Black immigrants in Los Angeles County confront racism and the fear of being deported as they struggle with the economic reality of living in the high-cost region, according to participants in a community forum.
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority wouldn’t say it. Justice Elena Kagan made sure it’s on the record anyway.
The Supreme Court rejected President Trump’s bid to end birthright citizenship by executive order, reaffirming the longstanding constitutional principle that almost all children born in the United States are U.S. citizens.
Immigrant rights advocates are urging the Inglewood City Council to pass a local sanctuary ordinance aimed at blocking cooperation with federal agents ahead of international sporting events in the Los Angeles area.
There are sounds you never forget once you have heard them. The slow crunch of gravel beneath a sheriff’s boots outside a voting station. The sound of a shotgun being cocked. The silence of Black citizens standing in line, afraid to make eye contact. The sound of a church mother whispering, “Baby, if I don’t come home tonight, tell your daddy I tried.”
A bill authored by Sen. Akilah Weber Pierson (D-San Diego) aimed at reforming California’s gang databases — primarily the CalGang system — has advanced out of the Senate Public Safety Committee with a 5-1 vote.
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When Aurelle Garner stepped out of her car one summer evening and saw a group of youths marching down her street, her stomach dropped.
Federal and state policy changes will roll out over the next few months that may impact some people in San Diego County who receive CalFresh or Medi-Cal benefits. The first of these changes starts April 1.
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As California’s 2026 gubernatorial contest takes shape, candidates are offering competing visions for addressing some of the state’s most persistent challenges, including housing costs, homelessness, public safety, education and economic inequality.
There is a lie moving through America. It creeps through congressional halls and across television screens, whispering that undocumented immigrants live freely off the sweat of the American taxpayer. It is a lie told by those who know better and repeated by those who are too ignorant—or too hateful—to care. And while the lie spreads, the truth is being brutalized on the streets.
A federal agent fired at a moving vehicle in Southern California after the driver refused to roll down his window during an immigration stop and sped off, the Department of Homeland Security said.
If you want to create a perfect storm at Covered California and other Affordable Care Act marketplaces, all you have to do is make enrollment more time-consuming, ratchet up the toll on consumers’ pocketbooks, and terminate financial aid for some of the youngest and healthiest enrollees.
Donald Trump’s massive new spending measure, known by Democrats as the “One Big Ugly Bill,” is set to dismantle central pillars of the American social safety net and create the most expansive immigration enforcement system the country has ever seen.
Elected officials and grassroots organization leaders are speaking out against recent federal immigration raids they are calling “immoral,” and pledging their support for immigrants impacted by the intensified enforcement efforts in Los Angeles and across California.
The nation’s democratic state attorney generals are conferring with one another over these unprecedented tense and escalating migrant raids conducted by ICE agents, the FBI, DEA, and other federal and local authorities. Migrant captures happen in hardware stores, construction sites, immigration courts, farms, vacation resorts, and hotels. The most recent chaos surrounds aggressive ice raids on Mexicans, Brazilians, and others who are said to be illegal in this nation by overstaying a visa or being undocumented.
The Trump administration has reportedly removed at least 500 migrant children from their homes across the United States and placed them into government custody, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.
Last week, when Pres. Donald Trump sent federal troops into Los Angeles and escalated ICE raids across Southern California, Assemblymember Tina McKinnor (D-Inglewood) didn’t stay silent. As chair of the Los Angeles County Legislative Delegation, she led more than 30 lawmakers in a Capitol press conference denouncing what she called “unconstitutional actions.”
