California Private prison company sells two of California’s immigrant detention centers to the feds By Wendy Fry and Nigel Duara | CalMatters | July 6, 2026 CoreCivic will continue operating two ICE detention centers in Kern and San Diego counties.
Bay Area They asked 6,000 Californians about inequality and learned how we live with it By Wendy Fry | CalMatters | June 26, 2026 A conversation with the UC Berkeley authors of “Normalizing Inequality: How Californians Make Sense of the Growing Divide.”
News 5 things to know about the Trump administration’s new green card policy By Wendy Fry | CalMatters | June 4, 2026 Many questions remain unanswered about the new policy and how it will be applied.
California ICE quietly opens another detention center in a former California prison By Wendy Fry | CalMatters | April 23, 2026 The new 700-bed detention facility operated by the for-profit prison company GEO Group is now one of eight ICE detention centers in the state.
California Mexico takes out ‘El Mencho’: What the violence could mean for the U.S. border By Wendy Fry | CalMatters | February 23, 2026 Violence broke out in at least a dozen Mexican states after the killing of a cartel kingpin Sunday.
California California’s newest ICE center has 1,400 detainees. What Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla saw there By Wendy Fry | CalMatters | January 20, 2026 The newest and largest ICE detention center in the state is a former prison in Kern County.
Technology California sues city over surveillance data, warns it can be shared with federal agencies By Wendy Fry | CalMatters | October 3, 2025 The lawsuit comes at a moment of heightened concern for immigrants and women seeking reproductive care. Once data leaves California, it can be accessed by agencies in states with different policies regarding those populations.
Bay Area ‘It was just a regular morning’: Californians picked up in recent ICE raids include kids, volunteers By Wendy Fry | CalMatters | February 11, 2025 None appeared to pose the risks to national security or public safety Trump promised he’d target during his campaign.
Bay Area Why are Black Californians leaving the state? By Wendy Fry | CalMatters | April 19, 2024 Researchers cite the impacts of gentrification and high housing costs.
Bay Area Black women in California are overburdened and underserved, new poll finds By Wendy Fry | August 11, 2023 The first-of-its-kind survey was created by the California Black Women’s Collective Empowerment Institute at Cal State, Dominguez Hills.