When Alan Paredes Salazar, 37, drowned, he became one of at least 853 migrants who died crossing the US-Mexico border in past 12 months — a record high.

'His dreams were cut short. His dreams of helping his parents, his wife, his child,' his aunt told me.
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Homelessness among Latinos, who make up nearly half of the L.A. County’s population, saw a 26% increase in the county and 30% in the city in the latest count, even as other demographic groups saw a decline. Ruben Vives and I dig into why

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.Freedom for Immigrants analyzed nearly 17,000 call records between 2016 and 2021 from its immigrant detention hotline. They said the true share of calls from Black migrants is probably undercounted. ICE records only detainees’ country of origin.
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NEW: Settlement talks between the Biden administration and plaintiffs in a lawsuit over temporary protected status fell through on Tuesday, leaving more than 250,000 people at risk of deportation. W/ Andrea Castillo

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NEW FL Gov. DeSantis flew recent border crossers to MA because he didn’t want them.

But thousands were already there working construction, more are arriving.

With low unemployment, big elderly population & a worker shortage, can FL rebuild without them?
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After more than a year, settlement talks in a lawsuit over TPS fell through Tuesday, leaving people from El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Nepal at risk of losing their benefits. latimes.com/politics/story… w/Hamed Aleaziz

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Rishi Sunak to be Britain's new prime minister, the first person of color in the role latimes.com/world-nation/s… via Jaweed Kaleem

Our latest ahead of next month’s election:

Sheriff Villanueva is at war with nearly everyone. Will it cost him his job? latimes.com/california/sto… w/ Alene Tchekmedyian

If you invest in one long read this week, make it this series

today, as part of WaPo's Unaccountable project, we published an analysis of 5 years of non-fatal police shootings (in which the person shot survives) from 156 depts across the country -- a massive 2-year public records team effort (quick thread) washingtonpost.com/investigations…

Oaxacatown, el enclave étnico de Los Ángeles donde florece la herencia oaxaqueña.

L.A. Times Latino Caucus Angel Rodriguez Los Angeles Times

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El Salvador President Bukele's reelection bid stokes L.A. immigrants' fears of new civil war.

L.A. Times Latino Caucus Los Angeles Times Angel Rodriguez

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Scoop - The Biden administration is extending temporary protected status to Ethiopians in the US, allowing Ethiopian immigrants a chance to be shielded from potential deportation, according to Department of Homeland Security officials.

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For the vast stretch of Mexico’s modern history, many denied that racism existed in the country at all.

But a growing social movement is challenging that thinking, bringing discussions of discrimination based on skin color to the fore. latimes.com/world-nation/s…

1/3 An Afghan father, mother and their five children were killed in a U.S. military raid in 2019. One infant survived. Afghan relatives raised her for two years, not knowing that a US Marine attorney and his wife had adopted her from afar.

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Emmanuel, a 27-year-old Venezuelan migrant, saved Perla Huerta’s number in his phone as “Perla Hermosa” — Beautiful Perla.

He thought she was wonderful.

“You could see her happiness in her face,” he said.

Then everything fell apart. 🧵

THREAD: Los Angeles is known for sunshine and sprawl. But for the past three decades L.A. has been the most housing overcrowded large county in America. In the pandemic, L.A.'s overcrowded areas have suffered. We wanted to understand how it happened (1/16) latimes.com/california/sto…