#immigrants
It’s a tragedy to blame others for all your issues. This seems typical. #SouthAfrica #Xenophobia #Unemployment #Nigeria #Zimbabwe #WhiteSupremacy #HateSpeech #Immigrants #Immigration #Discrimination #Africa https://vocal.media/psyche/i-hate-foreigners-south-africa-s-xenophobia-is-more-than-hate-speech
So very much looking forward to Nitin's new LP due this month #NitinSawhney #Immigrants #vinyl #FridayNightJukebox #NowPlaying
On Hasan Minhaj, Trauma Passports, and Immigrant Fictions
It would appear that Minhaj has lost his Trauma Passport: that potent combination of trauma stories mixed in with just enough humour to seem edgy but not, you know, depressing. Yasmin Nair writes.
https://yasminnair.com/hasanminhaj/
#HasanMinhaj #entertainment #immigrants #racism #immigration #islamophobia #UnitedStates #netflix #PatriotAct #StandupComedy #india
This is a snippet of a discussion in r/Europe on reddit.
Ignore the naked #racism for a moment, I wondered what would happen if I were to point out that there was indeed a sociological reason for the "pattern" here.
Case in point, the "gangsters" and "mafia" that once 'ruled' America were also Italian and Irish #immigrants, right?
Could it be that when desperate people land in an entirely unfamiliar culture without official papers, the only life they can live involves lots of crime?
‘Nonsense’ claim #immigrants in the #US. illegally don't pay #taxes, #mortgages, #rent | #Factcheck
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2023/09/27/false-claim-immigrants-dont-pay-taxes-housing-costs-fact-check/70970955007/
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In a small room of 20 far right #US associates, Cruella #Braverman, the daughter of 1970s #Indian #Immigrants announced: "Multiculturalism has failed" 😳
The irony! 🙄
Why's she decided to fly so far to make such incendiary claims? The starting gun for #GE2024 has been fired, & as predicted the #Tories are putting #Race & #Immigration front & centre, just as they did in 2019 with #Brexit
HOWEVER, this time it's the children of Indian Immigrants happily leading the charge
From Cyberscoop #press: FOIA Documents from #ICE show how their collection of data on #immigrants is much more invasive than we thought.
#HispanicHeritageMonth #Unidos
Did you know👇🏾
Latinos are the second largest group of voters in the country🗳️
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“The allegations leveled against me are just that — #allegations.” #Menendez said at a news conference at a community college not far from where he grew up, the child of #Cuban #immigrants.
“I recognize that this will be the biggest fight yet,” he said, adding that once the #judicial process concluded, he expected that “not only will I be exonerated, I will still be #NewJersey’s senior #senator.”
(We’ll see)
#law #legal #Congress #Senate #Politics #Corruption
#immigrants #USPol #fascism #USSR #culture
i think my folks understand america very well, but the way some americans are "anti-antifa" or "scared of antifa" is extremely confusing to them (and to me).
the place where my folks are from is the former USSR. USSR fought against the nazis and lost millions of people fighting against fascism. also my dad had relatives who were never heard from after the nazis took their city in southern ukraine. my grandpa fought in stalingrad. my mom's family had to evacuate their city because they were getting invaded by nazis. the city where all 3 of us were born was invaded by nazis more than once. my dad's mom had to dig graves for her own countrypeople on order of the nazis....and the stories go on and on.
so like, there was no chance of developing confusion as to whether you wanted to be on the anti- side of the "fa". and i think they are confused as to how americans (who ALSO fought against the "fa" in WWII) could become confused about who was "the good guy" in the split between the anti- and the "fa"...
but, funny enough, i don't think they'd ever heard of antifa until it started getting big on cable news and then filtered down to network news (which they watch over coffee). when they found out, that's when the confusion started...like, how could *americans* (who again, fought an actual war against actual "fa") be mad at *antifa*. anyway, now they know why (because plenty of americans are fine with the "fa"), but it still strikes them as extremely creepy and concerning. they understand what it means if people are out there "keeping antifa out of their town." they understand. meanwhile my dad is still watching hitler documentaries on the history channel "so that we can understand how it happened...in a country that was ~one of the most advanced in europe!~". it's like, dad, look around, pal. you don't have to look in history to "learn how it happened." it's happening!
