Rachel Uranga covers immigration for the Los Angeles Times. She previously reported for the Los Angeles Business Journal, Reuters in Mexico City and Southern California News Group, where she later served on its editorial board. She can be reached at rachel.uranga@latimes.com or via Signal at Uranga.64. She can also be found on Bluesky at racheluranga.bsky.social or X at racheluranga.
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Although President Trump mostly railed against illegal immigration during his campaign last year, his administration has put into motion a broad and unprecedented set of policy changes aimed at substantially limiting legal immigration.
Thursday’s attack has raised concerns about hospital safety, which the union representing the victim says it has been sounding the alarm about ‘for years.’
Santa Barbara Eastside Society, which organizes the decades-old event, announced the cancellation of the this year’s parade due to ‘the threat to our Latino families documented or undocumented.’
With the immigration crackdown, more pregnant women are being detained. The ACLU alleges a woman was shackled while miscarrying and others were denied prenatal care.
A food bank worker shot from behind by an ICE agent last month pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to assault on a federal officer using a deadly or dangerous weapon.
At California City Detention Facility, immigrants file lawsuit over alleged ‘shockingly deficient’ medical care, frigid temperatures, bugs crawling on walls, sewage backups, inadequate food and water, and generally ‘decrepit’ conditions.
A Fullerton police officer told the agent he couldn’t help ‘with someone following or recording him if no crime had occurred.’ Under state law, local police cannot enforce federal immigration law.
El marido maltratador de Carmen llegó a casa borracho una noche del verano pasado.
Carmen’s abusive husband came home drunk one night last summer. He pounded and kicked the door.
Lawyers for Carlos Jimenez said he was in fear after an agent threatened him with chemical spray, then pointed a gun at him.