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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16 January 2025

America and Humour From Hell

[Photo: Disappearing Palestine – 1917 to 2024. (Arab Daily News.)]

By Mahboob Khawaja, PhD

Politics is always a game of pretension. Politicians remind us of inherent lies, deception, embedded greed, and mastery of persuasive propaganda to voters to do good for fellow citizens if chosen for leadership. They possess an irresistible impulse of political power to grab as their property to set the agenda of actions – the fate and future of millions and millions of innocent human beings to rule as democracy at work. The US professes to be a nation of peace, equality, justice, and freedom. Is it so? After the Joe Biden presidential election, Donald Trump raised a scheme of uproars, confusion, and an attack on the nation’s capital alleging ‘election fraud’ and that he was the real winner. He alluded to several criminal cases as politically motivated, but some of the judicial hearings charged him with criminal acts. Now re-elected, Donald Trump gets ‘unconditionally discharged’ in the NY court hush money case; the other cases are gone with the wind too as he assumes the presidency on January 20th. Could a common citizen of the US be entitled to such favorable treatment?

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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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8 November 2024

America’s Descent Into Fascism Can Be Stopped

[Graphic: Trump Troops by Pat Bagley, The Salt Lake Tribune, UT (Reprinted with Permission)]

By: Henry A. Giroux
Source: Counterpunch

Editor's Note
In this critical article, Dr. Giroux does a deep analysis and while I would love to write a fully integrated introduction to this work, that is not possible at this time. So I will confine myself to two key areas: the issue of the working class, and some commentary on the Powell Memorandum that Dr. Giroux includes in his analysis.

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4 November 2024

Don’t Be Fooled By Allegations of Immigrants Illegal Voting

[Graphic: National Archive and Records Administration]

By Rowan Wolf

Trump’s megaphone allegations about voter fraud, voting by immigrants, and Democratic “cheating’ lead you astray. There is no there there. The percentage of immigrants who voted illegally from 2000 forward was 30 about of almost a billion ballots. Even the Heritage Foundation database only had 85 ALLEGATIONS (not proven cases) of this type of fraud. The Trump campaign is filing dozens of voting challenges NOW to prepare foundations for cases they plan to challenge the vote after tomorrow.

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