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A powerful tool in Trump’s immigration crackdown: The routine traffic stop ICE is working with local police to arrest more undocumented immigrants at traffic stops. In a break with the past, many arrestees have no violent criminal record.

ICE is weaponizing routine traffic stops to terrorize and detain undocumented immigrants, as the Washington Post covered in this story that highlights our client TIRRC and @lisashermanluna.bsky.social's work to fight back for immigrant rights:

www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Kilmar Abrego Garcia's hearings in Nashville stir up memories of ICE raids Exactly one month before Abrego's arraignment, ICE arrested nearly 200 people in raids that shook Music City's immigrant community.

Important piece here in @allrisenews.com covering the trauma in Nashville’s immigrant community brought about by ICE raids and highlighting the work of the Tennessee Immigration & Refugee Rights Coalition @lisashermanluna.bsky.social:

www.allrisenews.com/p/abrego-vas...

Senator Bo Watson’s solution to educating all the kids he wants to kick out of public school was for nonprofits and churches to start schools. Kinda hard to do when they also want to charge us with human smuggling. Make it make sense. #tnleg

Schools are more than just where kids learn, they are foundational to our growth and wellbeing. But now, TN lawmakers want to kick children out of school because of where they are born or how they got here. Help stop this race to the bottom before it’s too late. www.educationforalltn.org/email?ms=TV

The Great Resegregation The Trump administration’s attacks on DEI are aimed at reversing the civil-rights movement.

“That is why Trumpists are so focused on “ending DEI” in the federal workforce. They see anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one.”

Welcome South Building a network of agencies across the Regional South to communicate, coordinate and collaborate in a holistic approach to the representation of a person

Trump issued a stop work order to orgs defending immigrant kids from deportation. 26k will have to represent themselves in court while risking being sent back to dangerous conditions. donate to orgs struggling to continue these critical services. welcomesouth.org?mc_cid=60b43...

This story also fails to compare to crimes committed by US citizens. The reality is violent crimes are very low among undocumented population vs Us citizens.

Omg - this is absolutely insane but not surprising. Immigration is being used to usher in authoritarianism.

Advocate groups ordered to stop aiding refugees who have already arrived in US | CNN Politics The Trump administration on Friday abruptly halted services for refugees in the United States, including Afghans, according to a memo obtained by CNN, stunning agencies that provide critical support t...

The cruelty knows no bounds. chttps://www.cnn.com/2025/01/24/politics/refugee-benefits-afghans-halt-trump-administration/index.html

Republicans Say This Anti-Immigrant Bill Will Protect Victims of Abuse. It Will Do the Opposite. Advocates say the bill will put domestic violence survivors who face false allegations from their abusers at greater risk of deportation.

Advocates say the bill will put domestic violence survivors who face false allegations from their abusers at greater risk of deportation.

We are overwhelmed with offers of support, requests for trainings, and more information. The single most important thing you can do if you are an ally is to become a sustainer to fuel our work. It’s going to be a long 4 years, and we need to reach as many people as we can. www.tnimmigrant.org/donate

A lot of executive orders were signed today, but none of those are doing anything to lower the prices of groceries, gas, or housing. Don’t let them fool you, this isn’t about working people, it’s about lining the pocketbooks of private prisons and billionaires.