The New York Times featured UCLA’s K-Sue Park in an article about experts’ concerns over shifts in immigration policy and potential next waves of crackdowns. “Some people more risk-averse will leave, and the ones who stay will be terrified,” says Park, a professor at the UCLA School of Law. Park argues that the threat of deportation is a way to keep certain people, especially low-paid workers, in check. “They won’t be able to do anything. They won’t even attempt to exercise any of the rights they might exercise,” she said. Read more about UCLA in today’s NPR, EdSource and others.

More highlights from UCLA in the News: April 10, 2026

Los Angeles Unified faces its third major strike in seven years | EdSource

Janna Shadduck-Hernández, project director at the UCLA Labor Center, has helped develop curriculum on labor rights to implement Assembly Bill 800, which, in part, requires that students receive information on their rights as workers. Through that work, she has met students and families who fear being swept up in immigration enforcement actions. ”There’s been a really deep response by teachers staying after school, going the extra mile, to walk their students home, to pick them up, to be out front every single morning greeting them, making sure they’re safe,” said Shadduck-Hernández. (UCLA’s John Rogers was also quoted.)  

710,000 fewer babies were born last year in U.S. compared with two decades ago | NPR

One possibility, according to economist Martha Bailey, head of the California Center for Population Research at the University of California, Los Angeles, is that U.S. women are delaying motherhood and will have more children later in life. “We’re seeing big drops in fertility rates for young women, teenagers and women in their 20s,” Bailey said. “What’s not yet clear is whether or not those same women will go on to have children later on.”

These workers may be at lower risk for cardiovascular disease | Medical Xpress

The findings, published in the peer-reviewed journal Ethnicity & Disease, suggest that work structure may be related to cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk among this group, said Dr. Kimberly Narain, assistant professor of medicine in the division of general internal medicine and health services research at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the study’s senior author.

Can food actually be medicine? These doctors say yes | New York Times

Plenty of data show that if physicians know more about cooking, they are more likely to use food as a tool to treat patients, said Wendelin Slusser, an associate vice provost and professor of pediatrics at the University of California, Los Angeles, speaking at a panel last year. “Are we preparing them to prescribe it with the same confidence as medicine?” she asked.

Will Congress pass Trump’s artificial intelligence framework? | Deseret News

This fits with Trump’s broader vision that a lighter regulatory touch is critical to ensure that AI innovation reaches its full potential, according to John Villasenor, who co-directs the Institute for Technology, Law and Policy at UCLA. “The big concern is that when you have potentially dozens of different state-level frameworks that are all slightly different, and perhaps contradictory, the compliance burden just becomes really, really bad,” Villasenor told the Deseret News.