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Immigration enforcement and protests
Full coverage of reaction in Southern California to Trump's immigration policies.
Organizers rallied at MacArthur Park and other events around Southern California under the banner, “Solo El Publo Shuts it Down.”
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Undocumented immigrants and mixed-status families are learning how to assert themselves — and prepare for worst-case scenarios. -
Broadly speaking, California law requires minors to attend school, but it also protects students’ rights to speak out. -
Video footage can be used to keep government employees accountable.
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Experts say preparing a plan with your family is essential in the event of an emergency. Here’s how to coordinate childcare, find legal services and gather vital documents. -
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Twenty-nine people have died in ICE custody since October. Facilities in Texas and California are the deadliest.
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Los Jornaleros Del Norte play protest songs whose lyrics reflect the hopes and struggles of undocumented workers as they evade immigration agents patrolling the streets.
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Jonathan Caravello, a philosophy lecturer at Cal State Channel Islands, was arrested while protesting a raid at a licensed cannabis farm in Ventura county last summer.
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Jonathan Caravello was arrested while protesting a raid at a licensed cannabis farm in Ventura County.
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Publicly available data also shows the number of people being held at the facility near Victorville has tripled since last fiscal year.
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New federal data shows ICE arrested more than 14,000 people in the L.A. area in 2025.
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He is the fifth person to have died either while in custody at the facility or from health complications linked to its conditions
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The state will audit three of its federally-funded fusion centers amid concerns about violations of civil liberties and privacy.
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Andrea Pitzer, who’s studied concentration camps worldwide, reflects on the utility of using the phrase to describe what’s happening in the U.S.
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Resistance in both Democratic and Republican cities points to broader unease with the direction of immigration enforcement.
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An inconspicuous federal document reveals the arrests are required by a formal government policy. Attorneys say it runs afoul of government rules.
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"The first thing that you do when you give an agent a gun and a badge and the authority over American people is to make sure that they follow the Constitution, period."
