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81 posts27 participants2 posts today

“The EVER #detention camp has been in op for nearly 2 mos & it took a fed lawsuit to force the Trump admin to desig a court for ppl to be able to seek bond as req by law.”
-A R-Melnick

“Trump admin⚡️designates the IMM crt at Krome Detn Cen near Miami to handle IMM matters stemming from Al Alcatraz. (Seems venue-wise to create another conn to SDFL.)”
-J Gerstein
IMM judges must grant #DueProcess to detainees in the torturous #AlligatorAuschwitz. Retro?
#Immigrants #USPol
documentcloud.org/documents/26

www.documentcloud.orgAllAlcatrazKrome081625.PDF

Martial Law in DC - Your City is Next? - #Bondi issued Order No. 6372-2025 implementing #ExecutiveOrder 14333 declaring #crime #emergency in #DC. Order empowers #DEA Administrator Terrance C. Cole to direct DC Mayor and Metropolitan Police to assist federal authorities in #immigration #enforcement, #apprehension #detention of #undocumented #immigrants, #database information-sharing, and clearing unlawful #publicspace occupancy overriding existing D.C. #laws and #policies. substack.com/redirect/14051f10

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If we want to see with our own eyes what Trump's military occupation of D.C. portends for anyone targeted by his administration, see this horrifying video shared by Marisa Kabas, who writes,

"A delivery worker was tased, punched and kicked by multiple federal agents in the middle of the street outside a popular brunch spot in Northwest DC on Saturday morning, a video shared with The Handbasket shows."

#Trump #WashingtonDC #fascism #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants
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thehandbasket.co/p/federal-age

Trump's thugs are proving their skull-bashing loyalty in broad daylight.
The HandbasketFederal agent during violent DC arrest: “Liberals already ruined” this countryTrump's thugs are proving their skull-bashing loyalty in broad daylight.
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"This so-called crime crackdown—with 800 National Guard troops patrolling our streets, and the local police taken over by decree—is a made-for-TV authoritarian flex, conveniently timed to drift the public eye away from the Epstein files."

~ The Feed

#Trump #WashingtonDC #fascism #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants
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beagoodinfluence.substack.com/

The Feed · Trump’s DC Invasion is a Preview of His Authoritarian VisionBy The Feed

#Tariffs & #deportations are contributors to rising prices & fewer immigrant workers: Higher wholesale vegetable costs & an economic slowdown in TX could be signs that Trump's immigration policies are hurting INDs.

BLS reported Thurs a 38.9% increase in wholesale dry & fresh vegetable prices from June to July, the biggest since Mar 2022.
#Immigrants #Economy #Protest #Trumpcession #Stagflation #TrumpRegime #USPol
nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump

NBC News · Trump's tariffs and deportations are contributing to rising prices, fewer immigrant workersBy Suzanne Gamboa
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"With all three branches of government seemingly in sync in furtherance of Trump’s dictatorial ambitions, we have to work with what we have.

What we have are ordinary people standing on streets they claim as their own demanding that ICE leave."

~ Sherrilyn Ifill

#Trump #WashingtonDC #fascism #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants
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sherrilyn.substack.com/p/summe

Sherrilyn’s Newsletter · Summer of Our DiscontentBy Sherrilyn Ifill

A 4-yr-old boy’s ongoing care for stage 4 kidney cancer was interrupted when #ICE officers illegally deported him, his sister & mother w no: #DueProcess -ATTYs. They're citizens & -born in LA, the boy & his 7-yr-old sister were deported to Honduras +their old mother -a Honduran citizen, on Apr 25, acc to a🚨fed lawsuit filed on July 31.

“As a direct consequence of ICE’s unlawful conduct, Romeo was deprived needed continuity in his trt.”
#Courts #Immigrants #Sadism #USPol
miamiherald.com/news/nation-wo

"Judge Gee⚡denied DOJ’s request to terminate the Flores settlement -a 1997 stt that provides court ov of gov’t trt of migrant children subject to #detention until a final rule is in effect.

The stt will remain."
-C Geidner

"Under the 1997 consent decree, migrants who're 17 yrs old & younger must be held in the “least restrictive” setting while efforts are made to expeditiously rel them -must rec adequate meals, clean water, clothing, ED & med asst...
#Immigrants #USPol
nytimes.com/2025/08/15/us/migr

Unaccompanied minors wait for U.S. Border Patrol agents after being allowed in at El Paso, Texas.
The New York Times · Judge Rejects Trump’s Attempt to End Standards of Care for Detained Migrant ChildrenBy Miriam Jordan
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At the height of the golden age of reggae, some of #Jamaica ’s brightest stars left their homeland behind to shine their light in an unlikely hub of #Caribbean creativity: #Toronto.

