Immigration

Private prison company CoreCivic will continue operating two large ICE detention centers in California after selling the properties to the Department of Homeland Security.

The new state budget that Gov. Gavin Newsom signed includes $55 million for the DMV to build a data-sharing system, a program meant to bring the state in compliance with the federal REAL ID law.

Los Angeles Unified's superintendent went to great lengths to reassure families that children could safely attend school during the Trump administration's immigration crackdown. He resigned amid an FBI probe into a contract he promoted.

As immigration agents conduct roving patrols, a Cal State Fullerton student reflects on the racial profiling her father experienced and how it inspires her to correct the narrative.

California lawmakers are holding up money the Newsom administration requested for a nationwide driver license database over concerns that the information could lead to deportations.

A California law empowers local health officials to inspect immigrant detention centers. San Diego County sued to enforce it after being denied access to a facility.

An interfaith group known as the "godmothers of the disappeared" meets weekly at the federal courthouse in Los Angeles to remember and advocate for the people detained by immigration authorities over the last year.

The Trump administration immigration crackdown swelled the population inside California's immigrant detention centers. State investigators in a report described strained medical resources inside the sites.

Asylum seekers going to college in California can pay much higher nonresident tuition and are often excluded from financial aid, at great cost to them and their families as immigration cases spend years in limbo.

Advocates say 1 million unauthorized immigrants with California driver's licenses are at risk under a state plan to share license information to a national database.