| ‘The perfect storm … for food insecurity’: Proposed SNAP cuts worry Food for People – Times-Standard |
| According to the Cal fresh Data Dashboard, 29,997 people in Humboldt County received SNAP in April 2024, or around a fifth of the population. This figure has increased since 2018. “We are very concerned about the SNAP cuts,” said Carly Robbins, executive director of Food for People, Humboldt County's food bank. [Article] |
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| Los Angeles ICE raids and protests: What to know | Vox |
| Mass protests in Los Angeles began last week after US Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducted raids throughout the city, targeting places like Home Depots, car washes, and the garment district. [Article] |
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| OC Supervisors Don’t Answer Calls For Action Against DA For Harassment of Female Prosecutors |
| When former prosecutor Tracy Miller won a $3 million judgement against The County of Orange last week because of how OC District Attorney Todd Spitzer harassed her when she was the most senior woman in the DA’s office, she called on county supervisors to censure, sanction, or even dismiss Spitzer. [Article] |
| by , Voice of OC. 2025-06-12 |
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| What the closure of CHLA's trans health care center means for trans youth | LAist |
| Children’s Hospital Los Angeles — one of the country’s oldest and largest providers of gender-affirming care for children and young adults — has announced that it will close its Center for Transyouth Health and Development on July 22. [Article] |
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| State regulators launch inquiry into State Farm's handling of fire claims - Los Angeles Times |
| State Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara announced Thursday that his department is launching a formal inquiry into how State Farm General, California’s largest home insurer, is handling thousands of claims filed by victims of the January wildfires after complaints from policyholders.
The department said it would start a “market conduct examination,” a comprehensive investigatory tool that regulators have to look into significant problems in the insurance market.
The exams typically take months, the department said, and would follow an investigation into State Farm General that has already begun. Past exams have recovered hundreds of millions of dollars in claims for survivors, it said.
“Californians deserve fair and comprehensive treatment from their insurance companies,” Lara said in a statement. “No one should be left in uncertainty, forced to fight for what they are owed, or face endless delays that often lead consumers to give up. [Article] |
| by , Los Angeles Times. 2025-06-12 |
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| How large are the Los Angeles-area immigration protests? – Daily News |
| On his Truth Social social media network earlier this week, President Donald Trump claimed that “If we didn’t send out the National Guard — Los Angeles would be burning right now!”
In fact, the scale of the immigration-related protests that started June 6 in Paramount has been relatively small: [Article] |
| by , Los Angeles Daily News. 2025-06-12 |
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| State attorney general sues Mike Nijjar, landlord at the center of LAist investigation | LAist |
| The landlord at the center of a sprawling empire of rundown and often dangerous rental properties in Southern California is now being sued by the state.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit Thursday against Mike Nijjar and a constellation of corporate entities linked to him and his family. [Article] |
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| Newsom wins legal round over troops, but Trump appeal sends battle to June 17 hearing – Daily News |
| President Donald Trump’s federalization of the California National Guard amid his administration’s immigration enforcement actions around Los Angeles, and the subsequent protests that followed, was “illegal,” a federal judge ruled Thursday evening.
But the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily blocked the judge’s ruling a few hours later, pending a hearing to be held on June 17. [Article] |
| by , Los Angeles Daily News. 2025-06-12 |
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| LA raids rattle California homebuilding industry, where 41% of workforce are immigrants – Daily News |
| California’s homebuilding industry is growing jittery over Southern California’s immigration raids and what they might mean to an industry already facing labor shortages.
The state is home to 1.8 million undocumented workers, the highest concentration in the U.S. Roughly 41% of the construction workforce is foreign-born and employed in homebuilding. [Article] |
| by , Los Angeles Daily News. 2025-06-12 |
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| Grocery Workers Across Southern California Prepared to Strike |
| Yesterday, 45,000 Southern California grocery workers voted to authorize a strike against Albertsons, Vons and Ralphs after months of what union officials say are unfair labor practices during contract negotiations. [Article] |
| by , Voice of OC. 2025-06-12 |
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| How veterans are reacting to Marine deployment in LA: ‘The impact is so negative’ | LAist |
| Some 700 active-duty Marines have been deployed to Los Angeles amid widespread protests against the recent immigration sweeps.
