Many people have asked me how to support immigrants in this moment and I wrote this piece to help folks strategize. raginishah.substack.com/p/how-to-sup...
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Many people have asked me how to support immigrants in this moment and I wrote this piece to help folks strategize. raginishah.substack.com/p/how-to-sup...
It’s always been about priorities and they’re unfortunately very clear.
This is horrifying…and ICE has used tactics like this since before Trump including during the Swift raids of 2006, the New Bedford raid of 2007 and the Postville raid of 2008 among many others.
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens - NBC News
JUST IN: A federal judge has barred ICE and DHS from using taxpayer information provided by the IRS.
Judge Talwani says that DHS' view that noncitizens lack 4th amendment rights — combined with ICE use of administrative warrants — is a recipe for abuse.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Number of SNAP recipients Amazon 2,456 Walmart 2,318 Uber 1,799 DoorDash 1,462 Tempus Unlimited 1,425 Stop & Shop 989 Mass General Brigham 956 Dollar Tree 952 Albertsons Companies, Inc. 896 Bayada Home Health 887
The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Oh this is good
at a peaceful protest at Broadview ICE processing facility (used for detention), ICE fired chemical weapons directly into a disabled protestor hours after they killed someone in Chicago trying to kidnap them. who’s ACTUALLY making our cities unsafe? it’s not my undocumented neighbors
Nory Sontay Ramos was a thriving high school student in L.A. until she and her mom were deported by the Trump administration in July. For @msnbc.com, we visited her in Guatemala as she tries to graduate remotely while hiding from the same gang they fled years ago. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/n...
Our member spotlight for September is @raginishah.bsky.social, Suffolk University Law School professor and author of Constructed Movements: Extraction and Resistance in Mexican Migrant Communities!
Learn more about her career studying #ImmigrationJustice here: bit.ly/LSAShah
Undocumented immigrants pay almost $100 billion in taxes each year.
The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year.
Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.
85% of the world lives in the Global South. 🌍
But we receive less than
25% of development financing. 💸
Less than 2% of aid directly reaches local NGOs. 💔
Yet we suffer 90% of climate deaths. 🌡️
— Ezekiel Nyanfor, Liberian activist at the Global South NGO Platform (2025) 🇱🇷✊🏾
Horace Peterson has been freed after 52 years of maintaining his innocence
"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants.
Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
BREAKING: The scene at the Rayburn Building is pure rebellion. Protesters are swarming in during live hearings on Medicaid cuts.
Security’s losing control. Because when the government wages war on the poor, the poor fight back.
Black and white etching-style triptych showing 8 hours for work on the left, 8 hours for rest in the middle, and 8 hours for “what we will” on the right
Did you know the “weekend” and working only 8 hours per day used to be considered a radical, liberal idea?
139 years ago today, in Bay View, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 7 workers (including a 13 yo) lost their lives to advance this revolutionary idea.
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Mr. Ceesay is a 63-year old man thrown into ICE detention with no warning in February after 14 years of check-ins — where he had a heart attack soon after.
Judge Vilardo uses his case to emphasize WHY due process matters, even if deportation is the outcome. It's worth reading this whole thing.
ICE Arrests Farm Workers Involved in Landmark Labor Rights Case
theintercept.com/2025/05/05/i...
ICE says it is investigating the cause of death of 44-year-old Marie Ange Blaise in a Florida detention center on Friday. A local congresswoman says Blaise had complained of chest pains "for hours."
Save our souls
The MESA Board of Directors has issued a statement condemning unlawful visa revocations and intimidation targeting international students and scholars.
Read the full statement here: mesana.org/advocacy/let...
Citizens’ Impeachment has long held that if just 5% of Americans contacted their members of Congress about impeachment, it would be the largest collective action of its kind in American history. It would almost certainly lead to his removal from office.
Advocate for impeachment in five minutes:
The chaos this is causing is absolutely cruel and absolutely intentional.
We know of 3 US citizen children deported yesterday, along with their moms who had been living in the US for years. One of the moms was pregnant. One of the kids has a rare form of cancer. One of the kids is just 2 years old. All had caregivers in the US to stay with.
The violence keeps escalating.
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