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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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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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English Common Dreams ‘Don’t Be Fooled’: Laken Riley Act Not About Crime by Migrants—It’s a Right-Wing Power Grab By Julia Conley January 10, 2025 Semafor ‘Numb to injustice’: House Democrat explains why the Laken Riley Act sailed through By David Weigel January 10, 2025 CNN Senate immigration bill aims...
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Like you, we’re still taking in the results of November’s presidential election and what it means for the undocumented community in the U.S. when the new administration takes office in January. Many in our communities are uncertain of what the future holds. But as we try to regroup and...
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Dec 17, 2024
Washington, DC — During a recent interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker, Donald Trump reiterated his intention to “eliminate birthright citizenship,” the protection enshrined in the 14th Amendment that guarantees citizenship to children born on U.S. soil regardless. Asked about the likelihood that doing so unilaterally would face legal opposition,...
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TRUMP’S MASS DEPORTATION AGENDA TAKES AIM AT WHAT IT MEANS TO BE AN AMERICAN During a recent interview with NBC News’s Kristen Welker, President-elect Donald Trump reiterated that his “bloody” mass deportation agenda would ensnare U.S. citizens and attack basic principles of what it means to be an American,...
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Washington, DC – Below is a column by Maribel Hastings from America’s Voice en Español translated to English from Spanish. It ran in several Spanish-language media outlets earlier this week: Will Donald Trump carry out his machiavellian anti-immigrant promises? Last Sunday, on NBC’s Meet the Press, he reiterated that...
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Donald Trump’s mass deportation team has been taking shape, and it is alarming, as expected. Trump has announced that he has selected South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem as his nominee for secretary of Homeland Security, joining noted white nationalist Stephen Miller and former acting ICE director Thomas Homan to...
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THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF TRUMPISM AV started and ended the week talking about the broad implications of Trump’s mass deportation and immigration restriction plan, and especially the impact on economics. Over the weekend, Trump confirmed he planned to use the military to repel the “invasion,” reiterating the dangerous white...
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