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"Amidst the ICE activity and protests around the Los Angeles area on Saturday, several Southern California congressional representatives said they tried to enter a federal building downtown where they said immigrant families are being detained. Rep. Jimmy Gomez, D-Los Angeles, said he and several other Democratic House members attempted to visit the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building on… Read more »

Rep. Jimmy Gomez (CA-34) joins MSNBC's The Briefing With Jen Psaki to discuss Day 6 of Trump escalating tensions in LA and peaceful protests spreading across the country amid unlawful ICE raids. Watch the full video here Read more »

Watch full interview here Members of the California National Guard arrived in Los Angeles Sunday morning in response to days of protest against federal immigration raids. On Saturday, President Donald Trump moved to deploy the 2,000 members over the opposition of California Gov. Gavin Newsom and L.A. Mayor Karen Bass, who say the move is inflammatory and unnecessary.… Read more »

By Dustin Gardiner The Trump administration’s increasingly aggressive moves on immigration are pulling Democrats back into a border security debate they had tried to ignore. For months, Democrats scarred by the politics of the issue sought to sidestep President Donald Trump’s immigration wars — focusing instead on the economy, tariffs or, in the case of deportations, due process… Read more »

By Mandy Taherl Representative Jimmy Gomez called reports of immigrants being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the basement of a federal building in his Los Angeles district "scary," telling Newsweek he has "concerns that this facility is not meant to hold individuals overnight, and that it can actually cause harm to the people that are being held there." An… Read more »

By Nidia Cavazos "Emily Scott is a Job Corps student in Los Angeles who is also a caretaker for her disabled mother. She is four months away from graduating from the Job Corps program as a licensed nurse.  Andrea Watts of Las Vegas was homeless before finding her way to a Job Corps center in L.A. for an opportunity to obtain her high school diploma and eventually become a… Read more »

Watch full video here By Josh Haskell "EAST HOLLYWOOD, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- In East Hollywood Wednesday morning, more than 40 community health centers rallied to protect Medicaid and demand the preservation of Medi-Cal. Community health centers serve 1 in 5 Californians. "We're going to lose something like 10 to… Read more »

By Caroline Petrow-Cohen Three Democratic U.S. representatives for California visited the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach on Friday to voice their concerns after President Trump told reporters that the slowdown of activity at the ports was “a good thing.” Trump has argued that tariffs are needed to boost manufacturing jobs in the U.S. and that the slowdown in port activity… Read more »

By Alexandra Marquez, Gabe Gutierrez and Elyse Perlmutter-Gumbiner President Donald Trump's administration has been exploring ways to increase the country’s birth rate, with the president himself saying he wouldn't mind being known as the "fertilization president." But congressional Democrats and activists say Republicans have long overlooked the growing cost of having and… Read more »

By Laura J. Nelson "The Southern California lawmakers who represent the Eaton and Palisades fire zones introduced a bill in Congress on Thursday that would give homeowners affected by natural disasters nationwide a break on mortgage payments for almost a year. The bill, introduced by U.S. Reps. Judy Chu (D-Monterey Park) and Brad Sherman (D-Sherman Oaks), would require lenders to… Read more »