With 1.4 million undocumented immigrants, Southern California will change as deportations increase

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With 1.4 million undocumented immigrants, Southern California will change as deportations increase

As federal agencies begin to make good on President Donald Trump’s long-promised immigration crackdown, increasing deportation quotas and conducting raids in places as diverse as Chicago and Bakersfield, it’s worth looking at two numbers that show why Southern California is the unofficial capital of undocumented America. The first is this: 13.7 million. That’s the number of people estimated to be living in the United States without full legal au…