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Monthly Archives: May 2018
‘Not now, not ever’: international relations via Twitter
Trump’s latest campaign-rally promise of a wall to be paid for by Mexico was met with a prompt and vehement response from Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, who tweeted (in Spanish and English): “President @realDonaldTrump: NO. Mexico will NEVER pay … Continue reading
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You can take action to end separation of immigrant families
You can call politicians. You can attend a protest, or two. You can take some action, because taking some action builds the muscle of resistance for more actions. The Take Action section below has a quick and incomplete list of … Continue reading
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Immigration from Children to Congress
The weekend’s immigration news focused on children. I spent most of today working on blog posts to explain some of the complications of several intersecting but separate stories in a series of blog posts, all of which are linked through … Continue reading
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Cruel and all-too-usual
The ACLU reviewed thousands of documents and reports widespread abuse of immigrant children in U.S. custody. On the Texas border, a Border Patrol officer shot and killed a young woman. Thomas Homan, acting ICE director, announced that ICE will begin … Continue reading
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Highlights and low-lifes
I’m out of town, with spotty wifi reception, so this post will be brief. Highlights: an excellent article from Ibrahim Hirsi at MinnPost about Somali money transfers, further debunking the Fox News reports and MN Republican Erik Paulsen signs on to … Continue reading
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Protesting immigration policies, from Fort Snelling to DC
Blue Line blocked pic.twitter.com/YYCAnFJjUu — MadameTong (@MadameTong) May 22, 2018 In local news, nore than a hundred people organized by the Poor People’s Campaign and Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee protested deportation at the Whipple Federal Building near Fort Snelling … Continue reading
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Border Patrol stops and questions women for speaking Spanish
Two women, both U.S. citizens, were detained for 30-40 minutes by a Border Patrol agent just because they were speaking Spanish to each other in a gas station convenience store in Havre, Montana. After the agent removed them from the store … Continue reading
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Talking back to Trump
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf and immigration advocate and Dreamer Juan Escalante talk back to President Trump in two eloquent opinion articles linked below. Schaaf says she will continue to “call out this administration’s anti-immigrant fearmongering for what it is: a … Continue reading
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Sessions overturns immigration court rulings
A unilateral decision by Attorney General Jeff Sessions ends one of the very few remaining ways that immigration court judges could exercise discretion on deportation. While immigration battles divide Republicans in the House, the Trump administration is pushing to classify … Continue reading
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Ranter-in-Chief, reprised
“We’re taking people out of the country—you wouldn’t believe how bad these people are,” the president of the United States said. “These aren’t people. These are animals.” The occasion for Trump’s latest rant came as he met with anti-immigrant political … Continue reading
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