A World of Slaves:
Most Americans haven’t seen what’s coming.
Nancy MacLean notes that when the #Kochs’ control of the GOP kicked into high gear after the financial crisis of 2007-08, many were so stunned by the “shock-and-awe” tactics of #shutting #down government, #destroying #labor unions, and #rolling #back #services that meet citizens’ basic necessities that few realized that many leading the charge had been trained in economics at Virginia institutions, especially George Mason University.
Wasn’t it just a new, particularly vicious wave of partisan politics?
It wasn’t.
MacLean convincingly illustrates that it was something far more disturbing.
MacLean is not the only scholar to sound the alarm that the country is experiencing a #hostile #takeover that is well on its way to radically, and perhaps permanently, altering the society.
Peter #Temin, former head of the MIT economics department, INET grantee, and author of "The Vanishing Middle Class", as well as economist Gordon #Lafer of the University of Oregon and author of "The One Percent Solution", have provided eye-opening analyses of where America is headed and why.
MacLean adds another dimension to this dystopian big picture, acquainting us with what has been overlooked in the capitalist right wing’s playbook.
She observes, for example, that many liberals have missed the point of strategies like #privatization.
Efforts to “reform” #public #education and #Social #Security are not just about a preference for the private sector over the public sector, she argues. You can wrap your head around those, even if you don’t agree.
Instead, MacLean contends, the goal of these strategies is to radically alter power relations, #weakening pro-public forces and #enhancing the #lobbying #power and commitment of the corporations that take over public services and resources, thus advancing the plans to #dismantle #democracy and make way for a return to #oligarchy.
The majority will be held captive so that the wealthy can finally be free to do as they please, no matter how destructive.
MacLean argues that despite the rhetoric of Virginia school acolytes, shrinking big government is not really the point.
The #oligarchs require a government with tremendous new powers so that they can bypass the will of the people.
This, as MacLean points out, requires greatly #expanding #police #powers “to control the resultant popular anger.”
The spreading use of pre-emption by GOP-controlled state legislatures to suppress local progressive victories such as living wage ordinances is another example of the right’s #aggressive use of #state #power.
👉Could these right-wing capitalists allow private companies to fill #prisons with helpless citizens—or, more profitable still, right-less undocumented #immigrants? ☑️They could, and have.
👉Might they engineer a #retirement #crisis by moving Americans to inadequate 401(k)s? ☑️Done.
👉Take away the rights of consumers and workers to bring grievances to court by making them sign #forced #arbitration agreements? ☑️Check.
👉Gut #public #education to the point where ordinary people have such bleak prospects that they have no energy to fight back? ☑️Getting it done.
👉Would they even refuse children #clean #water? ☑️Actually, yes.
MacLean notes that in #Flint, Michigan, Americans got a taste of what the emerging oligarchy will look like — it tastes like #poisoned #water. There, the Koch-funded Mackinac Center pushed for legislation that would allow the governor to take control of communities facing emergency and put unelected managers in charge.
In Flint, one such manager switched the city’s water supply to a polluted river, but the Mackinac Center’s lobbyists ensured that the law was fortified by protections against lawsuits that poisoned inhabitants might bring. Tens of thousands of children were exposed to #lead, a substance known to cause serious health problems including brain damage.
Libertarian economist Tyler #Cowen has provided an economic #justification for this kind of #brutality, stating that where it is difficult to get clean water, private companies should take over and make people pay for it. “This includes giving them the right to cut off people who don’t—or can’t—pay their bills,” he explains.
To many this sounds grotesquely #inhumane, but it is a way of thinking that has deep roots in America.
In "Why I, Too, Am Not a Conservative" (2005), Buchanan considers the charge of #heartlessness made against the kind of classic liberal that he took himself to be.
MacLean interprets his discussion to mean that people who “failed to foresee and save money for their future needs” are to be treated, as Buchanan put it, “as #subordinate members of the species, akin to…#animals who are dependent.’”
Do you have your education, health care, and retirement personally funded against all possible exigencies?
Then that means #you.
