Late to this article, but I give my money to my very local group, Riverside Area Refugee Resettlement Team, which works with a few refugee families at a time to find housing, help with job seeking, furnishing apartments, driving immigrants to appointments, contact with government agencies, and addressing sudden needs (like childcare during a parent’s community college class or mousetraps for the apartments. The Team pays for three months of housing plus help with the next three months of housing while families get on their feet. They set up apartments with donated furniture and stock refrigerators. And they celebrate births and jobs and graduations with our newest neighbors, who have travelled far to a completely different place. They come to Chicago winter with flipflops and tiny suitcases and so very much bravery and hope.
The Resettlement Team had to set their Facebook page to private, but the church that runs the group has information and a link to their page here: https://www.rpcusa.org/mission_outreach . You can request to join the page or ask the church for the Team donation account information.
Last year when we were still mourning the loss of my MIL, a call went out for clothing gift cards for two older girls in one family whose school didn’t require uniforms. Asking my friends to donate money in memory of a woman who valued looking chic was balm to my heart at the holidays.
A little bit, a little help, a recognition of the humanity of each person who arrives here to make a life free of war and fear, is a good way to stop feeling hopeless.
Everyone's rights are going to be at risk from this pick - so if you think your rights will not be targeted because you're the "right color" for them not to be challenged, by all means please think again
F34 and his crowd are known for their attempts (often successful) to find way of re-reading established law to produce the opposite effect of what was intended. Now why can't some legal-smart lefty do the same thing with the immigration laws, and find a way to re-interpret them so that all those "illegal immigrants" become legal?
No matter what the Democrats, the Left, or Liberals, or Woke, whatever they call the opposite of MAGATS, do to protect the vulnerable people in this country that are being targeted by Trump’s “goons”, they will face opposition and it will go all the way to the corrupt SCOTUS and they will rule against the Left and support Trump.
I’m counting on this being a far greater task than they anticipate. So far Trumps choices for his Cabinet are far from the pick of the litter. I don’t think it’s going to be as easy as they think it will be.
I'm not casting aspersions at anyone, but if I were to set up a ripoff charity, the gobbledegook that describes Al Otro Lada's mission is EXACTLY what I would use!
I think the Trump clan has the market cornered on fake charities. When creepy Eric held his “charitable” golf tournaments for the benefit of children with cancer and then pocketed the $$, I don’t see how they could get any lower than that. Then again, anytime I think they hit an all time low, they surprise me and prove there is no bottom too low that they can’t go lower. What a legacy this clan will be leaving behind.
These children have already been born; therefore, they are Fair Game. If Republicans don't care about the health and safety of the children of American citizens - even the white ones!! - they aren't going to care about the health of some poor sick 4 year old without the Proper Papers.
There is actually a problem with immigration in this country - as a humanist I believe in the free movement of all peoples. That's a principal I believe in. But it's complicated because other countries are not reciprocal in that way.
A 'for instance' - I'd love to get on my boat and sail away to the South Pacific and get to the Solomon Islands and live there. I've got the boat and the ability, but I can't just hie up to the shores of the Solomon Islands and just start living there. They actually do look for and make trouble for people who are staying there without proper documentation. They will expel you and take your shit if you don't cooperate.
So there is an issue with asymmetry between this country's immigration rules and policies and other countries' immigration. There are two sides to this asymmetry - many people want to come to the USA for economic purposes - many people want to leave the USA because they enjoy tropical climates, have friends overseas, are sick of the cold weather in the northern USA, etc. etc. etc.
If Trump was actually a deal maker (he ain't, he's a dumbass) - he'd be leaning on other countries with free movement of peoples deals in exchange for not tariffing their ass.
I believe there are statistics showing the top ten countries that have high levels of immigration; the US, of course, has the highest number. But in checking further it appears that the “undocumented” immigrants pay billions of dollars in taxes which greatly contributes to our economy.
As recently as 2022, records show that undocumented immigrants paid:
$59.4 billion in federal taxes,
$13.6 billion in state and local taxes, $25.7 billion in Social Security taxes, $6.4 billion in Medicare taxes, and
$1.8 billion in unemployment insurance.
I do not believe undocumented immigrants are filling positions that US citizens want. If Trump and his goons are successful in removing the undocumented immigrants from this country, there will be a lot of industries affected and no one willing to fill all the new vacancies created by his deportation policies.
I wondered what the right would do after accomplishing their goal of denying access to abortion. I'd muse, well, done deal, they'll go about their prayers. But no. The right sees every human need and every human want and every human impulse as something to be maligned and twisted into the form of a bone-in cudgel to inflate their unbound glee in hacking at others for the sole purpose of hacking at others to extremes beyond comprehension.
And the truth about abortion is, the only ones affected are the less financially fortunate females.
The wealthy, the well connected will always have access to abortions if needed.
As we have seen so often stated, if the Right was so concerned about the unborn child, why does that concern end at birth.
The young woman of today over 18 better get focused and start organizing to reclaim their rights.
