🌎 Discussion: Illegal Immigration, Immigration Reform, and Other Citizenship Issues II

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Sanctuary cities respond to Trump deportation plans: ‘We’re preparing to defend our communities’

Leaders from Los Angeles to Chicago organize in preparation of a vengeance-filled Trump agenda

www.theguardian.com

 

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Trump claims a win on immigration after a call with Mexico's president. But she suggests no change

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum confirmed that she spoke with Trump, calling it an “excellent conversation.”

apnews.com

Bit early yo claim victory yet. The numbers of crossings will have to be watched.

 

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Immigrant 'Criminals' Trump Wants To Deport Only Make Up Tiny Fraction Of Migrants In US, Analysis Found

Trump has vowed to carry out the largest mass deportation operation in American history, starting by ejecting criminals. But they only make up a tiny group of the demographic, a report found.

www.ibtimes.com

 

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Appeals court backs Texas over razor wire installed on US-Mexico border

A federal appeals court has ruled that Border Patrol agents cannot cut razor wire that Texas installed on the U.S.-Mexico border in the town of Eagle Pass.

www.cbsnews.com

 

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Democratic-controlled cities are finalizing plans to oppose mass deportation

Many have passed ordinances intended to shield migrants from efforts by the incoming Trump administration to eject them from the country.

www.nbcnews.com

 

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Immigrant 'Criminals' Trump Wants To Deport Only Make Up Tiny Fraction Of Migrants In US, Analysis Found

Trump has vowed to carry out the largest mass deportation operation in American history, starting by ejecting criminals. But they only make up a tiny group of the demographic, a report found.

www.ibtimes.com

I don't think he plans to separate the bad from the good, he'll just push them all out.

 

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What happened to Trump’s border wall? (Mexico didn’t pay for it)

The wall is no longer Trump’s central idea, and it never really slowed migration, but it continues to put lives at risk, cost billions, and harm the environment. And with Trump returning to office, the border wall may take center stage once again, Josh Marcus reports.

www.independent.co.uk

 

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Los Angeles, a city of immigrants, braces for Trump's vow of mass deportations

The Los Angeles City Council earlier this month approved an ordinance declaring itself a sanctuary city in defiance of President-elect Donald Trump's deportation plan.

www.cbsnews.com

 

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Full List Of Cities Promising To Shield Immigrants From Trump's Mass Deportation

As Trump prepares to carry out a mass deportation operation, Democratic-led states and cities are preparing to fight back and protect their migrant communities.

www.ibtimes.com

 

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Activists say Mexican authorities have broken up 2 migrant caravans heading to the US

Activists say Mexican immigration authorities have broken up two small migrant caravans headed to the U.S. border

www.independent.co.uk

 

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Activists say Mexican authorities have broken up 2 migrant caravans heading to the US

Activists say Mexican immigration authorities have broken up two small migrant caravans headed to the U.S. border

www.independent.co.uk

If this is kept up, how long before the Mexican president is assassinated? I can't see the cartels putting up with it.

 

[blueharvest]

DACA recipients worry their protection from deportation won't last another Trump term

Recipients of the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program are bracing for potential challenges to their status in the country during President-elect Donald Trump's second term in the White House.

apnews.com

 

[blueharvest]

"Fossil fascism" used to demonize migrants

Ecofascists have a long history of supporting the environment when it empowers racist policy

www.salon.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

America's first major immigration crackdown and the making and breaking of the West​

https://www.npr.org/sections/planet-money/2024/11/19/g-s1-34449/americas-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.

The price America paid for its first big immigration crackdown​

https://www.npr.org/sections/planet-money/2024/11/26/g-s1-35805/chinese-expulsion-act-railroads-immigration-crackdown

In the years after the Act's passage, West Coast newspapers and populist agitators grew angry that Chinese immigrants were still entering the country and demanded that the government do more. This was the beginning of what you might call the national fight against "illegal immigration" — because before this virtually all immigration to the United States was legal.

In 1888, President Grover Cleveland — hoping to carry Western states in his upcoming reelection battle — signed into law another Chinese Exclusion Act that had more teeth than the first one. This one prohibited all Chinese laborers from coming into the country — whether or not they had resided in the United States previously. It was a policy that was easier to enforce and administer. It was also quickly implemented, leaving thousands of Chinese immigrants who had traveled abroad stranded and unable to return. It was also a policy that angered China and marked the beginning of an age in which the United States set restrictive immigration policy unilaterally.

After President Cleveland signed this legislation into law, many white westerners took to the streets to celebrate. This was only two years after the unveiling of the Statue of Liberty, which proclaimed that America was a refuge for "your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free."

Coincidentally or not it was President Cleveland (the last guy to win two non-consecutive terms) who embraced this kind of politics and policies as president.

 

[blueharvest]

Trump is targeting protections for almost 1 million legal immigrants

Temporary Protected Status shields thousands of immigrants from deportation. Trump wants to end it.

www.vox.com

 

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Biden Urged to Act Now as Trump's Mass Deportation Plan Looms | Common Dreams

Amnesty International called for immediate action from the outgoing Biden administration to protect immigrants before President-elect Donald Trump's return to office.

www.commondreams.org

 

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‘Harm to children was part of the point’: a harrowing film on US family separations

Errol Morris’s bleak documentary Separated has gained in relevance since it premiered with more ‘state-created orphans’ to come under a second Trump administration

www.theguardian.com

 

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Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan Has One Major Vulnerability

The legal ploy Trump is banking on to speed up mass deportations and why it might not work.

slate.com

 

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Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan Has One Major Vulnerability

The legal ploy Trump is banking on to speed up mass deportations and why it might not work.

slate.com

I for one hope they fail. I want it to be such a convoluted mess it doesn't get far before the midterms.

 

[blueharvest]

Millions of Mexican Americans were deported in the 1930s. Are we about to repeat this ‘ethnic cleansing’?

Nearly 2 million Mexican Americans, more than half US citizens, were deported without due process during the Great Depression, reminiscent of what is unfolding today

www.theguardian.com

 

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Construction industry ‘hoping like hell’ Trump won’t crack down on undocumented labor

Construction industry features large share of undocumented people, especially in post-Covid economic recovery

www.independent.co.uk

Lol. Most of those idiots voted for Trump. Enjoy the consequences.

 

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Mayor Adams says undocumented New Yorkers aren’t owed due process, defying Constitution

“The Constitution is for Americans,” Adams said, contradicting amendments that grant due process to all persons regardless of immigration status.

gothamist.com

 

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Revealed: Biden lays groundwork to expand immigration jails as Trump readies for office

In the past year, the Biden administration has extended contracts for private sector jails before Trump’s plan for mass deportations

www.theguardian.com

 

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Bahamas rejects Trump proposal to take in deported migrants

President-elect reportedly plans to send people to countries they have no ties to as part of his attack on immigration

www.theguardian.com

 

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Bahamas rejects Trump proposal to take in deported migrants

President-elect reportedly plans to send people to countries they have no ties to as part of his attack on immigration

www.theguardian.com

I still don't see how he can just dump people on random countries like that.