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Understanding Silicon Valley’s Newfound Activism

02.09.2017
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By Queena Sook Kim and Liz Gannes, KQED News Fix
Silicon Valley may want to change the world, but traditionally it has stayed out of the realm of politics to do it. So how to explain the sudden explosion of political protest against President Trump’s Jan. 27 executive order on immigration? Tony Xu’s metamorphosis provides one answer. Xu is the co-founder of the food delivery startup DoorDash, which is one of the tech companies that signed onto the immigration amicus brief.

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As Healthy S.F. Serves Mostly Spanish Speakers, City Vows to Shield Undocumented Clients

02.09.2017
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When the city’s landmark universal health-care program started serving uninsured residents in 2007, its users were spread throughout the city and most spoke English as their primary language.
Since the federal program known as Obamacare came into force three years later, those demographics shifted dramatically, as tens of thousands of residents have been moved on to Medi-Cal or Covered California, a new city report shows. » Read more

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Trump Suggests Yanking Federal Dollars If California’s a ‘Sanctuary’ — Can He Do That?

02.08.2017
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By Ben Christopher, CALmatters
The burgeoning political standoff between California and the Trump administration took another step into unprecedented terrain this week when, on a pre-Superbowl televised interview, the president denounced California as “out of control” and contemplated cutting its federal funding. The threat came in response to moves by the Democratic-controlled Legislature toward providing additional legal protections for undocumented immigrants and labeling California itself a “sanctuary state.”
But with President  Trump issuing an executive order to defund sanctuary jurisdictions, and San Francisco suing to have the order declared unconstitutional, a number of questions remain — not the least of which is “can the president really defund an entire state?”
Read the complete story at CALmatters.

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California Unions Playing Defense as Trump Presidency Begins

02.07.2017
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By Katie Orr, KQED News Fix
Labor unions in California helped push successful efforts for increasing the minimum wage, mandatory paid sick leave and expanding overtime rules for farmworkers in the state. But the Trump administration has unions playing defense, even in labor-friendly California. The new administration worries Belinda Beeks-Malone. She’s a member of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. She says her biggest concern is actually very basic.

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Housing, Legal Groups Outline Immigrant Rights When Facing U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement  

02.06.2017
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By Laura Wenus, Mission Local
Mission Housing Development Corporation, a nonprofit housing developer, has put its building managers on notice that Immigration & Customs Enforcement agents are not welcome on Mission Housing property. Moreover, the agency, which operates some 35 buildings housing 3,000 tenants, has started a series of workshops to help undocumented immigrants know their rights. Read the complete story at Mission Local.

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Building Trump’s Wall? 6 Things to Know About the U.S.-Mexico Border

02.02.2017
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By Elizabeth Aguilera, CALmatters
1. There already is a “wall” along about a third of the border
The border runs about 1,900 miles from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico. Some sort of barrier — made from concrete, steel mesh and/or barbed wire — currently stands along about a third of it, in areas U.S. Customs and Border Protection deems vulnerable to illicit cross-border activity. Some segments are a solid metal wall; others are composed of various materials and have spaces between barriers or mesh, making those sections less a wall than a fence. Types include:
Primary fencing, typically 18 feet high with steel bollards or pickets to impede pedestrians and vehicles.

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Trump’s Definition of Deportable Called Broad and Vague

02.01.2017
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By Elena Shore, New America Media
One of President Trump’s executive orders on immigration dramatically expanded priorities that determine who can be deported. Immigrant rights advocates and attorneys say that under the expanded definition, nearly any undocumented immigrant could be considered a target. This “reprioritization — non-prioritization really” — of who is deportable is “one of the most troubling aspects of Trump’s executive order on interior enforcement,” according to Melissa Keaney, staff attorney at the National Immigration Law Center. Read the complete story at New America Media.