Rachel Uranga covers immigration for the Los Angeles Times. She previously reported for the Los Angeles Business Journal, Reuters in Mexico City and Southern California News Group, where she later served on its editorial board.
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Un día después de que el presidente Trump impusiera aranceles generalizados a tres de los mayores socios comerciales del país, muchos agricultores de California, que producen la mayor parte de los alimentos de la nación, estaban preocupados de que la medida pudiera perjudicar sus operaciones.
As tariffs take effect, farmers fear retaliation from other countries will impede their exports and drive up costs of production.
Los Angeles Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez is calling on the city to create clearer protocols regarding its immigrant sanctuary laws after Los Angeles police officers were spotted during a local enforcement operation.
Immigrant rights groups raise alarms over plan to make all immigrants who do not have legal status, including children, provide personal information and fingerprints.
Advocates on the scene said the Border Patrol raid in Kern County last month indiscriminately targeted Latino farmworkers commuting from the fields and day laborers soliciting work in the parking lots of big box stores.
By midafternoon, it appeared that the operation — if indeed one had been launched — had not been anywhere near as widespread as many had predicted.
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