It seems Donald Trump does not like the #StatueofLiberty, or at least not the representation of her on display at the #Smithsonian Museum of American History. americancommunitymedia.org/immigration/...

Immigrant rights, labor, and community groups are condemning #ICE's raid on a #Hyundai plant in #Georgia as a "ruthless crackdown that resembled a military operation." americancommunitymedia.org/immigration/...

California may be a tenant friendly state, but it might not seem that way to many immigrants here who say incidents of harassment and threats of eviction or calling ICE are on the rise. americancommunitymedia.org/housing/immi...

ICE's Detained Population Now at Record 61,226 People ICE's latest data show record detention numbers, growing GPS ankle monitor usage, and dip in arrests since June. PLUS: This newsletter just crossed 10,000 subscribers—thank you! 🎉 austinkocher.substack.com/p/ices-detai...

I was at a conference in DC before the '24 election. The topic was immigration & how much/little Dems need to regulate the #border. Some argued no amount of regulation would be enough bc it's not about the border. It's about race. I believe they were right. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/o...

“This back-to-school season, children are facing the terror of wondering if their parents will be there to pick them up,” said @americasvoice.bsky.social ED Vanessa Cardenas. “The usual first day jitters have been replaced by fear.” americancommunitymedia.org/education/ed...

Good piece by folks @missionlocal.org on Sup. Engardio's tenure. He's likely toast come Sept, given all the recall signs in the neighborhood. Voting against 75% of your constituents is never a good look. Still, I liked the night market and sad it isn't coming back. missionlocal.org/2025/08/sf-s...

#Resistance can take many forms. “A lot of people will come to a Debajito show just to dance and have fun... And that joy is in itself a form of resistance." Great story from our friends at Chico Sol. americancommunitymedia.org/arts-enterta...

Talk to farm workers in Oxnard, Calif. and most will tell you they continue to live in fear a month after ICE raids hit area farms. "We’re not everything the president says we are... we just want to work." From our friends @laopinionla.bsky.social americancommunitymedia.org/immigration/...

“What they’re trying to do is rewrite the rules in the middle of the game... Everything that’s happening is so incredibly unpopular, not just what Trump is doing, but also what Republicans are doing in Congress.” — #Texas state Representative Gene Wu. americancommunitymedia.org/redistrictin...

When Donald Trump returned to the White House in January, Guatemala’s conservative political elite celebrated. For years, they had cultivated ties, hoping a Trump presidency would lift the economic sanctions imposed by the Biden administration. palabranahj.org/archive/guat...

“What makes L.A. great, what makes California great, and what makes the United States of America great—is that…we don't tolerate our diversity, we celebrate our diversity, and it's a point of pride, because we're all in this together,” Governor Newsom said.

This is the part that hit me. Alex de Waal, Executive Director, @worldpeacefdtn.bsky.social on the #famine in #Gaza. “The moment when you really see famine is when, instead of a family being able to break bread together, they fight for bread." youtu.be/IqZX_boKOxs?...

Kudos to the team at Shasta Scout for their reporting! That local officials seemed unaware or unwilling to acknowledge that #ICE maintains a sub-field office in the city of Redding speaks volumes about the lack of transparency and insidious nature of ICE's creeping presence on our streets.

Finding #democracy on an impromptu 2,500-mile #roadtrip with my wife and Lucky, our leggy chihuahua, across the American West. americancommunitymedia.org/oped/discove...

When you flee state violence in your home country, seek #asylum in the US, and then have to hide from #ICE agents while waiting for your court date, where you might also be arrested and #deported. @peninsula360.bsky.social americancommunitymedia.org/immigration/...

A right-wing #milita in Shasta County, Ca. says the term militia has been "tarnished" by the media & that at core they are about self-reliance & patriotism. History tells a more complicated story. Great reporting by the team @shastascout.bsky.social americancommunitymedia.org/spotlight-et...

I loved having this market. My wife and I had a booth... so great to see so many people. Why kill a good thing?

Tucked into the 1,000+ pages of Congress’ #BigBeautifulBill spending package is a 3.5% tax on #remittances, essentially a double taxation that would cripple many of the poorest people in the world.

Farmworker advocates have joined with industry growers across California’s Central Coast to stand up for #immigrants in the fields and on the streets.

Shortly after the Atlanta #nokings event kicked off at 10, organizers said Liberty Plaza near the state Capitol had already reached maximum capacity of 5,000.

