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Immigration enforcement and protests
Federal funding cuts and immigration policy were two significant issues among many that local educators navigated in 2025.
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Mayor Karen Bass said she made the decision to impose a curfew after people broke into businesses and vandalized properties. -
Undocumented immigrants and mixed-status families are learning how to assert themselves — and prepare for worst-case scenarios. -
People Over Papers is a site that tracks crowd-sourced ICE sightings. As of Monday, the app had received 7.1 million unique visitors.
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The Maryland resident, originally of El Salvador, has been a symbol of the Trump administration's mass deportation policy after mistakenly being sent to an El Salvador prison.
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Federal immigration agents detained 18-year-old Benjamin Marcelo Guerrero-Cruz as he walked the family dog in Van Nuys in August.
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Police footage and court documents show officers injured protesters with less-lethal weapons. Those incidents have not been documented by LAPD, as required by state law.
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The new ruling comes as courts are considering other challenges to his deployment of troops to liberal cities, such as Portland and Chicago.
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High school principals nationwide report concern among students from immigrant families, bullying and absences tied to immigration policy and rhetoric in a new UCLA report.
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The app lets people anonymously share the locations of immigration agents but Apple removed it from its app store under pressure from the Trump administration.
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A new poll shared exclusively with CalMatters adds to a slate of surveys suggesting Californians’ support is waning for Trump’s harshest immigration enforcement policies.
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Police chief says the weapons are needed for de-escalation, but the LAPD has come under scrutiny for its use of force during this summer’s protests.
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It marks the second time that the conservative Orange County city has tried, and failed, to challenge the legality of SB 54.
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The ordinance mirrors a California law that the Trump administration is already challenging in court
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The additional $150,000 in city dollars is earmarked to help immigrant households pay for housing and utilities.
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Huerta faces a misdemeanor charge after showing up at an immigration raid in June.
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