We need to expose GOP MOC who spew anti-IMG/POC rhetoric, incl. the #GreatReplacementTheory. #TFG ramped it up, warning of an 'invasion of illegals' starting in 2015. His rants/others' have led to massacres & fear in #immigrant comms.
165 Members of the 118th Congress have employed replacement theory rhetoric & done so 584X in their official capacity. R MOC have amplified the bigoted conspiracy 31X in Congressional hearings & 96X on the floor of Congress.
Being an #immigrant academic is harder than what people think. I have to be on top of my game while juggling the complex immigration process and making sure that my family abroad and at home are being taken care of.
Today in Labor History March 25, 1911: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City killed 146 people, mostly immigrant women and young girls who were working in sweatshop conditions. As tragic as this fire was for poor, working class women, over 100 workers died on the job each day in the U.S. in 1911. What was most significant was that this tragedy became a flash point for worker safety and public awareness of sweatshop conditions.
The Triangle workers had to work from 7:00 am until 8:00 pm, seven days a week. The work was almost non-stop. They got one break per day (30 minutes for lunch). For this they earned only $6.00 per week. In some cases, they had to provide their own needles and thread. Furthermore, the bosses locked the women inside the building to minimize time lost to bathroom breaks.
A year prior to the fire, 20,000 garment workers walked off the job at 500 clothing factories in New York to protest the deplorable working conditions. They demanded a 20% raise, 52-hour work week and overtime pay. Over 70 smaller companies conceded to the union’s demands within the first 48 hours of the strike. However, the bosses at Triangle formed an employers’ association with the owners of the other large factories. Soon after, strike leaders were arrested. Some were fined. Others were sent to labor camps. They also used armed thugs to beat up and intimidate strikers. By the end of the month, almost all of the smaller factories had conceded to the union. By February, 1910, the strike was finally settled.
ProPublica reporter Melissa Sanchez reflects on what led her to investigate the many dangers and inequities faced by the immigrant workers without whom America’s #dairy farms wouldn’t function.
#POTUS#Biden is planning to make a visit to the southern #border on Thurs, acc/to 2 people briefed on the plans, traveling to Brownsville, #Texas, on the same day that #Trump has scheduled a border trip.
#Trump plans to deliver remarks from the border to highlight the #immigrationcrisis & lay #blame at the feet of Biden.
Trump is will highlight #crimes committed by #migrants in #NY & in other #cities, as well as the arrest of a Venezuelan #undocumented#immigrant in the recent high-profile killing of a 22-year-old nursing student in Georgia
@Grumpfff
Il faudrait que ces femmes et hommes politiques aient quand-même le courage enfin d'assumer leur bassesse au lieu de perorer au chaud : que ne proposent-ils pas d'abattre sans sommations et immédiatement tout demandeur d'asile un peu basané s'approchant de nos frontières ! Voilà une solution finale. Allez les cons, assumez !!!
Leaving all they know behind them, the Nabi #immigrant family journey away from #Syria towards their destination: immigration in #Germany . One member takes it upon himself to lead fifteen of his family and friends across borders using his phone’s GPS and the guidance of his brothers in Berlin. As #refugees , they experience repeated setbacks and heartache but their love for one another remains their richest source of morale.
"It might’ve been a cassette full of na’ats, I cannot say, but to me it looked Maximum Holy. I asked my Dadi if this man was what Allah looked like. Tobah! is all I got."
New at Longreads, Mariam Quraishi explores the mysteries of religion and the universe.
Today in Labor History October 10, 1912: The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) struck in Little Falls, New York. The strike lasted into January and involved primarily immigrant workers. It started at the Phoenix Knitting Mill, but spread to the Gilbert Knitting Mill, also in the Mohawk Valley. In November, the Little Falls Council voted to authorize a contingent of special police, which escalated tensions. Later that month, the AFL created United Textile Workers local #206 to compete with the Wobblies for members and press attention. But when the AFL announced it had reached a settlement between with mill owners, later that month, the workers refused it, siding with the Wobblies and demanding greater concessions.
@fulelo Pres. Biden and the DHS could have done more to prevent this waste. Absolutelly nothing is being solved by caving to the desires of psychopats in the fascist far-right. #border#Wall#immigrant
ALL their #FarRight votes go to the Tories, which is their ONLY plan for the #UK!
This is how desperate they are to retain power. They've fucked everything up & the only route left to them retaining power is overt, far right #Fascist#Racism by cosying up to Nazi Nige! 🤚😳
Agreed 100! #Sunak is so little & weedy, with such an annoying whiney voice, it's embarrassing!
The #Tories courted the #FarRight to win a landslide victory in 2019, but I doubt they thought a midget #Indian#Immigrant would become PM!
They ain't voting for him! #Braverman is doing her best female Indian Hitler impression to bolster her leadership credentials, but apparently only the gormless halfwit Dizzy Lizzy #Truss got a bigger reception than Nazi Nige Führer! 🤚😳
The only bad thing about the demise of Tweet Land is that lots of TV shows have stopped putting #hashtags on their broadcasts, which makes it harder to find people talking about the same topic online.
I love that the #LocalElections get so much coverage because as a dirty #immigrant without a #Norwegian passport, the local election is the only one I can vote in 🥹