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I’m De Captain Now! Republicans Hold 9,000,000 Kids Hostage With Likely Government Shutdown
Saturday is the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, and you must admit that he’s managed a pretty radical transformation of America. He’s turned his White House into the location of a horrible reality show. He’s turned Twitter into a weapon of mass destruction. He’s made the United States the most hated country on…
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Trump’s Big Mad After Chief of Staff Contradicts His Stance on Border Wall and Calls Him ‘Uninformed’: Report
According to President Donald Trump, his position on the border wall to separate Mexico and the United States has never changed, despite what White House chief of staff John Kelly said in recent interviews, and despite Trump’s flip-flopping on the wall since running for president. On Wednesday, Kelly appeared on Fox News and said that…
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Trump, Whose Racist Record Goes Back More Than 40 Years, Says He Is ‘the Least Racist Person’
President Donald Trump—a man who was sued by the Justice Department in 1973 for racial discrimination, who called for the death penalty against the Central Park Five, who claimed for years that the first black president of the United States wasn’t born in this country, who labeled Mexicans rapists and criminals during his first 2016…
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New Yorkers Will Rally Against Trump to Honor Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy
New Yorkers will honor the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s memory today by protesting the 45th president of the United States’ regressive and racist words and deeds in Times Square. The Rally Against Racism event, organized by the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network, will be held at 3 p.m. to protest Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant…
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The Counter to Trump’s Xenophobic Racism Is Not Exceptionalist Immigrant Narratives
Sometime Thursday, Donald J. Trump waddled into the Oval Office at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, D.C., and not only blustered that immigrants from the countries of Haiti, El Salvador and the entire continent of Africa are “people from shithole countries” but also encouraged more immigration from countries such as Norway and the continent of…
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If Trump Is Really About Saving DACA, Then He Shouldn’t Care That a Judge Ruled to Start the Program Back Up
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump announced that he would be willing to sign legislation that would allow children of illegal immigrants to stay in the country, which would effectively extend former President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA. A California federal judge apparently noticed the president’s change of heart on…
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Trump Wants a ‘Bill of Love’ to Protect DACA Recipients, but Only if He Gets His Dumbass Border Wall
Someone must have taken the old president’s brain out and replaced it with a pot roast because in a magical switch that can only be explained by science and a full-on lobotomy, the president has promised 25 lawmakers that if they can bring him a bill that will extend protections to 800,000 immigrants’ children, he…
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The Perils of Being Black and Undocumented: The Good Place Actor Reveals Status to Los Angeles Times
Of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the U.S., approximately 575,000 (5 percent) are black—yet they make up about 10 percent of immigrants in deportation proceedings. Black undocumented immigrants also are less likely to receive valuable resources and help when it comes to programs like the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. The cost…
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Why We Need More Women of Color Running Their Own Businesses Under a Trump Presidency
Let’s face it: Half the country has been in a funk since Nov. 9. Not only did Donald Trump become president, but he went about shoring up white supremacy as swiftly as possible. Under his leadership, hate groups have grown and protections for marginalized people have been eagerly dismantled by the administration. And people of…
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From a Black DACA Recipient: African-American Support Critical to Reform
Mwewa* always knew she was undocumented. “I just didn’t understand what that meant and the consequences it would create for me,” she says. It wasn’t until a high school classmate, while studying financial planning, asked Mwewa if she had her Social Security number memorized that it began to hit home. As an immigrant from Zambia…