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Black, Brown and Red: NOVEMBER 19, 2024
As Trump Seeks Mass Deportations, Workplace Raids May Not Help Much
America's first major immigration crackdown and the making and breaking of the West
America's first major immigration crackdown and the making and breaking of the West
Just over a year into Donald Trump’s first term as President, immigration agents raided a meat processing plant in Bean Station, Tennessee, arresting 104 workers.
It was the largest worksite raid in a decade. Two months later, 114 were arrested at a large-scale nursery in Sandusky, Ohio. The next year, immigration agents raided poultry plants in six towns in central Mississippi, arresting 680 workers in one day.
When Trump comes back to office in January, he plans to bring back the raids, after President Biden largely put a stop to such enforcement tactics.
“Worksite operations have to happen,” Tom Homan, Trump’s former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and his incoming “border czar,” said on “Fox and Friends” last week.
Worksite raids generate headlines and TV news stories, but the operations don’t lead to a significant number of deportations, according to those familiar with such operations. “They are flashy, they are disruptive, they are controversial—therefore, I would expect them” during the second Trump Administration, says John Sandweg, who was acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement during the Obama Administration. “But from a numbers perspective, they are not going to materially increase the count.”
America's first major immigration crackdown and the making and breaking of the West
America's first major immigration crackdown and the making and breaking of the West
America's first major immigration crackdown and the making and breaking of the West
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 is widely considered to be the first major immigration clampdown in American history. It's a riveting tale that parallels today and may provide insights into the economic consequences of immigration restrictions and mass deportations. This is Part 1 of that story, which explains how Chinese immigrants became a crucial workforce in the American West and why, despite their sacrifices and contributions creating the transcontinental railroad, the railroad's completion may have actually contributed to a populist backlash that sealed their fates.
Donner Memorial State Park in Truckee, California, is a place where natural beauty clashes with historic horror like maybe nowhere else on Earth. The park has a stunning alpine lake and inspiring views of the craggy, granite peaks of the Sierra Nevada. It's an awesome place to swim, boat, windsurf, hike, snowshoe, ski, picnic — you name it. It also just so happens to be the gruesome site where, in the winter of 1846-47, a snowbound Donner Party resorted to the most infamous incident of cannibalism in American history.
Texas Education Board to Vote on Bible-Infused Lessons in Public Schools
America's first major immigration crackdown and the making and breaking of the West
Texas Education Board to Vote on Bible-Infused Lessons in Public Schools
Texas education officials are expected to vote this week on whether to approve a new elementary-school curriculum that infuses teachings on the Bible into reading and language arts lessons.
The optional curriculum, one of most sweeping efforts in recent years to bring a Christian perspective to more students, would test the limits of religious instruction in public education.
It could also become a model for other states and for the administration of President-elect Donald J. Trump, who has promised to champion the conservative Christian movement in his second presidential term.
In the ascendant but highly contested push to expand the role of religion in public life, Texas has emerged as a leader. It was the first state to allow public schools to hire religious chaplains as school counselors, and the Republican-controlled legislature is expected to renew its attempts to require public-school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments.
Black, Brown and Red: November 18, 2024
Accused of violating worker rights, SpaceX and Amazon go after labor board
About 20% of Americans regularly get their news from influencers on social media, report says
Accused of violating worker rights, SpaceX and Amazon go after labor board
In the nearly four years that Joe Biden has been president, the National Labor Relations Board has taken an assertive — some say overly aggressive — approach to protecting workers' rights to organize and collectively bargain.
Now, SpaceX and Amazon are at the forefront of a corporate-led effort to monumentally change the labor agency.
On Monday, attorneys for the two companies will try to convince a panel of judges at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals that the labor agency, created by Congress in 1935, is unconstitutional.
Their lawsuits are among more than two dozen challenges brought by companies who say the NLRB's structure gives it unchecked power to shape and enforce labor law.
Biden screwed up on inflation — badly
About 20% of Americans regularly get their news from influencers on social media, report says
Accused of violating worker rights, SpaceX and Amazon go after labor board
There’s a pretty widespread consensus about which issue was most responsible for Kamala Harris’s defeat: inflation.
There’s much less consensus on what, if anything, Democrats could have done differently about it.
Polls have been clear for years that voters were irate about the inflation that occurred under the Biden administration — the highest in decades. Yet it’s also clear that Biden’s policies were not the primary cause of that inflation. It was a global phenomenon in the post-pandemic return to normal, exacerbated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in early 2022.
Some of Biden’s defenders have argued he did the best he could with a bad hand. After all, his economic policy eventually resulted in a “soft landing” where inflation rates dropped without a recession. Additionally, incumbent parties have been struggling in elections nearly everywhere, and Harris’s loss was comparatively small compared to incumbents’ blowout defeats overseas.
There’s another theory of the case, which argues that Biden’s team shouldn’t be let off the hook so easily. The administration, critics say, screwed up on inflation in two distinct and avoidable ways.
