#Immigration"

[deathtokillian]

"It used to be you only had to worry about ICE in the winter, but now you have to worry about ICE all the time."

[itscolossal]

Five Latinx Artists Explore Materiality, Identity, and Belonging in ‘Los Encuentros’

[rejectingrepublicans]

[daisukitoo]

All the better if he lives somewhere completely incongruous like Midwest suburbia rather than rural Texas. Americans want you to out-America America.

[andhumanslovedstories]

I know this is a very big question that I might also be overthinking (I am), and crowdsourcing answers on tumblr is not gonna be my only input, but I’ve been getting in my head about it and I think outside opinions might help. I’ve been tutoring a teenage boy from Ukraine—we say “tutoring” lmao we quickly devolved into just talking so much about video games once a week. Call it English practice. Anyway, I’m gonna have dinner with his family soon, all of whom have limited mastery of English. I met them through volunteering with a refugee organization.

Do people with experience leaving countries due to war or other big events like that have any insight into how much or little to discuss the past? I know I am overthinking this and that all human beings are unique, etc etc, but I have such little personal framework for this major part of their life that I keep trying to figure out if there is a really obvious misstep I could make without knowing. Or really more importantly: I’d like the dinner to go as well as possible and to give them a very nice time. I hope that will happen regardless, but like…I wanna really crush it. You know?

I guess very broadly speaking: if you can relate at all to the family’s situation, is there something someone could have done to make you feel particularly welcome? Or is there anything…Ukrainian we could do that they might enjoy? These feel like kinda silly questions, but I’d very much appreciate insight.

[unitedfrontvarietyhour]

ICE = Gestapo. Yes, it's that simple, and yes, you're a horrible person if you support them in any way, shape, or form.

(Pt.2)

[probablyasocialecologist]

From farm to table, at least one in five jobs in the food industry is carried out by immigrants, the equivalent of 14 million workers across the sector. This includes 27% of agricultural workers nationwide and 33% of meatpackers. In restaurants, 46% of chefs and 31% of cooks were born outside the US – mostly in Mexico, China, Guatemala and El Salvador. These jobs are critical: immigrants made up a disproportionate number of “essential” workers during the Covid-19 pandemic, and many were exposed to unsafe conditions so that crops could be harvested, cows milked and takeout delivered.

[...]

American food companies rely on undocumented people for almost half of the most physical jobs, including the farm laborers who cultivate crops, tend livestock and build fences, as well as the meat processors who slaughter, eviscerate and package at high speeds.

[...]

If the Trump administration oversees even a fraction of its promised mass deportation of 11 million undocumented immigrants, it could lead to major disruptions across the food system: crops left to spoil in the fields, supermarket shelves unstocked, takeout deliveries delayed and food prices soaring even higher. It could also upend rural economies that depend on migrant workers and their families who live, work and go to school in small declining communities.

17 July 2025

[onlytiktoks]

[sweetfirebird]

Alan Cumming being incredible (as usual). Amazing from start to finish.

[project2028]

BREAKING: The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals have found that Donald Trump’s Executive order to end birthright citizenship is unconstitutional and has blocked the order nationwide.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Li Zhou at HuffPost:

President Donald Trump once promised to focus on the “worst of the worst” as he sought to ramp up immigrant deportations, but a recent interview from his acting ICE chief underscored just how far the administration has departed from that vow. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is doubling down on arresting undocumented immigrants without criminal histories, Todd Lyons, the acting head of the federal body, told CBS’s Camilo Montoya-Galvez in an exclusive interview. “Under this administration, we have opened up the whole aperture of the immigration portfolio,” he said. “If we encounter someone that isn’t here in the country legally, we will take them into custody.”

That approach marks a sharp break from the policies of the Biden administration, which directed agents to apprehend undocumented immigrants with criminal backgrounds, those who posed a national security threat and those who had entered the U.S more recently, CBS notes. It’s also counter to claims that the Trump administration once made about focusing on those with serious criminal records, and prompted sharp blowback as ICE agents have targeted everyone from a high school student driving to sports practice to immigrants attending routine court hearings. Of the roughly 100,000 deportations ICE has documented between Jan. 1 and June 24, about 70,000 involved a person with a criminal conviction, a CBS review of internal government data found. And just a small fraction of those who faced criminal convictions did so for violent offenses, Montoya-Galvez noted. (Living in the U.S. without documentation is a civil offense and not a criminal offense, Vanity Fair notes.) “We can’t look at it just based on violence,” Lyons said in the CBS interview.

[...] Lyons noted, too, that agents will continue to wear masks during enforcement actions, due to concerns for their privacy and personal safety, a move that has garnered criticism for shielding officers from accountability and inspiring fear in immigrants who are approached by them. “I’m not a proponent of the masks; however, if that’s a tool that the men and women of ICE use to keep themselves and their families safe, then I’ll allow it,” he said.

Sociopathic ICE Chief Todd Lyons endorses the draconian arrests of undocumented immigrants without any criminal history, a far cry from the Trump Regime’s BS focus on just the “worst of the worst”.

[secondstar09]

"oh no guy, Trump was outsmarted by College kids at a fancy lawyer school"

[theseinterestingtimes]

Benefits of a high trust near-monoculture society. I'll bet that factory was dominated by US citizens, patriots, and yes, white people.

I'd like to see the same experiment attempted in any North American or European city today. Maybe LA, NYC, Paris, Brussels, or London? You'll get a VERY different result. Multiculturalism is NOT a strength. Assimilation is.

Back in the mid-1970s, a fascinating social experiment was conducted in a factory cafeteria. The idea was simple but bold: they removed the cashier and instead placed a tray labeled “Payment Here.” No one supervised it. Workers were expected to serve themselves, leave the correct amount of money on the tray, and take change if needed — all based on the honor system.

For the first few days, the experiment seemed to be working. But then, the revenue started to shrink. Day after day, the total in the tray came up short. The researchers overseeing the project began to lose faith in the basic honesty of people. Still, they didn’t pull the plug — the experiment was scheduled to last exactly 30 days, and they stuck to that.

Then, something unexpected happened.

On the 30th day — a payday at the factory — the tray held not only the expected daily revenue, but also enough extra to cover the entire shortfall from the entire month.

Turns out, many workers had been short on cash during the pay period. Rather than skip lunch, they took what they needed, quietly keeping track of their own tabs. And the moment they got paid, they paid it all back — with interest.

The experiment didn’t just test trust — it reaffirmed it. People may not always be able to pay immediately, but when treated with dignity and respect, they often rise to the occasion.

[vivid-bun]

A reminder to the "the American government wouldn't..." crowd. They have. They have made their own internment camps before. They have rounded up innocent citizens and immigrants before. The victims of which are still alive to this day and trying to share their stories with the world, they have been trying to warn us for a long time. George Takei (as seen above) is a famous example of this. He has written about his experiences time and time again, even publishing a book talking about his time in these camps. He may be famous now, but at the time he was just another kid forced from his home. To this day he still firmly dedicates himself to trying to educate and inform people, trying to spread awareness with his platform. The American Government can and will do terrible things. Do not let anyone convince you otherwise.

[onlytiktoks]