Ever since President Trump was elected, people have been asking Pablo Alvarado:
“If I get detained, you will protect me, right? You will help me so I don’t get deported?”
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Israeli police on Thursday arrested a 19-year-old man suspected of phoning in a series of bomb threats against Jewish community centers across the United States.
The wave of threats prompted community center evacuations and stoked concern among American Jews about an upsurge in anti-Semitism. The man also is suspected of calling in a bomb threat against
Black people living in Los Angeles County have been more likely than the rest of the population to remain unemployed or to drop out of the workforce altogether in the wake of the 2007-09 recession, according to a new report conducted by UCLA.
Black workers have lost blue-collar jobs at about the same rate as whites
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
California Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye asked the Trump administration on Thursday to stop immigration agents from “stalking” California’s courthouses to make arrests.
“Courthouses should not be used as bait in the necessary enforcement of our country’s immigration laws,” she wrote in a letter to Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions and Homeland Security Secretary
Anti-Semitic vandalism and white-nationalist propaganda are on the rise at colleges nationally, according to a recent report by the Anti-Defamation League. And in recent weeks, bomb threats at Jewish community centers and vandalism of Jewish cemeteries have been followed by a series of culture-war clashes on college campuses. Here is a collection of the latest reports
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.
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When Stephanie Jorge reported to a federal jail in Brooklyn last year to begin a three-month sentence for bank larceny, she brightly announced that she was pregnant.
The correctional officers showed little interest. Later, on the occasions she began to hemorrhage, the officers would typically refuse to call an ambulance until they could summon three officers
In Inside Higher Ed survey, most think campus race relations are good or excellent.
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