Tag: immigrants
60 years after LBJ signed Medicaid & Medicare, GOP cuts threaten...
Ai-jen Poo highlights the role of immigrants, who make up a third of the caregiving sector, and says Trump’s crackdown on immigration hastens the dwindling of care available to the aging and elderly.
He came to the US to support his sick child. He...
Five days later, he was gone. At what was supposed to be his final asylum hearing on March 20, Rodríguez Parra was nowhere to be found.
More carnival than warzone—the LA protests aren’t what you’ve heard
Social media posts show LA protesters using creativity, humor, joy and even patriotism to express their disapproval of Trump’s immigration raids.
LA under siege: Trump sends in National Guard as protests continue...
“If we organize ourselves, if we resist, we can defend our communities from ICE terror, from the Border Patrol or from any federal agency that wishes to separate our families.”
Freedom of movement and global apartheid
We might summarize the entire history of the human race in two words: people move. Everything else is just elaboration on that basic plot.
The country Trump seems dead set on imitating
The Trump administration has begun offering wealthy foreigners the chance to emigrate to the U.S. if they fork over $5 million for a so-called gold card—an alternative to the “green card.”
Inside ICE Air: Flight attendants on deportation planes say disaster is...
For migrants who have spent months or years trying to reach this country and live here, it is the last act, the final bit of America they may experience.
A cruel hoax: The political economy of anti-immigration
The deep contradictions of anti-immigration—and other projects—are not overcome by hiding them under the veneer of slogans like “America First.”
The mass deportation handoff, Biden to Trump
Its essential assumption: that Biden adored open borders, while Trump, the demagogue, is on his way to executing a profitable clampdown on them.
American troops as migrants
What the MAGA crowd don’t recognize: the troops they plan to rely on to carry out the deportations of potentially millions of people are, in their own way, also migrants.
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AI death panels or cost control? Medicare pilot hands denials to private algorithms
Federal pilot in Arizona, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, and Washington will pay private A.I. firms a cut of “savings,” prompting warnings of “AI death panels” and the “very worst of private insurance.”
From Guernica to Gaza
“Do not think yourself better because you burn up friends and enemies with long-range missiles without ever seeing what you have done.”
Wednesday night massacre at CDC: Resignations, walkout, and a showdown over vaccine policy
After the removal of Director Susan Monarez, top CDC officials resign and staff walk out as RFK Jr.’s HHS faces bipartisan alarm.
DRC to open bids for oil and gas drilling putting pristine forest and endangered...
Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC) government opened another round of auctioning for 52 oil blocks, which threatens 64 percent of the country’s pristine forest.
When will MAGA Trump’s reckless war against America cause an equal, GOP-demolishing backlash?
Trumpism has always been a bad faith magic trick but day by day becomes America’s indefensible bad joke.