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Zachary Benjamin is a student at Dartmouth College, majoring in English. He interned with the San Francisco Public Press during the spring of 2017, investigating both homelessness and the impact of the Trump administration on San Francisco. At Dartmouth, he is involved with the student-run newspaper, The Dartmouth, where he has served as a managing editor as well as a reporter for the news section.
City officials quickly learned that not long after a homeless encampment was cleared, a new one would often take hold in the same area. So they quietly added a team to keep encampments from re-emerging.
A U.S. judge Tuesday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from denying federal funds to San Francisco, Santa Clara and 400 other so-called sanctuary jurisdictions nationwide that do not cooperate with immigration agents seeking to deport undocumented residents.