The New Yorker spoke by phone with Ahilan Arulanantham, a law professor at UCLA and the faculty co-director of the Center for Immigration Law and Policy. During the conversation, they discussed how judges have tried to limit the Trump administration’s use of this third-country loophole by demanding that it bring wrongly deported immigrants home, the legal process that allows this type of deportation, and how the Supreme Court’s unwillingness to rein in the Trump Administration has strained federal courts. See more about UCLA in today’s Los Angeles Times, KCBS-TV and other outlets. 

More highlights from UCLA in the News: Feb. 20, 2026

How experts helped ‘The Pitt’ sensitively portray a rape kit exam | Los Angeles Times

To help construct a realistic and sensitive portrayal of the exam process, “The Pitt’s” writing team and actors worked with a number of consultants, including the UCLA Health Rape Treatment Center and Pittsburgh Action Against Rape. … Katherine LaNasa found her time at the UCLA Health Rape Treatment Center crucial to chart both her character’s ease in the room and her sensitivity to the task at hand: “I went back a second time because I knew I was going to have to use the kit. ... I wanted it to look like I had used the kit many times and I knew what I was doing.”

LA’s dogged defense of ‘mansion’ tax destroys housing supply | Daily Breeze

“The easiest way to avoid the tax is to not sell, and our research shows that over the first two years since ULA was implemented, high-value property sales in the city fell by about 50% — a far steeper decline than elsewhere in the county during the same period,” explain researchers from UCLA’s Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies.

Tensions escalate between the US and Iran | KCBS-TV

“It doesn't look like the talks are going to be fruitful. The reason for that is because the U.S. demands really exceed the maximum position of the Iranians are willing to concede on… It’s difficult to see this as anything other than inevitable use of force by the U.S. military,” said UCLA’s Benjamin Radd (approx. :55 mark).

Reinventing zinc oxide for darker skin | KABC-TV

“They leave this white cast on my skin… and it deters me from wanting to use sunscreens,” said UCLA student AJ Addae. “The best sunscreen is one you’ll wear. And that’s really all my motivation is for this.” (UCLA’s Paul Weiss was also interviewed.)