“When Jonathan returned from the US to Australia for a two-day trip to scatter his sister’s ashes, he packed only two changes of clothes, leaving enough space in his small bag to carry the empty ashes urn to his home in the US. The trip was so brief he didn’t even pack a laptop charger. […]
Following the breadcrumbs of how justice is achieved for one person . . . hopefully. Joyce Vance @ Civil Discourse Deporting an Innocent Man There is a case I want to write to you about tonight, a case that was decided last week but has gotten lost in the press of so much news on […]
“The Trump administration denied on Sunday that it had violated a court order by deporting hundreds of Venezuelan immigrants to a prison in El Salvador over the weekend, saying that the president had broad powers to quickly expel them under an 18th-century law meant for wartime. “The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, also asserted […]
Yes, it’s temporary, but it’s something. Resistance can work. “With a key hearing before a federal judge looming that could stop or slow the Trump administration’s transfer of more migrants to Guantánamo Bay, migrants the administration has already sent to Cuba have now been quietly returned to the United States, according to The Washington Post. […]
In 2023, approximately one-fifth of the workforce was foreign-born. Of the 160.2 million people in the US workforce, and again about 29.7 million were immigrants. This is an increase from 2010 when the immigrant portions was an approximate 15.6% of the workforce. Immigrants can be employed across different industries. However, there is concentrations of immigrants […]
“Donald Trump plans a $200 million anti-immigrant ad campaign in the US and overseas. . . .Apparently we can’t afford to fully fund medical research at CDC or NIH these days, but we can find a few dollars under the sofa cushions to thank President Trump for closing the border.” We can’t afford Medicaid for […]
According to Kevin Drum, the Senate budget resolution earmarks $170 billion for border security; the House budget proposal ponies up $190 billion. 5 minutes of googling was not sufficient to figure out how this unimaginable pile of money will be spent. Let’s assume half is for deportation. That’s $85 billion, if we go with the […]
New York City has had a long history of problematic mayors, and the corrupt current mayor, Eric Adams, is honoring that tradition. Now, heaping corruption on corruption, the corrupt current President, Donald Trump, is trying to exploit the corrupt Justice Department to do a corrupt deal with Adams: “ . . . President Trump had […]
In 2006 Joel Garreau wrote “300 Million and Counting” in the Smithsonian. It was then in the United States we were at a replacement rate of 2.01. Joel and I exchanged emails on the topic. Immigration is an important factor influencing the economy. The nation was barely replacing itself. It has dropped lower in 2024 to […]
January jobs report: annual revisions clear up some big discrepancies, but monthly numbers are close to pre-recessionary – by New Deal democrat My theme for the past several years as to employment has been “deceleration,” as in a gradual cooldown from white hot to red hot to hot to warm. But at some point past […]