24 January 2025

Trump’s Blitz on Immigration Aimed to Overwhelm. Here’s What You Need to Know.

[Photo: Trump signing Executive Orders. White House Photo.]

By Marjorie Cohn
Source:  Truthout

Editor's Note
Immigration in the United States is complex. The assault Trump is making on immigration is broad, and scattershot, and goes after legal entrants as well as asylum seekers and refugees. Trump is also attempting to override the constitutional birthright citizenship. Marjorie Cohn does an excellent job of taking us through these complexities and leaving us better informed. His administration

The administration has taken down internet access for asylum seekers and has canceled all applications. Trump is sending the military to the border, though under law their role should be very limited.

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22 December 2024

To Fight Trump’s Mass Deportations, We Need Local Efforts to Defend Immigrants

[Photo: Stop deportation march in Wisconsin (2014), Joe Brusky/flickr, Free Speech Radio Network]

By Leah Montange
Source:  The Progressive via CommonDreams

Editor's Note
Trump and his deportation henchmen have made clear that indiscriminate sweeps will start on day one of  Trump’s second term. They will rapidly intensify as the mechanisms of this plan are institutionalized. They will likely metastasize, to broader sweeps – such as rounding up “enemies of the state”. He is already threatening local government officials who he thinks might resist his efforts. We must stand ready to resist cruelty and inhumane policies. Mass deportation hurt us all

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15 December 2024

A Manifesto Against For-Profit Health Insurance Companies — by Michael Moore

[Photo: Sicko poster via wikipedia]

By Michael Moore
Source:  Newsletter

Editor's Note
As I used to tell my students, the answer to a problem lies in how you frame the problem. Michel Moore demonstrates this beautifully in this discussion of the healthcare system and the recent assassination of the CEO of United Health. We are programmed and reprogrammed to blame certain people for problems and/or certain people as problems. This programming is reinforced with each tragedy, and anyone in the mainstream media (or their pundits) rarely breaks from the approved script. This is true again with trying to figure out why Mangione (an unlikely terrorist by all accounts) committed this horrendous act.

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13 November 2024

The Sad Case of Momin Khawaja in Canada

[Photo: Mohammad Momin Khawaja]

By Habib Siddiqui


Editor's Note
Mohammad Momin Khwaja is the son of Maboob Khawaja, and he has been a political prisoner in Canada and has now spent 21 years in prison. One has to wonder if Momin, like prisoners held without trial in GITMO, are considered by Canada and the U.S. to be potential terrorists simply because they have been held so long on trumped-up charges. In the case of Momin, who has been a model prisoner, his sentence was increased after 10-plus years in prison. The “war on terrorism” has transformed numerous times since Momin was first incarcerated. Most people have consigned it to a historical footnote, But for Momin and other prisoners, they are victims of a war that it seems will never end. It is fair to ask “Where is the Justice in this?”

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