Melissa Gomez

Los Angeles

Reporter at Los Angeles Times

covering the Central Valley @latimes | will be posting less/never here! find me on bluesky @melissagomez.bsky.social

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Articles

Goal of welfare checks: Protect children or launch deportations?

3 days ago | businessandamerica.com | Andrea Castillo |Melissa Gomez

When immigration agents recently began conducting welfare checks on youths who had arrived at the border unaccompanied by their parents, advocates grew alarmed, fearing the tactic was a cover to target the minors, their adult sponsors and possibly others for deportations.
In America's 'salad bowl,' farmers invest in guest worker housing, hoping to stabilize workforce

4 days ago | yahoo.com | Melissa Gomez |Rebecca Plevin

Every year, farmers in this fertile valley dubbed the “salad bowl of the world" rely on tens of thousands of workers to harvest leafy greens and juicy strawberries. But with local farmworkers aging — and the Trump administration's determined crackdown on the illegal workers who have long been the backbone of California's agricultural workforce — more growers have been looking to legal channels to import foreign workers.
Much like L.A., this American-born pope transcends borders

6 days ago | latimes.com | Jack Dolan |Melissa Gomez |Sonja Sharp |Deborah Netburn

The faithful in Los Angeles, America’s most Catholic city, were delighted — and a little stunned — Thursday to learn a Chicago-born priest with deep roots in Peru had been elected to lead the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics. The surprising elevation of Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, 69, to pope marks the first time someone from the U.S. has been entrusted with what is arguably the highest-profile position in global religion.
Protect immigrant children or launch deportations?

6 days ago | gazettextra.com | Andrea Castillo |Melissa Gomez

WASHINGTON - When immigration agents recently began conducting welfare checks on youths who had arrived at the border unaccompanied by their parents, advocates grew alarmed, fearing the tactic was a cover to target the minors, their adult sponsors and possibly others for deportations.
Protect immigrant children or launch deportations?

6 days ago | thebrunswicknews.com | Andrea Castillo |Melissa Gomez

WASHINGTON - When immigration agents recently began conducting welfare checks on youths who had arrived at the border unaccompanied by their parents, advocates grew alarmed, fearing the tactic was a cover to target the minors, their adult sponsors and possibly others for deportations.
Goal of welfare checks: Protect immigrant children or launch deportations?

6 days ago | thenewstribune.com | Andrea Castillo |Melissa Gomez

Lillian Street Elementary School is one of two schools in Los Angeles where Homeland Security agents tried to gain access. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times/TNS) Genaro Molina TNS WASHINGTON - When immigration agents recently began conducting welfare checks on youths who had arrived at the border unaccompanied by their parents, advocates grew alarmed, fearing the tactic was a cover to target the minors, their adult sponsors and possibly others for deportations.
Goal of welfare checks: Protect immigrant children or launch deportations?

6 days ago | dailyitem.com | Andrea Castillo |Melissa Gomez

WASHINGTON — When immigration agents recently began conducting welfare checks on youths who had arrived at the border unaccompanied by their parents, advocates grew alarmed, fearing the tactic was a cover to target the minors, their adult sponsors and possibly others for deportations.
Goal of welfare checks: Protect children or launch deportations?

1 week ago | latimes.com | Andrea Castillo |Melissa Gomez

Lillian Street Elementary School is one of two schools in Los Angeles where Homeland Security agents tried to gain access. When immigration agents recently began conducting welfare checks on youths who had arrived at the border unaccompanied by their parents, advocates grew alarmed, fearing the tactic was a cover to target the minors, their adult sponsors and possibly others for deportations.
Occidental students use hunger strike to spotlight Palestinian plight, escalate demands

2 weeks ago | gazettextra.com | Melissa Gomez

LOS ANGELES - Last Monday, after consulting with medical professionals, 10 students at Occidental College launched a hunger strike, hoping to draw attention to their long-standing demands for the college to divest from weapons manufacturers with ties to Israel as the war in Gaza continues.
Occidental students use hunger strike to spotlight Palestinian plight, escalate demands

2 weeks ago | dailyitem.com | Melissa Gomez

LOS ANGELES — Last Monday, after consulting with medical professionals, 10 students at Occidental College launched a hunger strike, hoping to draw attention to their long-standing demands for the college to divest from weapons manufacturers with ties to Israel as the war in Gaza continues.