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tusk81

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Editor, America’s Voice 🇺🇸 Immigrant rights, LGBTQ+ rights, cats. Cancer survivor. Views here my own.

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Ahead of César Chávez Day this Sunday, several rallies around the country have been shining an important light on the late labor leader’s legacy, the vital contributions of farmworkers, and the ongoing need for justice, dignity, and full rights for these essential laborers. More at America’s Voice 👇🏽 https://americasvoice.org/blog/this-cesar-chavez-day-lets-recommit-ourselves-to-ensuring-dignity-and-protection-for-essential-farmworkers/

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Despite their essential work feeding America, millions of farmworkers are vulnerable to employer exploitation and deportation due to our outdated immigration system. At least half of the nation’s roughly 2.4 million farmworkers are estimated to lack legal immigration status. In California, that number could be as high as 75%.

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“Grieving Michigan family says Trump lied about their daughter. Of course he did.

Trump doesn't care about the U.S.-Mexico border or immigrants in general. He doesn't care about Garcia or her family in Michigan. And he definitely doesn't care about you."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/04/03/trump-ruby-garcia-murder-immigration-crime/73193899007/

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“I didn’t hear Trump, between his xenophobic rants, saying he would address the ease with which violent men can obtain firearms. I didn’t hear him mention how, according to the nonprofit Everytown for Gun Safety, an average of 70 women are shot and killed by an intimate partner each month. Trump was silent on the fact that, according to the Emory University School of Medicine, 5.3 million women are victims of intimate-partner violence each year.”

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“People who took an anti-malaria treatment that Donald Trump touted as a cure for in the early days of the pandemic and waning days of his presidency were 11% more likely to die from the virus, according to a new scientific study.” https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/12/hydroxychloroquine-covid-increase-chance-death-trump

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“Doctors who prescribed hydroxychloroquine to treat at the height of activity restrictions meant to slow the spread of the virus did so off-label and without evidence that there was any clinical benefit, as the authors of the new study noted. The study’s conclusions ‘illustrate the hazard of drug repurposing with low-level evidence for the management of future pandemics,’ its authors added.”

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In just two troubling proposals, Project 2025 calls for blocking “federal financial aid for up to two-thirds of all American college students if their state permits certain immigrant groups, including Dreamers w/legal status, to access in-state tuition," as well terminating their status "by eliminating staff time for reviewing and processing renewal applications": https://americasvoice.org/blog/trumps-2025-immigration-agenda/

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“While there is little doubt that a second term for Trump would be grim for immigrants, the headlines do not capture the depth of the proposed changes or the lengths the administration would go to implement them,” the Niskanen Center said: https://www.niskanencenter.org/project-2025-unveiling-the-far-rights-plan-to-demolish-immigration-in-a-second-trump-term/

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“Meta blocked a newspaper’s critical report about it on Facebook and its other social sites for hours, sparking a backlash that intensified after the company appeared to subsequently block links to the website of an independent journalist who republished the report.”

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/05/tech/meta-nonprofit-newspaper-independent-journalist-alleged-censorship/index.html

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Willie Nelson is an icon, he’s a legend, and he is the moment. Now come on now. https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2024/04/09/willie-nelson-orville-peck-gay-cowboy-anthem-duet/73258287007/

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President Biden will meet with some of the relatives of the six immigrant workers who died in the collapse of the Francis Scott Key bridge when he visits Baltimore tomorrow, the White House said: https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/04/04/politics/biden-baltimore-family-visit

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Ahead of , it’s necessary to highlight the tax contributions that immigrants—including those without legal status—make annually. One analysis found that immigrant-led households paid $524.7 billion in total taxes in 2021. Undocumented-led households paid $30.8 billion. More at America’s Voice👇🏽

https://americasvoice.org/blog/on-tax-day-the-facts-speak-clearly-immigrant-workers-pay-billions-into-social-security-and-medicare-help-fund-public-schools-and-libraries-and-boost-our-economy/

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How toxic is the great replacement theory now embraced by mainstream Republicans? Their own witness pulled an “I don’t know her” and tried to distance herself from it during a House hearing this week:

https://americasvoice.org/blog/house-gop-witness-and-hate-group-leader-rejects-white-nationalist-replacement-theory-while-the-gop-continues-to-embrace/

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“US Supreme Court ruling paved way for return of 1864 law.”

Donald Trump did this.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2024/04/09/arizona-abortion-law-state-supreme-court-upholds-near-total-ban/73251148007/

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Indicted former President Donald Trump, who is currently out on bail, has already told us he’ll be a dictator on day one if he returns to the White House. So believe him.

https://www.mediamatters.org/project-2025/project-2025-partner-floats-repealing-22nd-amendment-and-allowing-trump-serve-third

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“All of the men confirmed or presumed to be dead had emigrated from Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador or Mexico.

