Explore some of the biggest stories from Monday, Jan. 26 to Sunday, Feb. 1, including national, local and campus news.
On Saturday, it was announced that Judge Fred Biery ordered the United States government to release a boy and his father from a Texas detention center. 5-year-old Liam Ramos had previously been detained by immigration officers in Minneapolis earlier last month. Judge Biery ruled that the detainment was an “incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas” and that they could not be removed from the U.S. as of now.
Protestors gathered outside Los Angeles City Hall on Friday for an anti-ICE protest, stemming from nationwide demonstrations. By 9 p.m. that day, federal authorities began to use forceful tactics on the crowd, deploying tear gas and declaring a tactical alert. The Los Angeles police department ended up pushing into the crowd and issued a dispersal order between Union Station and 1st Street.
On Jan. 28, UCLA’s own professor David Hayes-Bautista reported that his findings showed a significant uptake in economic prosperity due to Latino-owned businesses. Hayes-Bautista is a professor of medicine and the co-founder of the Latino Gross Domestic Product, or GDP, Project. His work brings to light data drawn from Census Bureau surveys. His work also assisted in establishing Latino GDP as an aid for California’s economic status as fourth in the world.
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