The move comes even as L.A. Mayor Karen Bass says the troops are not needed, LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell raises concerns around coordination, and state Attorney General Rob Bonta seeks to block the deployment of Marines and federalized National Guard troops in L.A. [Article] |
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| Hegseth refuses to commit to following possible court order on Marine deployment - Los Angeles Times |
| Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth refused to say Thursday whether he would abide by a possible legal ruling about the federal government’s authority to deploy the Marines to Los Angeles.
“We should not have local judges determining foreign policy or national security policy for the country,” he said in response to repeated questions by Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Fremont) during a House Armed Services hearing.
A federal judge in San Francisco was holding a hearing Thursday on California’s challenge to President Trump’s deployment of U.S. Marines and National Guardsmen in Los Angeles.
Hegseth decried what he billed as the expansion of judicial power, but after repeatedly being pressed on how he would respond if the Supreme Court weighed in, he said, “We’re not here to defy a Supreme Court ruling.”
During a testy back-and-forth with Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-Santa Barbara), Hegseth did say that the Marines in Los Angeles are not authorized to fire warning shots.
The congressman said he feared the federal government had escalated the situation on the ground in Los Angeles and described it as political theater, and asked if the Marines were allowed to protect federal property “by any means necessary.”
Hegseth responded, “ICE officers and police officers being attacked is not political theater.”
After additional sparring, Carbajal called Hegseth incompetent and “an embarrassment to this country.” [Article] |
| by , Los Angeles Times. 2025-06-12 |
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| Port of LA director foresees modest uptick in cargo in coming months – Daily Breeze |
| Cargo number projections appear as if they will show a modest uptick over the coming months, Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka told harbor commissioners this week but uncertainty remains for the rest of 2025 — with tariffs still looming on the horizon. [Article] |
| by , Daily Breeze. 2025-06-12 |
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| Pasadena Urges Calm Amid Regional ICE Raids and Unrest; City Reaffirms Commitment to Civil Rights – Pasadena Now |
| As federal immigration raids and resulting protests roiled Los Angeles, Pasadena officials urged calm on Wednesday following a weekend demonstration at a local hotel. [Article] |
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| Several L.A. and Orange County car washes targeted by ICE raids - Los Angeles Times |
| Noemi Ciau visited Westchester Hand Wash on Sunday to drop off a pizza to her husband, who works there as a cleaner. It was around noon when they met and chatted a few minutes.
Ciau was taking their daughter shopping for a dress and shoes to wear to her eighth-grade graduation later that week, she told him.
“If you need money or anything else, call me,” she recalls him telling her.
Ciau wouldn’t see her husband again, because 52-year-old Jesus Cruz was taken mere hours later by federal immigration agents who raided the car wash.
The business was among at least nine car washes in Los Angeles and Orange counties that have been targeted in recent days, according to CLEAN Carwash Worker Center, a labor advocacy nonprofit that has been able to verify these raids through community reports and footage on social media.
CLEAN has determined that at least 26 people were taken by immigration enforcement agents at five of these locations — some in unmarked vehicles.
The vast majority were workers, although one customer was also picked up at Culver City Express Hand Car Wash and Detail during a Sunday raid.
Ciau, an Inglewood resident, spoke alongside other family members of detained workers at a news conference held by CLEAN on Wednesday morning at the Culver City car wash. She said that she relied on her husband to take care of their children in the evenings because she works mornings at LAX.
“He was my backbone,” she said. “Who’s going to pick up my kids. Who’s going to take them to music class?”
“Now her father can’t even be there for her graduation,” Ciau said.
Federal immigration agents raided four businesses on Friday, including a Home Depot in the Westlake neighborhood and Ambiance Apparel in the garment district in downtown L.A. in a crackdown that led to the arrests of dozens of people and ignited a weekend of civil unrest that has led to the controversial deployment of the National Guard and Marines in Los Angeles.
