“We are deeply troubled by the allegations reported this week regarding César Chávez. We at the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute (LPPI) acknowledge the profound pain this moment brings to many in our communities, particularly to those who have long looked to the farmworker movement as a source of dignity, courage, and collective struggle….
On February 25, LPPI Director Dr. Amada Armenta joined a discussion on the importance of documenting the harm that immigration enforcement causes to local economies. She highlighted LPPI’s research on the impact of ICE raids to business corridors in Los Angeles. The webinar was hosted by the Bay Area Asset Funders Network and sponsored by…
On February 27, Telemundo 52 news anchor Enrique Chiabra spoke with LPPI policy fellows at the quarterly communications module. Chiabra has won 11 Emmy awards in his 10 years at Telemundo, alongside awards from GLAAD and the Latino Journalists of California. In his time as a sociology undergraduate at UCLA, Chiabra was president of the…
On February 12, 2026, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), under the Trump administration, finalized a significant rollback of the federal government’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions by repealing the Endangerment Finding under the Clean Air Act, which has been in place since 2009.¹ The Endangerment Finding is a formal scientific determination that greenhouse…
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