Anita Chabria
Columnist at Los Angeles Times
California columnist for the @latimes, covering election 2024 and how policy and politics affects real people.
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2 days ago |
latimes.com | Anita Chabria
A tenuous ceasefire between Israel and Iran has slightly dampened the threat that the United States could be further dragged into an international conflict. But many Americans are approaching the Fourth of July with a sense of trepidation if not outright fear — that such a war could still be on the horizon and that there is currently an increased risk of a terrorist attack in America because of it. For so many reasons, we are a nation on edge.
Commentary: Rep. Judy Chu wants to go inside immigration detention facilities. ICE wants to stop her
4 days ago |
latimes.com | Anita Chabria
Families and even lawyers are struggling to keep track of those who vanish into ICE detention facilities, many of which are operated by private, for-profit companies. Authorities turned Rep. Judy Chu away at the door when she tried to visit the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles. Rep. Judy Chu first went inside the immigrant detention center in Adelanto in 2014, and conditions were bad.
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1 week ago |
latimes.com | Anita Chabria
I’ve watched two disturbing videos in the past day of federal authorities acting with frightening disregard for decency and democracy as they arrest immigrants. At least, I think they are federal authorities. But these days, who knows? The alleged officers detaining hundreds if not thousands of people each day in California and across the country are often masked. They sometimes refuse to answer questions, including which agency they represent.
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1 week ago |
newsday.com | Anita Chabria
Lunging men are perceived as dangerous. In an America that has long weaponized descriptions of how men of color look and move to justify use of force, that is especially true of dark men lunging at white women. So when Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said after Sen. Alex Padilla interrupted her news conference Thursday that "people need to identify themselves before they start lunging " — it’s hard to believe it wasn’t meant to be an intentionally loaded word, with loaded results.
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1 week ago |
thebrunswicknews.com | Anita Chabria
By Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times Lunging men are perceived as dangerous. In an America that has long weaponized descriptions of how men of color look and move to justify use of force, that is especially true of dark men lunging at white women.
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