Once California supported the measures for anti -immigrants. What has changed?


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Protesters gather over the 101 highway in the center of Los Angeles in support of March “The Day Without Immigrants” on February 3, 2025. Photo from JW Hendricks for Calmatters

As immigration raids continue to rattle California small business., farms and communitiesCalmatters’ Ben Christopher and Mikhail Zinshteyn Look at how public sentiment to immigration has changed Dramatically in California over the past few decades – and what can this mean to a federal administration that promises to hold The biggest deportation campaign in US historyS

In 1994, the Californians adopted a proposal of 187 with 58% of the vote. The measure, supported by the then ov. Pete Wilson, a Republican, banned immigrants from homeless documents from the use of schools funded by taxpayers, social services and medical assistance, which is optional.

A federal judge canceled the measure shortly after its passage, but its inheritance endured. Re -187 galvanized Latin American voters and served as a water moment for some ambitious Latin American political leaders.

For 31 years, public opinion on immigration policy has shifted: when they ask whether immigrants are a “benefit” or “weight” for the state, more Californians consider immigrants to be beneficial every decade, according to the California Public Policy Institute. In 2017, California adopted the state laws of the sanctuary, and legislators constantly expand Medi-Cal’s eligibility for immigrants without legal status.

But as California is facing another shortage of a multitude-dollar budget, the call for the cancellation of the Medi-Cal expansion is increasing. In addition to Republican legislators, 58% of Californians surveyed oppose the health coverage for Undocumented immigrantsS Suggested Governor Gavin Newo Freezing a new recording of Medi-Cal for undocumented immigrants in his latest budget plan.

The continued presence of the National Guard of California in Los Angeles also emphasizes combat views on the role of immigrants in the state and US last week the 9th Court of Appeal failed after deciding that President Donald Trump legally unfolded the troops in LAAccording to Michael.

On Friday, the federal judge, who initially decided to pause Trump’s deployment, requested a briefing on both sides, which today could enable the Newsom Legal Team to offer an alternative argument on whether the mobilization of Trump’s troops violated the federal law.


Trial: Calmatters follows the court cases that California filed against the Trump administration. See it hereS



Who pays for the bodyguards of PG & E executive director?

A man wearing a bright orange safe jacket for PG & e, jeans and a white hard hat, stands on a metal grated path inside an industrial facility. They face a closed metal door, surrounded by corrugated metal walls, holding a tool in one hand behind their backs. The scene is poorly lit, with dramatic shadows emphasizing the industrial environment.
The Pacific gas worker and electric utilities at the company’s Gateway Generation Station in Antioch. Photo via CalMatters Archive

Pacific gas and electric in the last three months has twice hired staff to defend his executive directorAgainst the backdrop of the fatal December shooting by the UNITEDHEATHARE CEO, Calmatters’ reports Malena CaroloS

But the utility company declined to answer Calmatters’ questions about how much she spends on the bodyguards, whether her management had received any specific threats and whether shareholders or clients were at the heart of security costs.

Some advocacy groups and business experts say that hiring PG & E staff raises concerns about his reaction to negative public sentiment. In addition to increasing the rates Several times in 2024PG & E is connected with many firesIncluding to plead guilty for involuntary murder For casualties of the 2018 camp fire.

Timothy Polok, a business professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, says that if the public is upset by a company and the security reinforcement is his answer to this anger, “this would tell me that they do not really understand what the problem is.”

Read more hereS

Payment to students from the LA community to go to school

A woman stands on a balcony, resting her hands on a metal railing and looking at the camera with a slight smile. She wears a dark olive-green sweatshirt with a cutter and blue jeans. Behind it is a lavish green tree, slightly beyond the focus, creating a calm and natural origin.
Brenda Olazawa at her home in Maywud on May 26, 2025. Photo by Stella Kalinina for CalMatters

Although a handful of regions in California have experimented with Guaranteed income programsFew programs are aimed at college students and even less reach community students.

But as Amy Elizabeth Moore on Calmatters’ College journalism network Explains that building exceptional possibilities for thriving students is unique as it provides $ 1,200 a month in one year to be eligible Students from College in Community, specialty in the field of healthcareS

The program strives to deal with the shortage of nursing sisters, providing scholarships for students at Los Angeles Municipal College, as they graduated from their diplomas and after passing their careers.

About half of the students in the district report income at or below the poverty level. For Brenda Olazawa, who is transferred to Cal State Los Angeles to study psychology, the program helps with bills, giving her more time to study and spend time with her two teenage children.

  • Oliava: “Just being a single mother, it’s just prevailing financial needs all the time.”

Read more hereS

And finally: a hunger strike in the prison in California

Guards Towers outside the Kern State Prison Valley on November 15, 2022. Photo by Larry Valezuela, Calmatters/Catchlight Local
Guards Towers outside the Kern State Prison Valley on November 15, 2022. Photo by Larry Valezuela, Calmatters/Catchlight Local

Last week, people in a state prison announced a hunger strike after nearly two dozen California prisons imposed strict restrictions on prisoners, including stopping all visits to personal and telephone access, in response to the reported call in violence. Learn more by Calmatters’ Kayla MihalovichS


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