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

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This was a really happy day for me—my final day of chemo. I’m now nearing ten years of being cancer-free. Sending love to all my fellow survivors today ❤️

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“Claudia Sheinbaum makes history as first woman elected to lead Mexico.

A climate scientist and former mayor, Ms. Sheinbaum became the first woman and Jewish person elected as president of the country."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/02/world/americas/mexico-election.html

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The Arizona proposal “seeks to grant local police officers and state judges the power to arrest and deport migrants.”

Three words why this is a terrible idea: REMEMBER JOE ARPAIO

https://azmirror.com/2024/06/04/arizona-voters-will-decide-the-fate-of-the-texas-style-secure-border-act-in-november/

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Gov. Kitten Heels won't light bridges in rainbow colors. So Jacksonville's LGBTQ community did.

“The 70 people holding flashlights on the bridge were cheered on by a big crowd watching from the Southbank riverwalk.”

https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/local/2024/06/01/jacksonville-residents-shine-pride-lights-after-florida-stops-official-bridge-displa-them-on-bridges/73914750007/ #Pride 🌈

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“I feel like I belong here now”: New Orleans gains nearly 40 new U.S. citizens in naturalization ceremony.

https://www.fox8live.com/2024/05/29/i-feel-like-i-belong-here-now-new-orleans-gains-nearly-40-new-us-citizens-naturalization-ceremony

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"Lawmakers expensed millions in 2023 under new program that doesn’t require receipts."

“According to that data, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) was the program’s overall top spender, with nearly $30,000 in lodging expenses and more than $10,000 for meals in 2023.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/04/house-representatives-expenses-receipts-lodging/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

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Democrats “must do all they can to make sure that voters know about this conviction, and, importantly, that Republican lawmakers … lined up like little robots to savage the justice system, all to put Trump above accountability and the law,” Greg Sargent writes👇🏽https://newrepublic.com/article/182111/trump-guilty-verdict-hush-money-shatters-aura-invincibility

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“Trump committed extensive fraud to deceive the American people about a tawdry affair and cheat his way into the most powerful position in the world, one he never should have been granted in the first place. The GOP presidential nominee is now a convicted criminal.”

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“The larger story is also a powerful one. The system sought to hold Trump accountable despite a roar of second guessing—and in the face of incredible strains inflicted on it by Trump and his GOP enablers and media propagandists, who make up an extraordinarily powerful elite cadre. The system held. That reflects positively on our country. There is time for the Biden campaign to figure out how to tell that story as well.”

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Good morning. Immigrants are .

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“Trump and his team thought one of the jurors was on their side — and might help him evade conviction. That didn’t happen.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-thought-juror-would-save-him-from-conviction-1235030249/

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Thank you, Stormy Daniels 🇺🇸

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The latest DOJ lawsuits against Iowa and Oklahoma signal that the Biden admin is taking an aggressive stance against new GOP state laws targeting immigrant workers and families: https://www.axios.com/2024/05/28/biden-immigration-texas-law-oklahoma?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslatino&stream=science

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Jury begins deliberations in Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s election interference trial: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/live-blog/trump-trial-live-updates-hush-money-case-jury-deliberations-rcna154410

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Donald Trump is a disgrace: https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-recognizes-memorial-day-raging-foes-human-scum-rcna154248

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Immigrants have a long and distinguished history of serving in the US military. This , we also remember that some have made the ultimate sacrifice for their nation. According to one figure, 300 foreign-born soldiers died in combat between 2001 and 2013. https://americasvoice.org/blog/immigrants-have-long-served-their-country-in-the-u-s-military-some-have-made-the-ultimate-sacrifice/

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“More than one out of every five Medal of Honor winners has been an immigrant. But the heroism and sacrifice of non-citizens was barely known—until died in battle in Iraq,” CBS News reported in 2003: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-death-of-lance-corporal-gutierrez/

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The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post “largely failed to cover Trump’s plan to deport 11 million immigrants, among other extreme immigration policies, mentioning it in only 10% of all the articles Media Matters examined."

https://www.mediamatters.org/new-york-times/mainstream-print-outlets-fail-adequately-cover-far-right-agenda-laid-out-trump-time

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“The Biden administration has now canceled about $167 billion in loans for 4.75 million borrowers, or roughly one in 10 federal loan holders, wiping away $35,000 in debt on average.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/22/us/politics/biden-student-loan-relief.html?unlocked_article_code=1.t00.kmC2.KzJ5GZWnfgCI&smid=url-share

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Marco Rubio, a son of Cuban immigrants, “is fully on board with Trump sending troops in humvees and armored personnel carriers to the neighborhoods of communities in Miami and Hialeah to round up anyone who the deportation force thinks is undocumented.” 👇🏽 https://zacharymueller.substack.com/p/rubios-radicalization-from-citizenship?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1728374&post_id=144882875&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=cxpc&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

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Conspiracy theorist Elise Stefanik, who has unapologetically echoed the same antisemitic “invasion” rhetoric as the Buffalo mass shooter, “doesn’t want anyone to remember her time criticizing Donald Trump. In fact, she’ll lose her mind if you try to bring it up.”

https://newrepublic.com/post/181739/elise-stefanik-trump-pivot?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=SF_TNR&utm_source=Twitter

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“‘This was not a campaign video, it was created by a random account online and reposted by a staffer who clearly did not see the word, while the President was in court,’ Karoline Leavitt, the campaign press secretary, said in a statement.”

Why should anyone give liars the benefit of the doubt?

https://apnews.com/article/trump-election-2024-rhetoric-germany-antisemitism-31002afb91b642c0314223d19e51f427

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The Florida crash that resulted in the deaths of eight farmworkers harkens to the Baltimore bridge collapse, which killed six immigrant workers. These men were among millions of essential workers.

But they shouldn’t have to die to have their work honored. Their labor should be recognized every day. More at America’s Voice:

https://americasvoice.org/blog/essential-immigrant-workers-shouldnt-have-to-die-to-have-their-work-recognized-and-respected/

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In 2022, these workers helped make Florida number one in the US in the value of production of bell peppers, sugarcane, tomatoes, and watermelons, just to name a few. Florida is also one of the top producers of all oranges. Their backbreaking and skilled labor sustains the agricultural industry and feeds the nation.

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The Farmworker Association of Florida has organized a GoFundMe to aid survivors and families.

"Farmworkers tend to be forgotten, but it's important not to forget farmworkers, especially during such difficult times”: https://www.gofundme.com/f/8-farmworkers-dead-and-over-dozen-injured-after-accident?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer

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