"Despite studies showing #Black #immigrants are, on average, the most educated group of immigrants in the #UnitedStates, they earn lower wages than similarly trained non-Black immigrants and have the highest #unemployment rate of any #immigrant group.
An ethnic #racist asks, 'Why are Black immigrants doing better than African Americans?'
An ethnic #antiracist asks, 'Why are Black immigrants not doing as well as other immigrant groups?'"
How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi
润，应当是一个新的开端。
在世界各地，随着气候灾难、经济危机和战争的蔓延，迫使数百万人流亡国外和跨越国界，大规模流离失所正在加速。
这些大规模的迁徙加剧了仕绅化，推高了住房成本，而房地产投机正导致越来越多的人无家可归。
……
流亡者如何才能在新的家园继续采取政治行动，在陌生的环境中建立跨种族的团结？
这里是关于流离失所者在新环境中开展强有力的政治组织活动的另一个例子。
🧬 更新《流离失所者之间的团结》
https://iyouport.substack.com/p/644
This is a preposterous claim by Rep. #AndyBiggs. There are a total of between 10-12 million #undocumented #immigrants residing in the United States. The idea that another 10 million have entered the United States in the 3 years #Biden has been #President is baseless nonsense. But this is the sort of deliberate dishonesty that #Republican lawmakers base their existence on. Just #vote them out. #VoteBlue
No, the federal government does not give #undocumented #immigrants $2,200 per month
https://www.wgrz.com/amp/article/news/verify/immigration/undocumented-immigrants-2200-monthly-payments-fact-check/536-69387900-404a-441b-8f17-20d30dc93c4b
https://globalnews.ca/news/9972150/quebec-solidaire-immigration-critic-family-reunification-limits/
“Québec solidaire is calling on the #Legault government to allow more #immigrants trying to reunite with their families to enter the province.
The party says wait times for family reunification applications in #quebec have now reached double, even triple, the time it takes in the rest of #canada.
And some are feeling unwelcome in the province because of that.” #familyreunification
EU states expressed ‘incomprehension’ at Tunisia migration pact, says Borrell | European Union | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/18/eu-states-expressed-incomprehension-at-tunisia-migration-pact-says-borrell
This hardly speaks well of democracy in the EU as a whole.
Europeans are angry about #immigrants and the damage they cause. Do you remember when you came to our land stealing, destroying our societies and plundering our resources? Our time has come, #Allah guide us in the conquest of #Europe.
#Africa #AllahuAkbar #Islam #muhammadﷺ #UE
🔴 NON solo #Lampedusa‼️
Yemeni Authorities Try to Contain Clashes Between #Ethiopian #Immigrants That Killed 10‼️
#Yemen #Etiopia #Africa
https://english.aawsat.com/arab-world/4539156-yemeni-authorities-try-contain-clashes-between-ethiopian-immigrants-killed-10
In an increasingly pessimistic era, #immigrants espouse a hallmark American trait — #optimism
Little Amal's visit to South Philly Wednesday.
https://youtu.be/M9KIvqLVJRQ?si=SF90gpiLIIQQ7-lz
It was a privilege to experience this once in a lifetime event, so it feels appropriate to include a link to the Walk With Amal Fund below.
Your donations provide education, food, shelter, emergency medical care, legal assistance, & more for children like Little Amal.
https://donate.chooselove.org/campaigns/walks-amal-fund/
#LittleAmal #WalkWithAmal #refugees #IndigenousPeople #SouthPhilly #HumanRights #immigration #immigrants #migrants
"ICE Agent Torturing Migrants Moved By Resiliency Of Human Spirit"
https://www.theonion.com/ice-agent-torturing-migrants-moved-by-resiliency-of-hum-1850818700 #satire #immigrants #humanity
Using word 'Bangladeshi' for every migrant worker is dangerous: Justice S Muralidhar
He said that sweeping generalizations often lead to unwarranted national security concerns and unjust treatment of immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers.
#JusticeSMuralidhar #MigrantWorkers #migrants #refugees #immigrants #displacement #xenophobia #nationalism #NationalBorders #bangladesh #india
"The [recent] PRRI survey [about mainline Protestants] finds that mainline clergy are more supportive than their congregations of LGBTQ anti-discrimination laws, more likely to oppose the overturning of Roe v. Wade, and less likely to believe the U.S. is in danger of losing its culture and identity."
