a job or they may not have been educated even in Afghanistan. So the acclimation for Afghan women coming to the U.S. is going to be far more important and far more difficult than for pretty much anybody else.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she’s seeing dozens of young Afghan Americans like herself taking time off from their jobs to pitch in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have a friend who right now is volunteering with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.afghancoalition.org/\">Afghan Coalition\u003c/a>. She is taking a solid month off. I have another friend who took two months off providing mental health services and translation,” Wahab said. “You have a lot of these young Afghans who have been deeply affected by their parents’ story ... and are saying that we are going to ease the arrival.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the Afghans now arriving on special immigrant visas are here because they worked for the U.S. And Wahab says that means many men, at least, already speak English, but their wives and children may not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kids bounce back pretty quickly. The concern that a lot of us tend to have is with the women,” she said. “Women still have to be under these rigid cultural norms. ... They may not be able to potentially get a job or they may not have been educated even in Afghanistan. So the acclimation for Afghan women coming to the U.S. is going to be far more important and far more difficult than for pretty much anybody else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Assisting new refugees by drawing on personal displacement experiences\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When Nazia Gabar arrived in the Bay Area in 2017 with her husband and baby, she did speak English. She was a professional woman who had worked for the U.S. government in Kabul. But the transition was still tough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One morning earlier this month, Gabar perched on the sofa in her small, tidy apartment in a San Leandro housing development right beside the freeway and talked about those early days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11890528\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11890528 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/004_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing an orange salwar kameez and black hijab sits at a kitchen table typing on a laptop. A boy, age 4, sits right behind her on the chair.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/004_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/004_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/004_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/004_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/004_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">While Nazia Gabar teaches English classes to women from Afghanistan who have resettled in the United States, one of her sons sits behind her at their home in San Leandro on Sept. 8, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“At first it's very difficult to adapt to a new culture, a new environment, new people,” she said. “At that time when we came, we were very stressful about everything because there was no home and no jobs. We didn't have any money and the rent was very high.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortunately, some friends from Kabul had made the move a couple of years earlier and helped them get established. Gabar says even Afghans they had barely met were generous, offering rides and sharing suggestions about where to find a job or an apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Gabar works part time as a bookkeeper and teaches English classes to other Afghan women for Refugee & Immigrant Transitions, a San Francisco-based nonprofit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While her husband, Hassam Gabar, played with their two little boys, age 2 and 4, Gabar set up her laptop at the kitchen table and started her first Zoom class of the day. She composed a short dialogue about how to make a doctor’s appointment and then asked the students to take turns playing the roles of patient and receptionist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the pandemic, the classes met in the Gabars’ living room. A dozen or so women from the neighborhood gathered around the whiteboard, and they brought their children, too. Gabar says it helped break the isolation — for her students and herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The women were happy. They were meeting and talking to each other and the kids were playing,” she said. “We were supporting each other. Sometimes they were sharing their stories. We were talking about all that while learning English.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With so many Afghan refugees arriving now, Gabar says she has been asked to take on more classes. She says she’ll try to fit them in, for the women’s sake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11890507\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11890507 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/015_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Outside a curtained sliding glass door, a man holds a 2-year-old, as a 4-year-old moves toward the door as if to join them.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/015_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/015_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/015_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/015_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/015_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">While Nazia Gabar teaches English classes to women from Afghanistan who have resettled in the United States, her husband Hassam plays with their two children at their home in San Leandro on Sept. 8, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Afghan woman, they always have headaches because they are away from their families,” she said. “We are used to living in a full, big family, with siblings and parents, everyone. But then when you come here, you are just alone with your husband and your husband goes to work and you are all day alone at home. They get depression.