Sounds & Pressure: #Reggae in a Foreign Land follows the journeys of these icons. Through rare archives and infectious beats, this captivating five-part #anthology series takes you from #Kingston to #KensingtonMarket to see and hear how reggae made roots in #Canada against all odds.

nfb.ca/series/sounds-pressure/

National Film Board of CanadaSounds & Pressure: Reggae in a Foreign LandSounds & Pressure: Reggae in a Foreign Land follows the journeys of these icons. Through rare archives and infectious beats, this captivating five-part anthology series takes you from …
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The #TrumpRegime is set to spend up to $50M on a wave of taxpayer-funded PR amid negative coverage dogging his #DHS Sec Noem.

The DHS🚨pledges $20M to $50M as an “INTL Campaign Follow-on” to the “Stronger Border/ America” ads🚨 that've starred Noem.

PR campaign: funded from Sept-Mar, listing Ppl Who Think LLC w ties to C Lewandowski. Fed data shows the co: awarded $26.5M.

Waste, fraud, #corruption, propaganda... while #immigrants are terrorized.
#Deportations #ICE #USPol thedailybeast.com/donald-trump

Kristi Noem and Donald Trump
The Daily Beast · Trump Set to Blow Millions on ICE Barbie PR Blitz as Her Roasting SpiralsBy Tom Latchem
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Julia Kwan’s feature-length #documentary Everything Will Be captures a significant moment of time in #VancouverBC #Chinatown, with the influx of condos and new, non-Chinese businesses. The film follows a year in the life of several #Chinatown denizens, including a 90-year-old #Chinese newspaper street vendor and a second-generation tea shop owner, as they navigate this #community in flux.

nfb.ca/film/everything_will_be/

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This #documentary tells the story of a #Chinese #cemetery in #VictoriaBC that became a #NationalHeritage site. For Chinese #pioneers who died in Canada, Victoria's Chinese Cemetery at #HarlingPoint was a temporary resting place until their bones could be returned home. (Traditional Chinese belief says that the soul of a person who dies in a foreign place wanders lost until their bones are returned home.) This film traces the rich history of the #VancouverIsland cemetery from controversy and neglect to its revival as a #historic site. Told by those closest to it, the story of Harling Point is a metaphor for #Canada , a country still working on making a home for all who live within its borders.

nfb.ca/film/from_harling_point/

🧵#DocumentaryFilms I've enjoyed this month - in no particular order.

A rich and little-known part of Canadian history unfolds through the stories of the first Chinese women to come to Canada and of subsequent generations of Chinese Canadian women. It is an amazing tale of courageous women who left behind their families, knowing they would never see them again and of girls who were shipped off to the New World to marry men they had never met. These are the women who fought against the many forms of racism they faced in Canada while, at the same time, challenging sexism within their own communities. By passing on language, culture, and values to their children, these women defined what it means to be Chinese Canadian. Beautiful old photographs from family albums, the recollections of seven women who grew up in Canada in the first half of the 20th century, and the memories of narrator and director, Dora Nipp, whose grandfather came to Canada in 1881 to build the railway, create a remarkable story of stunning impact.

nfb.ca/film/under-the-willow-t

Trump is using the military more and more to crack down on #immigrants—taking control of border land, using bases for detention, and deploying troops for deportations.

This domestic #militarization can increase military power at home, despite legal limits and political pushback.

The Left can fight back by exposing #imperialism, supporting resisting troops, and organizing strong community resistance like the one that stopped troop deployment in LA. #counterpunch

znetwork.org/znetarticle/trump

ZNetworkTrump’s War On Immigrants Is a Trojan Horse To Normalize Domestic Use of the MilitaryWhile Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) faces growing scrutiny for its role in brutally carrying out Trump’s mass-deportation agenda, another

The couple💔was found guilty of harboring & conspiring to trans undoc #immigrants -face up to 10 yrs in prison +loss of their legal status.

Large corps🚨found employing undoc IMMs: subject to fines -not potential incarceration.

#DHS Investigations conducted a work-site enforc action at the bakery -agents detained wkrs they said were in the country illegally.

Trump's goal: expel/deport blk/brown ppl +bankrupt small businesses for #privatization.
#Oligarchy #Racism #USPol
nytimes.com/2025/08/13/us/bord

Leonardo Baez, the owner of Abby’s Bakery in Los Fresnos, Texas.
The New York Times · Bakers on Texas-Mexican Border Are Found Guilty of Harboring Illegal WorkersBy Edgar Sandoval
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Douglas MacMillan, N. Kirkpatrick and Lydia Sidhom report that ICE documents show a plan to double immigrant detention space this year, expanding the capacity of the immigration detention system from 50,000 to 107,000+.

#Trump #MAGA #military #fascism #immigrants #ICE
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washingtonpost.com/immigration

The Washington Post · ICE documents reveal plan to double immigrant detention space this yearBy Douglas MacMillan