Tag Archives: deportation

Five things you need to know about Trump’s wall

By Mark | September 1, 2019

As we’ve discussed, with the economy slowing, and a recession on the horizon, Donald Trump desperately really needs for his base to come through for him on Election Day. As his support withers among suburban white women, farmers, and college educated independents, he needs to keep his diehard supporters happy. And, sadly, that means more […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Economics, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2020 election, anti-immigration, asylum, Axios, border wall, bribery, Build the Wall, cruelty, Dan Pfeifer, Donald Trump, FEMA, FOX News, Hurricane Dorian, ICE, illegal immigration, lies, Mexico, pardons, Pete Buttigieg, race war, racism, recession, Shepard Smith, southern border, tax cuts, white nationalism | 37 Comments

Detroit’s Jimmy Aldaoud, deported from Detroit to Iraq, dies without access to insulin

By Mark | August 8, 2019

This is Jimmy Aldaoud. He was born 41 years ago in a Greek refugee camp to Christian parents that had fled religious prosecution in Iraq. As six months old, Aldauod and his family made their way to United States, where they have lived ever since. This past June, ICE deported Aldaoud to Iraq. They did […]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged American Civil Liberties Union, Andy Levin, Catholicism, Chaldean, Christian hypocrisy, Christianity, Christianity in the Middle East, diabetes, go back to where you came from, Greece, homelessness, ICE, Iraq, Jimmy Aldaoud, mental illness, Michigan, paranoid schizophrenia, petty theft, racism, refugees, religious minorities, send them back, white nationalism | 36 Comments

Modeling Christian compassion on Easter, Trump tells 800,000 young American immigrants that he will not seek a solution to protect them from deportment

By Mark | April 1, 2018

Happy #MAGA Easter, everyone. Here, in celebration of how far we’ve come, is an ugly reminder of how things were before we had a born-again (porn star fucking) evangelical (pussy grabber) in the White House (colluding with a dictator to bring down our democracy). Happy Easter! pic.twitter.com/QnCVYMJOTm — Mark Maynard (@MarkAMaynard) April 1, 2018 Always […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged authoritarianism, border wall, Christianity, DACA, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, Donald Trump, Easter, evangelical, hypocrisy, immigration, impeachment, Mexico, opioids, racism, Robert Mueller, shithole | 31 Comments

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, anti-immigration, Apple, Assisting Latinos to Maximize Achievement, Charlottesville, Concordia University, DACA, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, 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

The successful campaign to stop the ICE deportation of Ann Arbor’s Jose Luis Sanchez-Ronquillo

By Mark | February 7, 2014

A few days ago, I met up with fellow Ypsilantian Martha Valadez, to discuss the case of Jose Luis Sanchez-Ronquillo, an undocumented 16-year resident of Ann Arbor who had been ordered by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to report to the Mexican border for deportation. Since that meeting, ICE has granted Sanchez-Ronquillo a one-year […]