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NYU historian Irvin Ibargüen: "Mexican immigration flourished with the encouragement—indeed, the insistence—of the United States. To pretend otherwise is to feign shock at a harvest it intentionally planted and from which it has continually reaped rewards." time.com/7334455/immi...
Immigrant Workers Didn't Invade the U.S. They Were Recruited
As aggressively as the U.S. pursues immigrant enforcement, it has also invited and recruited immigrant workers.
time.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:37 PM
NYU historian Irvin Ibargüen: "Mexican immigration flourished with the encouragement—indeed, the insistence—of the United States. To pretend otherwise is to feign shock at a harvest it intentionally planted and from which it has continually reaped rewards." time.com/7334455/immi...
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“The petition from the family of Carranza says the military bombed his fishing boat… off Colombia's coast, in violation of human rights conventions.”
“The US does not subject itself to accountability, so we're using the avenues we have before us,” said their attorney
www.npr.org/2025/12/04/g...
“The US does not subject itself to accountability, so we're using the avenues we have before us,” said their attorney
www.npr.org/2025/12/04/g...
Family of Colombian man killed in U.S. strike files human rights challenge
In a petition to the premier human rights watchdog in the Americas, the first challenge to U.S. military strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats argues that the death was an extrajudicial killing.
www.npr.org
December 4, 2025 at 12:41 PM
“The petition from the family of Carranza says the military bombed his fishing boat… off Colombia's coast, in violation of human rights conventions.”
“The US does not subject itself to accountability, so we're using the avenues we have before us,” said their attorney
www.npr.org/2025/12/04/g...
“The US does not subject itself to accountability, so we're using the avenues we have before us,” said their attorney
www.npr.org/2025/12/04/g...
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Federal agents raided a Chicago apartment building two months ago. Now its residents have formed a union.
Federal agents raided a Chicago apartment building two months ago. Now its residents have formed a union.
Nearly two months after the militarized raid that roused them from their sleep and made international headlines, residents who remain at 7500 South Shore Drive are fighting back.
trib.al
December 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Federal agents raided a Chicago apartment building two months ago. Now its residents have formed a union.
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TODAY: @felipedlh.bsky.social tracks a sad trend; “a deep-seated regret, among immigrants, for having come to the United States at all.” flaminghydra.com/r/fc898c29?m... r
Bill of goods / Feline fame
Felipe De La Hoz on immigrants’ regrets; Ace and Jack on Hollywood cats
flaminghydra.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:22 PM
TODAY: @felipedlh.bsky.social tracks a sad trend; “a deep-seated regret, among immigrants, for having come to the United States at all.” flaminghydra.com/r/fc898c29?m... r
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VIDEO: Federal Agents Bust Into Queens Apartment, Pointing Guns at Mother and Her Four Kids www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/19/q...
On Camera, Fed Agents Point Guns at Mother and Four Kids in Queens
The agents came looking for a relative who no longer lived in the apartment, the shellshocked mother told THE CITY. Days later, her children are terrified to leave their parents' sides.
www.thecity.nyc
November 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
VIDEO: Federal Agents Bust Into Queens Apartment, Pointing Guns at Mother and Her Four Kids www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/19/q...
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One of the most encouraging things I've seen is Hochul jumping on the universal childcare bandwagon. Good.
October 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
One of the most encouraging things I've seen is Hochul jumping on the universal childcare bandwagon. Good.
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NEW: A dozen federal agents in tactical gear arrested several people outside the Row Hotel, a shelter for migrant families, in Midtown Thursday afternoon, sending shockwaves among residents living above.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/17/r...
www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/17/r...
Federal Raid Outside Row Hotel Migrant Shelter Rattles Residents
In what appears to be a first under the current Trump administration, federal agents targeted migrants just outside a shelter.
www.thecity.nyc
October 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM
NEW: A dozen federal agents in tactical gear arrested several people outside the Row Hotel, a shelter for migrant families, in Midtown Thursday afternoon, sending shockwaves among residents living above.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/17/r...
www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/17/r...
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“More than half of the work done by women in the period between the 16th and 18th centuries took place outside of the home, and around half of all housework and three-quarters of care work was conducted professionally for other households” [England]
phys.org/news/2025-10...
phys.org/news/2025-10...
A woman's place was not in the home: Challenging the assumptions about women's work in early modern history
New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England's national economy before 1700.
phys.org
October 12, 2025 at 9:05 AM
“More than half of the work done by women in the period between the 16th and 18th centuries took place outside of the home, and around half of all housework and three-quarters of care work was conducted professionally for other households” [England]
phys.org/news/2025-10...
phys.org/news/2025-10...
I work directly with sanitation and the guys regularly pop into our office to chat and I can confirm that this would be great — the laughs, the drama, the residents who complain about a single straw in the tree pit!
