Tag Archives: anti-immigration

As Dreamers anticipate a deportation order from the Trump administration, more anti-immigrant graffiti appears in Ann Arbor

By Mark | September 5, 2017

Donald Trump is expected to announced tomorrow that he’s decided to kill the Obama administration immigration policy known as DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), which essentially allows those who immigrated to the United States illegally as children, to stay in the country without fear of deportation, so long as they continue to be good, […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Ann Arbor Skate Park, Ann Coulter, anti-immigrant, Apple, Assisting Latinos to Maximize Achievement, Charlottesville, Concordia University, DACA, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, deportation, Donald Trump, Dreamers, graffiti, immigration, impeachment, Jeff Sessions, Joe Arpaio, La Casa, Latinx, Latinx Alliance for Community Action Support and Advocacy, MAGA, nationalism, North Korea, racism, Robert Sellers, Steve King, the rock, Tim Cook, University of Michigan, white nationalism, white power | 100 Comments

Ypsi People Safeguarding Immigrants (Y.P.S.I.) to address the Ypsilanti School Board on Monday

By Mark | February 6, 2017

This Monday evening at 6:30, a number of concerned Ypsilantians will be gathering at the Ypsilanti Community Schools Administration Building [1885 Packard] to demand that the Ypsilanti School Board take aggressive action in the face of recent executive actions targeting immigrants. Kira Berman, Natalie Holbrook and Liz Dahl MacGregor, three of the women behind this […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged anti-immigrant, discrimination, immigrant rights, immigrants, immigration, Kira Berman, Liz Dahl MacGregor, Muslim, Natalie Holbrook, non-discrimination, public education, Washtenaw ID Project, YCS, Ypsi People Safeguarding Immigrants, Ypsilanti Community Schools, Ypsilanti School Board | 8 Comments

Sean Spicer says there’s nothing newsworthy about Steve Bannon being named to the National Security Council, the facts say otherwise

By Mark | January 30, 2017

This afternoon, after first noting how may “likes” President Trump’s last web address had gotten on social media, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, seen above waving papers frantically, assured reporters that there was nothing newsworthy in the fact that, through executive action, the President had removed the Director of National Intelligence and the Chairman […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 50 U.S. Code § 3021, alternative facts, Breitbart News, call to action, confirmation hearings, David Axelrod, Donald Trump, fake news, immigration, Joint Chiefs of Staff, national security, National Security Council, Sean Spicer, Senate, Steve Bannon | 16 Comments

Marking the first day of the Trump administration with Debbie Dingell and Gretchen Whitmer, firsthand accounts of the DC, Lansing and Ypsilanti women’s marches, and a discussion about the role of community-based art in improving society… on this weekend’s edition of the Saturday Six Pack

By Mark | January 19, 2017

This weekend’s episode of the Saturday Six Pack, our first under the Trump administration, will be told in two parts. First, we will be talking with people on the ground in D.C., and elsewhere, about the response to the Trump inauguration, with special emphasis on how women are standing up and letting it be known […]

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The Imperial Wizard of the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan calls for the murder of undocumented children entering the United States

By Mark | August 4, 2014

Continuing our conversation of last week concerning the immigration crisis building on our southern border, I wanted to share a clip from our friends at the Southern Poverty Law Center. It seems as though at least one faction of the Ku Klux Klan is calling for the murder of undocumented children crossing into the United […]