immigration
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ICE Raids Continue: Agents Target Southern California Businesses
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are continuing the business of cracking down on undocumented immigrant workers and the employers that hire them. The latest targets of federal immigration audits are businesses in the Los Angeles area. The Los Angeles Times reports that after a five-day operation that ended Thursday, ICE issued audit notices to more…
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Immigrant Faces Deportation After Calling Police for Help
A Honduran immigrant and father of three is facing deportation after calling the police for help. Wilson Rodriguez Macarreno was getting ready for work early Thursday morning when he noticed a stranger looking into his home in Tukwila, Wash. As the Washington Post reports, the 32-year-old carpenter grew concerned about the safety of his 3-year-old…
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So … Um … I Think Politico Just Published an Argument for Slavery. In 2018 (Yes, That Slavery)
On Tuesday, Politico published “Sponsor an Immigrant Yourself”—a thought exercise from people allegedly named “Eric Posner” and “Glen Weyl” that attempts to solve our immigration debate by thinking so far out of the box that the box now can only be seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. They’re so out of the box, in fact,…
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Trump Uses Death of NFL Player to Rant Against Immigrants, Ask for Border Wall
If we’re being honest, you have to admire the way the juicy-booty hate-monger throwing back Diet Cokes in the Oval Office like Stone Cold Steve Austin at WrestleMania 192 always finds a way to twist any tragedy into a reason to validate his racism. According to Donald Trump, the opioid crisis, most crimes and even…
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With Allies Like These We Don’t Need Enemies
As part of my day job, I travel a lot for work. I’m one of those semi-road-warrior types who collects miles and points on my weekly trips in and around the United States to sit in meetings where I add marginal value, eat boxed lunches and internally critique PowerPoint font choices. I’m TSA Precheck. I…
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Why White People Hate Immigrants, Explained
Sure! I once had a job analyzing the economic impact of immigration, so this subject is right in my wheelhouse. I also worked at Arby’s, so if you ever need to know the difference between a half-ounce of roast beef and a full ounce, I could help you with that, too. Deferred Action for Childhood…
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1 Twin Born to a Gay Couple Was Granted Citizenship. The Other Was Not—and the Reason Is Expectedly Trash
I wasn’t born in this country. In fact, I didn’t live in it until I was 9 years old, arriving in Northern Virginia on the cusp of the fifth grade, excited about American TV and the prospect of seeing my first snowfall. While I still spoke with a Filipino accent, my citizenship was never in…
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Tucker Carlson Wants to Start a Race War So Bad, He’s Now Beefing With Joy Reid
On Tuesday night, Tucker Carlson—the political pundit, professional white person and proof that “mediocre-est” is a word—tipped the Las Vegas betting odds in his favor on which Fox News personality will eventually kick off the race war when he jump-started a new beef with MSNBC’s Joy-Ann Reid by saying that her “entire public career has…
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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…