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Coinciding with the first half of the second Trump era, a Republican and a Democratic legislator introduced an updated version of the DIGNITY Act of 2025: an immigration reform bill described by its authors as “bold, historic, and common sense.” Two weeks after its reintroduction, Florida Republican Congresswoman María...
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Wendy Fry & Sergio Olmos CalMatters Los agentes de la Patrulla Fronteriza trasladaron sus operaciones hacia el norte el jueves 17 de julio, a la capital de California, teniendo como objetivo un Home Depot en Sacramento, esta vez a más de 800 kilómetros de la frontera. El viernes, un juez de...
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Wendy Fry & Sergio Olmos CalMatters Border Patrol agents moved their operations northward Thursday July 17 to California’s capital, targeting a Home Depot in Sacramento, this time more than 500 miles away from the border. On Friday, a judge in Los Angeles ordered federal immigration agents to temporarily stop the “roving patrols” in...
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Ben Christopher CalMatters New bursts of yellow dot the hills of Mendocino County. Smears of burnt orange now span the aqueduct near Bakersfield. A fresh splash of crimson juts east of Chico like a fresh wound. With the release of its fourth and final round of color-coded hazard maps this week,...
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Carolyn Jones CalMatters When the superintendent in San Francisco Unified proposed closing schools recently, parents launched a prolonged — and successful — protest. The uproar may have died down for now, but the issue is likely to erupt at school boards across the state — and some say that’s...
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When President Joe Biden granted Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to nearly half a million Venezuelans in September, his critics argued that it was an incentive for other groups to seek similar relief. The president did the right thing by granting this immigration relief because, in effect, Venezuelans faced serious...
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Peter White Ethnic Media Services Evan Milligan got news of the June 8 SCOTUS decision ordering Alabama to redraw its congressional maps while attending a workshop on the Holocaust in a Berlin church. It was the same church where Martin Luther King famously delivered a sermon in 1964. After years...
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California wants to lure all 4-year-olds to public schools within the next four years. But will there be enough teachers there to meet them? School districts across the state are scrambling to hire an estimated 11,000 teachers and 25,000 teacher assistants to expand transitional kindergarten. It’s a tall order...