#churches #LGBTQ #abortion #CultureWars #immigrants #race
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Ron DeSantis Promises Extrajudicial Killings at Border
Horrifying plan, if elected president
https://newrepublic.com/post/175570/ron-desantis-extrajudicial-killings-border
* laid out policy during interview w. Fox News' Sean Hannity
* DeSantis used phrase “stone cold dead” before when discussing border
* phrase the focus of a campaign ad by DeSantis superPAC "Never Back Down"
#DeSantis #neofascism #transphobia #GOP #GOPmenace #migrants #immigrants #MassMigration #HumanRights #FarRight #xenophobia #superPAC #NeverBackDown #ChrisJankowski #DarkMoney
Little Amal visited South Philly yesterday. The first of several walks she'll have in the city over the next few days.
I haven't gone thru all the videos from her visit but wanted to share this short clip of her having a go at hopscotch on Passyunk Ave.
#LittleAmal #WalkWithAmal #TheWalkProject #refugees #Amal #IndigenousPeople #home #SouthPhilly #HumanRights #human #Philadelphia #SouthPhiladelphia #puppet #puppeteers #humanity #justice #immigration #immigrants #migrants #community
Federal Judge Again Rules DACA Is Illegal
The program has allowed thousands of young immigrants to avoid deportation and work legally
Current applicants will be able to keep and renew their protection
No new applications will be allowed
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/13/us/daca-immigration-ruling.html
@maloki @jdp23 @stavvers @mekkaokereke
I'm concurring ... we should never be holding communities accountable for the actions of individuals. This isn't a #Black thing, or a #Trans thing, or an #Immigrants thing.
'Rather than Blaming Capitalism, the Right Blames the Immigrant' – Byline Times
https://bylinetimes.com/2023/09/08/rather-than-blaming-capitalism-the-right-blames-the-immigrant/
Campaigners gather outside Indian high commission to demand end to forced removal of children from global South ahead of G20 | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/h-lead-campaigners-gather-outside-indian-high-commission-demand-end-forced-removal-children
This could be the biggest evidence yet of Vivek #Ramaswamy's complete lack of fitness for the presidency. The US-born children of undocumented #immigrants are... AMERICANS. They became Americans the moment they were born on US soil. To get around this pesky fact, Vivek claims the 14th Amendment, which establishes birthright citizenship, is "contested". This is utterly baseless nonsense. The 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868, and has been the law of the land ever since.
New Yorker: A Departure from Reality https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/a-departure-from-reality #NewYorker #Culture/TheWeekendEssay #Immigration #Immigrants #Grieving #Dementia #Parents #Mothers #Vietnam #Dying #Death
"All these dirty #immigrants are costing #America so much money! We could be using that money to fund another #taxCut for the nation's wealthy, but instead we have to pay for barbaric #torture devices along the #RioGrande, and private flights to transport intentionally deceived #migrants to states we don't like! Joe Biden allowed 2 billion #Mexican rapists to enter the country last week alone! When will this assault on the good #Christians of America stop??" ~Tomi Lahren
Karma. And talking point for #Democrats
#Immigrants aren't going to #Florida to help repair hurricane damage because of law championed by #DeSantis
“illustrates just how difficult it will be to get uncertified #ebikes away from the public and put safer ones into the hands of their heaviest users”
“slow start in part because of the #ebike prices but also the challenge of reaching #delivery #workers, many of whom are #immigrants and work illegally or do not speak much English”
“#fooddelivery companies should be the ones responsible for buying the UL-certified #ebikes” ⚡️ 🚲
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/04/nyregion/ebike-trade-in-lithium-batteries-nyc.html #uber #ubereats #doordash #grubhub
If #NewYorkCity doesn't want #migrants maybe they should get rid of the statue of liberty
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/07/eric-adams-migrants-new-york-city-00114437
#PrivateEquity profits from #climate disaster clean-up – while investing in #fossilfuels
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/07/private-equity-climate-crisis-disaster-cleanup
> Exclusive: Study shows resilience workers, mostly #refugees and #immigrants, poorly protected as top firms ‘pad their pockets by cutting costs’
#PrivateEquity profits from #ClimateDisaster clean-up – while investing in #FossilFuels
Study shows resilience workers, mostly #refugees and #immigrants, poorly protected as top firms ‘pad their pockets by cutting costs’
while investing in fossil fuels - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/07/private-equity-climate-crisis-disaster-cleanup #ClimateCrisis #Greedagedon
"#CDCR staff routinely assume people in their custody are deportable #immigrants — even when their own records indicate they are U.S. #citizens or immigrants who should not be deported — and report those individuals to #ICE. https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-08-29/californa-prisons-ice-records-us-citizens?s=03
Des travailleurs temporaires du Québec rencontreront bientôt un rapporteur spécial de l’ONU
▶️ "Pas besoin d’être attaché physiquement avec des chaînes pour être prisonnier d’un emploi ou jamais rémunéré [...]. Outre le permis fermé, la précarité liée à un statut temporaire sera également soulevée. [...] la province n’adhère pas aux programmes qui leur permettent d’obtenir la résidence permanente."