My era fought, we marched and we made ourselves stronger and stronger. We learned and we listened to these courageous women. We had Gloria Steinem, Bella Abzug, Shirley Chisholm, Betty Frieden, and so much was accomplished, but generations later did not understand that the fight for equality was a never ending battle. And now, because their god has given them Donald Trump, and he proudly boasts of eliminating women’s reproductive rights, they have to start fighting. Or, welcome to the 50’s and 60’s. Maybe look up the word Coverture.
Thank you — and thank you for “coverture”. That some men imagine such “authority” and then, in the worst possible ways, manifest it… ghastly; hateful; ignorant; cruel; perverse; sick… I haven’t the words.
You must not forget though, they are hacking at others for their Jesus. Who , if their behavior in his name is any indicator, is hateful, white, and a mean dumbass. Guess that’s what happens when people create god in their image. IF was a believer I would say “god help us with these creeps”.
I Understand and Accept the Truth that God created me as Nothing More than a TEST for Those He has Chosen and that as a TEST I Shall Welcome all Punishments in the Spirit with Which they are Meted Out. Amen.
I'm about to start in on Hein de Haas's book "How migration Really Works: The Facts About The Most Divisive Issue In Politics." The book addresses 22 myths grouped into three sets: "Myths of Migration," "Immigration: Threat or Solution," and "Migration Propaganda."
De Haas is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam, and his view is not purely U.S.-based.
As you might guess, what Homan and the MAGAs state as facts are actually not factual. More importantly, the policies they will implement based on not-facts will not only hurt migrants, they'll hurt the rest of us too. People here know that. I'm about to dive in deep.
I've been playing Jagged Alliance 3 a lot and now I can't read the word Evildoers without hearing Kalyna shout "Evildoers beware!"
Late to this article, but I give my money to my very local group, Riverside Area Refugee Resettlement Team, which works with a few refugee families at a time to find housing, help with job seeking, furnishing apartments, driving immigrants to appointments, contact with government agencies, and addressing sudden needs (like childcare during a parent’s community college class or mousetraps for the apartments. The Team pays for three months of housing plus help with the next three months of housing while families get on their feet. They set up apartments with donated furniture and stock refrigerators. And they celebrate births and jobs and graduations with our newest neighbors, who have travelled far to a completely different place. They come to Chicago winter with flipflops and tiny suitcases and so very much bravery and hope.
The Resettlement Team had to set their Facebook page to private, but the church that runs the group has information and a link to their page here: https://www.rpcusa.org/mission_outreach . You can request to join the page or ask the church for the Team donation account information.
Last year when we were still mourning the loss of my MIL, a call went out for clothing gift cards for two older girls in one family whose school didn’t require uniforms. Asking my friends to donate money in memory of a woman who valued looking chic was balm to my heart at the holidays.
A little bit, a little help, a recognition of the humanity of each person who arrives here to make a life free of war and fear, is a good way to stop feeling hopeless.
We are about to start viewing Trump 2: The Enfuckening of America.
Professor Nikki Giovanni on racism in America
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CPsSh3pjFtk
Everyone's rights are going to be at risk from this pick - so if you think your rights will not be targeted because you're the "right color" for them not to be challenged, by all means please think again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9du7GId-bs
F34 and his crowd are known for their attempts (often successful) to find way of re-reading established law to produce the opposite effect of what was intended. Now why can't some legal-smart lefty do the same thing with the immigration laws, and find a way to re-interpret them so that all those "illegal immigrants" become legal?
No matter what the Democrats, the Left, or Liberals, or Woke, whatever they call the opposite of MAGATS, do to protect the vulnerable people in this country that are being targeted by Trump’s “goons”, they will face opposition and it will go all the way to the corrupt SCOTUS and they will rule against the Left and support Trump.
I’m counting on this being a far greater task than they anticipate. So far Trumps choices for his Cabinet are far from the pick of the litter. I don’t think it’s going to be as easy as they think it will be.
I would add Annunciation House in need of support. That's the one Paxton is suing in Texas. https://annunciationhouse.org/
I'm not casting aspersions at anyone, but if I were to set up a ripoff charity, the gobbledegook that describes Al Otro Lada's mission is EXACTLY what I would use!
I think the Trump clan has the market cornered on fake charities. When creepy Eric held his “charitable” golf tournaments for the benefit of children with cancer and then pocketed the $$, I don’t see how they could get any lower than that. Then again, anytime I think they hit an all time low, they surprise me and prove there is no bottom too low that they can’t go lower. What a legacy this clan will be leaving behind.
Well, I mean -- think about how they started
The draft-dodgin brothel-running grandfather who couldn't get back into Bavaria
These children have already been born; therefore, they are Fair Game. If Republicans don't care about the health and safety of the children of American citizens - even the white ones!! - they aren't going to care about the health of some poor sick 4 year old without the Proper Papers.
"We'll bridge that Cross when we come to it."
