Grace Huang

I don’t mean to downplay the seriousness of these attempts to dismantle academia with national security theater. I do think perhaps some of us are startled to see the deportation machine coming more aggressively to more privileged communities. Reminds me of post-9-11 abuses, NSEERS etc.

No. 2 at DOJ directs fed'l prosecutors to focus on Trump immigration enforcement policies Deputy A.G. Todd Blanche changed priorities of long-running programs Thursday and threatened to reassign Main Justice attorneys to border states if "require[d]."

BREAKING: New No. 2 at DOJ directs fed'l prosecutors to focus on Trump immigration enforcement policies.

Deputy A.G. Todd Blanche changed priorities of long-running programs Thursday and threatened to reassign Main Justice attorneys to border states if "require[d]."

Read the memos at Law Dork —>

They cannot credibly say they are keeping communities safe. This is even more disincentive for victims to come forward to report crime, much less apply for immigration protections. And undermine the intent and purposes of the #ViolenceAgainstWomenAct and the #TraffickingVictimsProtectionAct.

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.

I know. I was there in those camps.

President Trump has rescinded former President Biden’s Executive Order which created a task force to reunite families deliberately separated at the border by Trump. As many as 1,000 families remain separated because of that policy.

And in the US despite legal protections in federal law under the Violence Against Women Act & Trafficking Victims Protection Act,we know that local LE is often unaware of these protections,ICE & CBP often ignore them,& the last Trump Administration implemented innumerable barriers in accessing them

It's being driven by those who are profiting from human misery, whether on the push side, or on the pull side.

PSA to New York commentators: Immigrants are subject to the exact same criminal-legal system as non-immigrants. Deportation is a whole ass extra thing.

She Was Separated From Her 1-Year-Old at the Border. The Government Wouldn’t Tell Her Why. U.S. officials can withhold their rationale in family separation cases that relate to national security. There have been about 80 children separated for these reasons this year, with an estimated 50 o...

Today we published a story about Marina, a Russian asylum seeker, who was separated at the U.S. border from her one-year-old eight months ago. She remains in detention and her baby is in foster care. She says she has no idea why. 1/
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Edmonds School District cancels 'Know Your Rights' info session after online backlash The district said the session was to provide information and resources students, regardless of immigration status.

This kind of behavior creates the of climate that abusers, human traffickers and other harmdoers leverage to keep victims trapped in abusive and exploitative circumstances. For everyone who says #domesticviolence & #sexualassault is unacceptable, we need your voices. www.king5.com/article/news...

We lost our homes, our businesses, and our livelihoods. It was a devastating time.

Today I hear echoes of that time in the plans of the Trump administration. They want to round up and deport millions of undocumented migrants and deploy the military and build detention camps to carry this out. /3

EPA Scientists Said They Were Pressured to Downplay Harms From Chemicals. A Watchdog Found They Were Retaliated Against. Three reports issued by the agency’s inspector general detailed personal attacks suffered by the scientists — including being called “stupid,” “piranhas” and “pot-stirrers” — and called on the EPA to take “appropriate corrective action” in response.

Under Trump, EPA scientists say they were pressured to make the new chemicals they were vetting seem safer than they really were. They were encouraged to delete evidence of harms, including cancer, from their reports. Sometimes, they say, managers deleted the info themselves.
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What it means to "shrink" government...

During Trump's first term, he denied a law enforcement grant to sanctuary cities (defunded the police) by conditioning the grants on the recipients promising to give ICE: 1) citizenship status data, 2) release dates, and 3) access to prisoners to arrest them. Now he may go beyond that one grant.