That level is so low a former National Guard commander called it “awful” in an interview with the Chronicle and questioned whether the $134 million deployment is justified."
Agents, some in unmarked cars and street clothes, are arresting L.A. immigrants. Who are they?
LA Times, KAREN GARCIA: "Immigration arrests in Los Angeles have been headline news and the subject of legal disputes for the past few weeks, but Angelenos watching the drama play out on television and in their communities may be confused about who exactly is putting people in handcuffs and hauling them off.
After all, some of the federal agents involved in the raids are in unmarked vehicles, without visible badges, wearing street clothes and covering their faces. Are they U.S. Department of Homeland Security agents, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers or Homeland Security Investigations officials? What is the difference?"
In legal battles with Huntington Beach, California’s ultimate power at stake
Chronicle, BOB EGELKO: "The court clashes in the long-running feud between the conservative leaders of Huntington Beach in Orange County and California’s liberal forces in Sacramento are defining the boundaries between federal, state and local authority.
The broader issue raised by the cases, on immigration and housing, is who should have the power to make decisions?"
Child-care providers brace for a painful scenario: What if ICE comes knocking?
LA Times, JENNY GOLD: "Adriana Lorenzo has stopped letting children play outside after 10 a.m. at the child-care program she runs from her Boyle Heights home. That’s the time she’s heard ICE agents start knocking on doors.
She’s added extra locks to the outside gate, canceled field trips to the park and library and reassured frantic parents that she won’t let federal agents through her door. She has also made back-up plans for the possibility that a parent will be detained by federal agents while their child is in her care."
Search called off for 2 missing after boat capsized in Lake Tahoe, killing 6 others
SacBee, DARRELL SMITH: "U.S. Coast Guard rescuers suspended their search Sunday for two people lost in Lake Tahoe when their boat capsized in sudden, stormy weather Saturday, killing six aboard and injuring two others.
“Suspending a search is always a difficult decision to make and weighs heavily on each Coast Guard member involved,” said Cmdr. David Herndon, search and rescue mission coordinator, Coast Guard Sector San Francisco. “Our thoughts and prayers are with the families and loved ones of those involved in the boat capsize.”
ICE to convert shuttered California prison into state’s largest migrant detention center
Chronicle, AIDIN VAZIRI: "A sprawling 2,560-bed facility in the high desert town of California City (Kern County) is poised to become the largest migrant detention center in California under a new agreement between Immigration and Customs Enforcement and private prison contractor CoreCivic.
Ryan Gustin, the company’s senior director of public affairs, told the Chronicle on Friday that CoreCivic has “begun some preliminary activation activities, pursuant to a letter agreement with our government partners at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.”
(Opinion) Newsom stood tall against Trump. Does that make him presidential timber?
LA Times, MARK BARABAK: "...It was a fine speech and the governor made some important points about President Trump’s reckless commandeering of California’s National Guard, his administration’s indiscriminate immigration raids and the wholly unnecessary dispatch of Marines to Los Angeles. (From the halls of Montezuma, to the shores of Venice Beach.)
Newsom was plenty justified in his anger and contempt. Trump, acting true to his flame-fanning fashion, turned what was a middling set of protests — nothing local law enforcement couldn’t handle — into yet another assault on our sorely tested Constitution."
Vance blames California Dems for violent immigration protests and calls Sen. Alex Padilla ‘Jose’
Vance also referred to U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla, the state’s first Latino senator, as “Jose Padilla,” a week after the Democrat was forcibly taken to the ground by officers and handcuffed after speaking out during a Los Angeles news conference by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on immigration raids."
Sen. Padilla claps back after JD Vance calls him ‘Jose’: ‘He knows my name’
LA Times, LILA SEIDMAN: "Sen. Alex Padilla blasted the Trump administration Saturday, calling it “petty and unserious” after Vice President JD Vance referred to him as “Jose” during a news conference in Los Angeles the previous day.
“He knows my name,” Padilla said in an appearance on MSNBC on Saturday morning. Vance visited Los Angeles on Friday for less than five hours after several weeks of federal immigration raids in the city and surrounding areas, sparking protests and backlash from state and local officials."
How the LAPD’s protest response once again triggered outrage, injuries and lawsuits
LA Times, LIBOR JANY and JAMES QUEALLY: "Bridgette Covelli arrived near Los Angeles City Hall for the June 14 “No Kings Day” festivities to find what she described as a peaceful scene: people chanting, dancing, holding signs. No one was arguing with the police, as far as she could tell.
Enforcement of the city’s curfew wouldn’t begin for hours. But seemingly out of nowhere, Covelli said, officers began to fire rubber bullets and launch smoke bombs into a nearby crowd, which had gathered to protest the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement campaign."
As White House wavers on visas, Chinese students at California colleges face uncertainty and worried parents
AMY DiPIERRO, Ed Source: "A flurry of at-times contradictory White House pronouncements are stoking confusion and concern among the 50,000 Chinese nationals who are studying at California’s colleges and universities — and potentially steering students away from further work and study in the U.S.
Recent shifts in U.S. policy toward China have cast a “cloud of suspicion” over Chinese students, said Gisela Perez Kusakawa, the executive director of the Asian American Scholar Forum, an advocacy group."
California insurance crisis could have dire consequences for affordable housing
Chronicle, MALIYA ELLIS: "Insurance bills have always been on the high side for Episcopal Community Services, a San Francisco nonprofit that operates more than 2,000 units of permanent supportive housing and serves a population insurers deem risky.
But over the past few years, ECS has seen insurance costs skyrocket. Its premiums rose 84% last year, on top of 10% and 15% increases the previous two years. At the same time, ECS’ deductibles quadrupled last year and reached $100,000 for some properties, forcing ECS to cover most of its own claims. Those rising costs were a factor in ECS’ decision to lay off six employees this year, and staff members fear that continued increases could jeopardize essential but expensive ECS services, like the homeless shelter it operates or the seven hotels it leases for supportive housing."
Dodgers Pledge Aid to L.A. Families Affected by Trump Crackdown
NY Times, JESUS JIMENEZ: "The Los Angeles Dodgers, facing mounting pressure from their Latino fan base, announced on Friday that they had committed $1 million in financial help for families of immigrants who have been “impacted by recent events in the region.”
The announcement, while oblique on exactly which “recent events” the team was responding to, came after days of calls from community leaders and fans to signal support for its heavily Latino fan base as federal immigration raids have been reported across the Los Angeles area. The raids over the past two weeks have stoked fear and anxiety among many immigrant families, especially Latinos."
L.A. city leaders look to file lawsuit over ‘unconstitutional’ immigration enforcement
LA Times, DAVID ZAHNISER and RACHEL URANGA: "Faced with a wave of immigration arrests, the Los Angeles City Council is looking to sue the Trump administration to secure a court order prohibiting federal agents from carrying out any unconstitutional stops or arrests of city residents.
Seven council members signed a proposal asking City Atty. Hydee Feldstein Soto to prioritize “immediate legal action” to protect the civil rights of Angelenos, arguing that such a step is needed to keep their constituents from being racially profiled or unlawfully detained."