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mastering English is a kind of cure, Gabar says, because it offers these refugee women independence — the chance to drive, work and connect with the wider world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent months, Hassam has been able to mind the kids while she teaches, because he’s been out of work. In Afghanistan, he worked in finance. When he got here, he drove for Uber, worked as a security guard and studied automotive engineering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This month, though, he landed a job with a refugee agency. He says it’s not what he was expecting to do, but it’s actually very familiar — because he came of age in a United Nations refugee camp in Pakistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Fouzia Azizi, Jewish Family and Community Services East Bay's director of refugee services\"]'It gave me energy every day when I woke up to see that I have the power to help humans, disregard if they are Afghans or not. But right now, there's a crisis in Afghanistan and our clients happen to be Afghans.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This work is actually the work I grew up with,” he said. “My father was working with the UNHCR [United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees], in children’s rights, community education and health. So I observed how he worked. He was doing the same thing that people do in refugee organizations here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the Gabars, assisting new refugees draws on what they’ve learned through their own displacement experience. And it’s a way of paying forward the help they got from more established Afghans when they were newcomers to the Bay Area a few years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'I have the power to help humans'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Pausing to reflect in her office at Jewish Family and Community Services, Azizi said watching the news last month as Kabul fell to the Taliban brought back the pain she felt 27 years earlier when her own family fled the Taliban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When Kabul collapsed, that night and the nights after that, I was getting nightmares,” Azizi said. “The hurt is so deep, it's deep to my core. The disappointment level was so high that I felt numb.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What has kept her going?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11890500\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11890500 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/031_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman stands right next to a window, which shines light on a painting of a hillside.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/031_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/031_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/031_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/031_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/031_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fouzia Azizi, director of refugee services, holds artwork from Afghanistan in her office at the Jewish Family and Community Services of the East Bay in Concord on Sept. 10, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It gave me energy every day when I woke up to see that I have the power to help humans, disregard if they are Afghans or not. But right now, there’s a crisis in Afghanistan and our clients happen to be Afghans,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being a refugee is a journey, said Azizi, regardless of what country a person has fled. The fact that so many of her staff were themselves forced to leave their homes, she believes, is a strength because they can serve as models for the newcomers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It gives them the hope that, ‘Oh, they are refugees as well ... and now they are in a position to be able to help us,’” she said. “When there’s a hope, the healing process is a possibility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"As hundreds of Afghan evacuees reach Northern California and begin putting the pieces of their lives together, the established Afghan community here is stepping up to help, drawing on their own experiences of displacement and resilience.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1634576010,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":48,"wordCount":2305},"headData":{"title":"'I Know Exactly What You Feel': Bay Area Afghans Work Overtime to Welcome New Refugees | KQED","description":"As hundreds of Afghan evacuees reach Northern California and begin putting the pieces of their lives together, the established Afghan community here is stepping up to help, drawing on their own experiences of displacement and resilience.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11890467 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11890467","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/09/30/i-know-exactly-what-you-feel-bay-area-afghans-work-overtime-to-welcome-new-refugees/","disqusTitle":"'I Know Exactly What You Feel': Bay Area Afghans Work Overtime to Welcome New Refugees","audioUrl":"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/bay-area-afghan-community-helps-newly-arrived-evac.mp3","path":"/news/11890467/i-know-exactly-what-you-feel-bay-area-afghans-work-overtime-to-welcome-new-refugees","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On a recent morning at the Concord office of \u003ca href=\"https://jfcs-eastbay.org/urgent-afghan-evacuation/\">Jewish Family and Community Services East Bay\u003c/a>, staff members filled an enormous laundry cart with basic supplies for a new household — a family of seven, just arrived from Afghanistan. They loaded up new pillows, sheets, comforters, towel sets, pots and pans, and a microwave oven still in the box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he helped wheel the cart to an elevator and out to the street, the father of the family looked bleary. He said they had gotten on a flight out of Kabul on Aug. 27, the day after a suicide bombing at the airport killed at least 175, and then spent over a week in transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man said he had worked for U.S. Army Special Forces as an interpreter, and asked not to be identified because he feared the Taliban could harm his relatives back home if they knew he had left the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man, his wife and their five children are among at least 2,000 Afghan evacuees who have arrived in California since July — most coming to the Bay Area and Sacramento. The East Bay office of JFCS has resettled 137.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as the new arrivals begin to put the pieces of their lives together, the established Afghan community here is stepping up to help. It turns out Afghans who call Northern California home know a lot about what the newcomers are going through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re helping them, the same as if they were our family or our friends,” said Ashraf Hussain, the JFCS case manager who pushed the cart to the curb. “I feel so happy when I’m helping.