Amy Liebman

Trump Administration Knew Vast Majority of Venezuelans Sent to Salvadoran Prison Had Not Been Convicted of U.S. Crimes Homeland Security records reveal that officials knew that more than half of the 238 deportees were labeled as having no criminal record in the U.S. and had only violated immigration laws.

The Trump administration knew that the vast majority of the 230+ Venezuelan immigrants it sent to El Salvador in mid-March had not been convicted of crimes in the U.S. before it labeled them as terrorists and deported them, according to Homeland Security data.

(Published May)

It has potential to be understood if dems would listen to and include other perspectives like those of young people. The dems are out of touch. Kamala Harris and her staff were too obtuse and refused to go on Joe Rogan's show. Mandami is on fire with younger voters. And the Dems won't endorse him.

Weekly Win: After decades of restrictions, the U.S. Forest Service will now provide N95s for wildfire fighters. A vital step forward for health & safety.
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Wowzers is right and this piece is brilliant

@melissa-sanchez.bsky.social thank you for your outstanding reporting!

He Was Asked About His Tattoos and a TikTok Video in Court. Five Days Later, He Was in a Salvadoran Prison. Albert Jesús Rodríguez Parra was one of more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants the Trump administration sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. After his release, he says he wants the world to…

Albert Jesús Rodríguez Parra was one of more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants the Trump administration sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador.

After his release, he says he wants the world to know what happened to him.

By @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social

ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

While it's absolutely worth celebrating their freedom from CECOT, we can't overlook the fact that more than 60 of these men had pending asylum cases.

Today, MCN’s @amyliebman.bsky.social testified before OSHA, joining colleagues nationwide in support of a strong, enforceable federal heat standard to protect workers.

Congratulations. Well deserved

Read MCN's position statement in English and Spanish.

Mass detention and deportation efforts can have severe, lasting impacts on the physical and mental health of immigrant families.

www.migrantclinician.org/blog/2025/ap...

Did he forget that he too is the child of immigrants?

Might this be a teachable moment? Same greedy businesses willing to plug their noses on EVERYTHING, including democracy. Because all they wanted were tax cuts...Oops

Secretary RFK Jr. is a danger to the public’s health and should resign or be fired, says APHA. Logo

HHS Secretary RFK Jr. is a danger to the public’s health and should resign or be fired, says APHA. In just a few short weeks, his actions on vacccines, fluoride and other public health science have shown how wrong he is for the job. Read & share our statement: apha.org/news-and-med...

Heartbreaking.

C.D.C. Cuts Threaten to Set Back the Nation’s Health, Critics Say

What remains of the CDC after Tuesday’s cuts is a hobbled agency, with a smaller global footprint, devoting fewer resources to environmental health, occupational health and disease prevention.

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The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines.

This week, as the number of confirmed measles cases rose to 483, the CDC buried a report that would’ve stressed the importance of getting vaccinated.

The move was “not normal at all,” one agency staff member said.

By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social

We are deporting innocent men without any due process to a foreign gulag because they have tattoos about soccer, autism awareness, and loving their mothers.

Trump administration to nominate acting director to lead CDC

Susan Monarez is an experienced health administrator who has expertise in new health technologies.

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Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants.

Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.

Do not.

Internal Memos: Senior USAID Leaders Warned Trump Appointees of Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths From Closing Agency One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, the memos…

Tuberculosis, the deadliest infectious disease on the planet, kills more than 1.25M people a year. New infections are expected to surge by 30% as a result of closing USAID, a memo says. The increase will inevitably lead to cases in the U.S.

MCN's @amyliebman.bsky.social shares how MCN equips health centers to become the community hub during disasters. MCN provides extensive resources and technical assistance, you can see some of the resources on our Disaster Preparedness page: www.migrantclinician.org/disaster-pre...

Community Health Centers are uniquely positioned to mobilize communities around climate health impacts on the frontline. This mobilization starts before the disaster.

Amy Liebman from the @migrantclinicians.bsky.social shares a framework on the climate impacted migrant, showing the many touch points of climate change on health.
#OurPlanetOurHealth

It was the deadliest workplace in America. So why didn’t safety regulators shut it down? OSHA issued over 180 citations and millions in fines to this Alabama sawmill, the deadliest workplace in America, but the mayhem didn’t stop.

Phenix Lumber was the deadliest workplace in America over the past five years. OSHA inspectors issued them more than 100 safety violations and millions in fines. Yet deaths and injuries continued.

I guess a quarter trillion isn't enough for that level of emotional poverty, so he's grifting from you, me, and the children abandoned by USAID.

Tracking Bird Flu Is Largely Left to States. Under Trump, the Federal Government Might Step Even Further Back. With human infections of avian flu present in the U.S., workers remain most vulnerable to the virus.

New @sentientmedia.org article featuring MCN's @amyliebman.bsky.social: "In her role at Migrant Clinicians Network, Liebman is working to increase knowledge of H5N1 among clinicians... 'We need to think about this disease in terms of worker health and safety'"

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How One Immigrant Community Is Coping With the Threat of Deportation The Nicaraguans who keep Wisconsin’s dairy farms, restaurants and factories working are sending home their most prized possessions, bracing for potential mass deportations. “We don’t have much, but wh...

@melissa-sanchez.bsky.social and @propublica.org bring the fears and realities of workers on dairies, factories and restaurants to light as they prepare for the potential of deportation

What are employers doing to protect their workers and work force? And is it impacting their bottom line?