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If you are having trouble reading this email, [read the online version](. [News Daily Logo]( [Trump Administration Moves to Speed Up Deportations With Expedited Removal Expansion]( [two snails]( NPR reports: The Trump administration said Monday it is expanding fast-track deportation regulations to include the removal of undocumented immigrants who cannot prove they have been in the U.S. continuously for two years or more. The change dramatically expands the ability of the Department of Homeland Security to quickly deport certain immigrants without any of the due-process protections granted to most other people, including the right to an attorney and to a hearing before a judge. It is set to go into effect Tuesday and is the latest escalation of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown. Anand Balakrishnan, senior staff attorney for the ACLU's Immigrant Rights Project, called the policy shift "extremely sweeping," and said it authorizes any Customs and Border Protection officer to determine whether a person has been in the U.S. the requisite amount of time to trigger legal proceedings. "The only way out of that is for the person to affirmatively prove that they've been here for two years or more. To have that evidence on them at all times," he said. "It puts the burden on every noncitizen to prove their continuous presence." Photo: Changes to the expedited removal process allow low-level immigration officers to determine if an undocumented immigrant has been living in the U.S. for less than two years. (Gregory Bull/AP) [Los Gatos Cop Resigns Amid Outcry Over Beating at San Jose State]( [two snails]( An officer with the Los Gatos-Monte Sereno Police Department has resigned amid a controversy over a violent arrest he made while working as a San Jose State University cop. After Johnathon Silva was accused of excessive force in the beating of a suspect three years ago at the campus library, the university fired him, but later was required to reinstate him when Silva won his job back on appeal. Both the arrest and wrangling between the college and Silva over his job were mostly shielded from public view until KQED and the Mercury News reported on records and body-camera videos released earlier this month by San Jose State University under Senate Bill 1421, California's new police transparency law. Los Gatos Town Manager Laurel Prevetti confirmed Monday morning that Silva had resigned, effective this coming Friday, July 26. She declined to comment further. A statement issued by the town later Monday also did not detail the circumstances surrounding Silva's resignation. But the statement noted that Silva — who was hired in September 2018 — was still in his one-year probationary period and that he could "be rejected at any time during the probationary period without cause and without the right to appeal." Photo: A screenshot from body-camera video showing former San Jose State University police Officer Johnathon Silva during a violent arrest on March 17, 2016, in the Martin Luther King Jr. Library. (Via San Jose State University) [Confusion and Tension Between Counties as California Tests New Drug Treatment Program]( Daniel Giles was working in a redwood lumber mill in Humboldt County when his hand got crushed in an accident. He got hooked on the opiate pills the doctor prescribed for pain. Then he graduated to heroin. As he watched his friends overdose, he was afraid he was next. But the drug treatment options there were slim. A friend told him about some great services in San Francisco. "So I came down here. I raised a white flag of surrender, and I just came down here and checked myself in," he says. Giles has been in treatment since last November. San Francisco is one of the first counties in the state to roll out new updates to the Drug Medi-Cal program. Now the state gets more federal money to provide residential treatment for more people. But each county is responsible for running its own program. So while some bigger counties have gone all in, many rural counties, for financial or political reasons, have implemented the changes on a smaller scale; 18 opted out altogether. "That creates a really perverse incentive," says Stanford psychiatry professor Keith Humphreys, warning that some counties could exploit others' willingness to act by doing nothing. [California's Struggle to Get Food Stamps to the Hungry]( CalMatters reports: California, a state with the nation's highest poverty rate, consistently ranks near the bottom when it comes to enrolling low-income people in CalFresh, the state's name for the federal food stamp program. That translates to a lot of federal money that California forsakes each year. Low-income Californians would have received an additional $1.8 billion in 2016 in federal funding if CalFresh reached every eligible person, estimates California Food Policy Advocates, a nonprofit that promotes greater access to food for low-income people. "It's outrageous that so many Californians struggle to put food on the table," said state Sen. Scott Wiener, a San Francisco Democrat. "We're leaving money on the table and people aren't getting the food that they need. It's time to kick into gear, streamline the system, get people signed up and stop with the excuses." Just 72% of eligible Californians were enrolled in CalFresh — the fourth lowest rate in the nation — in 2016, the last year for which national data is available. A bill by Wiener, currently winding through the Assembly, would require the state to enroll 95% of eligible households by 2024, with no county enrolling fewer than 85%. It also requires the state to develop a new metric to better track who's getting CalFresh at a local level and who's not. [Metallica's Secret Deal with Live Nation Reveals How Artists Scalp Their Own Tickets]( You know that frustration when concert tickets you want finally go on sale, but they immediately sell out and are already on StubHub a split second later due to scalpers? New evidence shows you might want to blame the band for scalping their own tickets. A leaked recording of a phone call between a consultant who works with Metallica and a Live Nation executive reveals what's long been talked about behind closed doors: that the promotions giant Live Nation — which also owns Ticketmaster — teams up with artists to resell their own tickets for a higher price on the secondary market through backdoor deals. As Billboard's Dave Brooks and Hannah Karp first reported today, Tony DiCioccio coordinated with Live Nation to place 88,000 tickets from Metallica's WorldWired North American tour on StubHub and other resale sites instead of giving fans a chance to buy them directly. The hush-hush deal was conducted through surreptitious accounts, set up similarly to those of fan clubs and sponsors that receive large ticket quantities in exchange for helping promote tours. When Billboard reporters confronted Live Nation with the leaked phone tape, which was recorded by Vaughn Millette of Live Nation competitor Outback Presents, the company copped to the practice, stating that in 2016 and 2017, "about a dozen artists out of the thousands we work with asked us to do this." Live Nation representatives contend that the practice has dwindled as artists have found new ways to recover lost revenue, such as tiered pricing for premium seats and expensive VIP packages. [1960s Prankster Paul Krassner, Who Coined His Group the 'Yippies,' Dies at 87]( AP reports: Paul Krassner, the publisher, author and radical political activist on the front lines of 1960s counterculture who helped tie together his loose-knit prankster group by naming them the Yippies, died Sunday in Southern California, his daughter said. Krassner died at his home in Desert Hot Springs, Holly Krassner Dawson told The Associated Press. He was 87 and had recently transitioned to hospice care after an illness, Dawson said. She didn't say what the illness was. The Yippies, who included Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman and were otherwise known as the Youth International Party, briefly became notorious for such stunts as running a pig for president and throwing dollar bills onto the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Hoffman and Rubin, but not Krassner, were among the so-called "Chicago 7" charged with inciting riots at 1968′s chaotic Democratic National Convention. By the end of the decade, most of the group's members had faded into obscurity. But not Krassner, who constantly reinvented himself, becoming a public speaker, freelance writer, stand-up comedian, celebrity interviewer and author of nearly a dozen books. "He doesn't waste time," longtime friend and fellow counterculture personality Wavy Gravy once said of him. "People who waste time get buried in it. He keeps doing one thing after another." [Once Nearly Dead as the Dodo, California Condor Comeback Reaches 1,000 Chicks]( [two snails]( AP reports: The California condor, North America's largest bird, once ruled the American Southwest and California's coastal mountains. The vulture-like bird was revered by Native Americans and was believed to contain spiritual powers. Hundreds of years later, its future seemed all but certain. In the 1980s, fewer than two dozen condors were left in the world. Conservationists rounded up the remaining condors and began breeding them in captivity. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, the condor became critically endangered in the 20th century — one classification behind extinct in the wild. The decline came from poaching, habitat destruction and lead poisoning as condors scavenged for carrion containing lead shots. Defying odds, conservation efforts brought the species back and prevented it from joining the dodo in extinction. Now, condor reintroduction celebrates a milestone: Chick No. 1,000 has hatched. Photo: In this May 13 photo provided by the National Park Service, this female California condor spreads her wings. (National Park Service/AP) [The Pigeon Who Forgot to Duck]( [two snails]( KQED cartoonist Mark Fiore: Did you hear about the nesting [pigeon]( that kept a BART escalator shut down? Let's hope the pigeon doesn't [tangle]( with the "inverted guillotine" gates designed to stop fare evasion. In truth, BART escalators are known more for their pigeons than for their reliable service. If you haven't seen them yet, BART's blades of metal are a sight to behold. Today's KQED News Daily was produced by Miranda Leitsinger in San Francisco. Got ideas, stories, comments? Email me: mleitsinger@kqed.org [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [YouTube]( [Donate]( [Manage Subscription]( | [Privacy Policy]( KQED 2601 Mariposa St. San Francisco, CA 94110 Copyright © July 22, 2019 [KQED](. All Rights Reserved.