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11890515\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11890515 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/012_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a mask pulls against a doorframe to help himself pull a massive laundry cart on wheels laden with items in black garbage bags through it.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/012_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/012_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/012_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/012_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/012_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Walid Aziz (L) and Ashraf Hussain from Jewish Family and Community Services East Bay bring household goods from the organization's offices in Concord on Sept. 10, 2021, to a family who recently arrived from Afghanistan. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hussain loaded the bedding and kitchenware into a U-Haul, along with donated mattresses and furniture. He says when he arrived from Afghanistan in 2017, he did not get connected with a resettlement agency and had to fend for himself. Now, he wants his clients to have an easier path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hussain also was a U.S. Army interpreter. And, like this new family, he arrived on a \u003ca href=\"https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/special-immg-visa-afghans-employed-us-gov.html\">special immigrant visa\u003c/a>, which qualifies recipients for refugee benefits. Hussain’s job is to help this new family apply for food stamps and Medi-Cal, find housing in the costly Bay Area and enroll the kids in school.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Establishing stability for families fleeing chaos\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Typically, Afghans airlifted out of Kabul were flown to Qatar and then to U.S. military bases in Germany, Italy or Uganda, says Fouzia Azizi, JFCS's director of refugee services. From there they travel to bases in the U.S. where they get medical screenings, coronavirus vaccinations and paperwork processed. Jewish Family and Community Services estimates that there are currently more than 53,000 Afghan evacuees at military bases in the U.S. and at least another 12,000 who will eventually arrive here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azizi says all the practical help Hussain and other staff members provide is the first step to establishing stability for families who have fled chaos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11890505\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11890505 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/020_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two women and a man sit at a table in a conference room, two with papers in front of them and one on a laptop. On the wall is a large framed print of a bouquet in a vase.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/020_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/020_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/020_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/020_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/020_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fouzia Azizi (R), director of refugee services, meets with her team at Jewish Family and Community Services East Bay in Concord on Sept. 10, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There's trauma involved. There’s fear involved. And the anxiety level is so high,” she said. “Folks that are getting here, they are extremely overwhelmed due to the long process. ... And also, they left their loved ones at home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the new arrivals need more than beds and kitchenware. They need a sense of connection and emotional support, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11887630,news_11889134,news_11885170","label":"Related Posts "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To be in touch with somebody that has a similar culture and also went through a similar experience,” she said. “It's a huge difference when you come and you have community members.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her staff at Jewish Family and Community Services works with refugees from Guatemala, Burma, Eritrea and elsewhere around the globe. But many case managers in the agency’s Concord office are Afghans who came to the Bay Area over the past four decades of war and upheaval in their homeland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azizi herself knows firsthand what these new families are feeling. She was a refugee once, too, fleeing Afghanistan with her family in 1994.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Islamic regime came to power and my house was put on fire. We left our house in the middle of the night,” she said. “And when I see my clients, and sometimes they are trying to explain their situation, I just say, ‘You don't need to tell me. I have been there ... And I know exactly what you feel.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Afghan diaspora steps up to support new arrivals\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It’s not just refugee resettlement agencies that are reaching out to help the new arrivals. Across the Bay Area’s Afghan diaspora, community groups are raising money and organizing volunteers. And the cities of \u003ca href=\"https://www.fremont.gov/4058/Afghan-Refugee-Help\">Fremont\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://hayward-ca.gov/residents/equity-inclusion/afghan-relief-and-assistance-efforts\">Hayward\u003c/a>, home to long-established Afghan communities, are collecting donations and coordinating legal aid and other services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the Afghans that have been working with me have slept very little in the last couple of weeks,” said Aisha Wahab, a Hayward city councilmember who is the daughter of Afghan refugees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'Kids bounce back pretty quickly. The concern that a lot of us tend to have is with the women. Women still have to be under these rigid cultural norms. ... They may not be able to potentially get a job or they may not have been educated even in Afghanistan. So the acclimation for Afghan women coming to the U.S. is going to be far more important and far more difficult than for pretty much anybody else.