The federal SHIELD Act and New York’s BUILD Act would strengthen the immigration legal services workforce and help ensure people receive their fair day in court.

The family of five showed up in immigration court, just as directed. After fleeing danger in Ecuador, they had applied for asylum, a form of protection that allows people to remain in the United States if they meet certain legal requirements including being subject to persecution in their country of origin. Their legal representative, Constanza Ben ...

Twenty-three people have died in county jails so far this year.

How are people dying?It typically takes months for Los Angeles County to publicly issue causes of death for people who have died in LA County jails. And even once autopsy reports are finalized, they don’t tell the whole story. When the coroner rules that a death is the result of “natural causes,” jail conditions can still be to blame. Researchers h ...