Illegal Immigration
Poet Esther Lin shares the unreasoning cruelty of her experience with ICE.
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Poet Esther Lin shares the unreasoning cruelty of her experience with ICE.
Poet Esther Lin shares the unreasoning cruelty of her experience with ICE.
labor
ICE Is Targeting Workers. Here’s How Employers and Unions Are Fighting Back.
Capital & Main
Here are some tactics unions and employers at farms, factories, restaurants and other job sites are using to shield employees from immigration raids.
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Immigration Raids at This Home Depot Got More Aggressive but Less Effective. The LA Tenants Union Knows Why.
Hammer & Hope
The union’s daily presence tries to give the city’s most vulnerable immigrant workers a measure of safety and gum up Trump’s deportation machine.
The U.S.-Born Labor Force Will Shrink Over the Next Decade
Economic Policy Institute
Achieving historically ‘normal’ GDP growth rates will be impossible, unless immigration flows are sustained
Three Days in Chicago
The Bulwark
Groups are finding new ways to stand up to ICE in Chicago. Here are their stories.
Palestinian Rights and Free Speech Rights Are Closely Linked
Jacobin
A recent successful court case brought by university professors against the Trump administration’s ideological deportations is an important win for supporters of Palestinian liberation and opponents of rising authoritarianism in the US.
Tidbits-Oct 16 -Readers Comments: Chicago Invaded-By ICE, Texas National Guard; Trump’s Labor Dept Says ICE Raids Causing Food Crisis; Boat Strikes Just the Beginning, Now CIA Missions Planned Against Venezuela; US Socialism Today; All-Out for Oct 18
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Readers Comments: Chicago Invaded-by ICE, Texas National Guard; Trump's Labor Dept Says ICE Raids Causing Food Crisis; Boat Strikes Just the Beginning, Now CIA Missions Planned Against Venezuela; What's Happening in US Socialism; All-Out for Oct 18;
Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis
The American Prospect
In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.
ICE Assaults Congressional Candidate Kat Abughazaleh at Chicago Protest
Democracy Now!
Illinois Democratic congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh was thrown to the ground by ICE agents on Friday during a protest outside the Broadview Processing Center in Chicago, where immigrant detainees are held.
Dispatches From the Culture Wars — September 23, 2025
Portside
A time to try our souls
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