Oakland resident María Mendoza said that California Senator Dianne Feinstein, who died on Sept. 28 at the age of 90, will “forever” be in her heart. The registered oncology nurse was not just a constituent. She credits the late Senator with helping her return to the U.S. and her...
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The Biden administration and the Justice Department are taking decisive action against international fentanyl traffickers, from China to Mexico, to stop the deadly flow of fentanyl from taking the lives of Americans. Meanwhile, contemptible figures on the political right continue to daily peddle disinformation about the very real fentanyl...
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Tens of thousands of undocumented Minnesotans are now eligible to apply for a driver’s license, thanks to a new law signed into place by Democratic Gov. Tim Walz in March. The bill’s prospects for passage were greatly enhanced when Democrats took control of the State Senate last November, ensuring...
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A judge has ordered former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and former Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III to testify in a lawsuit filed by families separated at the southern border, The Washington Post reports. The two former Trump officials were instrumental in the planning and implementation...
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Yes, you read that headline right. The DeSantis team is running an ad with video from 2016 showing men going from the U.S. into Mexico. In the quest to be the most violently anti-immigrant, the superPAC supporting Ron DeSantis has released the new campaign ad boosting the Florida governor’s...
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Hundreds of immigrants, workers, and community members gathered outside the site of the second Republican presidential debate in California this week with a message for the candidates set to take the stage that night: hate doesn’t belong in our state. CHIRLA Action Fund, SEIU United Service Workers West, and...
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As GOP presidential candidates head to California’s Simi Valley for their next debate at the Reagan Library, which will undoubtedly be another endless anti-immigrant tirade, it’s worth reviewing the trajectory that took the Golden State from a Republican bastion to a Democratic stronghold. Attacks on immigrants were a major...
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Republican presidential candidates will no doubt have endless platitudes for Ronald Reagan at the debate scheduled to take place at the library of the 40th President in California’s Simi Valley on September 27 – but expect those words of praise to come to an abrupt stop when it comes...
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The second 2024 Republican presidential debate is set to take place at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California’s Simi Valley on September 27. Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, former Vice President Mike Pence, drug executive Vivek Ramaswamy,...
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The lives of hundreds of thousands of young immigrants and their families continue to hang in the balance, following another decision against the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program by an anti-immigrant court in Texas. Will Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-OR) stand up to her extremist colleagues in order...
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