LA immigration sweeps: Waiting for a bus, then shackled in chains

Find out what happened to three men who were arrested in California and deported. Also: Marines at the border, the political and economic toll of the immigration raids and why Gov. Gavin Newsom is suing Fox News. 

• After the arrest: In the past few weeks, federal immigration enforcement agents have rounded up 1,600 people — most of whom have no criminal conviction — during raids in Los Angeles County. CalMatters spoke to three people who were detained during the first weekend of the raids and deported to Mexico. Their reports suggest that agents are working under a new playbook that enables them to make arrests using dubious pretexts, and encourages agents to push people to sign removal forms before speaking with an attorney. Mauricio Oropeza, who has no criminal record, was detained while waiting at a bus stop after work. He was then shackled in chains and driven to an ICE tent camp in Texas. There, he signed voluntary removal forms before finally being allowed to make his first call to his family. Learn more about what happened to Oropeza and other immigrants like him from CalMatters’ reporters. 

• Marines on the border: Dozens of Marines have been stationed at a Border Patrol station located in eastern San Diego County. Previously, the armed forces were kept away from civilian law enforcement, so this move signals a change in both how the Marines operate and President Donald Trump’s border strategy. A spokesperson for Newsom’s office said the Marines’ presence represents “mission creep.” 阅读更多 来自 CalMatters 的 温迪·弗莱.

• Population shrink: During Trump’s first term, California’s population declined in part due to his administration’s policies that made it harder for foreign workers to enter the country. Now the state is bracing for a similar hit with his return, as deportations and limits to U.S. entry threaten the state’s economy and Electoral College clout. 阅读更多 来自 CalMatters 的 米哈伊尔·津施坦. 

• Newsom sues Fox: On Friday the governor filed a lawsuit against Fox News, accusing the network of lying about the date Newsom last spoke with Trump on the phone, and for claiming the governor is lying about a call related to Trump’s deployment of federal troops in L.A. 阅读更多 来自 CalMatters 的 余悦.

The California Air Resources Board’s new rules for fuel standards take effect Tuesday. These rules aim to reduce air pollution but are controversial because they could also raise gas prices, writes CalMatters’ 亚历杭德罗·拉佐.

The updated standard is expected to reduce carbon dioxide-equivalent gasses by an amount equal to the emissions of more than 120 million cars on average in a year, according to the air board. Gas prices aren’t expected to rise immediately due to the new rules, and it’s unclear whether they will since it depends on how much the oil industry passes costs onto customers when it buys credits. 

But when the fuel standard was last updated in 2011, a gallon of gas rose by an additional 9 cents. This update could add 5 to 8 cents per gallon, according to a UC Davis researcher.

Republicans have slammed the fuel rules, arguing that they would make the state even less affordable. GOP state Senate leader 布赖恩·琼斯 of San Diego called the standard, “nothing short of price gouging by Newsom.”

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From CalMatters local news fellow 乔·加西亚:

Barring any last-minute legislative intervention, 58 disabled workers at a California state prison employed through nonprofit PRIDE Industries will lose their jobs on Tuesday because of administrative decisions that followed a union complaint about them.

SEIU Local 1000, the union that represents state custodians, alleged in a complaint to the State Personnel Board that the contract between PRIDE and the California Medical Facility prison at Vacaville violated guarantees that those job positions be filled by union employees.

After multiple short-term contract extensions, the PRIDE contract ends July 1. Disabled environmental service technicians will work their last shifts inside the prison, clock out and walk to their vehicles unemployed.

The state posted multiple job openings for custodians at the prison earlier this month.

PRIDE claims their lost job positions will ultimately be filled by incarcerated Prison Industry Authority workers — and not SEIU members as intended. Prison officials said they wouldn’t comment, and neither would the state human resources department.

Heather Dunn, who has worked at Vacaville for more than five years, doesn’t know what the future holds or where her next job might be. As a 38-year-old single mom, she worries for her 2-year-old son. “He still needs the things that he needs. It’s going to be really hard to provide for him,” she said.

• Dunn: “Before I came to PRIDE, it was very hard for me to keep and to find a job due to my reading disability.”

Ameer Habeeb, a 52-year-old service-disabled Air Force veteran, works with Dunn and will lose his position as an environmental services director. 

• Habeeb: “PRIDE’s given me the opportunity to be accommodated and given me opportunities where I’ve been able to grow.”

PRIDE workers continue to plead with state legislators and Newsom to step in and help them keep their jobs.

Democratic Assemblymember 洛里·威尔逊 of Suisun City has a bill in the works to create pathways for disabled workers to be brought into the union so they can be included in state contracts.

Lawmakers are expected today to hash out a “poison pill” within the Legislature’s updated state budget, which has the potential to invalidate the entire $321 billion spending plan. 查出 what it is from CalMatters’ 阿列克谢·科塞夫.