Donald Trump’s disastrous governance has successfully tanked America’s labor market. The federal government released another weak jobs report Friday, after the previous poor jobs report resulted in Trump lashing out and firing the Commissioner of Labor Statistics. At the time, Trump baselessly claimed that the “Jobs Numbers were RIGGED in …
Read More »Trump Is Holding Immigrants at a Former Japanese Internment Camp
The Trump administration opened an immigrant detention site at a former Japanese internment camp in Texas, leading to condemnation from politicians, advocacy groups, and descendants of survivors of the WWII-era program. Fort Bliss, a military base headquartered in El Paso, is slated to be the site of the largest federal …
Read More »Fake Armies of the Night: Trump Unleashes Show and Awe on Washington
A quarter mile from the White House, the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in downtown Washington was once Abraham Lincoln’s place of worship. A black hitching pole where he would tie up the family carriage is still here. Lincoln would come here most Sundays during the Civil War, burying his …
Read More »This Burger Is Brought to You by Immigrants
F ew foods are more recognizable — or more American — than the cheeseburger. It’s a staple of fast food and backyard barbecues, served in rations to soldiers and on silver platters to presidents. Politicians invoke it as a symbol of abundance, nostalgia, even patriotism. Its parts — beef, cheese, …
Read More »Trump's ICE Spent Half a Million on Tricked-Out Trucks for a Hype Video
Donald Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is flush with cash after the president signed his so-called Big Beautiful Bill, so it should probably come as no surprise that the agency has decided to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on new trucks to showcase in social media posts. The …
Read More »Woody Guthrie's 'Deportee,' an Ode to Deported Workers, Has Never Been More Relevant
For anyone who follows the news, the story will sound eerily familiar: migrant workers rounded up by immigration officials, put on a plane and transported to a deportation center and, ultimately, Mexico. The shocking twists, however, are the year it happened — 1948, in Fresno County, California — and the …
Read More »'Alligator Alcatraz' Detention Center Poses Serious Risks to Immigrants Beyond Just Alligators
Experts are concerned about the dangerous conditions at Alligator Alcatraz, the immigrant detention center that opened Tuesday in the Florida Everglades. Hurricanes, flooding, and mosquitoes pose a more likely threat to people incarcerated there than the alligators and snakes that President Donald Trump has “joked” about. Built in eight days, …
Read More »Trump Deports Immigrants to South Sudan After Supreme Court Clears the Way
President Donald Trump’s administration deported eight immigrants to South Sudan, a dangerous country where most of the men have no ties, the Department of Homeland Security said Saturday. The Friday night deportations come after two federal judges refused to block the move, citing recent rulings by the Supreme Court. The …
Read More »Republican Donors Cash In on 'Alligator Alcatraz' Immigrant Camp
President Donald Trump traveled to Florida on Tuesday to tour what Republicans have dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” a 5,000-bed immigration detention center built in a remote, hot, and disgustingly humid corner of the Everglades. The facility — a collection of plastic tents outfitted with bunk beds in literal cages — was …
Read More »'Chicago Is Next': Team Trump Plots Another Militarized Crackdown
As President Donald Trump calls on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to ramp up arrests and deportations in America’s biggest cities, because they are the “Democrat Power Center,” he and his administration are eyeing Illinois for the next militarized crackdown. “Chicago is next, if they go too far,” a senior …
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