Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said Tuesday that the city would help shelter immigrant children who have been detained after crossing the border and has begun talks with a federal agency about doing so.
http://www.latimes.com/local/cityhall/la-me-garcetti-shelter-20140716-story.html
Los Angeles Times
McAllen, Tex. — Jose Antonio Vargas, an undocumented Filipino immigrant who is arguably the most high-profile leader of the immigrants’ rights movement, was detained Tuesday morning at a Border Patrol checkpoint in the airport here before he could board a flight to Houston.
Both parties in a transgender student’s lawsuit against California Baptist University claimed a partial victory last week, after a judge ruled that the institution could exclude the student from on-campus classes but not from other campus services that are open to the public.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
When the Chinese School in Irvine opened in the 1970s as a home for teaching the native language and culture, only 30 students filled a handful of rented classrooms.
http://www.latimes.com/local/orangecounty/la-me-asian-oc-20140714-story.html#page=1
Los Angeles Times
UCLA has agreed to pay $500,000, including $350,000 in scholarships, to settle a claim by a prominent African American judge over alleged mistreatment and racial profiling by campus police during a traffic stop last year, officials announced Friday.
http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-ucla-cunningham-20140712-story.html
Los Angeles Times
Dozens of Rialto eighth-graders questioned whether the Holocaust occurred in essays written for an in-class assignment this spring.
Daily News
SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras — Anthony O. Castellanos disappeared from his gang-ridden neighborhood on the eastern edge of Honduras’s most dangerous city, so his younger brother, Kenneth, hopped on his green bicycle to search for him, starting his hunt at a notorious gang hangout known as the “crazy house.”
The New York Times
Six national gay rights groups withdrew support Tuesday for what had been hailed as historic legislation to prohibit workplace discrimination, citing concerns over an exemption for employers who object to homosexuality on religious grounds.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-gay-rights-20140709-story.html
Los Angeles Times
Empty energy drinks and rusted baby formula cans litter the moss-covered banks of the Lempa River near this country’s northern border, marking the trails where, until recently, migrants — some of them children — made their way into Guatemala on a treacherous journey to the United States.
http://www.latimes.com/world/mexico-americas/la-fg-ff-honduras-border-20140709-story.html#page=1
Los Angeles Times
The president of a Christian college in Massachusetts is defending his decision to sign a letter requesting a religious exemption to a forthcoming federal ban on anti-gay discrimination by federal contractors.
The Chronicle of Higher Education