Andrea Castillo

Samuel Gonzalez Terrones, 21, struggled with depression and schizophrenia. His mom's arrest by ICE became too much to bear.

Republican and Democratic congressional candidates are wrestling with how to talk about immigration. They consistently call for a strong U.S.-Mexico border but then diverge, with some calling for ICE to be abolished while others support President Trump's immigration crackdown.

The forum, led by Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Long Beach), included the mothers of Renee Good and Ruben Ray Martinez, and the woman who filmed Alex Pretti's death.

The image, made to look like a movie poster for "Transformers," urged the man to self-deport. The agency later deleted it.

The Department of Homeland Security has not yet announced whether it will end or extend Temporary Protected Status for some 170,000 Salvadorans, including 36,000 in California.

Federal officials said the targeted schools were connected to more than 5,000 drivers who had failed English proficiency tests.

In some instances, contracts have been changed to declare that the centers are simply not subject to local or state laws. In others, ICE has purchased facilities owned and operated by private companies.

A new ruling by an administrative immigration court ends a pathway to citizenship for DACA recipients who are married to U.S. citizens.

With a new payment system still not in place, advocates for immigrant detainees fear some are going without necessary treatment as medical providers near a year without compensation.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services estimates that up to 444,000 of the more than 1.4 million asylum cases in its backlog could be affected by the rule.