By Kristin Wilson~ CNN Politics ~ March 5, 2018 (CNN)Capitol Police arrested 87 protesters demonstrating in support of an expiring immigration program Monday, authorities told reporters, organized around a symbolic deadline for the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. There were two demonstrations on Capitol Hill. Police ...

By Jazmine Ulloa & Liam Dillon ~ LA Times ~ March 7, 2018 A long-simmering battle between the Trump administration and California over immigration boiled over Wednesday, with Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions deriding the state's "irrational, unfair and unconstitutional policies" and Gov. Jerry Brown accusing the federal government of launching ...

By Evan Halper ~ LA Times ~ March 6, 2018 The Trump administration, seeking to force a defiant California to cooperate with its agenda of stepped-up immigrant deportations, went to federal court Tuesday to invalidate three state laws — the administration's most direct challenge yet to the state's policies. Administration ...

By Roy Germano ~ Vice News Unauthorized workers are paying an estimated $13 billion a year in social security taxes and only getting around $1 billion back, according to a senior government statistician. Stephen Goss, the chief actuary of the Social Security Administration (SSA), told VICE News that an estimated 7 ...

By Gustavo Arellano ~ LA Times ~ February 28, 2018 High school students nationwide have vowed to ditch their classrooms on March 14 and call for gun control in the wake of the Parkland, Fla., shootings. Expect massive media coverage and rightful public praise of the protesters as brave, honorable kids doing ...

By David Savage ~ LA Times ~ February 26, 2018 The Supreme Court handed President Trump a significant defeat Monday, turning down the administration's plea for a quick ruling that would have upheld the president's power to end special protections for so-called Dreamers. The court's decision keeps in place a ...

By Michael Gonchar ~ NY Times ~ February 25, 2018   Hundreds of thousands of so-called Dreamers — young adult immigrants who were brought to the United States illegally as children — could face possible deportation unless Congress can find a solution in the coming weeks. In September, President Trump ...

By Antonio Ruiz ~ Palacio Magazine ~ February 28, 2018 Armando Vazquez-Ramos knows a thing or two about activism. He is the Executive Director of the California-Mexico Studies Center and a Professor in the Chicano-Latino Studies Department at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB). For over fifty years, Vazquez-Ramos has ...

By David Luhnow ~ Wall Street Journal ~ March 1, 2018 MEXICO CITY—Hola Code looks like any other coding academy, with twenty-and thirty-somethings seated in computer-lined rows eager to learn software programming and land a good job. But the 22 students at this non-profit startup have unusual life stories: Most ...

By Harold Meyerson ~ LA Times ~ March 1, 2018 Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf holds a press conference to address potential Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity in the area at Fruitvale Village in Oakland, Calif. on Feb. 25. (Randy Vazquez / Associated Press)   Last week, Libby Schaaf, mayor of ...