February 10, 2012, 12:05 AM
In an unusual twist, a federal appellate court this week pressed the Obama administration on whether the government will follow its own highly publicized policy of using discretion when reviewing deportation cases. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 ruling Monday involving five...
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November 13, 2011, 12:05 AM
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – When longtime Los Angeles resident Wilberle Vereus arrived in Haiti after being deported from the United States, he was taken to the Petionville jail above Port-au-Prince and placed in a 20-by-10-foot cell along with three other deportees and a group of Haitian...
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November 1, 2011, 12:05 AM
Asian Americans overall obtain high levels of formal education, but an analysis of recent census data reveals large disparities between Asian American ethnic groups. The percentage of high school graduates is as high as 96 percent among Taiwanese Americans and as low as 61 percent among Hmong...
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October 26, 2011, 12:05 AM
Federal courts in California have been more likely to allow immigrants to remain in the United States in recent years, despite a widespread perception that federal officials are cracking down and sending more people back to their native countries. During the first two years of the Obama...
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October 11, 2011, 12:05 AM
The economics of California’s sobriety checkpoints will change next year, as Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation intended to reduce the number of cars police impound at roadway operations. More than 100 city and county law enforcement agencies in the state run checkpoints. The operations...
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July 1, 2011, 12:05 AM
As many as 220,000 uninsured children in California will be excluded from health care reform programs because of their or their parents' immigration status, according to an analysis released yesterday. When fully implemented in 2014, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act...
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April 18, 2011, 12:05 AM
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to have all local jails use electronic fingerprint scans to check the immigration status of everyone they book. The “Secure Communities” program, which is installing the federal immigration database coast to coast, will be mandatory...
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April 13, 2011, 12:05 AM
In just two years, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has installed the federal immigration database in all of California’s 58 counties. The expansion hasn’t been voluntary. Most county law enforcement agencies began scanning suspects’ fingerprints to check their...
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March 15, 2011, 12:05 AM
While the Arizona law requiring employers to verify worker authorization has led to fewer illegal immigrants in the state, it has also pushed undocumented workers into informal or underground employment, raising the possibility of other economic and societal costs, according to a report...
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March 3, 2011, 12:06 AM
California's participation in a federal immigration enforcement program may endanger undocumented victims of domestic violence, according to groups that work with abuse victims. Last week, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced that all 58 California counties had been linked to...
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February 22, 2011, 12:05 AM
A researcher examining cancer rates among California Latinos and Asians who were born in and out of the U.S. reached conclusions that reveal two very different versions of the American dream. For Latino males born in the U.S., rates of liver cancer are more than double those of their...
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February 16, 2011, 12:06 AM
Police and sheriff's departments are spending local taxpayer money to enforce federal immigration laws, according to the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California. In a report released today, titled “Costs and Consequences: The High Price of Policing Immigrant Communities...
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January 12, 2011, 12:05 AM
The U.S. Border Patrol is waiting before lifesaving buoys installed in the All-American Canal are declared a success – but in the months since the devices were put in place, nobody has died in the fast-moving waters separating Mexico and California. In September, the Imperial Irrigation...
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January 5, 2011, 12:05 AM
Historically, immigrants have fueled the growth of the nation, and a recent report by the U.S. Census Bureau pulled together some telling stats about the changing face of immigration in the United States. In some California counties, the data shows, the percentage of foreign-born residents is 2.5...
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December 10, 2010, 12:05 AM
California's population grew less than 1 percent this past fiscal year, continuing a modest growth trend, according to new state estimates released yesterday. The state added 350,174 residents between July 2009 and July 2010, bringing the total population to more than 38.8 million, the...
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