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#immigrants

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One day, hopefully soon, we'll get our #vengeance against the reich-wing #fascists destroying our nation from the inside out.

Our vengeance will consist of:
• Restoring the #RuleOfLaw
• Welcoming #refugees, #asylumseekers, and other #immigrants
• Rebuilding #dueprocess and strengthening it against compromise
• Reinstating and strengthening the #separationofpowers
• Investing heavily in #science
• Re-engaging with our #allies and mending broken relationships
• Feeding the hungry, housing the #homeless protecting the vulnerable
• Rehabilitating women's control over their own bodies and #healthcare
• Replacing banned books in libraries and classrooms
• Ensuring those who acted illegally while in positions of power are held accountable for their choices

#resist#Ω#Amerika

"Raúl learned my name. Mine, the busboy’s, dishwasher’s... He’d bum us cigarettes, with fingers gritty as ours & sometimes slide a fiver across the bar with a gruff, “Get yourself a beer, Pablo.” Grijalva was the only congressman who ever really saw us.

While Raúl was on air, his AZ offices were taking hits—threats, harassment, violence *prayed for his staff/fam.

He was ours in Congress swinging for migrants while the gringo suits just punched down."

#Immigrants #USPol migrantinsider.com/p/grijalva

Migrant Insider · The Dishwasher’s Congressman, Dies at 77By Pablo Manríquez

The Texas family was on their way to an emergency medical checkup when they were detained at an immigrant checkpoint.

Trump’s immigration crackdown is inhumane & illegal. The child, a US citizen, who’s recovering from brain cancer, was deported with her undocumented parents. Homan said he’d separate families or deport them all.

#Immigrants #Deportations #DHS #Cruelty #Trump #USPol

nbcnews.com/news/latino/us-cit

NBC News · U.S. citizen child recovering from brain cancer deported to Mexico with undocumented parentsBy Nicole Acevedo

"Utterly unprecedented. As far as anyone can tell, no one in the last 100 years has EVER been charged with misdemeanor improper entry under 8 USC 1325 years after they entered the country, & certain never for asylum seekers who already have legal permission."
-A Reichlin-Melnick

"Venezuelan couple is arrested & charged with illegal entry💔— 2 years after crossing into the US. The couple had been granted protected status-."

#Deportations #DueProcess #Immigrants #USPol

latimes.com/politics/story/202

Venezuelan and Nicaraguan migrants are transferred by agents of the Border Patrol after crossing the Rio Grande river from Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico to El Paso, Texas, US to ask for political asylum on December 27, 2022. - The US government's two-year-old policy of invoking Covid-19 precautions to turn away hundreds of thousands of migrants at the Mexican border will remain in place for now, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. The decision to uphold the controversial rule known as Title 42 stemmed off a looming political crisis for President Joe Biden, as thousands waited at the southern border in expectation the policy was about to end. (Photo by Herika Martinez / AFP) (Photo by HERIKA MARTINEZ/AFP via Getty Images)
Los Angeles Times · Venezuelan couple are charged with illegal entry — two years after crossing into U.S.By Andrea Castillo

Jaimes has lived for 30 years in the US, starting his own painting bus that supports his wife & 5 children. Now, they're scrambling to find out what may happen to him & how they'll continue their lives💔w/o his support.

The arrest was made outside Arthur Mid School after Jaimes had dropped off his 8th grade son, who's diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome. Hector said his father had a work permit obtained a few years ago & documentation to live in the US.

#USPol #Immigrants freep.com/story/news/local/mic

Detroit Free Press · Michigan immigrant father arrested by ICE outside school after dropping off childBy Niraj Warikoo

Trump is escalating his efforts to foment fear among #immigrants. Admin: arrested & moving to deport Khalil.

Trump is moving to REQUIRE ALL NONCITIZENS AGE: >14 TO REGISTER WITH THE GOVT -require them to get fingerprinted or potentially face prosecution. Goal: to spread terror & get noncitizens to self-deport.

Rep Jayapal is introducing the No Roundup Act, leg: repeals this long-dormant IMG law that Trump's using to fuel his cruel & inhumane #massdeportations.

#USPol newrepublic.com/article/192628

The New Republic · Transcript: Trump Press Sec Drops Dark Hint About Coming CrackdownsAs the White House press secretary suggests the targeting of activists like Mahmoud Khalil will intensify, Democratic Representative Pramila Jayapal speaks to us about her new efforts to counter Trump.

