Soto-Martinez also called on his colleagues to support state legislation that aims to increase funding for deportation defense. The final proposal calls on city staff to identify $540,000 to ...

The Los Angeles City Council will reconvene Wednesday following a roughly one-month recess, with plans to address the impacts of federal immigration enforcement activity and efforts to rebuild parts ...

Hugo Soto-Martinez was in the middle of a Los Angeles City Council meeting last Friday when a friend texted a link to an Instagram post. A photo of a police call log featured the address of Soto ...

The city council voted to pass the motion, which will urge state and federal officials to increase funding for deportation defense and to reinforce LA's commitment to protecting immigrant communities.

Councilman Hugo Soto-Martinez introduced five proposals intended to strengthen labor and immigration protections, which he said would address renewed threats of mass deportations, work-site raids ...

Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez introduced five proposals intended to strengthen labor and immigration protections, which he said would address renewed threats of mass deportations, work-site ...

Noting that 22 departments have higher vacancy rates than the LAPD, including sanitation, street services, youth development and work development, Soto-Martinez asked Szabo whether the contract ...

Three progressive members of the body Councilmembers Nithya Raman, Eunisses Hernandez, and Hugo Soto-Martinez pushed through the measure to make L.A. a sanctuary city for undocumented immigrants ...