Forget copaganda. Let’s glamorize sanitation work. I want procedurals about municipal sewer and garbage departments.
(Seriously, I would watch the hell out of such things).
(Seriously, I would watch the hell out of such things).
just thinking about how sanitation workers have saved more lives in one single year than the police ever have in hundreds of years of existence and you don't hear them whining every day about not having the respect of the public
August 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I work directly with sanitation and the guys regularly pop into our office to chat and I can confirm that this would be great — the laughs, the drama, the residents who complain about a single straw in the tree pit!
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Yeah you’ve got hochul uploading an official nygov social video calling lander’s arrest, and I’m quoting here, “bullshit.” They think the feds have overreached and are vulnerable.
June 17, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Yeah you’ve got hochul uploading an official nygov social video calling lander’s arrest, and I’m quoting here, “bullshit.” They think the feds have overreached and are vulnerable.
NYC rats:
NO GODS
NO MASTERS
ONLY TRASH
NO MASTERS
ONLY TRASH
June 10, 2025 at 9:05 PM
NYC rats:
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Earlier today, while courthouse ICE arrests continued inside federal buildings, at a nondescript office nearby more immigrants were rounded up at required check ins, in another Trump administration escalation.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/03/i...
www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/03/i...
June 4, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Earlier today, while courthouse ICE arrests continued inside federal buildings, at a nondescript office nearby more immigrants were rounded up at required check ins, in another Trump administration escalation.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/03/i...
www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/03/i...
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What fans don’t know is that the dinosaur billboard, Sherita, was never about honest, quirky old working-class Brooklyn.
Instead she and several frowsier sister signs mark a nasty pattern of northern Brooklyn real estate manipulation.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/05/19/s...
Instead she and several frowsier sister signs mark a nasty pattern of northern Brooklyn real estate manipulation.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/05/19/s...
The Terrible Truth About Sherita, Brooklyn’s Beloved Billboard Dinosaur
The vanished icon of Atlantic Ave. was the relic of a secretive family who grabbed buildings from immigrant owners across the booming borough.
www.thecity.nyc
May 19, 2025 at 9:17 AM
What fans don’t know is that the dinosaur billboard, Sherita, was never about honest, quirky old working-class Brooklyn.
Instead she and several frowsier sister signs mark a nasty pattern of northern Brooklyn real estate manipulation.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/05/19/s...
Instead she and several frowsier sister signs mark a nasty pattern of northern Brooklyn real estate manipulation.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/05/19/s...
Wow seems like a resounding success, who woulda guessed?
Congestion pricing was designed to finance more than $15 billion in critical transit upgrades in New York City. Those investments will take years. But the parallel changes at street level are already apparent. Here’s what we know so far. nyti.ms/4mbuGg0
May 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Wow seems like a resounding success, who woulda guessed?
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As Bukele prepares to arrest multiple journalists for reporting on the deal he made with gangs before the State of Exception in 2022, remember that the Trump admin chose to send him an MS-13 leader set for a trial in the US who might have testified about that deal, thus ensuring his silence.
🚨 A reliable source in El Salvador told El Faro that the Bukele-controlled Attorney General’s Office is preparing at least seven arrest warrants for members of El Faro following an interview with two former gang leaders on their years-long relationship to Bukele. elfaro.net/en/202515/el...
El Faro Denounces Possible Arrest Warrants for At Least Seven Staff Members in El Salvador
<p>A reliable source in El Salvador told El Faro that the Bukele-controlled Attorney General’s Office is preparing at least seven arrest warrants for members of El Faro. The source reached out followi...
elfaro.net
May 5, 2025 at 7:16 PM
As Bukele prepares to arrest multiple journalists for reporting on the deal he made with gangs before the State of Exception in 2022, remember that the Trump admin chose to send him an MS-13 leader set for a trial in the US who might have testified about that deal, thus ensuring his silence.
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NEW: Mahmoud Khalil's wife gave birth to their child without him after ICE denied their request to let him be present.
“This was a purposeful decision by ICE to make me, Mahmoud, and our son suffer,” Dr. Abdalla said. “My son and I should not be navigating his first days on earth without Mahmoud."
“This was a purposeful decision by ICE to make me, Mahmoud, and our son suffer,” Dr. Abdalla said. “My son and I should not be navigating his first days on earth without Mahmoud."
Mahmoud Khalil’s Son Arrives After ICE Refuses to Let Him Attend Birth (Gift Article)
Mr. Khalil, a permanent resident detained in Louisiana, had requested a monitored furlough for the birth. His request was denied in less than an hour.
www.nytimes.com
April 21, 2025 at 11:34 PM
NEW: Mahmoud Khalil's wife gave birth to their child without him after ICE denied their request to let him be present.