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Aisha Wahab, Hayward city councilmember","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she’s seeing dozens of young Afghan Americans like herself taking time off from their jobs to pitch in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have a friend who right now is volunteering with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.afghancoalition.org/\">Afghan Coalition\u003c/a>. She is taking a solid month off. I have another friend who took two months off providing mental health services and translation,” Wahab said. “You have a lot of these young Afghans who have been deeply affected by their parents’ story ... and are saying that we are going to ease the arrival.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the Afghans now arriving on special immigrant visas are here because they worked for the U.S. And Wahab says that means many men, at least, already speak English, but their wives and children may not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kids bounce back pretty quickly. The concern that a lot of us tend to have is with the women,” she said. “Women still have to be under these rigid cultural norms. ... They may not be able to potentially get a job or they may not have been educated even in Afghanistan. So the acclimation for Afghan women coming to the U.S. is going to be far more important and far more difficult than for pretty much anybody else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Assisting new refugees by drawing on personal displacement experiences\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When Nazia Gabar arrived in the Bay Area in 2017 with her husband and baby, she did speak English. She was a professional woman who had worked for the U.S. government in Kabul. But the transition was still tough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One morning earlier this month, Gabar perched on the sofa in her small, tidy apartment in a San Leandro housing development right beside the freeway and talked about those early days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11890528\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11890528 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/004_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing an orange salwar kameez and black hijab sits at a kitchen table typing on a laptop. A boy, age 4, sits right behind her on the chair.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/004_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/004_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/004_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/004_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/004_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">While Nazia Gabar teaches English classes to women from Afghanistan who have resettled in the United States, one of her sons sits behind her at their home in San Leandro on Sept. 8, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“At first it's very difficult to adapt to a new culture, a new environment, new people,” she said. “At that time when we came, we were very stressful about everything because there was no home and no jobs. We didn't have any money and the rent was very high.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortunately, some friends from Kabul had made the move a couple of years earlier and helped them get established. Gabar says even Afghans they had barely met were generous, offering rides and sharing suggestions about where to find a job or an apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Gabar works part time as a bookkeeper and teaches English classes to other Afghan women for Refugee & Immigrant Transitions, a San Francisco-based nonprofit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While her husband, Hassam Gabar, played with their two little boys, age 2 and 4, Gabar set up her laptop at the kitchen table and started her first Zoom class of the day. She composed a short dialogue about how to make a doctor’s appointment and then asked the students to take turns playing the roles of patient and receptionist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the pandemic, the classes met in the Gabars’ living room. A dozen or so women from the neighborhood gathered around the whiteboard, and they brought their children, too. Gabar says it helped break the isolation — for her students and herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The women were happy. They were meeting and talking to each other and the kids were playing,” she said. “We were supporting each other. Sometimes they were sharing their stories. We were talking about all that while learning English.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With so many Afghan refugees arriving now, Gabar says she has been asked to take on more classes. She says she’ll try to fit them in, for the women’s sake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11890507\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11890507 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/015_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Outside a curtained sliding glass door, a man holds a 2-year-old, as a 4-year-old moves toward the door as if to join them.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/015_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/015_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/015_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/015_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/015_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">While Nazia Gabar teaches English classes to women from Afghanistan who have resettled in the United States, her husband Hassam plays with their two children at their home in San Leandro on Sept. 8, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Afghan woman, they always have headaches because they are away from their families,” she said. “We are used to living in a full, big family, with siblings and parents, everyone. But then when you come here, you are just alone with your husband and your husband goes to work and you are all day alone at home. They get depression.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mastering English is a kind of cure, Gabar says, because it offers these refugee women independence — the chance to drive, work and connect with the wider world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent months, Hassam has been able to mind the kids while she teaches, because he’s been out of work. In Afghanistan, he worked in finance. When he got here, he drove for Uber, worked as a security guard and studied automotive engineering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This month, though, he landed a job with a refugee agency. He says it’s not what he was expecting to do, but it’s actually very familiar — because he came of age in a United Nations refugee camp in Pakistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'It gave me energy every day when I woke up to see that I have the power to help humans, disregard if they are Afghans or not. But right now, there's a crisis in Afghanistan and our clients happen to be Afghans.