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KQED reporter Tyche Hendricks covered a talk by University of Wisconsin historian Marla Ramirez at the IGS Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration Colloquium on September 17, 2026, where Ramirez drew parallels between President Trump's current immigration enforcement efforts and the little-known chapter of U.S. history known as Mexican Repatriation. Ramirez, whose new book "Banished Citizens: A History of the Mexican American Women Who Endured Repatriation" documents how an estimated 1 million people, the majority of them U.S. citizens, were sent to Mexico between World War I and World...

Parriva reporter Andrea Perez covered the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute brief co-authored by IGS Co-Director G. Cristina Mora, examining how political priorities among California's Latino registered voters vary sharply by gender, age, education, and language dominance. The piece breaks down key findings from the May 2026 Berkeley IGS Poll of 1,912 Latino registered voters, noting that the gender gap on immigration and the Trump agenda narrows to as little as two percentage points among Spanish-dominant voters, while reaching 20 points among English-dominant voters,...

We Are Mitú reporter Yamily Habib covered the new UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute brief co-authored by IGS Co-Director G. Cristina Mora, framing the findings as a corrective to the oversimplified narrative that emerged from Latino voting patterns in the 2024 presidential election. The article highlights how the real divide within the Latino electorate is not simply between men and women broadly, but is most pronounced among younger, non-college-educated, English-dominant Latino men, with Mora arguing that California's Latino registered voters "cannot be understood as a...

This week the Institute of Governmental Studies will be conducting another of its periodic polls of the California public about major political and public policy issues facing the state. It is a legitimate non-partisan poll sponsored by the University that is carried out by distributing email invitations via Qualtrics to a carefully constructed random sample of the state’s registered voters. Data collection will continue through Monday, September 21.

The opinions of all survey participants will remain confidential and not be...