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Why Did This Farmworker Die in an Immigration Raid?

David Bacon The Nation
With Trump and Stephen Miller cheering on ICE’s terror tactics, Jaime Alanis Garcia’s fatal fall in the raid on Glass House Farms was the most recent example of a death foretold. Inspiring terror, as a tactic, is openly acknowledged.

Tidbits- July 17-Readers Comments: GOP Budget ‘Total Betrayal’ of Working Class; Immigration and Health in Rural America; Story Behind Removal of Univ of Virginia President – Eliminate DEI As Fight Against Anti-Semitism; David Schwartzman-RIP; More;

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Readers Comments: GOP Budget ‘Total Betrayal’ of Working Class; Immigration and Health in Rural America; Story behind removal of Univ of Virginia president - eliminate DEI as fight against anti-Semitism; David Schwartzman-RIP; Announcements; more...

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Fight ICE. Build the Union.

Natascha Elena Uhlmann and Sarah Lazare Workday Magazine
How Labor is mobilizing to defend workers from federal raids.

The Republicans’ Draconian Budget Bill Is Now a Reality

Heidi Shierholz Economic Policy Institute
The Republican budget will gut Medicaid, slash food aid for families, and shutter rural hospitals—just to give tax breaks that will go overwhelmingly to the wealthy. It is a staggering upward redistribution of income.

Tidbits- July 3-Readers Comments: Bill of Death in House; Big Beautiful BS; Trump and Uber-Rich Usurp Country’s Independence and Constitution; Mamdani and Lander Combined Two Strands; NYC Labor Unites Behind Mamdani; Resource: How Bad Is It?; More

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Readers Comments: Bill of Death in House; Big Beautiful BS; Trump and Uber-Rich Usurp Country's Independence and Constitution; Mamdani and Lander Combined Two Strands; NYC Labor Unites Behind Mamdani; Resource: How Bad Is It?; Announcements; Cartoons

Trump Travel Restrictions Bar Residents Needed at U.S. Hospitals

Roni Caryn Rabin The New York Times
Limits on travel and visa appointments have delayed or prevented foreign doctors from entering the country for jobs set to begin in weeks. New doctors from other countries account for one in six medical residents at U.S. teaching hospitals.

The Future of Sanctuary

Lloyd D. Barba and Sergio M. González Dissent Magazine
Sanctuary activists face new challenges under Trump’s second term but their work has always entailed great personal risk.

Tidbits- June 19-Readers Comments: Key Characteristics of Fascism; National Guard, Marines, 3000 Seized by ICE Each Day – Nuremberg Laws Went Into Effect in 1935; No Kings Day – This Saturday in More Than 2000 Communities and Cities; Resources; More

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Readers Comments: Juneteenth Freedom Day; No to U.S. War with Iran; Real Democratic Civil War; Future of Left Jewish Identity; Suzanne Crowell - Presente; Hotline When People Have Immigration-Related Court Hearing; Live-stream Socialism Conference

ICE’s War on Home

Anahid Nersessian London Review of Books
ICE’s primary targets under Trump: non-citizens involved in protests against Israel’s war on Gaza and non-citizens who are Hispanic or Latino. ICE is also targeting immigrants of other ethnic backgrounds...who inflame the racist American imagination.
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