Immigration

Border & Immigration

Department of Homeland Security eyes military and veterans to join immigrant crackdown

Andrew Dyer

The Department of Homeland Security is hiring thousands of deportation agents by offering bonuses, advertising no college required and telling candidates they can help the country return to an idealized past.
Border & Immigration

Experts concerned about white nationalist imagery in ICE recruitment materials

Gustavo Solis

As Immigration Customs Enforcement goes on a historic hiring spree, social media posts and other materials contain coded language, experts say.
Politics

California lawmakers pass bill banning authorities from wearing facial coverings

Trân Nguyễn

The bill would prohibit neck gators, ski masks and other facial coverings for local and federal officers, including immigration enforcement agents, while they conduct official business.
Border & Immigration

Supervisors vote to expand immigrant legal defense program

City News Service

The vote expands the county program that began in 2021 to provide legal representation for migrant children appearing in immigration court.
Border & Immigration

Supreme Court allows immigration agents to resume ‘roving patrols’ in LA, siding with Trump

Wendy Fry and Sergio Olmos

The U.S. Supreme Court lifted limits on immigration sweeps in Southern California, overturning a lower court ruling that prohibited agents from stopping people based on their appearance.
Border & Immigration

Gregory Bovino, head of Los Angeles campaign, shows how immigration agents rack up arrests

Elliot Spagat

The Border Patrol agent leading immigration enforcement in Los Angeles was removed from his position in 2023 under President Joe Biden. Gregory Bovino's remarkable fall and rise illustrates how much immigration policy and tactics have changed under Biden's successor, Donald Trump.
Border & Immigration

California bill would require parents be notified when immigration enforcement is at school

Associated Press

The bill was part of a slate of proposals lawmakers passed Tuesday in an effort to shield families from the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
Border & Immigration

ICE is suddenly showing up in California hospitals. Workers want more guidance on what to do

Ana B. Ibarra and Kristen Hwang

As federal immigration agents appear more frequently at California medical facilities, workers are increasingly concerned about patients’ rights and their own.
Border & Immigration

Arrest near a South Bay high school is latest in a string of immigration enforcements close to schools

Gustavo Solis

Federal agents arrested the father of a Montgomery High student near the school on Aug. 15.
Border & Immigration

ICE arrests parent near elementary school in Encinitas

Gustavo Solis

Encinitas Union School District officials confirmed federal agents arrested the father of a student near Park Dale Lane Elementary School Wednesday morning.