Tag: migrants
US lawmakers demand reforms to immigration officers’ use of tear gas...
A ProPublica investigation found that scores of children were hurt by these chemicals during President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. Lawmakers say the findings show more restrictions are needed.
Gangs and climate change, born in the USA
Drive migration and autocracy in Central America.
Whistleblower reveals ICE surveillance campaign targeting immigrants and US citizens
Leaked files and internal dissent show immigration enforcement under Trump has expanded into a wide-ranging intelligence operation.
Trump sends immigration agents to San Francisco amid National Guard threat
Coast Guard Base Alameda will host 100 DHS agents as the administration signals a wider “whole-of-government” push; California leaders warn the move is “right out of the dictator’s handbook.”
America’s disappeared
So, who will combine the necessary moral and practical arguments to convince the mass of Americans that the very survival of this country depends on immigrants?
Can we protect our children from the government?
As part of back-to-school preparations, teachers are patrolling their schools against ICE arrests of students and their families.
The transformative power of immigration court watch
More than providing frontline support to people facing deportation, court watch is a necessary primer on growing U.S. fascism.
What’s happened to ‘America the Beautiful?’ Autocracy, MAGA, ICE, heartless cruelty
It’s now become a country that seems to have lost its heart and soul, and is like a barren likeness of its former self.
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.
His former company got caught employing undocumented workers. Now he’s profiting...
It’s run by Nathan Albers, who previously co-owned a company that pleaded guilty to a scheme to hire and conceal undocumented workers.
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Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta
Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.
UN inquiry says Israel deliberately targeted Palestinian children in Gaza
A new UN Commission report details more than 20,000 children killed, tens of thousands injured, attacks on hospitals and schools, and evidence that Palestinian children were treated not as collateral damage, but as targets.
Why Biden’s debate disaster two years ago matters for the future
Looking ahead, a great need will be to overcome the ongoing culture of conformity that so badly damaged the Democratic Party in 2024 and helped Trump get back into the White House.
Addicted to war?
War Fever, Trump-Style.
Scientists prove extensive Viking silver trade with Abbasid Empire from British silver hoard
The team can now date the influx of silver coinage into Viking realms from the Muslim empires of the Middle East much earlier than had previously been thought.