7th Floor Group in Newly Released FBI Agents Messages
Recently discharged 2018 instant messages by FBI workers Lisa Page and Peter Strzok, reference something many refer to as, "Seventh Floor": This appears like an immediate refere…
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Trump’s Immigration Ideas Get Even Weirder
Trump: 'I'm thinking about' pulling ICE out of California By Rafael Bernal, The Hill February 22, 2018 President Trump said Thursday that he is thinking of pulling federal immigration e…
Trump’s Plan Flops in Senate--Despite Bizarre DHS Press Release
Efforts to protect the younger immigrants known as Dreamers collapsed in the Senate today as three competing amendments failed to get the 60 votes needed to avoid a filibuster. President Trump had m…
Senate Set to Debate Immigration--as Resistance Picks Up
Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has scheduled as much as two weeks’ worth of open Mitch McConnell. Photo: AP/J. Scott Applewhite debate on immigration policy starting tonight. No one se…
Getting Real About John Kelly
General John Kelly. Photo: Susan Walsh/AP At last mainstream reporters have started reporting about the real General John Kelly. What finally did Trump’s chief of staff in was the revelation that he&…
The Latest Nonsense About Immigration—a Quick Guide
By David L. Wilson, MR Online February 7, 2018 https://mronline.org/2018/02/07/the-latest-nonsense-about-immigration-a-quick-guide/ We’ve seen and heard a lot about immigration in the past few weeks…
Important Op-Ed: “Trump is going after immigration activists like me. Will you be next?”
Tania Unzueta Carrasco, USA Today February 7, 2018 The Trump administration is targeting people who speak out and organize against its policies. I know. Members of my organization are being targeted.…
Update 2/5/18: Immigration News You May Have Missed
Recent Polls, DACA/TPS Fallout, MS-13 Solution, Border Deaths Polls show Americans are closer to Democrats than Donald Trump on immigration Americans want to help DREAMers, don’t want a wall, and don…
What Part of “Illegal” Doesn’t Donald Trump Understand?
Could Trump get perp-walked out of 1600 Pennsylvani Avenue? Poor Stephen Miller. On January 25 he finally got to present his full anti-immigrant program as the nonnegotiable position of the U.S. exec…
Activists—and Even Some Pundits—React to #SchumerSellout
It’s not the first time the Democrats have failed the Dreamers. In 2009-2010 the party controlled the Congress and the White House, but supposed “master strategist” Chuck Schumer held off on promotin…
‘Dreamers’ could give US economy – and even American workers – a boost
Here’s new research supporting our contention that most native-born people in the U.S. would benefit from the passage of the DREAM Act. How would it affect the DREAM Act fight in Congress now if the…
The immigration debate at the center of the government shutdown, explained
This article from Vox gives a pretty clear idea of how the immigration impasse is playing out in Washington. The Democratic politicians are generally willing to give away a lot—too much, most activi…
Inside ICE’s Police State
More and more evidence is accumulating: ICE is using its policing powers in an effort to shut down resistance to the immigration system. So far, the effort seems to be backfiring. As the repression …
Humans, “Aliens,” and “Shithole Countries”
There is no evidence that Donald Trump has ever in his life performed a single selfless act, let alone any act of heroism. Probably he wouldn’t be able even to imagine the nobility of character I wit…
The Difference Between Communism and Socialism
Socialism and communism are umbrella terms alluding to two remaining wing schools of a monetary idea both contradict private enterprise. These philosophies have roused different social and political…
Not Passing a Clean Dream Act Would Hurt Taxpayers
Immigrant rights march in Los Angeles, 2016. Photo: Molly Adams Immigrants aren't just economic factors; they're human beings -- in the case of the Dreamers, human beings who have been member…