Rather than go along with the president’s program, Mayor Eric Garcetti and other city officials have intensified their opposition.
Lawyer and labor rights professor Victor Narro joined Truthdig to discuss the state's response to the president's immigration crackdown.
Donald Trump's new orders give immigration officials and local cops around the country new and almost unlimited power to enforce a vague law.
Whether a Truthdig series had anything to do with it or not, the mayor has committed to finding $100 million to get 10,000 people off the streets and into programs to help them.
L.A.'s multiethnic population is now policed by a multiethnic force, but cops still shoot people of color at a disproportionately high rate.
A South Los Angeles woman who had dropped her two children off at a police station later died after an encounter with officers in which one of them kicked her in the groin.
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