David Huerta, the union leader federal agents detained at an immigration protest in Los Angeles last week, is well-known to California’s Democratic leadership from his years of activism in and out of the Capitol.

California is seeing a notable increase in strike activity across private and public sectors as affordability challenges rise.

The Trump administration’s increasingly aggressive moves on immigration are pulling Democrats back into a border security debate they had tried to ignore. For months, Democrats scarred by the politics of the issue sought to sidestep President Donald Trump’s immigration wars — focusing instead on the economy,