They were Alejandro Hernandez Fuentes, 35; Dorlian Ronial Castillo Cabrera, 26; Miguel Luna, 49; Maynor Yassir Suazo Sandoval, 38; Jose Mynor Lopez, 35; and one as-yet-unnamed man.”

https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/transportation/victims-key-bridge-collapse-3L35PNJLQVDWVBAO3Q5GTGSXTA/

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“These people who work day in, day out, who during the pandemic were considered essential workers and they were working every day and they’re not treated with the respect or dignity they deserve,” said @ufwupdates President Teresa Romero. “They want it. And they’re fighting for it.”

https://americasvoice.org/blog/this-cesar-chavez-day-lets-recommit-ourselves-to-ensuring-dignity-and-protection-for-essential-farmworkers/

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“RFK Jr.’s campaign is celebrating Cesar Chavez Day. The labor icon’s family is not having it.”

Fernando Chavez “and others pointed how badly farmworkers were hit by , partly fueled by rampant disinformation among Latinos about the vaccine’s efficacy. The Cesar Chavez Foundation worked to vaccinate farmworkers, Andres Chavez said, and Kennedy Jr.’s views on vaccines horrified him.“

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2024-03-29/cesar-chavez-robert-f-kennedy-jr-rk-campaign

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Immigrants are significant contributors to their states. In Texas, immigrant-led households pay $15 billion in local and state taxes annually. Undocumented-led households pay $1.7 billion. But you won’t hear about any of that from Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton: https://americasvoice.org/blog/in-state-after-state-immigrant-workers-boost-local-economies-through-tax-contributions-purchases-and-essential-labor/

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How many people died because of this man’s vanity? https://bsky.app/profile/fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social/post/3kp7ai3qmuo2r

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DeSantis “has signed a law that prevents cities or counties from creating protections for workers who labor in the state's often extreme and dangerous heat."

Is Florida trying to kill the immigrant farmworkers and other outdoor workers it hasn’t managed to scare away?

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/12/1244316874/florida-blocks-heat-protections-for-workers-right-before-summer

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During a recent appearance on Fox News, Republican Rep. Luna claimed that indicted former President Donald Trump “has not ever said anything xenophobic or racist about immigrants.”

We're so sorry that she's been stuck in a cave with no electricity or internet for the past several years. We whipped this up to help her catch up: https://americasvoice.org/blog/hey-rep-luna-here-are-24-of-the-most-xenophobic-and-racist-things-trump-has-said/

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Cesar Chavez's family to endorse Biden after anti-vaxxer RFK Jr. claims civil rights leader would've voted for him:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cesar-chavez-family-endorse-biden-robert-kennedy-jr/?linkId=377738057

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“These people who work day in, day out, who during the pandemic were considered essential workers and they were working every day and they’re not treated w/the respect or dignity they deserve,” said @ufwupdates President Teresa Romero. “They want it. And they’re fighting for it.”

https://americasvoice.org/blog/this-cesar-chavez-day-lets-recommit-ourselves-to-ensuring-dignity-and-protection-for-essential-farmworkers/

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“Decades of research and years of job data show immigrants have helped U.S. workers by taming inflation and boosting economic growth."

Immigration benefits everyone—including the nativists.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2024/04/08/us-job-numbers-show-immigration-opponents-wrong-about-the-economy/

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Trump’s allies “have plans to restrict abortion nationally without passing any new laws at all.

Key to these plans is the Comstock Act ..."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/08/opinion/trump-abortion-states.html

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“In a time when there is so much hatred against the immigrant community, we look to the story of Maynor & Miguel who built bridges to connect communities, not building walls to divide them,” said Maryland group CASA, which lost two members in the tragedy. “Today & always we honor them and their sacrifices.” https://americasvoice.org/blog/they-had-a-dream-of-a-better-future-for-themselves-and-their-families-communities-mourn-and-remember-immigrant-workers-lost-following-baltimore-bridge-collapse/

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Greg Sargent: "The Republican National Committee now has an official website devoted to chronicling 'migrant crime' and 'illegal alien crime,' listed out by state ... The casual use of such terms to smear large classes of immigrants is the official party position.

All this is straight from the authoritarian playbook."

https://newrepublic.com/article/180404/trumps-ugly-hateful-rants-michigan-covered-scandal

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“Kari Lake once called an archaic Arizona law that bans abortion in the state a ‘great’ law that she would be ‘incredibly thrilled’ to have it go into effect.

Well on Tuesday it did, and Lake is now attempting to reverse course …”

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/kari-lake-arizona-abortion-ban-praised-1235001465/

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