By JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS, l.a. times op-ed ~ august 13, 2015 http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0814-vargas-illegal-alien-20150813-story.html "RESIDENT ALIEN." Those two words, in all caps, adorn the plastic-covered green card that my grandfather, a naturalized U.S. ...

By Karthick Ramakrishnan, Allan Colbern http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0624-ramakrishnan-state-citizenship-20150624-story.html While the federal government stalls on immigration reform, some states have begun acting on their own. Much attention in the last decade has focused ...