State lawmakers head to Central America to address immigration crisis

Six California lawmakers will travel to El Salvador and Guatemala next week to meet with national leaders there regarding the surge in unaccompanied minors fleeing Central America for the United States. Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, and Sen. Ellen Corbett, D-East Bay, are among the six state lawmakers traveling Monday for a 10-day “fact-finding mission” to the Central American countries. Earlier this week, a group of legislators visited the Naval Base Ventura County in Oxnard, where a temporary immigration detention facility has been set up to handle the surge in people illegally crossing the southern border of the U.S. The California Latino Legislative Caucus has called on President [...]