This is incredible.

hellraiser fund recipients: Taina Asili's Fever Pitch Pilgrimage, Crys Matthews, Creekbed Carter Hogan

Read more about the recipients of this year's Anne Feeney hellraiser fund grants here! www.laborheritage.org/content.aspx...

How could anyone believe that about a guy who *checks notes* chainsawed the head off a whale to tie to his car, and dumped a dead bear cub in Central Park because he didn’t have time to eat it

They Were Waiting for Flights. Then Trump Closed a Door for Afghan Allies. An executive order has halted refugee flights for Afghans who supported the American mission in Afghanistan and had been approved to resettle in the U.S.

“Failing to protect our Afghan allies sends a dangerous message to the world: that U.S. commitments are conditional and temporary,”
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/w...

So cruel and so stupid. And in the long run none of this will save money, even if we are just looking at the pittance of the federal budget that is used to support refugees

Wildly unlawful and will immediately cause MORE chaos for refugees and, ironically, force them to use more benefits like SNAP!

PEPFAR is the one good legacy of the George W Bush years, and has literally saved millions of lives. Where is the pro-life outrage on this one?

I’m going to talk about pages 11, 12, and 13 of this brief in depth, because that is the part where the Trump DOJ tries to defend the Trump Executive Order.

The lawyers here so deeply misrepresent some of the cited material that it should be cause for sanctions in any just world.

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Trump Officials Move to Quickly Expel Migrants Biden Allowed In Temporarily A memo appears to allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to target programs that let in more than a million people.

CHNV parole was an unmitigated success-decreasing irregular border crossing for those nationalities by 98% according to CBP. People who came on this pathway followed the rules and have quickly and lawfully joined the US economy. Now Trump admin intends to deport them: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/u...

Well, this horrible act passed, but at least Rep. Deluzio changed his vote to Nay. This was 100% due to pressure from constituents, so please continue to engage even when it feels like democracy is failing us. clerk.house.gov/Votes/202523

AOC 🔥🔥🔥

Please call Deluzio and ask him to change his vote to NO on Laken Riley. Here's the letter I wrote this week:

Flights canceled for refugees who were slated to travel to US | CNN Politics Refugees who were slated to travel to the United States after a years-long and often cumbersome process have had their flights canceled, according to a State Department memo to resettlement partners o...

According to a State Department memo, thousands of refugees who had been cleared for admission to the United States have had their travel cancelled immediately, including those who were slated to arrive before the executive order’s effective date of January 27, 2025.
www.cnn.com/2025/01/22/p...

Realigning the United States Refugee Admissions Program – The White House REALIGNING THE United States REFUGEE ADMISSIONS PROGRAM By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States

I'm disgusted by so many of the profoundly damaging EOs from last night. But I take personal offense that they call out Charleroi, PA, where my great grandparents found refuge from Irish famine, to justify their attack on refugees. PA was built by immigrants and refugees! tinyurl.com/3s3dy4yh

When people say "why don't they get in line like they are supposed to", this is the only line, and it just got shut down. Tens of thousands of appointments cancelled and probably hundreds of thousands of people who have been trying to get appointments, all stranded in Mexico.

How Mexico Cracked Down on Its Immigration Chief to Defuse a US Migrant Crisis When border crossings grew out of control in 2023, the U.S. pressured Mexico to do something. Officials rebuked the immigration chief and stripped him of a key power, an investigation shows.

Lots of interesting inside baseball on Mexican migration politics here, and a reminder of how complex regional migration dynamics are. Time will tell how the Trump admin navigates these issues. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/w...

This map shows where the Eaton fire is burning near Pasadena A brush fire fueled by high winds ignited Tuesday evening in the Eaton Canyon area near Pasadena.

My dad and sis came to LA last week and we took them on a hike through Eton Canyon. This is a mile from my in-laws’ house. They are safely evacuated but this is so scary and sad. www.pasadenastarnews.com/2025/01/07/t...

Trump May Allow ICE Arrests in Churches; Here’s What We Know After reports Trump will rescind a policy discouraging ICE raids in churches, faith and immigration experts prepare for uncertain future.

As I told @sojo.net, churches focus on supporting people who need it and nurturing the faith of their community – not checking people's citizenship status. Trump's plan to un-designate churches as sensitive locations is an assault on religious liberty.

sojo.net/articles/new...

Aid agencies: History will judge your failure to call out Israeli war crimes as complicity You don’t have to wait for the charge of genocide to be legally established to condemn Israel’s generational war crimes in Gaza.

Our editorial in @newhumanitarian.bsky.social we tell aid agencies that their failure to unambiguously call out Israel’s war crime is complicity.

www.thenewhumanitarian.org/editorial/20...

Very excited to read this. Prof. Bright’s death penalty seminar I took at @georgetownlaw.bsky.social was among the most impactful and memorable parts of law school for me.

A Syrian ASYLUM BAN? YouTube video by Zoe Gardner

So... What does it actually mean that European states including the UK are "suspending" asylum claims from Syrian nationals?

Irresponsible & xenophobic commentary aside, here's the facts as I understand them:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdPE...

Way to go Aaron! Laying out in plain, precise language why we should not spend almost a trillion dollars to separate families, wreck our econonmy, and hypercharge inflation. The choice is clear!

Thinking of all the Syrian families who were so hospitable to us when we travelled there before the war. All the refugees I’ve worked with and alongside for years. And everyone else with loved ones in that beautiful country. I hope this is a first step toward peace.

"The Biden administration now has a last chance to prevent an impending disaster by working with the Mexican government to expand access to asylum at land border ports of entry, a policy approach that a majority of American voters support." Excellent op ed from @yaelschacher.bsky.social & Ari Sawyer

Same thing happening in the US. Nov. saw the lowest # of border apprehensions in the Biden presidency, lower than any month under Trump in the year before COVID, but the media still talks about Trump's mandate to end "historic" irregular migration: bsky.app/profile/adam...

Imagine the many, many positive things the UK government could have done with all this money.

Mexico’s President and Trump Describe a Positive Talk but Differ on Migration Details The discussion between President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico and the president-elect came after Mr. Trump threatened tariffs unless Mexican authorities stopped migrants and drugs from coming across th...

Trump the dealmaker gets Mexico to agree to do the same thing they are already doing www.nytimes.com/2024/11/27/u...

Mexico suggests it would impose its own tariffs to retaliate against any Trump tariffs President Claudia Sheinbaum says Mexico could retaliate with tariffs of its own, after President-elect Donald Trump threatened to impose 25% tariffs on Mexican goods.

Looks like Pres. Scheinbaum got the message ;) "Sheinbaum said Mexico suffered from an influx of weapons smuggled in from the United States, and said the flow of drugs “is a problem of public health and consumption in your country’s society.” apnews.com/article/mexi...

"Though ['external deterrence'] receives less media attention than incoming President Donald Trump’s promise of mass deportation, it will be a key area to watch as he works to fulfill his pledge to stop migrants from coming." 💯 Expect diplomacy/coercion across the region to deter migration

Using the same logic, Mexico and Canada could impose tariffs on US goods until we get serious about:

- Reducing US citizens' voracious demand for illicit drugs
- Stopping cross-border trafficking of weapons easily purchased at US gun shops
- Curtailing money-laundering in US banks, real estate etc.