EMPLOYEES AT THE SPANISH-LANGUAGE Univision were left distraught after the NET’s brass decided to run DHS ads warning #immigrants that the govt will find & deport them.

The ads *part of a new $200M campaign DHS, have rankled immigrant-rights grps, who view them as a blunt attempt at fearmongering on the taxpayer dime.

Univision has covered the ads critically on air.

Yet Univision has joined English-language NETs in complying with #TrumpMusk regime's #Fascism.

#USPol thebulwark.com/p/univision-tel

The Bulwark · ‘State Propaganda’: Anger Erupts Inside Univision Over Airing of Trump AdBy Adrian Carrasquillo

Today in Labor History March 12, 1912: The IWW won their Bread and Roses textile strike in Lawrence, MA. This was the first strike to use the moving picket line, implemented to avoid arrest for loitering. The workers came from 51 different nationalities and spoke 22 different languages. The mainstream unions, including the American Federation of Labor, all believed it was impossible to organize such a diverse workforce. However, the IWW organized workers by linguistic group and trained organizers who could speak each of the languages. Each language group got a delegate on the strike committee and had complete autonomy. Big Bill Haywood and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn masterminded the strategy of sending hundreds of the strikers' hungry children to sympathetic families in New York, New Jersey, and Vermont, drawing widespread sympathy, especially after police violently stopped a further exodus. 3 workers were killed by police during the strike. Nearly 300 were arrested.

The 1911 verse, by Poet James Oppenheim, has been associated with the strike, particularly after Upton Sinclair made the connection in his 1915 labor anthology, “The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest”

As we come marching, marching, we battle too for men,
For they are women's children, and we mother them again.
Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes;
Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses!

#workingclass #LaborHistory #IWW #breadandroses #policebrutality #union #elizabethgurleyflynn #bigbillhaywood #strike #picket #immigrants #poetry #novel #books #fiction #writer #author #uptonsinclair @bookstadon

The fear of #deportation hangs over unauthorized workers trying to fight exploitation, but all workers in the U.S. have rights. A Latin American studies professor explores the complex reality for millions of undocumented #immigrants in the American workforce: buff.ly/ldvrwi8
#ICE

The ConversationThe fear of deportation hangs over unauthorized workers trying to fight exploitation, but all workers in the US have rights
More from The Conversation U.S.

in case you're wondering how these kinds of things go down: "When Khalil’s wife, who is eight months pregnant, showed the agents his green card, “one agent was visibly confused and said on the phone, ‘He has a green card’,” according to the news release.

“However, after a moment, the DHS agents stated that the State Department had ‘revoked that too.’ Khalil’s wife then phoned his attorney, who spoke with the agents in an attempt to intervene,” WAWOG said. “When Khalil’s attorney requested that a copy of the warrant be emailed to her, the agent hung up the call.” "

"[Khalil] was arrested Saturday night by federal immigration authorities who said they were acting on a State Department order to revoke his green card, according to his attorney."

cnn.com/2025/03/10/us/mahmoud-

CNN · Judge temporarily blocks effort to deport Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia student protestsBy Alaa Elassar

A proposed new law in Texas, by Republican Tom Oliverson, would make it illegal in that state to identify as trans, which he's calling "Gender Identity Fraud." The law would punish people who identify as trans with up to two years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

Probably not long before Trump tries to do the same on a federal level. Whoops, he kinda already did with passports.
And with his illegal transferring of trans women prisoners into male prisons, in violation of several court orders. There are already reports of sexual assaults against these women.

Remember, first they came for the trans folks, and undocumented immigrants, and people didn't speak up because they weren't one of them.

Then they came for documented immigrants and those with legal residency because they spoke out against the Genocide in Gaza; as well as cis women of color, because they didn't conform to white, bourgeois ideals of femininity.

No one is free unless we ALL are free.

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Tall, bold text in black is oriented vertically: “IMMIGRANTS ARE NOT THE ENEMY.”

Xenophobic politicians are a greater threat to the masses and our wealth, than refugees from war and economic circumstances. Now in Spanish and English.

(Poster letterpressed by WASP Print for the propaganda party part of the We Are All In This Together exhibition held at the Maas Gallery at SUNY Purchase.)

justseeds.org/graphic/immigran

JustseedsImmigrants Are Not The Enemy - JustseedsA slogan that has been ringing in my mind ever since the beginning of Donald Trump’s election campaign. Xenophobic politicians are a greater threat to the masses and our wealth,... Read More »