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.
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.
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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.
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Judge shoots down Trump’s homeless funding shift: ‘The hallmark of unreasoned decision making’
In a legal victory for California, a federal judge rejected President Donald Trump’s efforts to funnel money away from permanent homeless housing.
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Transgender athletes still protected in California under Supreme Court ruling
The ruling allows states to ban transgender student athletes from playing on girls’ and women’s teams, but doesn’t require it. States like California can keep their current policies.
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Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship, rejecting Trump’s proposed limits
The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a broad conception of birthright citizenship, rejecting President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring that children born to people who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens.
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Supreme Court rules states can count late-arriving mailed ballots, rejecting Trump-led challenge
The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that states can count ballots that arrive after Election Day, rejecting in a 5-4 decision a Republican-led attack on laws in more than half the states and the District of Columbia that permit mailed ballots to arrive and be counted some number of days after the election, provided they are postmarked by Election Day.
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Trump refuses to sign bipartisan housing bill into law. What does that mean for homebuyers, renters?
A sprawling legislative package aimed at lowering the cost of housing and spurring more home construction won bipartisan approval from Congress this week, but it’s hit a major roadblock in becoming law: President Donald Trump.
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Trump renews push to shift homelessness funding. What’s at stake
The Trump administration wants to shift more money to homeless shelters that require sobriety, a change that would disrupt California’s “housing first” policies and threaten to put nearly 15,000 Californians back on the street.
