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By Kyeongjun Kim The 123rd anniversary of Korean American Day is being marked with commemorative events across the United States, alongside renewed attention from local, state, and federal lawmakers through related resolutions and ceremonies. Korean American Day was established to commemorate the first official arrival of Korean immigrants in Hawaii on January 13, 1903. The day… Read more »

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By Jon Regardie U.S. Rep. Jimmy Gomez, whose district includes most of the Eastside, inspected an immigration detention center Downtown on Friday. He said detainees were sleeping on the floor in "tanks" holding up to around 40 people. Though the facility was not over capacity, it "isn’t set up to hold people for over 12 hours," Gomez said. LAist Read full article here Read more »

The Department of Justice released additional files related to its investigations into Jeffrey Epstein Saturday as Democrats questioned whether the Justice Department removed an image of President Donald Trump from the files released Friday. The files released Saturday include transcripts of interviews with witnesses and investigators conducted as part of the agency’s probes into… Read more »

A federal judge has temporarily blocked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from enforcing rules that restrict congressional visits to immigration detention facilities. This deals a setback to the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) effort to regulate oversight visits during a period of intensified immigration enforcement... In a ruling issued Wednesday, U.S. District… Read more »

By Jordan Rynning U.S. Rep. Jimmy Gomez of Los Angeles inspected the B-18 immigration detention center in downtown Friday unannounced and called the visit a “first step” in transparency from the Trump administration. Gomez said there were more than 100 people being held inside, many of whom looked "exhausted." What he saw: Detainees sleep on the floor in “tanks” holding up to around… Read more »

Rep. Gomez inspected the Roybal Allard Federal Detention Facility in downtown Los Angeles following a federal court ruling reaffirming Congress’s right to unannounced inspections of ICE detention sites. Full Video Read more »

Rep. Gomez carried out an unannounced oversight inspection of the Roybal Allard Federal Detention Facility in Downtown Los Angeles holding immigrant detainees. Full Video Read more »