With Newsom’s challenge to Trump in limbo, California politicians are seemingly powerless to fight back, from federal court to the state Legislature.

The legislators say they want Trump to allow pathways to legal status for non-criminal undocumented migrants ‘with longstanding ties to our communities.’

Six Republican state lawmakers signed a letter asking the president to modernize the nation's immigration system.

The Trump administration sent the soldiers back to state command, allowing them to return to firefighting work. Thousands remain under federal control.

The Trump administration recently approved a request from the military commander of the National Guard troops deployed to respond to immigration-related unrest in the Los Angeles area to return some of the troops to California's command.

The Trump administration is reassigning some of the National Guard troops deployed to Los Angeles as part of an authoritarian publicity stunt so they can instead address a real crisis — rather than the fake crisis of unrest that Trump has tried to fabricate.

Newsom has shuttered facilities amid a dip in California’s prison population. The Supreme Court in 2011 upheld a ruling from a panel of federal judges ordering the state to reduce severe prison overcrowding,