Leslie Berestein Rojas

Police are investigating anti-Semitic posters left around several schools in the west San Fernando Valley this week.

A year ago, 87 Iranian refugees bound for the United States who’d been waiting in Austria since 2016 were stranded there indefinitely, after the U.S. denied their applications. They had been waiting to come to the U.S. through a program for religious minorities since before the January 2017 travel ban. Last month, following a court order, about a dozen of them were admitted into the country.

Until about a year ago, plans were moving forward to include a category in the 2020 census referred to as MENA, for "Middle Eastern or North African." It would have allowed a more accurate count of Americans of Arabic, Persian and other Middle Eastern or North African descent, who are now counted only as "white.

The U.S. census does not have a way to categorize those of Americans of Arabic, Persian and other Middle Eastern or North African descent. In previous censuses, many have identified as "white."

While the Trump administration wants to speed up deportations, the government shutdown had the opposite effect, forcing the cancellation of thousands of hearings.

Immigration courts reopened Monday after a five-week government shutdown, during which thousands of hearings were postponed.

In the migrant camps are many children trying to make sense of what’s happening.

Community advocates say the Trump administration may be negotiating with Vietnam to take back thousands of refugees who came to the U.S. decades ago.

The backlog of pending cases in immigration court nationally and in Los Angeles has spiked by nearly 50 percent since the start of fiscal year 2017.

Certain no-vending zones have been designated, and vendors who've long done business in these areas say they're disappointed.

After years of debate, the Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday unanimously approved a plan to legalize street vending, allowing vendors to get permits to operate.

In the Los Angeles area, groups serving Central American immigrants are working with legal advocates to plan how to help any asylum seekers.