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	Podcast:		KQED’s The California Report
	Episode:		Yuba County Jail ICE Detainees to Strike
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:07:56
	Publish Date:		2019-02-08 09:43:20
	Description:		Yuba County Jail ICE Detainees to Strike In Marysville, north of Sacramento, migrants are being held at the Yuba County Jail by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Detainees there are planning a hunger strike to protest what activists say are long-standing problems like inadequate medical care. This comes after recent hunger strikes at ICE facilities in San Diego and El Paso, Texas, where some striking migrants are being force fed. Reporter: Farida Jhabvala-Romero Congressional Hearing Asks Why Family Separations Still Happening at the Border Since June of last year, when a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to stop separating immigrant children from parents at the border, hundreds more families have been split apart. Members of a congressional oversight hearing Thursday found out why. Reporter: Polly Stryker, Julie Small Sen. Kamala Harris Reintroduces Nationwide Farmworker Overtime Bill California has some of the strongest rules in the country when it comes to overtime pay for farmworkers. Now our state could become a model for the rest of the nation. On Thursday Sen. Kamala Harris reintroduced a bill that would set the same overtime pay for farm workers nationwide. Reporter: Laura Tsutsui Lawmakers Call for Audit of Student Homeless Data In order to help homeless students, schools have to know they exist. But thousands of schools in California haven’t identified a single unhoused student. Now, lawmakers are crying foul. Reporter: Vanessa Rancano
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