On March 31, César Chávez Day, approximately 5,000 union members, community members, and allies from all over California gathered in Delano, the birthplace of the United Farm Workers (UFW) union, to honor the late labor leader and to march in solidarity with immigrant workers. The march, “Con Estas Manos...
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Japanese American communities are warning that “history is repeating itself” following Donald Trump’s invocation of 1798 wartime law to help carry out his mass detention and deportation agenda. Not only is his unlawful proclamation a dangerous expansion of executive power – no president has ever sought to use this...
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Trump isn’t trying to hunt immigrants down to get them to pay their taxes, because they already do. He’s trying to find them to abduct them The Trump administration is seeking to turn the IRS into another immigrant-hunting apparatus of the federal government, by seeking the confidential information of...
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Would “Little Marco” Recognize Himself from 2010? Probably Not. The Trump administration is threatening the First Amendment rights and personal freedoms of all Americans and it’s doing so with the signature of Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The brutal targeting of green card-holder Mahmoud Khalil has put this on...
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Last year, the Biden administration did the right thing by issuing a rule that expanded ACA coverage to nearly 130,000 uninsured DACA recipients. Not only do Dreamers pay billions in tax dollars every year to help fund federal programs like Social Security and Medicare, it makes public health sense...
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The reimplementation of family detention by the Trump administration means more cruelty — and more money for private prisons The Trump administration is bringing back the detention of migrant families, a costly and unnecessary practice that has been condemned as “cruel and inhumane” by immigrant and human rights advocates...
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Mar 10, 2025
Some of the ugliest acts from Donald Trump’s first term were directed at the most vulnerable: children. These attacks included the shameful policy of ripping 5,500 weeping migrant children, including nursing infants and toddlers, from the arms of their loved ones. Despite the established traumatic effects of these policies...
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Mar 5, 2025
One of the most significant moments from Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress did not happen on the dais, but instead in front of it. Just minutes into his unhinged, anti-immigrant and lie-riddled speech, Texas Rep. Al Green stood up with cane in hand to interrupt Trump’s address and...
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Actor and activist Zoë Saldaña paid tribute to her immigrant roots during an emotional Oscar acceptance speech Sunday night, honoring the hard work of her immigrant parents and dedicating her win to her immigrant grandmother. “My grandmother came to this country in 1961,” she said during remarks that drew...
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America needs the work and skills of immigrants, particularly during times when essential industries like healthcare, childcare, and construction are facing critical labor shortages. In Georgia, which has been experiencing “significant” shortages in some of these areas in recent years, the GOP-led state legislature is looking to address this...
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