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Fouzia Azizi, Jewish Family and Community Services East Bay's director of refugee services","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This work is actually the work I grew up with,” he said. “My father was working with the UNHCR [United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees], in children’s rights, community education and health. So I observed how he worked. He was doing the same thing that people do in refugee organizations here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the Gabars, assisting new refugees draws on what they’ve learned through their own displacement experience. And it’s a way of paying forward the help they got from more established Afghans when they were newcomers to the Bay Area a few years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'I have the power to help humans'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Pausing to reflect in her office at Jewish Family and Community Services, Azizi said watching the news last month as Kabul fell to the Taliban brought back the pain she felt 27 years earlier when her own family fled the Taliban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When Kabul collapsed, that night and the nights after that, I was getting nightmares,” Azizi said. “The hurt is so deep, it's deep to my core. The disappointment level was so high that I felt numb.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What has kept her going?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11890500\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11890500 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/031_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman stands right next to a window, which shines light on a painting of a hillside.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/031_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/031_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/031_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/031_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/031_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fouzia Azizi, director of refugee services, holds artwork from Afghanistan in her office at the Jewish Family and Community Services of the East Bay in Concord on Sept. 10, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It gave me energy every day when I woke up to see that I have the power to help humans, disregard if they are Afghans or not. But right now, there’s a crisis in Afghanistan and our clients happen to be Afghans,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being a refugee is a journey, said Azizi, regardless of what country a person has fled. The fact that so many of her staff were themselves forced to leave their homes, she believes, is a strength because they can serve as models for the newcomers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It gives them the hope that, ‘Oh, they are refugees as well ... and now they are in a position to be able to help us,’” she said. “When there’s a hope, the healing process 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>\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/11890467/i-know-exactly-what-you-feel-bay-area-afghans-work-overtime-to-welcome-new-refugees","authors":["259"],"categories":["news_1169","news_8"],"tags":["news_29803","news_19537","news_27626","news_20202","news_29961","news_19006"],"featImg":"news_11890506","label":"news"},"news_11886476":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11886476","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11886476","score":null,"sort":[1630019532000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"our-new-friends-and-neighbors","title":"Our New Friends and Neighbors","publishDate":1630019532,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Mark Fiore: Drawn to the Bay | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":18515,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/thinkglobally_082621_final.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11886487\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/thinkglobally_082621_final.png\" alt='A Mark Fiore cartoon showing a woman with open arms welcoming an Afghan refugee family. The text of the cartoon reads, \"Think Globally...help a refugee locally.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1293\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/thinkglobally_082621_final.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/thinkglobally_082621_final-800x539.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/thinkglobally_082621_final-1020x687.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/thinkglobally_082621_final-160x108.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/thinkglobally_082621_final-1536x1034.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With thousands of people still trying to flee Afghanistan, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/08/26/1031244804/kabul-airport-explosion-afghanistan\">two explosions\u003c/a> outside the Kabul airport on Thursday killed dozens of people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/fioreafghanistanhowtohelp\">Here's how you can help\u003c/a> the Afghan community and refugees arriving in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bad ending to a horrible war is getting even worse as \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/08/26/world/afghanistan-taliban-biden-news\">officials announced\u003c/a> that 12 U.S. service members were among the scores of people killed in the attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the disastrous war comes to an end, at least we can \u003ca href=\"https://jfcs-eastbay.org/urgent-afghan-evacuation/\">do something positive\u003c/a> here in the Bay Area for the refugees who are beginning to arrive in our communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"With thousands of people still trying to flee Afghanistan, two explosions outside the Kabul airport on Thursday killed dozens of people. Here's how you can help the Afghan community and refugees arriving in the Bay Area.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1630024312,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":7,"wordCount":100},"headData":{"title":"Our New Friends and Neighbors | KQED","description":"With thousands of people still trying to flee Afghanistan, two explosions outside the Kabul airport on Thursday killed dozens of people. 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The text of the cartoon reads, \"Think Globally...help a refugee locally.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1293\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/thinkglobally_082621_final.