Kate Linthicum
@kate-linthicum.bsky.social
international correspondent for the Los Angeles Times
Maxed out credit cards. Overdue rent. The looming threat of closure.
I spent time at an LA car wash that has been battered by ICE raids to show how American businesses that depend on immigrant labor are fairing under Trump.
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I spent time at an LA car wash that has been battered by ICE raids to show how American businesses that depend on immigrant labor are fairing under Trump.
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This L.A. car wash depends on immigrant labor. Can it survive Trump?
The car wash industry, emblematic of California's highway culture, has long depended on immigrant labor. It's been hit hard by President Trump's deportation campaign.
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November 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Maxed out credit cards. Overdue rent. The looming threat of closure.
I spent time at an LA car wash that has been battered by ICE raids to show how American businesses that depend on immigrant labor are fairing under Trump.
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I spent time at an LA car wash that has been battered by ICE raids to show how American businesses that depend on immigrant labor are fairing under Trump.
www.latimes.com/world-nation...
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum was groped Tuesday by a man on the street who kissed her neck and touched her chest.
“If they do this to the president," she said, "what must happen to all the young women women?"
She's calling for new measures to end harassment
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“If they do this to the president," she said, "what must happen to all the young women women?"
She's calling for new measures to end harassment
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Mexico's president was groped on the street. Now she's waging war on rampant sexual harassment
Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico's first female president, is pushing measures against sexual harassment after she was groped by a stranger on the street.
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November 5, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum was groped Tuesday by a man on the street who kissed her neck and touched her chest.
“If they do this to the president," she said, "what must happen to all the young women women?"
She's calling for new measures to end harassment
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“If they do this to the president," she said, "what must happen to all the young women women?"
She's calling for new measures to end harassment
www.latimes.com/world-nation...
How did Marco Rubio win White House support for Venezuela strikes? He flipped the script.
To convince isolationist MAGA leaders, Rubio reframed Maduro as not just a dictator, but also a nefarious drug kingpin who is fueling crime and overdoses on US streets.
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To convince isolationist MAGA leaders, Rubio reframed Maduro as not just a dictator, but also a nefarious drug kingpin who is fueling crime and overdoses on US streets.
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How Rubio is winning over Trumpworld on striking Venezuela
U.S. military pressure on Venezuela is a major victory for Marco Rubio, who has swayed MAGA to his cause: toppling leftist Latin American authoritarians.
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October 17, 2025 at 2:48 PM
How did Marco Rubio win White House support for Venezuela strikes? He flipped the script.
To convince isolationist MAGA leaders, Rubio reframed Maduro as not just a dictator, but also a nefarious drug kingpin who is fueling crime and overdoses on US streets.
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To convince isolationist MAGA leaders, Rubio reframed Maduro as not just a dictator, but also a nefarious drug kingpin who is fueling crime and overdoses on US streets.
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How Trump is using Tren de Aragua to justify mass deportations, deadly strikes in the Caribbean and -- some believe -- perhaps a push for regime change in Venezuela.
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Is Tren de Aragua a real threat -- or a convenient villain?
Trump uses Tren de Aragua to justify deportations and deadly strikes on boats. Experts say it doesn't pose a threat.
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September 24, 2025 at 6:31 PM
How Trump is using Tren de Aragua to justify mass deportations, deadly strikes in the Caribbean and -- some believe -- perhaps a push for regime change in Venezuela.
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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum -- one a handful of the world's Jewish heads of state -- is calling on on Israel to end ‘genocide in Gaza.’
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Mexico's Jewish president calls on Israel to end 'genocide in Gaza'
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, who is Jewish, called Israel's war on Gaza a 'genocide,' marking a decisive shift in her government's foreign policy — and putting it at odds with the United State...
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September 22, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum -- one a handful of the world's Jewish heads of state -- is calling on on Israel to end ‘genocide in Gaza.’
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The Supreme Court today upheld the legality of immigration raids based solely on a person's race or profession, like the one on a car wash in Los Angeles that swept up Jesús Cruz, a migrant who had lived in the US for three decades, had four American kids and no criminal record.
The aftermath of an ICE raid.
I embedded with Jesús Cruz, who was recently returned to Mexico after working for 33 years in the U.S.
He and his wife now face an impossible decision: Should she and their four American children join him in Mexico? Or stay in LA?
