Alirio Guillermo Belloso Fuenmayor’s wife is trying to find a way to get him released and home to Venezuela.
Those being held say they’re having to gather donations to clothe and feed the new arrivals.
The judges’ union estimated that as many as 10,000 hearings will not happen this year because of the lost work.
The state, home to nearly 2 million undocumented immigrants, could be hit hard by the president’s deportation policies.
A time of fear dawns as the administration calls in the military and promises immigration sweeps.
As California farmers wonder who will grow and harvest our food, falling birthrates are likely to soon force nations to compete for immigrants.
Advocates see these laws as a critical shield for immigrant communities, but Trump’s team is devising ways to bypass them.
Mythology aside, nearly 2 million undocumented immigrants are the backbone of some industries, and pay billions in taxes for services they will never receive.
Facing deportation to homelands they barely remember, formerly incarcerated Southeast Asians in L.A. are fighting in court to remain here.
The deported immigrants of Mexico City’s Little L.A. remind us that people with problems don’t go away. They just go somewhere else.
Conditions at Adelanto Detention Center, a privately operated prison currently used to detain undocumented immigrants, are said to be grim. Nine detainees, all of whom came to the U.S. seeking asylum, were so fed up that they staged a hunger strike. Guards responded with violence and pepper spray.