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Trump may be trying to stop the flow of immigrants, but for $500,000 and a promise to create at least 10 jobs, a foreigner can get a provisional green card. It's called an EB-5 visa, and dozens of big building developments around LA have been financed this way. As of November, the price for an EB-5 visa is going up to $900,000 minimum. One investor from India is helping fund a new building in LA to get his hands on a green card.

Longtime businesses in Little Tokyo are facing gentrification. They worry they’ll be priced out as downtown has revitalized, and rents are going up. In an effort to save these businesses, the Japanese American community started the Little Tokyo Community Impact Fund.

The Trump administration wants to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which allows young people who were illegally brought to the U.S. to live and work here. Today, the Supreme Court heard arguments on the program. We hear from DACA recipients whose futures hang in the balance.

On this Veterans Day, we replay some of our favorite segments from the year. Rob Zabrecky talks about his early days in LA’s punk scene. Plus, more and more Angelenos are using photos to chronicle their childbirth experiences. And can research help us be nicer to each other?

In November 2018, the Woolsey Fire burned a huge area from Thousand Oaks to Malibu. Mai Lindquist lost her home in the fire. She had been living there for decades. She says life today sometimes feels worse. 

Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks has been closed since November 7, 2018, the night a Marine veteran walked in and shot and killed 12 people before taking his own life. Owner Brian Hynes hopes to reopen. 

The Trump administration wants to end Temporary Protected Status, which allows immigrants currently living in the U.S. a chance to stay and work here if something catastrophic happens in their home countries. It’s now up to the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to decide if some of these immigrants should be sent home.

One nonprofit in Santa Monica is teaching under-resourced kids how to play mariachi music, plus Spanish language and Mexican culture. One student has gone on to play with the LA Phil.

We travel to another dimension, where Rod Serling stretched the imagination and tapped into a societal psyche. “The Twilight Zone” turns 60 this year and is it ever eerily relevant today.

Thousands of residents in and around Simi Valley were forced to flee their homes after the Easy Fire sparked early Wednesday morning. So far, the fire is not contained, and it threatens the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum.