Illegal Immigrants

Hundreds of immigrants rally in Sacramento for more rights

2013-05-20 10:24:00

Hoping to build on momentum for changing the country’s immigration laws, busloads of immigrants from throughout California are descending on Sacramento on Monday to push for a half dozen bills at the state level. About 500 immigrants from as far...

Illegal immigrants would be harder to deport under Assembly bill

2013-05-16 15:16:00

SACRAMENTO -- A California lawmaker is making a renewed push to limit the detention and deportation of immigrants who are in the country illegally after his legislation was vetoed last year by Gov. Jerry Brown. The bill, authored by Assemblyman Tom...

Villaraigosa denounces two attack ads in mayoral campaign

2013-05-16 20:29:00

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa waded into the increasingly negative campaign for mayor, calling for the removal of two ads that attack mayoral candidates Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel but were not created by either candidate's campaign....

Labor group won't back away from campaign mailer

2013-05-17 20:37:00

The most powerful labor organization in Los Angeles refused Friday to back away from a campaign mailer in which it urges voters to support Wendy Greuel for mayor because she "will raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour." Even though Greuel has said she...

Villaraigosa denounces mayoral ads aimed at Latinos

2013-05-16 22:37:00

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Thursday waded into the heated contest to choose his successor, calling for two ads aimed at Latino voters that attack candidates Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel to be taken off the airwaves. Both were financed...

Border Patrol struggles to measure what it can't see

2013-04-29 19:19:00

SAN DIEGO — Kathy Gomez estimates that U.S. Border Patrol agents catch 75% of the migrants who try to run through the strawberry fields at her farm near the border with Tijuana. Farther east, Miguel Diaz thinks the number hits 90% at his junkyard...

Letters: Learning from life in the fields

2013-05-07 00:00:00

Re "A field day — not," Column One, May 3 Hector Becerra's article on his day as a farm worker picking strawberries reminded me of a similar article I read many years ago on complaints that immigrants were stealing jobs from American vegetable...

Leaders of DWP union launch TV ads in support of Greuel candidacy

2013-05-01 22:06:00

The alliance between Los Angeles mayoral candidate Wendy Greuel and the Department of Water and Power workforce strengthened Wednesday as a committee run by leaders of the utility's main union launched TV advertising to buttress her candidacy just as...

L.A. Times updates guidelines for covering immigration

2013-05-01 16:11:00

The Los Angeles Times has announced new guidelines for covering immigration. The goal is to "provide relevance and context and to avoid labels." That means stories will no longer refer to individuals as "illegal immigrants" or "undocumented...

May Day demonstrator says 'there's change on the horizon'

2013-05-01 09:50:00

A shout echoed out of Plaza Olvera after dawn Wednesday. A janitor whose small frame belied her booming voice stood at the center of a circle of people, leading the chant: "Obama, escucha: Estamos en la lucha." The 40 or so others -- a fraction of...

Kevin James releases Wendy Greuel's texts after she attacks him

2013-05-01 00:11:00

Los Angeles mayoral candidate Wendy Greuel sought the endorsement of� Republican Kevin James after he was eliminated from the race in the March primary. Now she's out with an attack mailer blasting James’ backing of Eric Garcetti, her rival in the...

The power of jury duty

2013-04-30 00:00:00

Assembly Democrats may have hit on an ingenious way to make citizens take their jury summonses more seriously: Last week they passed a bill that would allow noncitizens to serve on juries. Suddenly, outraged commentators and bloggers who feared the loss...

Seven undocumented immigrants bound themselves together with pipe and blocked a road that leads to the Broadview Detention Center in Broadview, Ill. to protest the deportations of thousands of undocumented immigrants.

2013-05-14 00:00:00

Hugo Dominguez, center, is led away by police after being cut from six other undocumented immigrants who had bound themselves together and blocked the road to the Broadview Detention Center in Broadview, Ill. The group was protesting the deportations of thousands of undocumented immigrants.

2013-05-14 00:00:00

Dr. Alfredo Qui�ones Hinojosa is an associate professor of neurosurgery, neuroscience, oncology, and cellular and molecular medicine at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. Dr. Qui�ones-Hinojosa, was an illegal immigrant working in the vegetable fields, worked his way to a Harvard education,

2013-04-13 00:00:00