Rebecca Plevin reports on equity for the Los Angeles Times. Before joining The Times, she was an editor at the Fresno Bee, where she oversaw the bilingual Central Valley News Collaborative. She previously reported on immigration for the Desert Sun in Palm Springs and covered healthcare for public radio station KPCC-FM (89.3) in Pasadena. She grew up in the Washington, D.C., area and earned her journalism degree from Northwestern University.
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Last month’s contentious town hall in Yucca Valley was among several events across the U.S. in which GOP lawmakers were shouted down while touting the Trump administration’s first month in office.
La protesta, promovida en las redes sociales como una “movilización masiva contra la deportación masiva”, estuvo encabezada por la Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice, con sede en San Bernardino.
The protest, promoted on social media as a “mass mobilization against mass deportation,” was led by the San Bernardino-based Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice.
ACLU attorneys filed a lawsuit Wednesday alleging the Border Patrol’s January raid in Kern County indiscriminately targeted Latino laborers and that the immigrants detained were coerced into signing voluntary deportation agreements.
Advocates on the scene said the Border Patrol raid in Kern County last month indiscriminately targeted Latino farmworkers commuting from the fields and day laborers soliciting work in the parking lots of big box stores.
The Calabasas Landfill in Agoura Hills is one of at least seven Southern California landfills approved to accept waste from the second phase of cleanup from the devastating L.A. fires.
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Community groups are dusting off the rapid-response networks they built during President Trump’s first administration to prepare for immigration sweeps in California’s agricultural heartland.