Even in liberal-leaning California, undocumented immigrants who have worked here for decades are making plans to leave, choosing to depart on their own terms rather than risk being forced out with nothing.
The L.A. Times equity reporting initiative, funded by the James Irvine Foundation, explores the challenges facing low-income workers and the efforts being made to address California’s economic divide.
Even in liberal-leaning California, undocumented immigrants who have worked here for decades are making plans to leave, choosing to depart on their own terms rather than risk being forced out with nothing.
Last month’s contentious town hall in Yucca Valley was among several events across the U.S. in which GOP lawmakers were shouted down while touting the Trump administration’s first month in office.
The protest, promoted on social media as a “mass mobilization against mass deportation,” was led by the San Bernardino-based Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice.
ACLU attorneys filed a lawsuit Wednesday alleging the Border Patrol’s January raid in Kern County indiscriminately targeted Latino laborers and that the immigrants detained were coerced into signing voluntary deportation agreements.
Advocates on the scene said the Border Patrol raid in Kern County last month indiscriminately targeted Latino farmworkers commuting from the fields and day laborers soliciting work in the parking lots of big box stores.
A federal judge found President Trump’s executive orders on DEI likely carry constitutional violations, including against free-speech rights.
The Calabasas Landfill in Agoura Hills is one of at least seven Southern California landfills approved to accept waste from the second phase of cleanup from the devastating L.A. fires.
A San Diego resident filed a class-action complaint claiming Disney is in violation of state law because its Disability Access Service pass excludes some disabled guests.
President Trump’s promises to carry out mass deportations have ramped up fear among immigrants who could be at risk. Experts have warned that could inhibit them from speaking up about health threats on the job, hampering efforts to stop workplace hazards and illnesses.