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The Trump presidency and Santa Cruz County
News and opinion coverage of reaction in Santa Cruz County to the election of Donald Trump to a second term as president, plus news from around California via Lookout’s content partners.
Posted inPolitics & Policy
Immigration advocates offer insight, impact of U.S. ruling on TPS
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in late June that the Department of Homeland Security has more authority to end temporary protected status for certain countries without facing interference from lower federal courts. Local immigration advocates say the ruling has led to more fear among immigrants under TPS.
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Trump’s new immigration strategy revealed in purchase of two ICE detention centers in California
The Trump administration is trying to lock down immigration detention capacity in California despite opposition from the state’s Democratic leaders.
Posted inEducation
White House admits it used keywords to kill billions’ worth of California research grants
The Trump administration canceled $2 billion of research grants to University of California professors. Their legal team says it has proof that those terminations were unconstitutional.
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Trump administration says it’s deferring $1B in Medicaid payments to California and Minnesota
The Trump administration on Tuesday said it was deferring more than $1 billion in Medicaid payments to Minnesota and California because of “suspected fraud and noncompliance,” the latest in a series of punitive steps it has linked to allegations of fraud in mostly Democratic-led states.
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FDA still focused on lettuce supplier Taylor Farms as source of parasite, despite faulty test result
Federal health officials said Monday they remain focused on lettuce from Salinas-based Taylor Farms as the source of a multistate outbreak of a diarrhea-causing parasite, despite inaccurate test results that the government briefly publicized over the weekend.
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Meet the two moms behind Scotts Valley’s new pro-democracy group
After the killings by federal immigration officers of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, two U.S. citizens, moms Holley Gilliland and Jess Florence decided they wanted to work together and take action in their own city of Scotts Valley, rather than drive down Highway 17. They have since spearheaded three other events, slowly building their new pro-democracy group that has close ties to Indivisible Santa Cruz County, called Scotts Valley Democracy Rising.
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ICE has detained more than 650 children in California under Trump’s deportation crackdown
Under the second Trump administration, the number of children detained in California communities, rather than at the border, has risen.
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In wake of national ICE traffic stop deaths, Santa Cruzans gather in grief and protest on Ocean Street
Driven by a rise in national ICE-involved deaths, Santa Cruz community members gathered Monday evening to honor two men killed during separate traffic stops over the past week. Organizers said the vigil is part of an ongoing effort to stand in solidarity with those targeted by aggressive immigration enforcement.
Posted inOpinion from Community Voices
Elderday needs 60 more people: The need exists, but the healthcare system isn’t connecting them
Raymon Cancino, CEO of Community Bridges, points out a big failure in our community – our inability to connect needy people to the services they need. Here, he warns that Elderday, which serves about 140 vulnerable older adults in Watsonville, faces an unsustainable financial future unless enrollment grows to roughly 200 participants.
