Ad campaign will target Trump allies for looming Medicaid cuts
With the Trump administration slashing budgets and threatening to revoke tax-exempt status for nonprofits, some Southern California social justice organizations have gone into a defensive crouch, hoping to wait out…
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Newsom pardons Cambodian immigrant facing deportation, among other Easter clemency actions
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday offered clemency to 25 felons, including a Cambodian immigrant facing deportation, in a series of pardons and commutations issued before the Easter holiday. The governor…
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More immigrants self-deport rather than risk being marched out like criminals
Celeste traveled from Peru to the U.S. two decades ago, then a young woman of 19, and overstayed her tourist visa. She had studied graphic design back home but, unable…
Read More »Senator Chris Van Hollen Unable to Secure Meeting With Deported Immigrant in El Salvador
Senator Chris Van Hollen, a Democrat, said he had not yet been allowed to see Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran immigrant who was mistakenly deported by the Trump administration…
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IRS official resigns after agreement to share immigrant tax information with ICE – JURIST
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS)—the US federal service responsible for collecting taxes for the government—acting commissioner Melanie Krause resigned on Tuesday over a new Trump administration agreement that allows the…
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California lawmakers take steps to shield immigrants from Trump policies
SACRAMENTO — California legislators announced several bills to protect the state’s immigrants being targeted by President Trump’s aggressive new policies, including federal enforcement raids at schools, hospitals and religious buildings. Members of…
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Godspeed your recovery, Pope Francis. We need your voice more than ever
For the past month and a half, the world has waited for what seemed like the inevitable passing of Pope Francis. The spiritual and titular leader of 1.3 billion Catholics…
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What the removal of an O.C. couple says about mass deportations
Nelson and Gladys Gonzalez lived in the United States illegally for decades, working hard and raising a family while regularly checking in with Immigration Customs and Enforcement as part of…
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Trump Administration Revives Detention of Immigrant Families
For decades, detaining undocumented immigrant families has been a contentious enforcement tactic. Critics of “family detention” have said young children suffer in confinement. Proponents say that locking families up while…
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What has a 2018 law done to ‘Trump-proof’ California on immigration?
WASHINGTON — Two days after Donald Trump won the 2016 election, California state Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León canceled a flight to Germany and called his executive staff for a…
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Border Patrol sued for tactics used in Kern County immigration raid
ACLU attorneys representing the United Farm Workers and five Kern County residents have sued the head of the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Border Patrol officials, alleging the Border…
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US attorneys to drop lawsuit accusing SpaceX of immigrant discrimination – JURIST
US Department of Justice (DOJ) attorneys have asked a federal court in Texas to end a temporary pause on a case accusing Elon Musk’s tech company SpaceX of discriminating against…
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Venezuelans sue Trump administration for ending legal protections
WASHINGTON — Venezuelans with temporary legal protections have sued the Trump administration over its decision to strip about 350,000 immigrants of their status by April 7. Temporary Protected Status allows people to…
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Trump administration cuts off legal aid program for unaccompanied immigrant children – JURIST
The Trump administration abruptly cut off legal aid for unaccompanied immigrant children on Tuesday, telling government-funded attorneys across the country they should immediately stop their work. The stop-work order effectively…
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Trump halts legal representation for 26,000 immigrant children
The Trump administration has halted a program that provided lawyers to nearly 26,000 immigrant children, some too young to read or speak, who are or were under the custody of…
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Bannon Calls Musk a ‘Parasitic Illegal Immigrant’
Stephen K. Bannon, President Trump’s former White House chief strategist, has renewed his feud with Elon Musk, the richest man in the world and a top Trump adviser, calling him…
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Immigrant rights activists vow to disrupt ICE raids in California
A band of largely left-leaning organizations has vowed to disrupt immigration enforcement operations in Southern California, as fear grows that officials will execute large-scale raids. Leaked documents provided to The…
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Could Trump try to deport immigrant LAPD officers with DACA status?
Will a badge and gun be enough to shield someone from potential deportation under President Trump’s immigration crackdown? That is the question facing the Los Angeles Police Department and the…
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L.A.’s Asian immigrant communities prep for raids, brace for deportations
Los Angeles County’s sizable Asian immigrant communities are bracing for disruption and heartache as rumors swirl of mass deportations to be carried out under sweeping new orders issued by the…
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Immigrants may be sent to shuttered ‘rape club’ prison, email says
The Trump administration appears to be considering a plan to send immigrants facing deportation to a recently shuttered federal prison so plagued by sexual abuse that it was known as…
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