And there's this cheerful take in Florida. https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2024/12/14/will-florida-end-in-state-tuition-for-thousands-of-dreamers/?utm_email=446C74C995639412349585A498&lctg=446C74C995639412349585A498&g2i_eui=LArQNN8FMOTPxtp5%2fP%2fkjLXLTX3BUHv0%2bnDYw79Homk%3d&g2i_source=newsletter&active=yesP&utm_source=listrak&utm_medium=email&utm_term=https%3a%2f%2fwww.orlandosentinel.com%2f2024%2f12%2f14%2fwill-florida-end-in-state-tuition-for-thousands-of-dreamers%2f&utm_campaign=trib-orlando_sentinel-dont_miss-nl&utm_content=alert
What an asshole
"Will Florida Always Do the Most Harmful Thing Possible?"
(...yes )
They definitely work at that! Some awful people. Fortunately, some excellent ones too, just hard to get heard.
There is actually a problem with immigration in this country - as a humanist I believe in the free movement of all peoples. That's a principal I believe in. But it's complicated because other countries are not reciprocal in that way.
A 'for instance' - I'd love to get on my boat and sail away to the South Pacific and get to the Solomon Islands and live there. I've got the boat and the ability, but I can't just hie up to the shores of the Solomon Islands and just start living there. They actually do look for and make trouble for people who are staying there without proper documentation. They will expel you and take your shit if you don't cooperate.
So there is an issue with asymmetry between this country's immigration rules and policies and other countries' immigration. There are two sides to this asymmetry - many people want to come to the USA for economic purposes - many people want to leave the USA because they enjoy tropical climates, have friends overseas, are sick of the cold weather in the northern USA, etc. etc. etc.
If Trump was actually a deal maker (he ain't, he's a dumbass) - he'd be leaning on other countries with free movement of peoples deals in exchange for not tariffing their ass.
In short - it's all FUBAR. The end.
I’m guessing that you may be a Marine.
I believe there are statistics showing the top ten countries that have high levels of immigration; the US, of course, has the highest number. But in checking further it appears that the “undocumented” immigrants pay billions of dollars in taxes which greatly contributes to our economy.
As recently as 2022, records show that undocumented immigrants paid:
$59.4 billion in federal taxes,
$13.6 billion in state and local taxes, $25.7 billion in Social Security taxes, $6.4 billion in Medicare taxes, and
$1.8 billion in unemployment insurance.
I do not believe undocumented immigrants are filling positions that US citizens want. If Trump and his goons are successful in removing the undocumented immigrants from this country, there will be a lot of industries affected and no one willing to fill all the new vacancies created by his deportation policies.
I wondered what the right would do after accomplishing their goal of denying access to abortion. I'd muse, well, done deal, they'll go about their prayers. But no. The right sees every human need and every human want and every human impulse as something to be maligned and twisted into the form of a bone-in cudgel to inflate their unbound glee in hacking at others for the sole purpose of hacking at others to extremes beyond comprehension.
And the truth about abortion is, the only ones affected are the less financially fortunate females.
The wealthy, the well connected will always have access to abortions if needed.
As we have seen so often stated, if the Right was so concerned about the unborn child, why does that concern end at birth.
The young woman of today over 18 better get focused and start organizing to reclaim their rights.
My era fought, we marched and we made ourselves stronger and stronger. We learned and we listened to these courageous women. We had Gloria Steinem, Bella Abzug, Shirley Chisholm, Betty Frieden, and so much was accomplished, but generations later did not understand that the fight for equality was a never ending battle. And now, because their god has given them Donald Trump, and he proudly boasts of eliminating women’s reproductive rights, they have to start fighting. Or, welcome to the 50’s and 60’s. Maybe look up the word Coverture.
Thank you — and thank you for “coverture”. That some men imagine such “authority” and then, in the worst possible ways, manifest it… ghastly; hateful; ignorant; cruel; perverse; sick… I haven’t the words.
You must not forget though, they are hacking at others for their Jesus. Who , if their behavior in his name is any indicator, is hateful, white, and a mean dumbass. Guess that’s what happens when people create god in their image. IF was a believer I would say “god help us with these creeps”.
I Understand and Accept the Truth that God created me as Nothing More than a TEST for Those He has Chosen and that as a TEST I Shall Welcome all Punishments in the Spirit with Which they are Meted Out. Amen.
As they say, cruelty is the point.
OT but that's a great photo. Visit Ellis Island sometime if you can.
Where are the men? Or did they all go in first?
I don’t know, would have to research.
"President Joe Biden deported more in 2023 than any Trump year."
>is this what 'open borders' means?
But he’s deporting the wrong people. Biden focused on deporting criminals while Trump will go back to targeting children and asylum seekers.
AND BLACK AND BROWN PEOPLE.
Apparently Stephen Miller is already making his little lists
Same as last time. Trump runs on solving problems that have already been solved, and the people fall for it.
I'm about to start in on Hein de Haas's book "How migration Really Works: The Facts About The Most Divisive Issue In Politics." The book addresses 22 myths grouped into three sets: "Myths of Migration," "Immigration: Threat or Solution," and "Migration Propaganda."
De Haas is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam, and his view is not purely U.S.-based.
As you might guess, what Homan and the MAGAs state as facts are actually not factual. More importantly, the policies they will implement based on not-facts will not only hurt migrants, they'll hurt the rest of us too. People here know that. I'm about to dive in deep.
E V I L MOTHERFUCKERS!