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/thinkglobally_082621_final-800x539.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/thinkglobally_082621_final-1020x687.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/thinkglobally_082621_final-160x108.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/thinkglobally_082621_final-1536x1034.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With thousands of people still trying to flee Afghanistan, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/08/26/1031244804/kabul-airport-explosion-afghanistan\">two explosions\u003c/a> outside the Kabul airport on Thursday killed dozens of people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/fioreafghanistanhowtohelp\">Here's how you can help\u003c/a> the Afghan community and refugees arriving in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bad ending to a horrible war is getting even worse as \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/08/26/world/afghanistan-taliban-biden-news\">officials announced\u003c/a> that 12 U.S. service members were among the scores of people killed in the attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the disastrous war comes to an end, at least we can \u003ca href=\"https://jfcs-eastbay.org/urgent-afghan-evacuation/\">do something positive\u003c/a> here in the Bay Area for the refugees who are beginning to arrive in our communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11886476/our-new-friends-and-neighbors","authors":["3236"],"series":["news_18515"],"categories":["news_13"],"tags":["news_29803","news_19537","news_20949","news_19006"],"featImg":"news_11886487","label":"news_18515"},"news_11885286":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11885286","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11885286","score":null,"sort":[1629238610000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"all-failed-nation-building-is-local","title":"All Failed Nation-Building Is Local","publishDate":1629238610,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Mark Fiore: Drawn to the Bay | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":18515,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/helparefugee_081621_final.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11885293\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/helparefugee_081621_final.png\" alt=\"A Mark Fiore cartoon badge that shows a worried refugee family in the center with text around the circular badge that reads, "don't let the Taliban keep winning, help a refugee now!"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1434\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/helparefugee_081621_final.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/helparefugee_081621_final-800x598.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/helparefugee_081621_final-1020x762.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/helparefugee_081621_final-160x120.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/helparefugee_081621_final-1536x1147.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the Taliban taking power in Afghanistan and people desperately trying to flee the country, refugees are already scheduled to arrive in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11885170/how-you-can-support-the-afghan-community-in-the-bay-area-and-beyond\">Here's how you can help\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though the situation in Afghanistan has spiraled out of control, we \u003cem>can\u003c/em> control the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepSwalwell/status/1427306062034608131\">welcome that Afghan refugees\u003c/a> receive here in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. horribly bungled nation-building in Afghanistan. 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We are working quickly to undo the damage of the last four years. It will take some time, but that work is already underway,\" Biden said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden vowed to aim to reach his campaign goal of 125,000 refugee admissions next fiscal year, which begins in October. \"That goal will still be hard to hit. We might not make it the first year. But we are going to use every tool available to help these fully vetted refugees fleeing horrific conditions in their home countries.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"refugee\"]Under current allocations, the United States will be able to accept some 22,000 refugees from Africa, who will make up the largest group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oxfam, the humanitarian organization, praised the Biden administration for raising the cap but criticized both Biden and Trump for time lost in assisting in the global refugee crises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are relieved that the Biden administration has, after a long and unnecessary delay, kept its promise to raise the refugee admissions cap for this year to 62,500,\" Noah Gottschalk, Oxfam America's global policy lead, said in a statement. \"This announcement means the United States can finally begin to rebuild the life-saving refugee resettlement program and welcome the tens of thousands of people who have been left stranded by four years of the Trump administration's xenophobic policies and three months of the Biden administration's inaction.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. 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But we are going to use every tool available to help these fully vetted refugees fleeing horrific conditions in their home countries.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"refugee"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Under current allocations, the United States will be able to accept some 22,000 refugees from Africa, who will make up the largest group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oxfam, the humanitarian organization, praised the Biden administration for raising the cap but criticized both Biden and Trump for time lost in assisting in the global refugee crises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are relieved that the Biden administration has, after a long and unnecessary delay, kept its promise to raise the refugee admissions cap for this year to 62,500,\" Noah Gottschalk, Oxfam America's global policy lead, said in a statement. \"This announcement means the United States can finally begin to rebuild the life-saving refugee resettlement program and welcome the tens of thousands of people who have been left stranded by four years of the Trump administration's xenophobic policies and three months of the Biden administration's inaction.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. 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