https://www.ledevoir.com/societe/797256/des-travailleurs-temporaires-du-quebec-rencontrent-bientot-un-rapporteur-special-de-l-onu
#Canada #Québec #travail #immigrants #esclavage #sécurité #santé
Jason Stanley on the ideology (racist, and also anti-LGBTQ and antisemitic) underlying the mass shootings perpetrated by Payton Gendron and Ryan Palmeter — an ideology much more widespread than the term "extremist" applied to these mass shooters suggests.
#racism #fascism #LGBTQ #antisemitism #violence #MassShooting #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/30/florida-shooter-racist-ideology-manifesto
On this day in 1927, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian immigrant anarchists, were executed. Evidence was tampered with and their trial had a heavy anti-immigrant bias.
There is a great documentary about it called "Sacco and Vanzetti: The Trial of Two Italian Immigrants in the 1920's". It's streaming on Kanopy.
"If we don't have room for #Immigrants and #Dreamers, maybe we should get rid of racists and white supremacists and make some room."
The media is blaming immigrants for the housing crisis. They’re wrong
Instead of halting immigration, we should regulate the investors and developers driving and profiting from sky-high housing prices
bySyed Hussan via The Breach
#CdnPoli #Immigrants #Refugees #Housing https://breachmedia.ca/media-wrongly-blames-immigration-canada-home-prices/
the word from the soviet diaspora in chicago (ie, my dad) is that you can very successfully come to america from ukraine if you pay a doctor $4k USD to write a note that you're not fit to serve in the military. for most ukrainians, i think this would be a very large amount of money, but if you've got it, it makes sense.
so yea, more and more ukrainian families are showing up in the chicagoland area every day. luckily there's a very large existing community of immigrants from the former soviet union in chicago, and they pretty much all support ukraine, even the ones from russia. in america, it gets pretty hard to maintain those kinds of divisions, especially since we're not in the same media echo chamber as people in russia.
and ukrainians are very resourceful, so i think they will find a way here in these humble united states. (what i mean by this is that i'm sure they'll find a way to start making $$$ asap. they are resourceful!!)
although i did meet one recent ukrainian arrival at a bbq last month who says she can't wait to go back to ukraine! america doesn't agree with her. well, i get that. america doesn't agree with me either lol.
in conclusion, here are some photos of the food spread at that bbq. some of the items were imported straight from ukraine! we were all impressed by the effort the hosts had gone to. AND: the kvass was actually tasty! it was the first time i've had good kvass. 😅
and if you're wondering what the mystery pink/white dish is, it is the famous "herring in a fur coat" (i used to love it as a kid. LOVE IT.): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dressed_herring
#chicago #chicagoland #immigration #immigrants #ukraine #BBQ
Chinatowns served as gateways for early Chinese immigrants. But the suburbs are the center of cultural and commercial life for new #immigrants and later generations.
Two researchers who study international migration write:
“We hope that ethnoburbs will not become, like historical Chinatowns, the only refuge for Chinese immigrants to live.”
#AAPI #AsianAmericans
https://theconversation.com/from-chinatowns-to-ethnoburbs-and-beyond-where-chinese-people-settle-reflects-changing-wealth-levels-and-political-climates-206561
Based on a study from the #TUDresden, #rightwing activists are decrying an #intolerance of the progressive, urban left.
Well guess what? If you are heavily #reactionary regarding all societal matters, deny any human influence on #globalwarming and fan hatred against #immigrants and #LGBTQ folks while defending a war-mongering dictator, you do deserve intolerance.
A certain #KarlPopper had some choice thoughts on that one. We are not taking the shit of the right as too much is at stake!
Why Some #Wisconsin Lawmakers and Local Officials Have Changed Their Minds About Letting #Undocumented #Immigrants Drive
==
“If we suddenly kicked out all of the people here, the undocumented, our #dairy #farms would collapse,” one lawmaker said.
“We have to come up with a solution.”
#Immigration #Farming #CivilRights #Police #Cars #Driving #Courts #Labor #News
"Donald Trump’s popularity is a symptom of a pervasive disease that afflicts our lives, our diverse faith, and shared hopes for justice and peace. That disease – not Trump – is the deepest threat to democracy in the United States."
#Trump #Republicans #crime #LawandOrder #morality #WhiteSupremacy #homophobia #xenophobia #authoritarianism #LGBTQ #women #immigrants #democracy
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"They support Donald Trump and resent that he faces criminal charges because they, like Trump, want to live in a society where people of color, women, immigrants, LGBTQ persons, and other marginalized people, do as they are told, and 'stay in their place.'"
#Trump #Republicans #morality #WhiteSupremacy #homophobia #xenophobia #authoritarianism #LGBTQ #women #immigrants
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Wisconsin’s #Dairy Industry Relies on #Undocumented Immigrants, but the State Won’t Let Them Legally Drive
==
Undocumented #immigrants in the state can own and register their vehicles, but they aren’t allowed to drive them, forcing many #farm workers to risk fines and #arrest.
“It’s a Catch-22 for a lot of folks,” advocates say.
#Wisconsin #Immigration #Farming #Farms #Safety #Police #Driving #Cards #News
On my occasional pilgrimage to the best #Bread bakery around, in #Otura south of #Granada.
The name of the bakery, #Touba, is the hometown of the #Senegalese owner and baker, who, judging from the qasidas playing from somewhere within the building, is a #Mourid as well. He trained as a baker here in #Spain and it's a blessing to us that he stayed here.
The spelt bread is out of this world, and I was blessed with a halal empanada of pumpkin and chicken today. I have to take two buses to get here, and it's a half day trip, but it's so worth it.
"#French riots show how entrenched #inequalities have become. The gulf between #immigrants and those born in the country is larger than in almost any other developed nation.
Imagine two countries. The first is proudly Christian, it allowed racial #segregation in living memory and #racism is mentioned more frequently in its media than anywhere else in the developed world. The second is strictly secular and legally prohibits the collection of #data on people’s race, a conscious effort by its leaders to avoid using #ethnicity to differentiate or divide.
Which do you think would offer people from diverse #racial and religious backgrounds the best prospects of success? Of becoming equal participants in society? The answers revealed in the data are surprising."
10 charts showing greater inequalities in #France compared to #UK, #Germany and sometimes #US.
Depicted chart : "Black and brown people are disproportionately likely to be stopped by police across the west, but the disparities are truly huge in France."
Chance of being stopped and searched by #police, relative to #white people in #London is ×2 or ×3 for #black people, compared to ×6 in #Paris and even more than ×7 for #arabs.
https://www.ft.com/content/25eda9f0-8bd3-41e1-948c-89cc7c0ec66e
House Republicans targeting #religious groups, including Catholic Charities and Jewish Family Services for helping #immigrants and #refugees on the Southern US-Mexico #border. https://www.ncronline.org/news/targeting-catholic-charities-republicans-amplify-right-wing-catholic-fringe?
