Tag: Immigration

• Press Coverage | September 1, 2025

  1.2 million immigrants are gone from the US labor force under Trump, preliminary data shows

  

  It’s tomato season and Lidia is harvesting on farms in California’s Central Valley. She is also anxious. Attention from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement could upend her life more than 23 years after she illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border as a teenager. ...

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• Press Coverage | August 30, 2025

  ‘Moment of crisis’: Unions in somber mood this Labor Day

  

  Thousands of workers and union organizers from across California will gather for picnics and marches this weekend to honor the contributions of the nation’s working people. But the Labor Day celebrations will be tempered by a sobering reality: Unions face...

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• Press Coverage | August 22, 2025

  She’s cared for America’s elderly for decades. Trump wants her gone by Sept. 8

  

  LOS ANGELES — Aurora was working as a nurse at a hospital in her home country of Honduras when she decided to leave for good. A mother of two, she yearned for a better future for herself and her young...

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• Press Coverage | August 13, 2025

  Trump’s move to end TPS rattles health care workers who tend to the sick and elderly

  

  The Trump administration's decision to end Temporary Protected Status for people from a number of countries has rattled health care workers who tend to the sick and elderly.

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• Press Coverage | June 11, 2025

  How Labor Unions Came to Define the L.A. Immigration Protests

  

  Los Angeles is a city of immigrants. It is also a city of unions. And in California, those two constituencies have essentially melded into one. So it should come as no surprise that federal immigration raids on workplaces around Los...

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• Press Release | June 9, 2025

  SEIU Local 2015, labor leaders, and community members rallied in Los Angeles to demand the release of SEIU California President David Huerta and now free! 

  Hundreds rallied for the release of David Huerta and now free from custody.  LOS ANGELES, CA—Hundreds of SEIU members, immigrant workers and allies packed Grand Park in downtown Los Angeles today to demand the immediate release of SEIU California President...

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• Press Coverage | June 9, 2025

  News Coverage of Los Angeles protests against ICE raids

  CBS News: Hundreds gather in Los Angeles to demand release of California union leader arrested at immigration enforcement operation Hundreds gathered in downtown Los Angeles on Monday, calling for the release of a union leader who was arrested at an...

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• Media Advisory | June 9, 2025

  SEIU Local 2015, labor leaders, and community members hold #FreeDavidEndRaids in Los Angeles to demand release of David Huerta and an end to ICE raids on immigrant communities. 

  WHEN: Monday, June 9th 202511:00 AM PT WHERE:  Grand Park200 N. Grand AvenueLos Angeles, CA 90012 WHO: Members and allies of SEIU Local 2015, the largest long-term care union in the nation and California’s largest labor union, representing more than...

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• Press Statement | June 7, 2025

  Statement from Arnulfo De La Cruz, President of SEIU Local 2015, on the Detainment of David Huerta

  Yesterday and today, ICE carried out aggressive raids throughout Los Angeles, terrorizing our immigrant communities and abducting dozens of community members. SEIU California President David Huerta was assaulted, injured, and detained while peacefully observing.  Let’s be clear: the right to...

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• Press Coverage | May 7, 2025

  News Coverage of Longtime Santa Cruz resident’s immigration detention sparks protests ahead of court hearing in Washington state

  

  Cliona Ward, a longtime Santa Cruz resident, was detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials on April 21, 2025, after returning from Ireland where she was visiting her sick father. Lookout Santa Cruz:Longtime Santa Cruz resident's immigration detention sparks...

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• Press Statement | April 8, 2025

  Trump Uses IRS to Target Tax-Paying Families,Exposing the Lies Behind MAGA Deportation Machine

  SACRAMENTO, CA – SEIU California responded to the reported agreement between the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to share sensitive information about taxpayers and their families with the Trump deportation machine. David Huerta, President of SEIU California and...

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