WASHINGTON — To defend an increasingly unpopular immigration crackdown during his State of the Union speech, President Trump highlighted the victims of crimes perpetuated by undocumented immigrants. But as Democrats…
Read more Trump defends immigration crackdown at State of Union as approval ratings plummetAfter some 150 students walked out of Redlands schools early this month in support of immigrants they were dealt an unexpected consequence: a temporary suspension of school privileges…
Read more Student anti-ICE walkouts: Some officials praise activism, others dole out detentionWelcome to Black History Month, 2026 style. President Trump posted a video Thursday to his social media site that contains animated images depicting former President Obama and First…
Read more Commentary: Yes, Trump’s video showing the Obamas as apes is racist. But it’s also about the electionThe latest nauseant from MAGA types pretending to care about children was dished up last week, but amid the internment of kindergartners, the slashing of funds to catch…
Read more Commentary: MAGA launches another ‘save the children’ campaign targeting LGBTQ+ familiesLos Angeles Archbishop José H. Gomez celebrated what he called a “Mass for Peace” at Our Lady of the Angels on Wednesday, stopping just short of a direct…
Read more L.A. archbishop holds ‘Mass for Peace’ as students protest Trump immigration policiesThe U.S. Department of Homeland Security surged 3,000 federal immigration agents to Minnesota — a state more than a thousand miles from the southern border that’s not known…
Read more Why is ICE in Minneapolis? JD Vance wrong on reasonFederal immigration authorities removed a Maryland father to El Salvador on Tuesday despite two court orders saying not to.During an emergency hearing Thursday at federal court in Baltimore,…
Read more ICE deports Maryland father despite ‘do not remove’ ordersThere are about 98,000 immigrants from Somalia living in the U.S., according to the Census Bureau’s latest 2024 estimates. About 83% are naturalized U.S. citizens.This comes as the…
Read more Here’s how many Somalis are in the U.S. as Trump administration ends protected statusAn Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a Minneapolis driver on Wednesday during the Trump administration’s latest immigration crackdown on a major American city — a…
Read more ICE officer fatally shoots Minneapolis woman amid immigration crackdownA federal officer shot and killed a Minneapolis motorist when she allegedly tried to run over law enforcement officers during an immigration crackdown in the city, authorities said…
Read more ICE agent shoots and kills a woman during the Minneapolis immigration crackdownWASHINGTON — More than a quarter of federal immigration judges in California have been fired, retired or quit since the start of the Trump administration. The reduction follows a trend…
Read more California has lost more than a quarter of its immigration judges this yearWASHINGTON — Sophia Nyazi’s husband, Milad, shook her awake at 8 a.m. “ICE is here,” he told her. Three uniformed Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were downstairs at the family’s…
Read more After National Guard shooting, administration cracks down on legal immigrationCalifornia will cancel 17,000 commercial driver’s licenses that had been issued to immigrants after officials said they extended beyond the date the drivers were allowed to work in…
Read more California to revoke 17,000 commercial driver’s licenses issued to immigrantsFernando Gomez Ruiz had been eating at a lunch truck outside Home Depot when agents arrested him and 10 others in early October. The diabetic father of two,…
Read more Why California’s newest detention facility faces federal lawsuit over medical neglect and ‘punitive’ unsanitary conditionsWASHINGTON — Late last month, an immigrant seeking asylum in the U.S. came across social media posts urging her to pay a new fee imposed by the Trump administration before…
Read more Asylum seekers face deportation over failure to pay new fees — before being notifiedOn a recent Sunday morning in Provo, Utah, a small congregation of about two dozen people gathered in a church hall for ward services. At the front of…
Read more Latino members of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints seek aid as ICE raids escalateHouse Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., escalated his blame of Democrats for the federal government’s ongoing shutdown. “As a condition for ending the Democrat shutdown, Democrats want hospitals paid…
Read more Do Democrats want hospitals paid extra to treat immigrants?California Sen. Alex Padilla is among the highest-ranking Latinos in U.S. politics today, but it took a pair of handcuffs to make him famous. How’s that for a…
Read more Commentary: They cuffed and tackled Sen. Alex Padilla. But he sees a bigger crisis aheadFederal agents grabbed and shoved journalists in a hallway outside a New York City immigration court on Tuesday, sending one to the hospital in the latest clash between…
Read more Federal agents grab and shove journalists outside NYC immigration court, sending one to hospitalIn a darkened airport hotel ballroom room, a bevy of California Democrats sought to distinguish themselves from the crowded field running for governor in 2026. It was not…
Read more Four takeaways from California’s first gubernatorial debate since Kamala Harris said she wasn’t running