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Deported veteran's pardon gives him hope of returning to U.S., but it's no guarantee
By: Kate Morrissey, Los Angeles Times ~ April 18, 2017 Since learning he’d been pardoned by Gov. Jerry Brown on Saturday, Hector Barajas-Varela, a deported U.S. Army veteran, has more hope ... -
Rueben Martinez, winner of the Innovator's Award at the L.A. Times Book Prizes
By: Agatha French, Los Angeles Times ~ April 13, 2017 “These were my tickets out of the copper mines,” says Rueben Martinez, sweeping his hand over the books stacked on the coffee ... -
After a waiter's demand for 'proof of residency,' familiar echoes of discrimination take on new ...
By: Anh Do, Cindy Carcamo, Ruben Vives and Frank Shyong, Los Angeles Times ~ March 21, 2017 The wary eye of a salesclerk. A snide comment made by a passerby. A ... -
This California Democrat is proposing a tax on millionaires to make public colleges tuition-free for ...
By: Melanie Mason, Los Angeles Times ~ March 20, 2017 To tackle concerns about college affordability, a Democratic legislator is proposing to make public colleges and universities tuition-free for all Californians, and wants to tax ... -
A $1 million deal ends a suit over two agents' role in the fatality of ...
By: Sandra Dibble, Los Angeles Times ~ March 20, 2017 The case of a Tijuana teenager who died screaming and going into convulsions after sipping liquid methamphetamine while in federal ... -
The kids are citizens. The parents are undocumented. What now?
By Jeffrey Kaye, L.A. Times ~ March 12, 2017 http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-kaye-mixed-status-la-families-20170310-story.html Lupita has been having nightmares. She dreams she is being chased. The fear persists during the day, particularly when she ... -
Trump sees himself as a dealmaker and immigration reform as the ultimate deal to deliver
By: Brian Bennett, Los Angeles Times ~ March 1st, 2017 President Trump sees himself as a masterful dealmaker, and he has begun signaling that he believes he can land perhaps the thorniest of ... -
The real goal of Trump's executive orders: Reduce the number of immigrants in the U.S.
By: Brian Bennett, Los Angeles Times ~ Feb. 28, 2017 Behind President Trump’s efforts to step up deportations and block travel from seven mostly Muslim countries lies a goal that reaches ... -
Nazi laws had U.S. roots
By James Q. Whitman, L.A. Times Op-Ed ~ February 22, 2017 The European far right sees much to admire in the United States, with political leaders such as Marine le ... -
The White House has found ways to end protection for 'Dreamers' while shielding Trump from ...
By Brian Bennett and Michael A. Memoli, Los Angeles Times ~ Feb. 16, 2017 http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-daca-20170216-story.html While President Trump wavered Thursday on whether he will stop shielding from deportation people who were brought ...
