Andrea Castillo

At the same time, advocates are urging California leaders to stop transfers from state prisons and jails to ICE custody and exercise public health oversight.

A growing number of immigrants are finding refuge in churches rendered empty by the pandemic

That victory resonated with many girls and women who are Black or Asian or Latina or mixed race.

A Times investigation found that since 2017, at least 265 calls have reported violence and abuse inside California’s four privately run immigrant detention centers. Half of them alleged sex crimes against detainees.

It’s the latest twist in the fight between California leaders, federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials and the corporations that manage the four immigration detention facilities in the state.

Several units at the facility are under quarantine as the number of those testing positive for the coronavirus more than doubled in the span of a few days.

Witnesses said they saw the plane fly straight down into the parking lot, missing nearby buildings.

The shutdown of the Foster Farms plant this week due to coronavirus deaths exposes lapses in one of the most dangerous workplace sectors.

If the rates of new cases and tests performed, percentages of positive tests and hospitalizations, as well as available intensive care beds and ventilators remain at acceptable levels for the next two weeks, K-12 students could resume in-person classes after Labor Day weekend.

Kamala Harris, long influential in California political circles, is now on the ticket as vice president.