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County sheriffs will be key to Donald Trump's promise of "mass deportations." Alongside community activists from CIMA, Jessica Pishko, author of The Highest Law in the Land, explains the roles of these elected officials, how they work with white supremacist and anti-immigrant groups, and how communities can resist.
This event will be livestreamed on our YouTube channel (no registration required). Simultaneous interpretation will be provided for in-person participants.
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Alguaciles y policías de el condado van a ser la clave para la promesa de “deportaciones masivas” que hizo Donald Trump. Junto a activistas comunitarios de CIMA, Jessica Pishko, autora The Highest Law in the Land (“La ley más alta del país”) explicará las funciones de estos funcionarios electos, como trabajan con grupos de supremacistas blancos y antiinmigrantes, y como pueden resistir las comunidades.
Este evento sera transmitido en vivo en nuestro canal de YouTube (no es necesario registrarse). Se proporcionará interpretación simultánea para los participantes en persona.
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Early #Italian #Immigrants Were #SecondClass Citizens
March 2020
by Al Bruno
"The perilous journey to America in the late 1800s and the early 20th century was extremely difficult for Italian #immigrant families. Worn out and exhausted, most toting an old foot locker and a couple of bags, they hoped for an opportunity to economically improve their family situations in America. Most arrived in stages, following Papa who usually ventured across the Atlantic first to establish citizenship and secure full-time employment.
"'When the Italian began arriving in New York City in large around 1880, they faced fierce competition from the #Irish who resented their working for less money and longer hours. And although they shared the same Catholic faith, Italians were viewed as superstitious because of their devotion to saints, which was expressed in the staging of elaborate feasts,' writes Haydee Camacho in 'Reflections of Irish and Italian Immigration, Animosity, and Eventual Understanding.' 'Irish pastors tried to accommodate their growing Italian communities by offering these Italian immigrants services in the basement of their churches, but pride would not have it. The stalemate led to the building of churches to serve Italians and other new immigrant groups, not only in New York but other major cities in America’s mid and northeastern, major cities.'
"Between 1876 and 1930, most of the five million Italian immigrants came to the U.S. from southern Italy as #FarmLaborers and unskilled workers known as #cantadini. Most of the newly-arrived were confused and lost in America, but earlier immigrants assisted them by introducing the Italians to the padrone, a boss and middleman between the immigrants and the American employers. In 'When America Barred Italians,' Helene Stapinski wrote, 'So our desperate great- and great-great-grandparents came in droves from Italy spurred by the #Industrial #barons in need of #CheapLabor who welcomed them with open arms to America. Often dangerous jobs no one else wanted awaited them. Some, like my relatives, came here illegally, under false names or as stowaways. On one ship alone, 200 stowaways were found.'
[...] "'Lambroso branded the Southern Italians savages and rapists, blaming them for the crime that was on the rise in the United States.' The U.S. Immigration Commission concluded in the infamous Dillingham report, 'Certain kinds of criminality are inherent in the Italian race. In the popular mind, crimes of personal violence, robbery, blackmail and extortion are peculiar to the people of Italy.'
"The #ImmigrationAct of 1924 barred most Italians from coming into the country, causing immigration from Italy to fall 90 percent, even though the vast majority of those coming to America were good, honest-working people and not criminals. There was also growing anti-immigration sentiment that posited the idea that Italians and eastern Europeans were morally unfit to be Americans. Of course, the same argument was made of the Irish. Eventually, this attitude would result in a 1924 federal immigration law that blocked Italians and southern and eastern Europeans from coming to America.
"Italian immigrants were chasing after the 'American Dream' and the 'gold in the streets' they had heard so much of and hoped for when they were growing up and working on the farmlands and vineyards in sunny Italy. Like other immigrant groups, they had sons who honorably served their country in WWII. Hall of famers Rocky Marciano, Lawrence 'Yogi' Berra and Joe DiMaggio, all first-generation Italian Americans, served in the war. These men and many other Italian immigrants persevered through the prejudice and 'second-class' treatment and achieved the '#AmericanDream.'"
100 years later: When the #KuKluxKlan came to #Maine, locals turned them away
In 1924, the group started marching in #Saco. But when they tried to cross into #Biddeford, they were turned away by Franco and Irish #immigrants.
Author: Don Carrigan
Published: 10:02 PM EDT September 16, 2024
SACO, Maine — "Traffic zooms steadily between Saco and Biddeford, crossing the Saco River on the Main Street bridge and the Elm Street bridge on Route 1, farther upstream.
"They are separate cities, with a combined population of about 43,000, and they have a great deal in common.
"But 100 years ago, the cities were split, with strong emotions on both sides of the river. They were divided by ethnicity, social status, and religion.
"And into that divide came the Ku Klux Klan in 1924.
"'I think most people in Maine have no idea of that history,' Biddeford native and former Mayor Alan Casavant said. 'When they think of the Klan, they think of down South, but the Klan was here with different objectives and different targets.'
"Indeed, the Klan was remarkably active in Maine in the mid-1920s, targeting immigrants and #Catholics. The dominant immigrant populations were #FrancoAmericans from Canada and Irish, and both were predominantly #Catholic. The immigrants came to work in the huge #TextileMills, and most lived in #tenements in Biddeford.
