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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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“We can focus so much on Trump’s outright stupidity, though, that we forget how deliberately evil he is.”

“Trump was already experiencing symptoms & should’ve quarantined for 10 days, but visibly unwell, he still attended the first screaming match debate with Biden.”

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-covid-response-revisited

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"President Biden has said the U.S. is a 'close and enduring friend' of Haiti," said America’s Voice Executive Director Vanessa Cárdenas. "The way to treat our friend during a time of deep crisis and unrest is not to reinstitute deportations."

https://americasvoice.org/press_releases/us-should-stop-deportations-to-haiti-because-its-against-american-interests-and-values/

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"In addition to stopping such returns, rights advocates and civil society groups have called on the US government to extend and redesignate a programme called Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/18/unconscionable-us-sends-dozens-to-haiti-on-deportation-flight

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“‘An upsurge in the already extreme violence in Haiti has left citizens reeling,’ US-based migrant rights group Al Otro Lado wrote on X on Thursday after news of the deportation flight first broke.

‘Gangs control key ports, the largest airport + much of the capital city of Port-au-Prince. People are on the brink of famine. Sending [people] back [to Haiti] could be a death sentence.’”

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We know the human costs of climate change. Juan de León Gutiérrez, a teen who died while in US custody in 2019, left Guatemala after a severe drought devastated his village. Researchers note that droughts have been a “pivotal factor” in driving many Central American families to the US.

https://americasvoice.org/blog/earth-day-24-a-planet-on-fire-means-people-on-the-move/

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65,000+ Americans have signed up to sponsor refugees in the first three months of the Biden admin’s Welcome Corps expansion.

“Applications have come from every state in the country, with Minnesota, Washington, Texas, California, and Ohio leading the way in submissions …”

https://www.niskanencenter.org/65000-people-sign-up-to-sponsor-refugees-in-the-first-3-months-of-welcome-corps-expansion/

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On , your friendly reminder that undocumented immigrants pay billions in taxes annually. Their robust contributions also help sustain programs like Medicare and Social Security (which they can never access unless they become eligible to adjust their status): 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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Undoc workers also contribute significantly to their communities—including TX, FL, IA, and other states that have passed harsh anti-immigrant bills.

When Tyson Foods offered double IA’s minimum wage in efforts to attract meatpacking plant workers, employers struggled to find US-born workers. Who filled this labor gap? Immigrants.

https://americasvoice.org/blog/in-state-after-state-immigrant-workers-boost-local-economies-through-tax-contributions-purchases-and-essential-labor/

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“Iowa is nowhere near the US-Mexico border, but a new immigration law there mirrors parts of a measure passed in Texas.”

Maria Acosta, an organizer in Iowa, said workers have “fear on their faces … even though they’ve been living here for 10 or 15 yrs, and this is their home.”

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/14/us/texas-immigration-law-iowa-other-us-states-cec/index.html

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“The case has become known as the ‘Stormy Daniels hush-money case,’ which has made it easier for the public to dismiss, because it seems like small potatoes. In fact, the argument that the prosecutors have made in court filings is focussed on something closer to election interference. The case is about Trump lying his way into office.”

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/donald-trumps-trial-of-the-century

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“Elon Musk encouraged Republican state attorneys general to use their power to harass their critics and stifle reporting about X. Ken Paxton was one of those AGs that took up the call and he was defeated. Today's decision is a victory for free speech.”

https://www.mediamatters.org/angelo-carusone/media-matters-statement-winning-injunction-against-texas-ag-ken-paxton-federal

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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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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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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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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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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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“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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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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“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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“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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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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Chef José Andrés: “This doesn't seem anymore a war about defending Israel. This really, at this point, seems it's a war against humanity itself."

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/chef-jos-andrs-israels-unforgivable-strike-aid-workers/story?id=108948408

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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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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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“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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