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click.actionnetwork.orgStop Republican attacks on immigrant communities. After passing the House, the Senate is negotiating a massive reconciliation bill—but instead of supporting families, this legislation threatens immigrant communities, expands funding for mass deportation, and excludes millions of children from the Child Tax Credit (CTC). This isn’t just bad policy. It’s a direct attack on millions of hardworking families who are part of the fabric of our communities. The bill that passed the House excludes 4.5 million citizen and legal permanent resident children from the Child Tax Credit if one parent does not have a Social Security number, cuts legal immigrants off from Medicare benefits they’ve paid into for a decade or more, penalizes states for using their own money to provide health care for immigrants, demands thousands of dollars in new or drastically increased fees from immigrants seeking legal status or trying to reunite with unaccompanied children, and does all this while funneling hundreds of billions of dollars into Trump’s mass deportation machine. The Senate needs to reject the House-passed bill and start over. We’re demanding a budget package that invests in vulnerable communities and lives up to the promise inscribed at the base of the Statue of Liberty that has strengthened our nation: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” Click “Start Writing” to send a message urging the Senate to stop the attacks on immigrant communities.

US #SupremeCourt to review GEO Group's loss in immigrant detainee *#ForcedLabor* [#slavery] case

#SCOTUS on June 2 agreed to decide if #GEOGroup can quickly appeal a judge's ruling denying the #PrivatePrison operator #government #IMMUNITY in a class action claiming #immigrant detainees were forced to work & paid $1 a day.

#immigration #law #CivilRights #HumanRights #exploitation #PenalLabor #PrisonLabor
reuters.com/legal/government/u

#ICE wrongfully deports #immigrant just 28 minutes after a federal court ordered him to stay. Jordin Melgar-Salmeron was sent to a supermax prison in El Salvador—despite explicit judicial orders. #Trump’s #DOJ admits this is the 4th known case, blaming "administrative oversights." The court had ordered his protection, but bureaucratic failure led to a life-altering mistake.

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@KimPerales
They promised their #Cult they would deport 12M "illegals" (which later became 8M "gang members".)

'cept there AREN'T "8M #illegal #immigrant #gang members". So they just started #deporting anyone arrested for SUSPICION of being in a gang (to meet their quota.) Rather than "hunt" them, they just sent ICE to the local jails.

They've run out of jails, so now they are going after the low-hanging fruit of (otherwise law-abiding) people showing up for their immigration hearings. 🤬

Today in Labor History June 1, 1916: The predominantly immigrant iron miners of the Mesabi Range, Minnesota, participated in a seemingly spontaneous strike in response to overpriced housing and goods, long hours and poor pay. The group was led by radical Finns who quickly drew the attention and aid of the IWW. Wobbly organizers, including Carlo Tresca, Joe Schmidt, Frank Little, and later Joe Ettor and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, came to help local strike leaders draw up a list of demands which included an 8-hour day, timed from when workers entered the mine until they were outside; a pay-scale based upon the actual hours worked; paydays twice monthly; immediate back-pay for hours worked upon severance; abolition of the Saturday night shift; abolition of the hated contract mining system. In the Contract Mining system, the bosses hired and paid “skilled” miners to do most of the mining. The contract miners then had to hire their own laborers and pay them out of their meagre wages. The contract miners were often native-born people, while the laborers were usually immigrants. This created a racialized two-tiered system that divided the workers and made it harder to organize. The bosses would routinely offer the contract miners a small concession to get them back to work, while offering the even more poorly paid laborers nothing, destroying their solidarity and ending the strike. Flynn would later go on to cofound the American Civil Liberties Union. Tresca would go on to became a leading organizer against both fascism and Stalinism. He was assassinated in 1943, possibly on orders of the Genovese crime family, possibly on orders of Stalin, and possibly Italian fascists. Frank Little, who was Native American, was later murdered by vigilantes during a strike in Butte. You can read my biography of Frank Little here: michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/

"Michael is among a new wave of doctors who are leaving the United States to escape the Trump administration. In the months since Trump was reelected and returned to the White House, American doctors have shown skyrocketing interest in becoming licensed in Canada, where dozens more than normal have already been cleared to practice, according to Canadian licensing officials and recruiting businesses."

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"Ms. Hui’s detention has forced a rural Missouri county to face the fallout of President Trump’s immigration crackdown, which was supported in theory by many residents in this Trump-loving corner of an increasingly red America.

Many are now asking how you can support Carol and also Mr. Trump."

nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/miss

Ming Li Hui, known to people in Kennett, Mo., as Carol, spoke from jail by video link to Liridona Ramadani, whose family owns the restaurant where Carol worked.
The New York Times · A Missouri Town Was Solidly Behind Trump. Then Carol Was Detained.By Jack Healy

“I can’t speak for other people, I don’t know what their thoughts are, but I do hear them ask questions,” Dry said. “‘Surely this is a mistake,’ or ‘What did she do wrong?’ or ‘Carol’s not a criminal, why is this happening to her?’”

Dry said Mayorga’s detainment has been eye-opening for residents.

“Something like this brings it home because it makes it personal.”

stlpr.org/law-order/2025-05-24

Carol Mayorga — a Kennett, Missouri woman — went to St. Louis last month for what she thought was a routine meeting with immigration officials to renew a work visa. Instead, they shackled her and are now trying to deport her to Hong Kong.
STLPR · 'Bring Carol home:' ICE snatches rural Missouri mom at immigration check-inBy Kavahn Mansouri

"Somebody needs to keep a record. Not just one person, but many people need to tell their stories as loud as possible so that the people in charge do not silence us into fear or into being othered.

More than ever, we need stories, we need storytellers, we need people who keep cultures intact. We need chefs; we need home cooks."

bbc.com/travel/article/2025051

A person makes pupusas on a grill (Credit: Getty Images)
BBC · 'Food is the thing that grounds them': What happens to family recipes when home no longer exists?By Lynn Brown

#Trump admin fined #LowIncome #immigrant $1.8 million

Wendy Ortiz was surprised to find out she was being fined by #immigration authorities for being in the country illegally—but it was the amount that truly shocked: $1.8M.

Ortiz, 32, who earns $13/hour at a meatpacking plant in PA, has lived in the US for a decade, after fleeing #ElSalvador to escape a #violent ex & #gang threats.…Her salary barely covers rent & expenses for her #autistic 6-yr-old #UScitizen son.

#law
reuters.com/world/us/low-incom

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Judge #Dugan’s transformation from a little-known local jurist to a face of the national #immigration debate began on April 18 with a pretrial hearing in a domestic abuse case against Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, a Mexican #immigrant.

Several federal ofcls from different agencies had gathered in the hallway outside Judge Dugan’s courtroom & had planned to arrest Flores-Ruiz, who they said was in the country illegally, after his court appearance.