Overview

• A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order preventing ICE agents in Los Angeles from detaining individuals without reasonable suspicion of immigration violations.
• The order outlaws reliance on race, ethnicity, accented speech, location or occupation as sole grounds for conducting detention stops.
• A California court ordered Otay Mesa Detention Center to provide a Mongolian Sign Language interpreter and to repeat key assessments, including a mental health review, for a deaf asylum seeker.
• California progressives are assessing Zohran Mamdani’s grassroots approach, focusing on policies like rent freezes, universal health care and higher taxes on the wealthy for upcoming statewide races.
• Mamdani’s rent freeze proposal secured 46 percent of the vote in renter-heavy New York City neighborhoods, highlighting the power of affordability messaging among young voters.