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I embedded with Jesús Cruz, who was recently returned to Mexico after working for 33 years in the U.S.
He and his wife now face an impossible decision: Should she and their four American children join him in Mexico? Or stay in LA?
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An ICE raid breaks a family — and prompts a wrenching decision
He came to Los Angeles 33 years ago. Now a man sent back to Mexico and his wife faced an impossible decision. Should she and their U.S. children join him in Mexico? Or stay in Inglewood?
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September 8, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The Supreme Court today upheld the legality of immigration raids based solely on a person's race or profession, like the one on a car wash in Los Angeles that swept up Jesús Cruz, a migrant who had lived in the US for three decades, had four American kids and no criminal record.
The aftermath of an ICE raid.
I embedded with Jesús Cruz, who was recently returned to Mexico after working for 33 years in the U.S.
He and his wife now face an impossible decision: Should she and their four American children join him in Mexico? Or stay in LA?
www.latimes.com/world-nation...
I embedded with Jesús Cruz, who was recently returned to Mexico after working for 33 years in the U.S.
He and his wife now face an impossible decision: Should she and their four American children join him in Mexico? Or stay in LA?
www.latimes.com/world-nation...
An ICE raid breaks a family — and prompts a wrenching decision
He came to Los Angeles 33 years ago. Now a man sent back to Mexico and his wife faced an impossible decision. Should she and their U.S. children join him in Mexico? Or stay in Inglewood?
www.latimes.com
September 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The aftermath of an ICE raid.
I embedded with Jesús Cruz, who was recently returned to Mexico after working for 33 years in the U.S.
He and his wife now face an impossible decision: Should she and their four American children join him in Mexico? Or stay in LA?
www.latimes.com/world-nation...
I embedded with Jesús Cruz, who was recently returned to Mexico after working for 33 years in the U.S.
He and his wife now face an impossible decision: Should she and their four American children join him in Mexico? Or stay in LA?
www.latimes.com/world-nation...
For decades, Mexican authorities promised to reform the country's notoriously corrupt cops.
But that's largely been abandoned in favor of militarization.
I wrote about what it means when there are more soldiers than police deployed across a country.
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But that's largely been abandoned in favor of militarization.
I wrote about what it means when there are more soldiers than police deployed across a country.
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This Mexican city had one of the world's highest homicide rates — so it fired most of its police
Mexico once vowed to reform its police. That has been abandoned as the country deploys soldiers to fight cartels.
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August 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
For decades, Mexican authorities promised to reform the country's notoriously corrupt cops.
But that's largely been abandoned in favor of militarization.
I wrote about what it means when there are more soldiers than police deployed across a country.
www.latimes.com/world-nation...
But that's largely been abandoned in favor of militarization.
I wrote about what it means when there are more soldiers than police deployed across a country.
www.latimes.com/world-nation...
CPAC of the left?
In Mexico, leftists and progressives from a dozen countries are convening this week to strategize about how to win elections and combat a well-organized and increasingly global far right.
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In Mexico, leftists and progressives from a dozen countries are convening this week to strategize about how to win elections and combat a well-organized and increasingly global far right.
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July 31, 2025 at 10:11 PM
CPAC of the left?
In Mexico, leftists and progressives from a dozen countries are convening this week to strategize about how to win elections and combat a well-organized and increasingly global far right.
x.com/katelinthicu...
In Mexico, leftists and progressives from a dozen countries are convening this week to strategize about how to win elections and combat a well-organized and increasingly global far right.
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Reposted by Kate Linthicum
Jerce Reyes Barrios, a U.S. deportee, told The Times he was haunted by his experience in the Salvadoran prison, where he was repeatedly beaten, forced to drink contaminated water and subjected to other horrors.
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'Hell on earth.' A Venezuelan deportee describes abuse in El Salvador prison
A Venezuelan man who was deported from California to El Salvador and held at one of the country's infamous prisons recounts his months in custody, recalling meager rations and the torture and beating ...
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July 29, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Jerce Reyes Barrios, a U.S. deportee, told The Times he was haunted by his experience in the Salvadoran prison, where he was repeatedly beaten, forced to drink contaminated water and subjected to other horrors.
@kate-linthicum.bsky.social & Mery Mogollón have more
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@kate-linthicum.bsky.social & Mery Mogollón have more
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