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We Need A New Wave Of Airport Protests

March 23, 2025 Shireen Akram-Boshar, Truthout. , , ,
Over the past two weeks, the Trump administration’s detention, interrogation and deportation machine has shown a new level of cruelty. The detention and deportation of visa holders, followed by over 200 Venezuelan nationals without due process, has caused judicial controversy and a struggle in the courts. But activists and progressives cannot simply rely on the court system to rein in Donald Trump. Popular pressure is needed to push back on the impunity of the Trump administration and the cruelty of border control agents, especially in the face of a likely new Muslim ban.

Trump Administration’s ‘Alien Enemies Act’ Deportation Program

March 16, 2025 Ryan Goodman, Just Security. , , , , ,
On Friday, the Trump administration appeared to start the process of carrying out the deportation of Venezuelan nationals pursuant to the Alien Enemies Act, a wartime authority that legal experts warn is clearly not applicable to those individuals.  The Act requires invocation of its authorities to be made public, but as of the time of publication there is no indication that a presidential proclamation has been publicly released. CNN has reported, however, that President Donald Trump was set to issue such a proclamation as soon as Friday and described senior White House officials stating that the executive action would target Venezuelan nationals alleged to be affiliated with the Tren de Aragua gang.

The Struggle For Immigrant Rights

March 9, 2025 Cristóbal Cavazos, Socialist Action. , , ,
Trump, who seeks to unleash ICE terror on immigrant communities as a racist smoke screen aimed to stoke white nationalism and xenophobia as he aggressively comes to the aid of an ailing US Imperialism at home and abroad consistently losing market share abroad to China and the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, Indonesia and South Africa along with Beijing). The US dollar is losing its dominance and a rising labor movement domestically is confronting economic warfare on the working class in the form of low wages, growing income inequality, etc. with growing labor strikes.

Deporting Immigrants And Denying Them Entry Will Hurt The US Economy

February 25, 2025 Abraham Marquez, Geopolitical Economy. , , , , ,
Donald Trump and his supporters base their anti-immigrant arguments on the assertion that immigrants have broken the law. Corporate media commentators reinforce this narrative, labeling undocumented immigrants as “illegal aliens” and “criminals”, while failing to mention that US immigration law can change, often quite dramatically, with each administration. Generally, immigration law evolves to meet the capitalist system’s demand for low-paid labor. Immigration and citizenship policies are not fixed standards for every individual. They have double standards rooted in racism, and have always served as a tool of institutional discrimination.

Over 1000 Chicanos Hit The Streets Of Los Angeles To Protest Deportations

February 24, 2025 Gabriel Quiroz Jr., Fight Back! News. , , , , , ,
Los Angeles, CA – On February 17, over 1000 Chicanos gathered at Placita Olvera in downtown Los Angeles to protest against ICE deportations and to fight back against Trump's racist, right-wing agenda. The rally and march were called for by Chicana activists who used social media to get the word out. Recent protests in Los Angeles have brought out large crowds of Chicanos ready to stand up and fight, with the last one, on February 2, drawing tens of thousands who took to the streets. That afternoon protesters even took over the 101 Freeway, shutting it down for hours and completely overwhelming LAPD, LASD and CHP, which were completely unprepared and caught off guard by Raza fighting back.

Breaking Down Trump’s Executive Order Targeting Palestine Activists

February 14, 2025 Michael Arria, Mondoweiss. , , , , ,
On January 29 President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at canceling the visas of foreign students who participated in protests opposing the Gaza genocide across college campuses last year. “To all the resident aliens who joined in the pro-jihadist protests, we put you on notice: come 2025, we will find you, and we will deport you,” said Trump in a fact sheet released alongside the order. “I will also quickly cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on college campuses, which have been infested with radicalism like never before.”

Trump To Cancel Student Visas For Palestine Protesters

January 30, 2025 Michael Arria, Mondoweiss. , , , , , ,
Donald Trump will sign an executive order to deport non-citizen university students who have participated in protests opposing the Gaza genocide. “To all the resident aliens who joined in the pro-jihadist protests, we put you on notice: come 2025, we will find you, and we will deport you,” said the President in a fact sheet. “I will also quickly cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on college campuses, which have been infested with radicalism like never before.” Although the order has not been issued yet, the White House has released materials in support of the order and unnamed White House officials have been quoted in the press saying the announcement can be expected as early as today.

American Troops As Migrants

January 23, 2025 Andrea Mazzarino, Tom Dispatch. , , ,
This country, once a haven for immigrants, is now on the verge of turning into a first-class nightmare for them. President Donald Trump often speaks of his plan to deport some 11.7 million undocumented immigrants from the United States as “the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.” Depending on how closely he follows the Project 2025 policy blueprint of his allies, his administration may also begin deporting the family members of migrants and asylum seekers in vast numbers. Among the possible ways such planning may not work out, here’s one thing Donald Trump and the rest of the MAGA crowd don’t recognize: the troops they plan to rely on to carry out the deportations of potentially millions of people are, in their own way, also migrants.