"The study reveals that first-generation #immigrants have not been more likely to be imprisoned than people born in the United States since 1880. Today, immigrants are 30 percent less likely to be incarcerated than are U.S.-born individuals who are white." https://siepr.stanford.edu/news/mythical-tie-between-immigration-and-crime
"In many Indigenous tribes, not only in the United States, but in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, in many places, the children were taken away to put them in some Christian orphanages, horrible places where many of them died of abuse and starvation. So, that idea of separating the kids is extremely cruel, but it keeps happening."
#migrants #immigrants #children #cruelty #slavery #indigenous #Nazis #Kindertransport #Trump
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Isabel Allende tells Amy Goodman what prompted her to write her new novel The Wind Knows My Name:
"When the separation of families at the border here happened in 2017 and '18, I remembered the Kindertransport and other instances in which the children have been taken away from the parents. For example, during slavery, children were sold out to — taken from their mothers' arms."
#migrants #immigrants #children #cruelty #Nazis #Kindertransport #Trump
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https://www.democracynow.org/2023/7/21/isabel_allende_wind_knows_my_name
Lewis Wickes Hine photographed oppressive working conditions of thousands of children in the early 20th century. The black-and-white photographs suggest a bygone era – an embarrassing past that many Americans think we’ve left behind.
But with numerous reports of #childlabor violations, many involving #immigrants, and an uptick in state's rolling back the minimum working age – Hine’s work is as relevant as it was a century ago.
https://theconversation.com/the-us-has-a-child-labor-problem-recalling-an-embarrassing-past-that-americans-may-think-theyve-left-behind-204078
#Photography #History #Histodons
Tunisia expulsions - Cluster munitions to Ukraine - Dutch government collapse | Al Jazeera Headlines
The experiences of those who are #LGBTQ+, #Black, #disabled, #immigrants, or #poor, etc., may differ, but it’s the same people who want to hurt us, take our rights, and keep us as their underclass.
They never stop at one group. We either let them pick us off one by one, or we band together for a fairer society.
Solidarity is a matter of survival.
Explosion in Omdurman - Japan nuclear fallout - Retirement home fire in Italy | Al Jazeera Headlines
Apropos of #July4, #immigrants, & #citizenship: when I was small, my father knew that I was already very interested in history & especially #VastEarlyAmerica, so when he went on a trip to Washington, he brought me large facsimiles of the #DeclarationOfIndependence, & #EmancipationProclamation, as well as a smaller folder with the texts of Declaration, Constitution, & Bill of Rights
In retrospect it seems appropriate that the set represented the completion of the promise of the Declaration
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One of the most moving things about holidays such as the Fourth of July is the naturalization ceremonies that take place for what we call "new Americans," as #immigrants take the oath of #citizenship: here, yesterday in #Massachusetts. A great set of photos.
A look inside the U.S. citizenship ceremony at Faneuil Hall in #Boston | WBUR News https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/07/03/new-citizen-oath-boston
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Syitä hylätä #Twitter
"Currently there is a hashtag on Twitter related to the French riots that's calling on the expulsion of all Muslim, African, and Arab #immigrants from the entirety of #Europe. The trending hashtag (at #2) is filled with images encouraging mass killings and lynchings of #Arabs."
#Ranska #mielenosoitukset #some #väkivalta #populismi #äärioikeisto
@MarkRuffalo Stephen Miller also said he wants to “gas Hispanics like Hitler gassed the Jews”. What is he doing now? Investing in freight trains?
#hispanic #jews #holocaust #hatred #racism #evil #stephenmiller #murder #genocide #america #insanity #drones #immigrants #refugees #gop #republicans #rondesantis #border #florida #trump #texas
"Stephen Miller, one of Donald Trump’s top immigration advisers, advocated using U.S. predator drones in 2018 to blow up migrant boats full of unarmed civilians, according to an upcoming book by a former administration official."
~ Asawin Suebsaeng
"As governments turn rightwards, they shut down policies designed to limit climate breakdown. There’s no mystery about why: hard-right and far-right politics are the defensive wall erected by oligarchs to protect their economic interests."
"As millions are driven from their homes by climate disasters, the extreme right exploits their misery to extend its reach. As the extreme right gains power, climate programmes are shut down, heating accelerates and more people are driven from their homes. If we don’t break this cycle soon, it will become the dominant story of our times."
