LA immigration court observers sound alarm over lack of due process in legal proceedings Court Watch LA says volunteer observers are needed as a deliberately opaque immigration court system fuels mass deportations and unnecessarily criminalizes non-citizens.

Annual LA May Day rally calls for end to ICE raids. Over 100 pro-immigrant and social justice organizations joined forces and rallied at MacArthur Park on Friday. lapublicpress.org/2026/05/may-...

Migra at the polls: what to do if ICE shows up at LA voting sites. As the Trump administration hints at deploying ICE to polls during midterms, county officials prepare crisis response plans, and voter advocates recommend voting by mail. lapublicpress.org/2026/04/la-e...

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In LA, sonidera cumbia is a counterforce against policing and immigration enforcement Cumbia de Mi Tierra at Human Resources traces how cumbia sonidera culture becomes a form of resistance and gathering space for immigrant communities in LA.

Rent increases outpace LA seniors’ social security checks in affordable housing Tenants are skipping basic necessities like haircuts in order to keep up with 10% rent increases.

Are you ready for the upcoming election, Los Angeles? Your LA Public Press is here to help you stay informed via our Voter Guide. We'll continue updating this page as we get closer to June 2 to make sure you feel prepared to make your voice heard! lapublicpress.org/la-public-pr...

NEW: Trump accepted $37m worth of donated steel for his WH ballroom project from the Luxembourg-based company ArcelorMittal. Days later, the WH made adjustments to Trump's tariffs that could benefit ArcelorMittal.

New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more. They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom. www.theverge.com/news/908401/...

Ousted AG Bondi could still be on the hook to testify in Epstein case

Israel says it plans to expand its invasion of Lebanon and occupy much of the country.

LA is in a budget crisis. Here are your candidates for City Controller LA Controller Kenneth Mejia says he wants transparency and accountability on municipal finances. His challenger says he will scrutinize how every public dollar is spent.

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LA "Unified School District Board of Education voted unanimously [..] to cut ties with any vendors supporting or enabling the mass detention, surveillance, or racial profiling of immigrants by [ICE] or other federal agencies." #California #USA #Surveillance #Education #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

State agrees to retest for lead at homes near Exide where cleanups failed They thought their gardens and lawns were lead-free after the state led cleanups at their homes. But the largest environmental clean up of residential properties in California history hasn’t gone according to plan.

I wrote about LAUSD’s ties to Welligent, which manages students’ health and special education records. The company is a subsidiary of ContinuumCloud, Inc., which is owned by Battery Ventures, a tech investment firm with investments in tech companies doing business with DHS and firms in Israel.

LAUSD says it will cut out vendors with ties to ICE. Educators flag contract connected to defense tech investment firm A California lawmaker said she’s concerned about the Trump administration seeking access to private data to target immigrant families in immigration sweeps

My latest story looks at a proposed California law that would grant the states’s 100k+ undocumented students equal access to campus employment. Currently, they can receive stipends from internships or to be paid under the table at off-campus jobs, but students told me it's not enough.

As war returns to Iran, an Iranian-American artist turns an LA café into a sanctuary of memory and culture Caspian Coast Coffee creates a diasporic bridge between the Caspian Sea and LA as Iranian Americans grapple with conflict and longing for a freer homeland.

Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal, 41, served alongside U.S. Army Special Forces in Afghanistan since 2005. He was somehow fortunate enough to have his family evacuated with him in 2021 when the U.S. abandoned most Afghan allies’ families. ICE grabbed him on Friday and he was dead in under 24 hours.

Haitian woman, 31, dies alone at Pittsburgh bus stop days after ICE released her to the streets far from home to perish. Rest in power, Daphy Michel: migrantinsider.com/p/the-loneso...