Trump Has Promised To Build More Ships

January 2, 2025 Nicole Foy, ProPublica. , , , ,
Early last year, President-elect Donald Trump promised that when he got back into the Oval Office, he’d authorize the U.S. Navy to build more ships. “It’s very important,” he said, “because it’s jobs, great jobs.” However, the companies that build ships for the government are already having trouble finding enough workers to fill those jobs. And Trump may make it even harder if he follows through on another pledge he’s made: to clamp down on immigration. The president-elect has told his supporters he would impose new limits on the numbers of immigrants allowed into the country and stage the largest mass deportation campaign in history.

Calls For A Migrant Labor Strike Grow On Social Media

December 29, 2024 Arturo Dominguez, Unicorn Riot. , , , , , , ,
Since the xenophobia-fueled presidential re-election of Donald Trump, calls have been growing on social media for a pro-immigrant labor strike beginning on January 11, days before Trump is to take office. The emerging movement’s goal is to highlight the social, cultural, and economic importance of immigrants in the United States. The Trump campaign’s racist rhetoric — targeted at Latin Americans and Caribbean Islanders — is an urgent threat driving the need to speak out against his proposed immigration policies — such as the plan to conduct mass deportations.

December 18 New York City Hall Protest Vs. Deportations

December 15, 2024 Tony Murphy, Workers World. , , , , , ,
Today, New York City Mayor Eric Adams met with the incoming “border czar” Tom Homan to map out the city’s collaboration with President Trump’s mass deportation plans. Already Adams has cruelly cut housing, stopped food benefits and is echoing the anti-migrant criminalization espoused by the likes of Stephen Miller. Wednesday, Dec. 18, is recognized by the United Nations as International Migrants Day. On this day, protesters will gather at New York’s City Hall at Broadway and Warren at 4 p.m. to reject scapegoating and attacks on migrants — and put the blame on billionaires, where it belongs!

Arizona Immigrants Fear Return To Mass Arrests

November 21, 2024 Maanvi Singh, Portside. , , , ,
The news that Arizona voters on 5 November had approved the so-called “secure our border” initiative hit Reyna Montoya like a gut punch. The measure – proposition 314 on the ballot – makes crossing the US-Mexico border without authorization a state crime, empowering local officials to arrest and deport border-crossers and enhancing criminal penalties for unauthorised immigrants who apply for public benefits. The initiative is modelled after a Texas law that is currently being challenged in court, and some of its key provisions will be blocked until the Texas law, or another similar law, is allowed to take effect.

Trump Isn’t Hiding Plan To Use Military To Quash Protests

November 13, 2024 Marjorie Cohn, Truthout. , , , , ,
Employing federal troops to suppress domestic protests and deport immigrants from U.S. soil en masse would be illegal, but Donald Trump has been pushing to do so since his first administration. The recent Supreme Court decision granting presidents nearly absolute immunity for official acts has created a situation with far fewer guardrails to prevent Trump from abusing his authority in his second presidential term. Trump and his allies have reportedly drafted plans for him to deploy the military against civil demonstrators on his first day in office, according to a Washington Post report from November 2023.

Real-Time Video Offers A Glimpse Of America’s Deportation Flights

March 11, 2024 McKenzie Funk, ProPublica. , , ,
A closed-circuit video camera zoomed in on the tarmac of Seattle's Boeing Field one recent afternoon, buffeted by 30-mile-an-hour gusts as it captured the arrival of a charter jet. The jet rolled to a stop alongside two buses. Behind their tinted windows, still invisible to the camera, were people waiting to be deported from the United States. "Windy," muttered a woman watching the video feed on a projector screen. Struggling to make out the plane’s tail number from the shaky image, she stood up for a closer look. On the screen, a stairway was wheeled over, and a cluster of men in bright yellow jackets descended from the plane.

Incarcerated Organizers Who Won Their Freedom Now Facing Deportation

December 22, 2022 Victoria Law, Scheer Post. , , ,
One of Borey “Peejay” Ai’s earliest memories is the sound of gunfire. “My mom would put us under the table,” he recalled. Ai was too young to understand what was happening, but he remembered being afraid like his mother. “Because I felt her fear, I felt fear too,” he said. Ai was born in a refugee camp in Thailand after his mother fled Cambodia to escape the Khmer Rouge genocide. As a small child, he would climb a hill to water a pepper plant he had been growing. From the vantage point, he would look across the border and see people shooting at one another. Nearly 40 years later, after surviving the brutality of the U.S. prison system, Ai now faces the possibility of deportation back to Cambodia, where he has never set foot. And he’s not the only one.
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