Farmworkers’ Unions Win a Big One (1975), The Nixon Gang Gets Down to Business (1970), A Deportation that Backfired (1950), Popular Justice Is No Crime (2020), Whitewashing the CIA Isn’t Easy (1975)
A future with (an even more) controlled press
If due process is of no moment, then the government could snatch any American citizen off the street, falsely accuse them of being a “criminal alien,” ship them to an overseas prison, then disavow any responsibility to bring them back
That was the week that was
Radical labor leader Harry Bridges successfully fought the government's attempt to deport him. In the Bridges case, the Supreme Court held that noncitizens enjoyed the same First Amendments rights as everyone else.
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The following is a press statement from Mahmoud Khalil’s wife. Khalil was unconstitutionally arrested by ICE agents over the weekend. "I am pleading with the world to continue to speak up against his unjust and horrific detention ....."
The White House has been abundantly clear: the arrest of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil was pursued on behalf of Jews. It's part of a wider strategy to obfuscate MAGA antisemitism and an increasingly fascist regime.
As fear of ICE raids and deportation mounts, day laborers risk arrest to help the Los Angeles rebuild and to support their families.
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