🚨NEW @UCLALatino and @KnowledgeLuskin Research🚨
A new California study sheds light on the experiences of ethnic-owned small businesses with access to capital, digital technology, and environmental sustainability practices, and the impacts of COVID-19 and climate change.
🚨 NEW UCLA CNK BRIEF 🚨
📊ICE arrests rose 200% under Trump, but the share classified as the “worst of the worst” fell from 28% ➡️ 12%.
📈Arrests not classified as public-safety threats rose from 22% ➡️37%.
📰: https://t.co/yfYY663BvX
🚨 New research brief (CNK + Unseen): Latinos account for 96% of deportations despite being ~76–80% of the undocumented population.
📊 187K arrests, 126K deportations (Jan–Oct 2025)
📈 Noncriminal cases rising as priorities shift
📄: https://t.co/4W54S43cQT
ICE agents were deployed to major U.S. airports during a government shutdown to help address TSA staffing shortages. Paul Ong notes their presence also raises concerns about ongoing immigration enforcement in everyday travel spaces. https://t.co/nsscF23diU
🚨 New research brief:
Non-citizens in the highest-rate state were 30x more likely to be arrested than in the lowest.
📊Arrest rates were strongly tied to Trump 2024 support
📈Latino non-citizens were disproportionately impacted
📄https://t.co/hosXNDcJfP
I'll be presenting on this @ucla_its research—the historical biases and current legacy of the siting of the 210—to @PasadenaGov at Pasadena City Hall on Wednesday, March 20 at 6:30 P.M.: https://t.co/QtarGkLezI
📊 A recent survey by UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute and the UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge reveals crucial insights into the emergency preparedness of small businesses in California!
A thread🧵:
Research led by Paul Ong, dir. of @KnowledgeLuskin, will help guide a master plan for rebuilding Pasadena neighborhoods razed decades ago to make way for the 710 Freeway extension, a project that has now been abandoned. #UCLALuskin#UCLA@UCLA https://t.co/e4BEZZgkUZ
Read the Zocalo article authored by researchers from the @KnowledgeLuskin on the thriving Asian enclaves of Stockton, CA, that were razed in the mid-20th century in the name of “progress” — and efforts today to make amends. #UCLALuskin#UCLA@UCLA https://t.co/db6LuuKz8M
NEW Research: Our new study investigates the experiences of ethnic small business owners in AZ regarding access to capital, enviormental sustainability practices, & the impacts of COVID-19 and climate change. https://t.co/YXHEIEhgFS
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This Friday, DEC 8 Paul Ong and @KnowledgeLuskin will present on the impacts of freeways on communities of color during the inaugural Select Committee meeting on Reconnecting Communities. @AlvarezSD
SD meeting details below⤵️
https://t.co/tH6sCLhT6n
The team at @KnowledgeLuskin and @ucla_its uncovered another example of the stark racial disparities between alternative freeway routes—and also, a rich description of Stockton's Asian enclaves and their communities' reaction and resistance to the freeway: https://t.co/3SqJBvYFAO
Historical research findings from @KnowledgeLuskin and @ucla_its: state and city planners routed the SR 4 freeway through the heart of Stockton’s Asian neighborhoods, displacing over a 1K people and destroying nearly 800 housing units. https://t.co/i16YRmvZ57 (1/4)
Historical research findings from @KnowledgeLuskin and @ucla_its: state and city planners routed the SR 4 freeway through the heart of Stockton’s Asian neighborhoods, displacing over a 1K people and destroying nearly 800 housing units. https://t.co/i16YRmvZ57 (1/4)
We are forever grateful to Lillian Galedo, Laurena Cabanero, Luna Jamero, Valerie Lee Acoba, Victor Mow, and Reverend LaVerne Senyo Sasaki for sharing their personal and community histories with us. (3/4)
💡NEW @UCLALatino Research💡
A new study investigates the experiences of ethnic small business owners in Texas regarding access to capital, digital technology, environmental sustainability practices, and the impacts of COVID-19 and climate change.
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https://t.co/5Kz8ET9Si1
Information opens up opportunities for action. Read what Paul Ong, dir. of @KnowledgeLuskin, had to say to @AP about new Census Bureau projections showing an older, more diverse U.S. population by the end of the 21st century. #uclaluskin@UCLA#UCLA https://t.co/rGjIVq7CWo