Pooja Bhatia

More pointedly, the pope said, "Someone who says, I'm against abortion, but is in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life. Someone who says, I'm against abortion but I'm in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don't know if that's pro-life."

What a line from the Pope! I am so pleased he is carrying on Pope Francis’ advocacy for immigrants.

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

Thank you, @longreads.com for sharing my piece about Springfield, Ohio, published in the current issue of @thebaffler.com

WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status.

He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.

The White House convinced many its focus is “illegal” immigration.

Then:
—Today’s near-ban on LEGAL high-skill work visas
—Ended LEGAL refugee visas
—Slashing LEGAL student visas
—Ban all/most LEGAL visas for 17 countries
—Ending LEGAL parole & TPS for millions

Not a “crackdown”. A lawless purge.

My optimism here is limited, but I really hope centrist institutions like universities and major news organizations understand that the plan is for the govt to dismantle them. They do not care if you fire your columnists or discipline staff for accurately quoting Kirk. They just want us all gone.

DARVO baby DARVO

Home City, USA | Pooja Bhatia The residents of Springfield, Ohio, have been terrorized by Donald Trump—and many now face the prospect of state-sponsored violence.

Pooja Bhatia recounts what the last year in Springfield, Ohio has looked like for Haitian residents who have been the target of our hate-filled president and also their own neighbors

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The most important immigration fights right now are about the Constitution. None of it has anything to do with the substance of immigration policy. If you stand with ICE, you stand against the Constitution.
Can the govt...
1. racially profile?
2. set up checkpoints wherever they want?

Brett Kavanaugh explains that SCOTUS really IS doing racism He showed his whole hood.

"Kavanaugh penned a concurrence confirming that, yes, the conservative justices are motivated by gutter racism, and they absolutely do intend to shred five decades of jurisprudence. YOU’RE GODDAMN RIGHT THEY ORDERED THE CONSTITUTIONAL CODE RED, SON! And they’ll do it again." — @lizdye.bsky.social

Home City, USA | Pooja Bhatia The residents of Springfield, Ohio, have been terrorized by Donald Trump—and many now face the prospect of state-sponsored violence.

Remember Springfield, Ohio, where the US president spat lies about Haitian immigrants "eating the cats"?

County Commissioner: Springfield and Clark County are "the strongest that they've been in my lifetime."

@bhatiap.bsky.social went to Springfield and wrote for @thebaffler.com —>

What if Democrats had defended immigration over the last few years instead of running from it?

Home City, USA | Pooja Bhatia The residents of Springfield, Ohio, have been terrorized by Donald Trump—and many now face the prospect of state-sponsored violence.

“Public comment at the commission meetings is technically open to anyone who lives in Clark County. But very few Haitian residents have spoken at them. And only a minority of residents has taken to the dais to urge kindness and humaneness.”

Home City, USA | Pooja Bhatia The residents of Springfield, Ohio, residents have been terrorized by Donald Trump—and many now face the prospect of state-sponsored violence.

The racist media frenzy around Haitians “eating the dogs” in Ohio may have died down, but Springfield’s immigrant community is still dealing with the consequences, as @bhatiap.bsky.social reports in our new issue.

DECENCY LIVES! It was a privilege to report this piece, which features a bunch of v courageous people.

Trump Kills ‘American Experience’ — one of PBS’s three flagship shows. They have produced consistently excellent, nonpartisan history documentaries. I guess nonpartisan history is no longer permissible.

Timeline cleanser.

0:53 to 1:38 is pure, undiluted joy.

A Backdoor for Immigration Enforcement: Why Trump's Federal Takeover of D.C. Matters - American Immigration Council The federal takeover of Washington, D.C. is another front in the Trump's war on immigrants and the communities that welcome them.

New from me: The National Guard is, at most, half the story when it comes to the DC takeover. The other half is the stuff that is actually having an impact.

That's right, y'all, this is _yet again_ about immigration enforcement.

www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/immigra...

Every single signatory of the Genocide Convention (that includes the US) is obliged to stop this. Will any country do so? No. Israel is yet again a rogue state, aided and abetted by the “civilized” countries. Shame. #FreePalestine. #BDS

The Two-Pronged Attack on a Muslim Judicial Nominee How the smearing of Adeel Mangi became a bipartisan exercise.

This is why the Bove seat was vacant, and there’s a real throughline from the forces that defeated the previous Democratic nominee to where we are today.

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Imagine the utter cruelty of making this decision; the people who decided, yeah, let's make it so that those toddlers here without legal status can't learn.

No matter how long this continues, it does not stop being illegal and insane.

The US military does not exist for the purpose of deployment on US soil, against US citizens, to cow them into compliance with the federal government.

Unspeakable perversion of its mission.

Stephen Miller ran for student council on a platform that the school's janitors weren't doing enough work. Now he has de facto authority over a "security" force that just got $100b more in funding....

So glad we gave this 39-year-old twerp an army that reports only to him!? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/o...

Heart broken

David is right. What JD Vance is saying is nothing is more important than destroying this country’s basic principles and crash the economy to expel a population he doesn’t like.

There are other options! Ones that actually make this country BETTER, not WORSE.

Community outraged after ice cream vendor detained by immigration agents in Culver City A community is outraged after a man who has been selling ice cream in Culver City for nearly 20 years was detained by immigration agents. On June 23, Ambrocio Lozano, also known as Enrique, was set…

“We hear a lot about how they’re catching gang members and murderers, but really, who they’re taking is our ice cream men, our nannies and our gardeners,” said John Derevlany, a neighbor. ktla.com/news/local-n...

Fear of immigration raids force the cancellation of several July festivities in Los Angeles Here are some of the July festivities that have been canceled in Los Angeles out of fear over immigration raids.

LA Times - Several communities in Los Angeles County have called off or postponed their previously scheduled Independence Day and July events, citing resident safety amid ongoing immigration enforcement raids.

"They were crying in fear. One of the agents at one point lifted up his shirt, which displayed the gun that he was carrying," Mukherjee said. "The 6-year-old boy was terrified to see the gun. He urinated on himself and wet all his clothing. No one offered him a change of clothing for many hours." The family was then transported to the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas, where they have been detained for several weeks. The 6-year-old boy has been diagnosed with leukemia and has missed a medical appointment to be treated for worsening symptoms, according to the lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court in San Antonio by the Immigrant Rights Clinic and The Texas Civil Rights Project.

Every word of this is depraved beyond belief.

ICE abducted a six year old with leukemia, threatened him with a gun such that he wet himself, and has denied him medical treatment.

I don’t know what to say.

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