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Bush adminis- with U.S.-based family members, if children who seek to stay in U.S. with relatives legal center helps them secure legal tration, the William Wilberforce possible. During this process, they relief, which can range from asy- Trafficking Victims Protection are housed in ORR shelters, which by Elena Kadvany lum to a special status for juveniles Reauthorization Act guarantees are located not just at the border but who have been abused, abandoned an automatic legal hearing to un- across the country (including one hough current debate over touched down locally years ago. or neglected by one or both parents. accompanied children who are across the San Francisco Bay in what to do with the tens of Since 2011, Community Legal It is a federal anti-trafficking not from Mexico or Canada and Pleasant Hill, near Walnut Creek). T thousands of children surg- Services of East Palo Alto has law, passed in 2008 with support who have crossed the border il- Community Legal Services ing across the U.S. border from served as a resource for Central from both sides of the aisle, that legally. The Act also directs them attorney Helen Beasley, who fo- violence-torn countries like El American children fleeing intense ensures unaccompanied minors to be placed under the care of the cuses on juvenile immigration Salvador, Guatemala and Hon- gang violence and unstable family have a chance to stay in the Unit- federal Department of Health and cases, said that despite the sudden duras largely focuses on Wash- situations with the goal of reach- ed States rather than be deported Human Services’ Office of Refu- nationwide interest in the issue, ington and the cities where the ing family members in East Palo immediately. gee Resettlement (ORR), which is youth are being housed, the issue Alto, Redwood City and surround- One of the final legislative acts charged with reuniting the children (continued on page 13) UTILITIES Palo Alto eyes restrictions on water for fountains, sidewalks City looks to respond to state directive to lower water usage by Gennady Sheyner esponding to a statewide emergency regulations that would call for water conserva- address the water shortages. R tion at a time of severe According to the National Inte- drought, Palo Alto is preparing grated Drought Information Sys- to ban the use of potable water in tem, nearly 80 percent of the state fountains and on driveways. was under “extreme” drought The prohibition, which the City conditions at the end of June, the Veronica Weber Council is set to consider on Aug. state’s resolution notes. 4, was proposed in response to a So far, Palo Alto has achieved July 15 decision by the State Wa- water conservation through car- ter Resources Control Board to rots rather than sticks. The city’s adopt emergency regulations. The water usage between February and Emergency responders aid an elderly driver who drove his car over the curb on University Avenue, regulations call for water suppliers June this year was 17 percent low- hitting six people, one who was critically injured, just outside of University Cafe on July 31. to initiate contingency plans that er than during the same period in include restrictions like the ones 2013. The department’s initiatives Palo Alto is now considering. to encourage conservation include DOWNTOWN The statewide emergency regu- doubling of rebates for outdoor ir- lations, which take effect Aug. rigation efficiency; “home water 1, prohibit all Californians from reports” that compare residents’ “using potable water for activi- usage; water metering that offers Six injured after car crashes ties such as driveway washing, real-time data; and landscape wa- irrigation that results in runoff, or ter “budgets” for customers with in decorative fountains (with cer- large irrigation operations, ac- into downtown Palo Alto cafe tain limited exceptions),” a report cording to the report. from the Utilities Department The new ban on using potable Witnesses: Elderly driver accelerated onto sidewalk while trying to park states. The state also requires wa- water in fountains, driveways or by Elena Kadvany, Sue Dremann and Gennady Sheyner ter suppliers to restrict outdoor sidewalks will kick off the second irrigation. Violations could result of four stages in the city’s Water ne person was critically READ MORE ONLINE The driver was one of six in penalties of up to $500 per day Shortage Contingency Plan (with injured and five others PaloAltoOnline.com people injured. The five victims for individuals and larger fines for stage four addressing the most se- O suffered more minor were taken to Stanford Hospital water agencies that don’t imple- vere conditions). Stage II aims for injuries during the Thursday For the latest on this story, go to for treatment. The driver was in- ment the restrictions. a reduction of 10 to 20 percent in lunch hour when a silver Nissan PaloAltoOnline.com. terviewed by officers Thursday The state board’s July procla- water supply, through a stepped- crashed into University Cafe in afternoon but was not arrested mation followed several execu- up outreach effort and “adoption downtown Palo Alto. park, his Nissan Versa moving or cited at that time, police said. tive orders by Gov. Jerry Brown of some additional water use re- According to police Agent at about 5 miles per hour, when One eyewitness, James Fowl- aimed at urging conservation. In strictions.” Marianna Villaescusa, a car he accidentally hit the accelera- er, told the Weekly that he was January, Brown declared a state Stage III includes higher water driven by a man in his 90s hit tor instead of the brake, Villaes- standing outside the cafe with of emergency and proclaimed that rates and penalties for violations several people on the sidewalk cusa said. his wife and about to go inside the state is experiencing record dry of water-usage restrictions. Stage and sitting at a table outside The car jumped the curb, hit- when he peripherally saw the conditions, with 2014 projected to IV would introduce “allocations the restaurant at 271 University ting another car and slamming car accelerate. be the driest year on record. He of water for each customer.” Nei- Ave.