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A 23-year-old ‘Dreamer’ sues the Trump administration over his deportation to Mexico

By | April 19th, 2017|Immigration|

A 23-year-old man has sued the Trump administration over his deportation to Mexico in February, saying he has permission to live and work in the United States under an Obama-era immigration program that protects young people who were brought into the country illegally as children.

If his claim is correct, it is

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Illegal immigration protesters interrupt ‘Know Your Rights’ forum in El Monte

By | April 17th, 2017|Immigration, Intergroup Relations, Police & Community|

EL MONTE >> A group of protesters, some sporting “Make America Great Again” hats and other clothing in support of President Donald Trump, interrupted a “Know Your Rights” information forum for undocumented immigrants hosted by Congresswoman Grace Napolitano, D-El Monte, Friday night.

The event, held at the city’s Grace T. Black Auditorium, was meant to provide

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This group wants to bar children in the U.S. illegally from attending some schools

By | April 5th, 2017|Education, Immigration|

While President Trump awaits the authorization and funds to construct his promised 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border wall, an organization has proposed a local initiative that would keep immigrants who are in the country illegally out of some Inland Empire schools.

Voters in the Yucaipa-Mesa Joint Unified School District — a district split by San Bernardino and Riverside

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LA mayor defends city’s immigrant detention policy in meeting with Homeland Security chief

By | March 30th, 2017|Immigration, Police & Community|

Mayor Eric Garcetti, who is in Washington, D.C., this week, said he and other mayors spoke to U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security John F. Kelly on Wednesday about the responsibilities of cities to follow the United States Constitution when dealing with immigrants who are in the country illegally.

“One of the things we wanted to underscore

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‘They’re so scared.’ Trump brings heartache, fear in L.A.’s ‘Ellis Island’

By | March 27th, 2017|Immigration, Intergroup Relations|

Past the looming maze of freeway interchanges on the west side of Cesar Chavez Avenue in Boyle Heights sits Biky’s Market, a light blue building with a dusty green awning.

On the days that San Antonio de Padua Church across the street is closed, locals come here to confide their troubles to store

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ICE puts LA jails on ‘non-cooperative’ list for refusing to hold immigrants

By | March 21st, 2017|Immigration, Police & Community|

Several Los Angeles area jails, including one in Van Nuys, made the federal government’s list of facilities where local law enforcement authorities rejected requests to detain undocumented immigrants past their release dates.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Monday released what federal officials described as a “weekly” report that identifies “noncooperative” cities, including some that are

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ICE agents make arrests at courthouses, sparking backlash from prosecutors and attorneys

By | March 15th, 2017|Immigration, Police & Community|

Octavio Chaidez was walking out of a Pasadena courtroom with a client last month when four men jumped up from a hallway bench and rushed toward them.

The men asked his client’s name. Then they pulled out badges.

Read more in the Los Angeles Times.

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Fearful parents sign papers for friends to care for kids in case they’re deported

By | March 13th, 2017|Immigration|

She saw the news of the raids happening around the country and felt helpless. Scared. She had lived here for more than a decade, following her father’s advice: Work hard and stay out of trouble.

But suddenly it felt as though trouble was looking for her. Lorena Napola worried about her four children. What if she

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Here’s the Reality About Illegal Immigrants in the United States

By | March 6th, 2017|Immigration|

There are 11 million of them, the best estimates say, laboring in American fields, atop half-built towers and in restaurant kitchens, and swelling American classrooms, detention centers and immigration courts.

In the public’s mind, the undocumented — the people living here without permission from the American government — are Hispanic, mostly Mexican and crossed the southwestern

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