Breaking news: A jury convicted people who protested outside an ICE facility in Texas of providing material support to terrorists, and other charges in a closely watched case in which the gov't argued the protesters were "Antifa". www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Billionaires are using a loophole to avoid Medicare taxes. Closing it — and eliminating other ways around the tax for wealthy business owners — could raise more than $250 billion over 10 years for the program. (Published Dec. 2024)

How LAUSD’s Black Student Achievement Plan has persevered despite DEI backlash: Activists and students say BSAP is closing academic gaps by supporting Black students’ learning and lowering chronic absenteeism over the past five years. lapublicpress.org/2026/03/la-l...

Tenant organizers encourage people in LA to host letter-writing parties to help immigrant families stay in public housing. A national coalition is soliciting thousands of public comments to block a proposed federal rule. lapublicpress.org/2026/03/la-i...

Jeffrey Epstein reportedly paid a settlement to a woman who also accused Donald Trump of sexually abusing her. trib.al/8nuoLxF

LA undocumented college students are still fighting for access to campus jobs Students lobbied elected leaders, sued the University of California, and even engaged in a hunger strike to access campus jobs. A proposed state law would give them what they seek.

NEW: 5 Black family homes worth $2.1M burned to the ground The insurance check? $297,000 One sister dead Investors circling the ashes This is what “disaster capitalism” looks like Read what they did to Altadena’s Black families & what that signals for all of us: capitalbnews.org/housing-insu...

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

Just devastating. A landslide triggered by heavy rains appears to have killed over 200 people, including 70 children, at a mine in the DR Congo. This is about a month after a *different* landslide killed over 200 people at the same mine www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

“No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.” www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...

"The Trump administration wants to spend $220 million to arm immigration agents with about 17,800 new Tasers, a massive increase from the current 4,300 in the field. ICE plans to buy the Tasers and unlimited cartridges & to obtain training for the agents." https://bit.ly/3MFXX5M

“FUCK ICE” is Peyote-stitched in 30,000 beads on LA utility poles by Native artist. Kimberly Dawn Robertson’s “bead bombs” fasten Native feminist resistance to service poles, reflecting the city back to itself.

Hello! I’m the reporter who has been tracking citizens detained by immigration agents. And last night, I noticed something: A lot of them were at the State of the Union, including a number of whom I’ve written about. Their stories should be known:

New from me: The Riverside County Sheriff’s Office is investigating alleged election regularities.

An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU

Let us know how your loved ones are doing and what’s going through your head as you see the violence unfolding. 📣

An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.

In LA neighborhoods hardest hit by ICE, residents step up when local leaders won’t The 91402 zip code in the San Fernando Valley was the LA County area most targeted for immigration enforcement last year.

After months of ICE raids, day labor center at LA Home Depot repels threat of eviction. The Cypress Park Day Labor Center, which provides resources to people who stand outside Home Depot looking for work, has operated for at least 27 years. lapublicpress.org/2026/02/ice-...

"[H]is asthma went untreated for days and he witnessed people overdose, develop fungus on their feet from dirty shower stalls and be served uncooked food." "It was like a horror movie." #California #USA #Incarceration #Food #Healthcare #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

LA County Supervisors reject stronger eviction protections for tenants affected by ICE. The Board failed to bring a motion to a vote that would have allowed tenants to owe up to three months of rent before being evicted. lapublicpress.org/2026/02/la-c...

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

NEW: ICE has a plan to lease offices across the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. Today, @wired.com is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship. Vital work from @leahfeiger.bsky.social that I'm proud to publish.

This morning at @propublica.org, we published a pair of stories about the children held at the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. www.propublica.org/article/life...

Immigrants at ICE’s Adelanto detention center denounce lack of medical care and “inhumane” conditions. A federal lawsuit by immigrants detained at the ICE facility alleges they’re treated like “dogs in cages” and denied food and water. lapublicpress.org/2026/02/la-i...

I’m heartbroken reading these letters and seeing the children’s drawings which remind me of my little nieces and nephews

Organizers have collected 14 lotion bottles, two deodorant bottles, and one AA Battery that detainees have thrown over the fences with notes attached to them. The full story: lataco.com/captive-loti... By Aisha Wallace-Palomares