Industries with a low-wage, mostly immigrant workforce appear to be targets, as well as work sites that afford direct access to workers.
Flor Melendrez, executive director of CLEAN, said her organization has been scrambling to identify people detained and keep up with new car wash raids in real time. [Article] |
| by , Los Angeles Times. 2025-06-12 |
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| Immigration raids have shaken communities across Los Angeles County. How can you help? - Los Angeles Times |
| If you are looking to support families that have been affected by the recent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids as well as local immigrant communities in need, you have a number of donation options, including organizations that can accept monetary contributions, supplies and volunteer time.
The ICE raids over the past several days have impacted several communities in Los Angeles County, including the city of Los Angeles, Paramount, Culver City and Boyle Heights.
It’s unclear exactly how many undocumented immigrants have been affected, but the White House said federal agents have arrested 330 immigrants in Southern California and the Central Coast since the onset of the raids on Friday.
Among those deported during the raids was Jose Ortiz, who worked for Ambiance Apparel, a warehouse in Los Angeles’ Fashion District, for the last 18 years. On Sunday, Jesus Cruz, 52, was detained while he was working as a cleaner at Westchester Hand Wash. Further up the coast, ICE agents had reportedly shown up at farm fields and packinghouses from the Central Coast to the San Joaquin Valley.
The Department of Homeland Security released a list of nine men who the federal agency said were arrested and have serious criminal records.
Since the raids began on Friday, several local and regional organizations began collecting funds and donated items to help those whose family members have been detained or already deported. The aid is also going to immigrant community members who live in fear of being swept up in future raids. [Article] |
| by , Los Angeles Times. 2025-06-12 |
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| Immigration concerns loom over possible grocery worker strike in LA | LAist |
| Thousands of Southern California grocery store workers are gearing up for a possible strike, but some L.A. workers have mixed feelings about joining the picket line following recent immigration sweeps. [Article] |
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| California investigates State Farm over LA fire claims - CalMatters |
| California’s Insurance Department has launched a formal investigation into State Farm over its handling of claims from the Los Angeles County fires. [Article] |
| by , CalMatters. 2025-06-12 |
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| L.A. immigrant rights groups are in the fight of their lives |
| “No firmes nada,” a union organizer shouted into a bullhorn as he stood atop the flatbed of a truck outside Ambiance Apparel, doling out battlefield legal advice not to sign anything. “You have a right to a lawyer. You are not alone.”
Advocates and lawyers had arrived at the downtown store minutes after tips began to pop off at the hotline set up by the Los Angeles Rapid Response Network, a coalition of 300 volunteers and 23 labor unions and immigrant rights and social justice groups that was organized last year to respond to enforcement.
They joined protesters and tearful family members jostling around a plate glass window to catch glimpses of federal officials arresting immigrants inside the clothing retailer on Friday, in what would become a flashpoint that would put Los Angeles at the center of President Trump’s aggressive immigration policy.
“They were really coming in with a military-style mind-set,” said Angelica Salas, a veteran advocate and director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles. That morning she went to another location, where union leader David Huerta had been arrested.
Although she had never seen any sweeps like it in scale and aggression, she said advocates were prepared. “It’s a very well-organized community. That’s why coming into L.A. is so important for this Trump administration, because what they want to do is they want to break us.”
The coalition of advocates is in a fight for their lives, as the administration undermines its funding while escalating detention and deportation of the people they are meant to help. Many have been doing the work for decades, but the anti-immigrant vitriol has reached a pitch that has them unnerved like never before.
Salas said her office has received death threats. Two weeks ago, vandals threw bricks through the front office window, smashing a few items inside. Workers have reported threatening calls. [Article] |
| by , Los Angeles Times. 2025-06-12 |
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| Deportation Fears Persist in Orange County as ICE Protests Continue |
| Orange County continues to see protests against the recent wave of federal immigration crackdowns as undocumented residents, their extended families and friends all grapple with fears of deportation. [Article] |
| by , Voice of OC. 2025-06-12 |
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