How will Linda Lopez run L.A.'s Office of Immigrant Affairs with Donald Trump in power?

Dec. 7, 2016 5 AM PT

In Sacramento, they’re crafting bills to protect otherwise law-abiding undocumented immigrants from any Trump administration mass deportation plans. Janet Napolitano, the president of the UC system, has pledged to defend any students here illegally — and will make sure that campus cops know it. Cities like Chicago, New York and San Francisco have done the same, some of them for years. In Los Angeles, Mayor Eric Garcetti’s three-year-old Office of Immigrant Affairs is finding its services even more in demand, and the woman who runs it, Linda Lopez, is figuring out what the new administration will mean to her work.

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