About 20% of Americans regularly get their news from influencers on social media, report says
About 20% of Americans regularly get their news from influencers on social media, report says
About 20% of Americans regularly get their news from influencers on social media, report says
About one in five Americans – and a virtually identical share of Republicans and Democrats – regularly get their news from digital influencers who are more likely to be found on the social media platform X, according to a report released Monday by the Pew Research Center.
The findings, drawn from a survey of more than 10,000 U.S. adults and an analysis of social media posts posted this summer by influencers, provide an indication of how Americans consumed the news during the height of the U.S. presidential campaign that President-elect Donald Trump ultimately won.
The study examined accounts run by people who post and talk regularly about current events - including through podcasts and newsletters - and have more than 100,000 followers on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, X or TikTok. They include people across the political spectrum, such as the progressive podcast host Brian Tyler Cohen and conservative podcaster Ben Shapiro, as well as non-partisan personalities like Chris Cillizza, a former CNN analyst who now runs his own newsletter.
Black, Brown and Red: November 16, 2024
Women stock up on abortion pills and Plan B, fearing new restrictions under Trump
Women stock up on abortion pills and Plan B, fearing new restrictions under Trump
Women stock up on abortion pills and Plan B, fearing new restrictions under Trump
As millions of Americans were waking up last Wednesday morning to learn that Donald Trump won the presidency, it dawned on Dr. Angel Foster that she was about to be very busy.
Foster is co-founder of the Massachusetts Medication Abortion Access Project, or the MAP, a telehealth provider that sends abortion medication through the mail to patients across the U.S., including states where it's illegal.
On a typical day, Foster says between 130 and 140 people fill out the organization's intake form — but the day following the presidential election there were more than 1,000.
"It has been a very, very challenging couple of days for our team," says Foster, adding that many of these patients are not pregnant, but are instead buying the medication for future use.
What a Second Trump Term Means for the Constitution
Women stock up on abortion pills and Plan B, fearing new restrictions under Trump
Women stock up on abortion pills and Plan B, fearing new restrictions under Trump
America has the world’s longest-lasting written constitution. It’s been through a lot—one Civil War, two World Wars, a Great Depression, and all the shocks of the early 21st century. It’s been amended 27 times, though not since 1992. The document, you might think, has shown some staying power. But even after all of that, the 2024 U.S. election has some people asking whether it can go another round with President Donald Trump.
In thinking about the possible impacts on the Constitution of a second Trump term, it’s useful to separate out three different categories of constitutional rules.
First, there are norms: principles that are not written down in the Constitution and that aren’t enforced by judges. Norms emerge from practice, sometimes dating back to the days of George Washington. These are things like the understanding that the Attorney General has some degree of independence from the president, or that the Department of Justice should not be used to harass political opponents.
Georgia Poll Workers Defamed by Giuliani Receive Some of His Assets
Women stock up on abortion pills and Plan B, fearing new restrictions under Trump
How to tackle crime in Indian Country? Empower tribal justice, ex-Justice Department official says
Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, the two Georgia poll workers defamed by Rudolph W. Giuliani after the 2020 election, received his watch collection, a ring and his vintage Mercedes-Benz on Friday.
The deliveries, which Mr. Giuliani’s lawyer, Joseph Cammarata, reported to the court on Friday, were a long time coming for the women, who are mother and daughter. It was also a small down payment on what the former New York City mayor owes them.
In the aftermath of the 2020 election, Mr. Giuliani spread lies about the women, asserting without evidence that they tried to steal the election from former President Donald J. Trump. At the time, Mr. Giuliani was working as Mr. Trump’s personal attorney and was helping to lead the effort to overturn the 2020 election results.
Mr. Giuliani’s false statements about the women led to a torrent of threats and harassment, upending the women’s lives and sending them into hiding.
How to tackle crime in Indian Country? Empower tribal justice, ex-Justice Department official says
How to tackle crime in Indian Country? Empower tribal justice, ex-Justice Department official says
How to tackle crime in Indian Country? Empower tribal justice, ex-Justice Department official says
WASHINGTON (AP) — A quarter-century ago, the Justice Department had few meaningful relationships with Native American tribes.
While the federal government worked with state and local police and courts, tribal justice systems did not have the same level of recognition, said Tracy Toulou, who oversaw the department’s Office of Tribal Justice from 2000 until his recent retirement. “They were essentially invisible,” he said.
Attorney General Merrick Garland said Toulou built the office from an idea into an “institution within the Justice Department.”
Its relationships with the nation’s 574 federally recognized tribes are important, in part because federal authorities investigate and prosecute a set of major crimes on most reservations.
Public safety statistics reflect the serious challenges. Native Americans and Alaska Natives are more than twice as likely to be victims of a violent crime, and Native American women are at least two times more likely to be raped or sexually assaulted compared with others.
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How to tackle crime in Indian Country? Empower tribal justice, ex-Justice Department official says
what does religion say about trumps plan for healthcare
Torah
Exodus 21:19This verse instructs that if someone injures another person, they must ensure that the injured person receives medical treatment.
Quran
Al-Maidha 10:57
Men! Now there has come to you an exhortation from your Lord, a healing for the ailments of the hearts, and a guidance and mercy for those who believe.
Bible
Matthew 9:12 “On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.”
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