~ George Monbiot
Telecom engineers are here installing a fibre connection in my #Brussels flat. One is a native Arabic speaker, one a Spanish speaker originally from South America. They offer me the choice of French, Dutch, or English when speaking to me about the installation. Lovely guys, punctual, cheerful, hard working, and courteous. #Belgium #languages #multilingualism #immigrants
Following the Death of an 8-Year-Old on a Wisconsin Dairy Farm, Officials Look to Bridge Law Enforcement Language Gap
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ProPublica found that a #police investigation into a child’s death was mishandled due to #language barriers.
Now, officials hope to improve how #LawEnforcement interacts with non-English speakers.
Meanwhile, the boy’s family has settled a suit against the farm.
#Wisconsin #Dairy #Farms #Migrants #MigrantWorkers #Immigrants #Children
#Biden set to announce that his admin is expanding eligibility for Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act’s #health insurance exchanges to hundreds of thousands of #immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children, according to two U.S. officials briefed on the matter.
The action will allow participants in the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or #DACA, to access govt-funded #health insurance programs
#DeSantis wants: “bills expose ppl to felony chges for sheltering, hiring, transporting undoc #immigrants;require hospitals to ask patients their immig status & report to state; invalid out-of-state driv lic. issued to undoc immig; prevent undoc immig frm being admitted to bar in Fla; dir. Fla Dept of Law Enf to provide assistnce to fed authorities in enforcing immig laws”
Went for lunch and a walk with a friend I haven’t seen since the pandemic. She gave me Kayanoya’s vegetable stock and Kamenoko Tawashi(scrubbing brush) her friend “sent far too many” to her. Then I realized that it’s a very immigrants thing to share things sent from the homeland. In Japanese we call it “Osusowake” but I’m sure other immigrants do that too. Sharing just a little taste of home 🥰
2/2 Familysearch has:
"United States Index to Alien Case Files, 1940-2003," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK8J-Z3RX : 16 December 2022), Maria Power, 21 Sep 1912; citing Immigration, Alien Registration Number , "Index to Alien Case Files at the National Archives at Kansas City, ca. 1975 - 2012," NAID 5821836, Records of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, 2003 - 2004, RG 566, National Archives at Kansas City
- but the link leads to a general search page
#immigrants #Immigration
We are particularly concerned about the DEA’s Proposed Rule restricting controlled medication prescriptions via #telemedicine will harm Black, Indigenous, and other people of color, people with #disabilities, #LGBTQI (and especially transgender, non-binary, and intersex) people, women, #immigrants and their families, rural communities, and people with low incomes. 4/x
“I think that we’re in a tough battle between everybody’s getting more informed or everyone’s getting misinformed. There’s always been the conscious rapper and a deep rapper and all of that. If it’s not done right, it’s not going to work.”
At #SXSW I got to interview Congolese-Canadian-Texan hip-hop artist David Shabani about his unique perspective on #music and the world: https://www.texasobserver.org/david-shabani-texas-hip-hop-sxsw/ via @TexasObserver
(📸 Photo by me :)
#HipHop #Rap #Texas #Austin #Dallas #Immigrants #Immigration #culture
“Deal: Biden & Trudeau, will allow #Canada to turn back #immigrants at Roxham Rd, popular crossing point from #NewYork for migrants seeking asylum in Canada.
In exch Canada agreed to provide new legal refugee program for 15K migrants fleeing violence, persecution & econ devastation in S. & Central America, lessening pressure of illegal crossings into US from Mexico”
Malik quotes Jonathan Metzl, author of Dying of Whiteness:
“Liberals across the world always think ‘it won’t happen to me’ whenever what are considered to be fringe groups are attacked by the right. There’s a lot of denial, dismissal and elitism,” he says – a reluctance to recognise how the rights of minorities are linked to those of majorities.
First they come for the immigrants, the trans people, and then….
Nesrine Malik writes,
"The reality is that nobody is protected in the culture war. Not in a country consumed by an addiction to performative cruelty towards those who arrive here only to shoulder the blame for all our economic mismanagement and political failure. An immigrant shivering on the beach or languishing in detention may be a long way from your life, but the government has sketched a line, long and winding, that connects you."