Melissa Gomez is an enterprise reporter on the State Team who joined the Los Angeles Times in 2018. She reports on a range of news and issues, with a special focus on the Central Valley. She previously covered education and the 2020 presidential campaign at The Times. A native Floridian, she graduated from the University of Florida.
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Glendale announces it will end its agreement to hold immigration detainees captured by ICE amid mounting friction over raids in Los Angeles.
El sábado por la mañana estalló un enfrentamiento que duró horas entre manifestantes y agentes de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de Estados Unidos en un Home Depot en Paramount.
An hours-long standoff between protesters and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents erupted Saturday morning near a Home Depot in Paramount.
Glendale City Council members defended the contract this week, saying the 2007 agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement is in compliance with state law.
Trump’s revoking of Chinese students’ visas is the latest in a effort to quickly remake higher education in America, a controversial project that has roiled academia.
The Department of Homeland Security is asking to dismiss its own deportation cases, after which agents arrest immigrants as they leave the courtroom and pursue expedited removals, which require no hearings before a judge.
St. John’s Community Health launched its home visitation program after learning that hundreds of patients were skipping appointments because they’re afraid of getting caught up in federal immigration raids.
In Monterey County, growers are building lodging for thousands of guest workers coming in on H-2A visas. Some advocates say it is an injustice for the farmworkers who’ve lived here for years, many in substandard housing.
The faithful in Los Angeles, America’s most Catholic city, were delighted — and a little stunned — to learn a Chicago-born priest with deep roots in Peru had been elected to lead the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics.
Homeland Security officials have said welfare checks aim to ensure that unaccompanied children “are safe and not being exploited, abused, and sex trafficked.”