First, let’s be clear on some facts: everyone present in the United States, no matter their immigration status or who is currently president, has rights, and the right to know what they are. It’s supposed to be an essential foundation of this nation. Anyone insisting otherwise is being dishonest,...
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Donald Trump, who last year became the first former president to be convicted of felony crimes, spent the entire 2024 campaign falsely equating all immigrants as “criminals” in order to minimize the political fallout of his unpopular “bloody” mass deportation agenda. Following his win in November, some elected Republicans,...
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Jan 29, 2025
Stephen Miller, a notorious white nationalist who was one of the first Trump administration’s longest-serving advisers and the principal mastermind behind its cruelest anti-immigrant policies, has returned to help carry out the “bloody” mass deportation agenda that was the signature promise of Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign. Now holding...
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A long-serving federal judge in Seattle, Washington has issued a nationwide ruling temporarily blocking Donald Trump’s attack on the 14th Amendment and birthright citizenship, calling the executive order seeking to gut 150 years of settled law “blatantly unconstitutional,” The Seattle Times reports. In his ruling, Senior U.S. District Judge...
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For regular readers, the events of this week likely did not come as a surprise. Trump and, more importantly, the gang of nativist ideologues he empowered around him, have begun executing their radical reimaging of America viewed through the prism of the white nationalist great replacement theory. Just as...
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Donald Trump’s day one avalanche of promised executive orders were more about advancing disorder, nativist divisions, and scapegoating immigrants than about lowering the costs of groceries, childcare, and housing for working families. As noted in a Bluesky thread earlier this week: The sum total of the coming day-one Executive...
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President-elect Donald Trump confirmed reports that he plans to declare a legally dubious national emergency when he returns to power in January 2025, this time in order to carry out the “bloody” detention and mass deportation of millions of our undocumented neighbors, and likely some U.S. citizens as well....
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NPR reports that as neighborhoods in the Los Angeles metropolitan area faced destruction due to a series of historic and deadly wildfires, immigrants gathered buckets and hoses to help try to stop the devastation from spreading. Housekeeper Maria Garcia, who is undocumented, said she doesn’t even live in the...
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In a frightening preview of the incoming administration’s “bloody” mass detention and deportation agenda across the nation, Border Patrol agents in unmarked vehicles have reportedly been carrying out ugly, racially profiled raids in California’s agricultural heartland, including stalking immigrants outside of stores popular among farmworkers. This early example of...
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Jan 13, 2025
Donald Trump selected former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi as his latest nominee for U.S. Attorney General, following his disastrous pick of disgraced former Congressman Matt Gaetz for the position. Bondi was the state’s attorney general from 2011 to 2019, and has more recently been affiliated with the America...
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