US Veterans peacefully protesting Trump’s military birthday parade arrested at Capitol Hill. This is the moment a 80+ year old US veteran is taken away in handcuffs for practicing his 1st Amendment right. #3E #NoKings #NoKingsProtests (🎥 @gregjstoker.bsky.social )

Sen. Alex Padilla was just removed from Kristi Noem's press conference in Los Angeles (video: Bill Melugin/Fox News)

Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act to quell immigration protests in Los Angeles, a move that would grant him "unlimited discretion to use the military as a domestic police force."

ACoM News Briefing | Can #PresidentTrump Legally End #BirthrightCitizenship? | See More: buff.ly/F3tWxU3 | Experts examine the constitutional showdown over the executive order targeting the #14thAmendment and weigh in on the stakes for U.S.-born children of #immigrants. #SCOTUS #ImmigrationRights

Clavel Rangel @clavelrangel.bsky.social fled Venezuela after her reporting drew the ire of officials. She came to the US where she continued to report, enjoying the "freedom and safety" here. How times have changed. #journalism #venezuela @rcfp.org americancommunitymedia.org/immigration-...

The axe man cometh... to take your #healthcare. VIa @amcommmedia.bsky.social americancommunitymedia.org/health-care/...

“The community must stand up when there is any injustice,” says attorney Ali Awad of CEO Lawyer Firm, who represented the three women against Perry Greene, ex-husband of Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene and the man heard spewing hateful rhetoric in the video.

Visited the new mega Korean market near SF last night. Asians, Latinos, Blacks, very diverse crowd... including one gay man with his partner wearing a bright yellow MAGA hat. I had to do a double take. I mean, really... all sorts of questions, like, why would you wear that, and why here?

A firestorm is brewing in #RedwoodCity, where a teacher allegedly threatened to #deport a 10-year-old student along with his family. Latino parents there say long buried #racism is coming to the fore again. Reporting via @peninsula360.bsky.social americancommunitymedia.org/education/ba...

Am I the only one reading White House tweets in Bane’s voice in my head?

Alanah Odoms, Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union-Louisiana (@aclu.org-LA), shares a brief history of voting rights in the state of Louisiana. More at buff.ly/pUH7WFc #votingrights #supremecourt #louisiana #redistricting #gerrymandering #blackvotes #acom

A judge in #NorthCarolina lost his bid for a seat on the state's supreme court. He challenged, there were 2 recounts, and he still lost. He goes judge shopping and finds a court willing to toss 60+k votes bc election integrity. The masks are truly off now. americancommunitymedia.org/politics/in-...

This is what it looks like when a school gets behind its students and families. "Families trust schools implicitly, leaving their children with teachers and administrators for eight hours a day. So, in times of crisis... schools have to repay that trust." ethnicmediaservices.org/education/ho...

Met a journalist today who told me she fled political violence in Peru in the 80s with her family and found safety in the US. Now she is fleeing again because her son is trans and is terrified. This is not politics, left, right, whatever. It’s just hate.

What a treat to come to New Jersey to celebrate the work of ethnic media in one of the country's most diverse states. Trump et all can say what they want. This is diversity and inclusion in action! Great work team @centerforcooperativemedia.org.web.brid.gy for organizing.

Let's get this circulated!! 😤

Want to see what America will look like under Trump's misrule? Cast your gaze east to Hungary. "Orbán has created a monstrous state, one that should serve as a glaring red flag for America," writes Laszlo Bartus, head of the US's oldest Hungarian newspaper. ethnicmediaservices.org/oped/orbans-...

On the train to Trenton, NJ last night chatted with a Guatemalan deacon who is a member of a faith-led organization of federal security guards. "Everyone is scared," he told me. "There is so much fear in the community." Dark f***ing days, indeed.

Crockett: "If feels as if y'all have just decided that y'all are gonna castrate your constitutional duty & hand it over to someone who was unelected. It doesn't matter how many cheerleaders he had on the field campaigning for him. That doesn't mean he gets to go in and sit atop any of our agencies"

So much for no more foreign ventures. Shame on us.

Is it just me or is the prospect that the US government is even considering sending incarcerated US citizens to prisons in El Salvador FOR A FEE!!!! deeply fucking alarming. We are selling our freedoms wholesale.

I have nothing but sympathy for the plight of Palestinians. And I understand why so many Palestinian Americans could not bring themselves to vote for Biden. And yet... www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

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Trans individuals have been among the most vulnerable in this country. So of course they would be targeted by Trump. ethnicmediaservices.org/gender-and-s...

Schoolhouse Rock is going to have to remake its cartoon on how a bill becomes a law.

Absolutely brutal scroll on Fox.

This is so real.

The lesson Asian American organizers in Atlanta learned from Covid and the hate they experienced: “Since the ICE raids, we see another community being marginalized… empathy is very important.” ethnicmediaservices.org/immigration-...