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Unauthorized immigrants offered $1,000 to self-deport | Los Angeles Times
Hiroshi Motomura, a law professor at UCLA who specializes in American immigration and citizenship, said the U.S. is not the first nation to try to persuade immigrants to leave the country. Over the years, other countries, such as Germany and Japan, have offered financial incentives for immigrants to self-deport.
Why a ‘100% tariff’ proposal for foreign films doesn’t make sense | Time
“The operating theory that the Trump Administration seems to be embracing is that if they make foreign manufacturing more appealing for any part of American industry, it will result in domestic manufacturing improving. So if there are tariffs on anything foreign, it’s supposed to inspire manufacturing domestically,” says Tom Nunan, a continuing lecturer at the School of Theater, Film and Television at University of California, Los Angeles. “It was predictable that it would turn to entertainment as well.”
Groups call on Trump to curb wasteful water use | Los Angeles Times
The petition focuses on a federal regulation titled Part 417, which requires the Bureau of Reclamation to ensure that its deliveries of water in the three lower basin states “will not exceed those reasonably required for beneficial use.” “Our findings are that the Bureau is not adhering to this requirement,” said Cara Horowitz, director of UCLA’s Frank G. Wells Environmental Law Clinic, which is representing the groups.
Scientists just found a way to break through climate apathy | Grist
Both charts represent the same amount of winter warming, just presented differently. “We are not hoodwinking people,” said Rachit Dubey, a co-author of the study who’s now a professor of communications at the University of California, Los Angeles. “We are literally showing them the same trend, just in different formats.”
OpenAI’s scraps its for-profit conversion plan | Business Insider
Rose Chan Loui, a law professor and expert in nonprofit law at UCLA who has previously been critical of OpenAI’s plans, said she found the new proposal “encouraging.” “They’re saying all the right things,” she said. “They’re saying that the mission remains the same, that the PBC will have the same mission, and whether or not that really happens, I think depends on what processes they set up in terms of governance.”
Hearing loss, dementia are linked. Here’s how to lower your risk | WebMD
If you can’t hear clearly, your brain has to work harder to understand noises, says Dr. Alejandra Sanchez-Lopez, an assistant clinical professor of neurology and geriatric medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. That comes at the expense of the parts of your brain in charge of memory and thinking.