"Casavant said that was a big part of the division between the cities. The immigrant and Catholic workers lived in Biddeford. The #MillOwners and managers, whom he said were largely Protestant, lived in Saco.
"At the Saco Museum, director Anatole Brown said the Klan helped to fuel the friction from #economics, as well as cultural and religious differences, and that it gained a significant following around Maine, especially in mill towns.
"'Gov. [Ralph Owen] Brewster of Maine apparently had Klan connections and had mayors around Maine, like Rockland, Portland and Saco, where they had Klan ties.'
"Saco Mayor John Smith supported the Klan, Brown said. And when the Klan said it wanted to stage a rally in the city on Labor Day of 1924, Smith approved.
"'John G. Smith ran as a Klan affiliate and ran on a ticket that he was 100 percent American,' Brown said. 'He promised there would never be any Catholic schools built in Saco.'
"The reports were that the #KKK planned to rally in Saco and then march across the river to Biddeford to directly show their grievances to the immigrant community. That, said Brown, raised the ire of Biddeford residents and that city’s mayor, Edward Drapeau, who vowed to not let the Klan into Biddeford."
These six workers who perished were not "poisoning the blood of our country," they were replenishing it. This is a moment of clarity when we need to reject the national disease of #xenophobia and restore our faith in the #UnitedStates as a beacon for the best people. They may have been born all over the continent, but when these men plunged into our waters on Tuesday, they died as Americans.
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Bigoted Biden Admin Urged to Halt #Haiti Deportations as Deadly Unrest Continues
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Additionally, three in ten Americans (30%) completely or mostly agree with the statement “immigrants are invading our country and replacing our cultural and ethnic background,” while nearly two-thirds (64%) completely or mostly disagree.
#ImmigrantsWelcome #Republicans #WhiteChristianNationalism
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PRRI has just published research findings on whether Americans think immigrants are a threat — and which specific groups hold that view. Some key findings:
Most Republicans (69%) and at least half of white Christian groups, including 65% of white evangelical Protestants, 53% of white mainline Protestants, and 50% of white Catholics think immigrants threaten traditional American customs and values.
#ImmigrantsWelcome #Republicans #WhiteChristianNationalism
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"That single flight cost the state a whopping $615,000, or around $12,500 per person. Vertol received a second payment of $950,000 just two weeks later."
Then when DeSantis was forced by a lawsuit to release information about its Vertol wheelings and dealings, and did so right at Chrstmas time, this emerged:
"It turned out, probably to no one’s surprise, that Vertol Systems has connections to the DeSantis administration."
#DeSantis #Florida #ImmigrantsWelcome
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Jay Kuo writes,
"Something about the migrant 'relocation' flight to Martha’s Vineyard, orchestrated by the DeSantis administration this past summer, has always bothered me, even beyond the inhumanity of it all: the price tag.
The charter flight company that actually flew the migrants, Vertol Systems, received a contract worth over $1.5 million from the state of Florida."
#DeSantis #Florida #ImmigrantsWelcome
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https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/a-top-desantis-aide-behind-the-marthas
Jay Kuo puts his finger on what Title 42 is all about:
"The labeling of migrants as carriers of diseases, and the use of Title 42 to expel them, was a continuation of Trump’s generally hostile immigration policies, which included performative nonsense like his border wall and his frequent anti-immigrant rhetoric about murderers, drug dealers, and rapists. It used the pretext of the pandemic to effectively close the border to asylum seekers."
https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/scotus-just-deployed-its-most-potent
Mark Wingfield notes that on Christmas day, Greg Abbott tweeted a Nativity scene and the statement, “May the joy of our Savior’s birth fill your hearts today and every day.”
Wingfield writes,
"Twitter users replied to Abbott by calling him a mean one, Mr. Grinch — and far worse."
#GregAbboitt #ImmigrantsWelcome #Christmas
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Mary Katherine Backstrom also reports that "almost all the people who come here [i.e., to her Facebook commentary about Abbott's cruelty to migrants] are white men."
Then she goes on to note how said white men bridle at criticism of Abbott's gross violation of his own professed Christian religious beliefs and how said white men immediately start engaging in whataboutism, as they attack her for criticizing Abbott.
#GregAbbott #ImmigrantsWelcome
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It's interesting to hear Mary Katherine Backstrom reporting in a video statement on Facebook yesterday that, when she posted her thoughts about Greg Abbott's cruel actions towards migrants on Christmas Eve, her Facebook page was swarmed by trolls.
Some folks are sensitive about Facebook links, so I'm not posting a link, but her video is easily found by searching for her name on Facebook.
#GregAbbott #ImmigrantsWelcome
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Mona Charen writes,
"To treat human beings as props when there’s a real danger of exposure increases the cruelty quotient. The two Republican governors [Abbott and DeSantis] are in a heartlessness duel."
The two Republican governors who are both Catholic, one might well note — as the US Catholic bishops remain totally silent about these acts of performative cruelty that violate core Catholic values.
I think of Greg Abbott's cruel act in sending busloads of migrants to D.C. on Christmas Eve and dropping them off in freezing weather with no provision for their safety, for housing, for food, for care of any kind, and this passage from Adam Serwer's book The Cruelty Is the Point comes to mind.
