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Caelyn Pender

@caelynpender
Reporter @mercnews and @eastbaytimes | Previously @business, @kron4news | Always @the_herald | Reach out: [email protected]
San Jose, CA
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  • @caelynpender
    Caelyn Pender
    @caelynpender
    Feb 20, 2025
    Trump has threatened mass deportations of immigrants living in the U.S. without permission. But Trump faces two obstacles to carrying out mass deportations in the Bay Area: lack of detention facilities and assistance of local law enforcement. More here:
    Despite Trump threats, here’s the reason the Bay Area may not see mass deportations
    From mercurynews.com
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    Caelyn Pender
    @caelynpender
    Feb 11, 2025
    When President Donald Trump issued a stop work order for agencies providing services to refugees, nonprofits across the Bay Area were left scrambling to support hundreds of refugees who had arrived in the previous 90 days. Read the full story:
    mercurynews.com
    ‘We will not abandon them’: Bay Area nonprofits scramble to support refugees after federal stop-w...
    The funding that allows local groups to support hundreds of refugees who have already arrived has disappeared.
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  • @caelynpender
    Caelyn Pender
    @caelynpender
    Jul 29, 2024
    California is one of only four states without a minimum marriage age. A bill that would change that — setting the age to 18 — stalled in the Assembly after opposition from Planned Parenthood and the ACLU. Read the full story:
    mercurynews.com
    ‘My entire childhood was taken from me’: Advocates push for ban on child marriage after bill stalls...
    “Child marriage destroys almost every aspect of a girl’s life,” one advocate said, calling it a “nightmarish legal trap.”
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  • @caelynpender
    Caelyn Pender
    @caelynpender
    Jul 19, 2024
    Yesterday, survivors of child marriage gathered outside a South Bay legislator’s office — wearing wedding dresses with chains around their wrists — to urge support for a bill that would set the minimum marriage age in California to 18. Read more:
    mercurynews.com
    Survivors of child marriage hold ‘chain-in’ protest outside South Bay legislator’s office
    The protestors pushed Kalra to support a bill that would ban child marriage in California.
  • @caelynpender
    Caelyn Pender
    @caelynpender
    Jun 10, 2024
    Thirty years before her election as Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum spent four years conducting PhD research in the Bay Area. What did her time here reveal about how she will govern Mexico? I spoke with her colleagues to find out. Read more here:
    What do Claudia Sheinbaum’s years in the Bay Area reveal about how she will govern Mexico?
    From mercurynews.com