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Store-bought eggs? In this eggconomy? When a dozen eggs commonly sell for more than $12 at local markets — a high price driven in part by Bird Flu — an increasing number of folks are relying on their flocks, or their neighbors’, for the kitchen staple. lapublicpress.org/2025/03/los-an…

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Following my reporting that brought this issue to light, Glendale has cancelled their contract with DHS/ICE. Here’s the story that broke it: inadvertent.substack.com/p/glendale-pol…

Can’t protest? Here are other ways to get involved in LA: lapublicpress.org/2025/06/la-pro…

Inland Empire immigrants rights advocates prep for ICE raids. The region — where one in five residents are immigrants — is home to a large ICE detention facility, a U.S. Marine Corps base and vital warehouse and agriculture sectors. lapublicpress.org/2025/06/inland…

The LAPD says they need more funding in order to cover OT to respond to the protests, according to this CAO report. The city's response has cost $19.7 million. The LAPD costs make up nearly $17M, of which $11.7M is police OT, which the LAPD says it needs more funds to cover.

LA street vendors are going into hiding after ICE raids, so neighbors are buying out their food. Maritza’s children may have to drop out of college because their mother — who has fed her LA neighborhood for 20 years — is now too afraid to work her corner. lapublicpress.org/2025/06/street…

🚨 BREAKING: “They tried to run over our people” - Cudahy Mayor Liz Live video from Atlantic & Brompton in Bell shows Cudahy Mayor and community members tear-gassed by what appears to be law enforcement, with unmarked law enforcement vehicle charging at crowd…

…of protesters and onlookers. This comes amid ongoing immigration enforcement protests across LA area since June 6. Story is developing.

From Cop City to ICE raids, how filming law enforcement has become a criminal act. When Anthony Orendorff was beaten and jailed for filming an ICE raid in LA, his case joined a troubling nationwide trend where documenting police has become risky. lapublicpress.org/2025/06/from-c…

Inside 70 hours of hell for aspiring Marine detained in Bell immigration raid. When Isaias Pena Salcedo was detained without charges, his desperate family searched facility after facility for answers. lapublicpress.org/2025/06/70-hou…

Here’s what’s happening to the people ICE arrests in immigration court lapublicpress.org/2025/06/whats-…

Whittier Mayor’s silence on ICE raids exposes political divide in Latino-majority city. Grassroots volunteers are patrolling neighborhoods and targeting Republican-held city council seats after immigration enforcement sparked community outrage. lapublicpress.org/2025/06/whitti…

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These LA immigrant rights activists say the FBI are targeting them. FBI agents arrested a longtime LA immigrant rights activist this month and seized another organizer’s phone. The latest actions targeted members of Centro CSO. lapublicpress.org/2025/07/la-imm…

Unhoused people want basic city services. Why aren’t they getting any? LA has only 14 bathrooms for 4 million people. The city won't provide basic trash pickup to encampments while spending millions on sweeps that advocates say make conditions worse. lapublicpress.org/2025/07/la-unh…

The mental health response to LA’s fires is actually making trauma worse. Six months later, a trauma therapist who lost her home in the Eaton Fire explains how LA’s mental health response fails survivors by ignoring the racism and poverty they faced. lapublicpress.org/2025/07/mental…

ICE enforcement affects Vietnamese, Cambodian communities in SoCal. In May, advocates reported at least 17 Southeast Asian immigrants detained at routine ICE check-ins in LA and Orange counties. lapublicpress.org/2025/07/ice-en…

‘Reclaimer’ Benito Flores dies while resisting eviction from El Sereno home. An organizer remembers Flores as “ a beautiful human being who wanted nothing more than to … not have to worry about being displaced.” lapublicpress.org/2025/07/reclai…