“This was a purposeful decision by ICE to make me, Mahmoud, and our son suffer,” Dr. Abdalla said. “My son and I should not be navigating his first days on earth without Mahmoud."
“This was a purposeful decision by ICE to make me, Mahmoud, and our son suffer,” Dr. Abdalla said. “My son and I should not be navigating his first days on earth without Mahmoud."
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@globalvoices.org on Nicaragua's weaponisation of citizenship law and identity documents to silence dissent and create #statelessness globalvoices.org/2025/04/17/n...
Nicaragua's stateless people seek justice
Nicaragua continues to strip citizens of their citizenship, whether officially or in silence. Nicaraguan exiles are exploring legal avenues to stop this repressive strategy.
globalvoices.org
April 18, 2025 at 9:27 AM
@globalvoices.org on Nicaragua's weaponisation of citizenship law and identity documents to silence dissent and create #statelessness globalvoices.org/2025/04/17/n...
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Pretty sure this is the first time we've ever seen someone imprisoned in the CECOT ever allowed outside the CECOT.
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
April 18, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Pretty sure this is the first time we've ever seen someone imprisoned in the CECOT ever allowed outside the CECOT.
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BIG news: potentially hundreds of thousands of people were at risk of having their humanitarian parole terminated early, starting on April 24.
This saves those people from immediate terminations. However, just as under Biden, the parole will expire at two years.
This saves those people from immediate terminations. However, just as under Biden, the parole will expire at two years.
BREAKING: Federal judge in Boston halts Trump administration's mass cancellation of CHNV (Cuba/Haiti/Nicaragua/Venezuela) parole. Indira Talwani (Obama) says it was premised on legal error & lacked required individualized assessment. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
CHNVParole041425
www.documentcloud.org
April 15, 2025 at 12:08 AM
BIG news: potentially hundreds of thousands of people were at risk of having their humanitarian parole terminated early, starting on April 24.
This saves those people from immediate terminations. However, just as under Biden, the parole will expire at two years.
This saves those people from immediate terminations. However, just as under Biden, the parole will expire at two years.
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It would be great to see loud and universal condemnation of Trump’s sending anyone to Bukele’s prisons, and then it would be great to ask anyone who supported the Laken Riley act what the fuck they thought would happen as a result of this rhetoric, framing, and support for this machinery
April 14, 2025 at 9:14 PM
It would be great to see loud and universal condemnation of Trump’s sending anyone to Bukele’s prisons, and then it would be great to ask anyone who supported the Laken Riley act what the fuck they thought would happen as a result of this rhetoric, framing, and support for this machinery
Went to USCIS’ website to look up the current status of Venezuelans who applied for TPS under the Oct 2023 order and this is their batshit notice at the top. Basically just lashing out that the courts won’t let them destroy legal status with the stroke of a pen
April 10, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Went to USCIS’ website to look up the current status of Venezuelans who applied for TPS under the Oct 2023 order and this is their batshit notice at the top. Basically just lashing out that the courts won’t let them destroy legal status with the stroke of a pen
I see they took social death and necropolitics very literally here
NEW: @nytimes.com reports that the Trump admin is moving to strip hundreds of thousands of immigrants of Social Security Numbers they got when they were granted work authorization, repurposing a "death master file" to try to erase their previous legal presence in the United States.
April 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I see they took social death and necropolitics very literally here
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For the last quarter plus century, the term for this in the US prison system has been "diesel therapy."
There is even has a wiki page about it, created in 2010.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_...
There is even has a wiki page about it, created in 2010.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_...
April 2, 2025 at 1:10 AM
For the last quarter plus century, the term for this in the US prison system has been "diesel therapy."
There is even has a wiki page about it, created in 2010.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_...
There is even has a wiki page about it, created in 2010.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_...
The Tren de Aragua nonsense is this administration’s WMDs, it’s an excuse that doesn’t stand scrutiny at time of use and history will recognize a politically useful lie
April 2, 2025 at 12:36 AM
The Tren de Aragua nonsense is this administration’s WMDs, it’s an excuse that doesn’t stand scrutiny at time of use and history will recognize a politically useful lie
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Back on my bullshit. Please, if you know someone who is missing after an immigration detention, report it to the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances: www.wlrn.org/immigration/...
Trump deports more Venezuelans to El Salvador — as lawyers ask the U.N. for help
The U.N. human rights commission's working group has now said it will appeal to El Salvador to consider the recent deportation and imprisonment of Venezuelans “alleged enforced or involuntary disappea...
www.wlrn.org
March 31, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Back on my bullshit. Please, if you know someone who is missing after an immigration detention, report it to the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances: www.wlrn.org/immigration/...