Torri Lonergan, Media Matters, Feb. 14, 2025 "When President Donald Trump announced his intention to end birthright citizenship, right-wing media figures immediately began spreading misinformation...
The Guardian, Feb. 13, 2025 "The Denver public school system (DPS) on Wednesday became the first US school district to sue the Trump administration over its policy of allowing Immigration and Customs...
Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA TODAY, Feb. 13, 2025 Stephen Yale-Loehr , an immigration law attorney and a retired Cornell Law School professor, said while Modi can ask Trump to increase the number...
On Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025 U.S. District Judge Leo T. Sorokin in Boston joined three other federal district court judges in decisively rejecting Trump's birthright citizenship EO. Read his 31-page...
ACLU, Feb. 12, 2025 "Immigrants’ rights advocates sued the Trump administration today for access to immigrants transferred from the United States to detention at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba...
Sergio Olmos, CalMatters, Jan. 10, 2025
"Acres of orange fields sat unpicked in Kern County this week as word of Border Patrol raids circulated through Messenger chats and images of federal agents detaining laborers spread on local Facebook groups. The Border Patrol conducted unannounced raids throughout Bakersfield on Tuesday, descending on businesses where day laborers and field workers gather. Agents in unmarked SUVs rounded up people in vans outside a Home Depot and gas station that serves a breakfast popular with field workers. ... “It was profiling, it was purely field workers,” said Sara Fuentes, store manager of the local gas station. Fuentes said that at 9 a.m., when the store typically gets a rush of workers on their way to pick oranges, two men in civilian clothes and unmarked Suburbans started detaining people outside the store. “They didn’t stop people with FedEx uniforms, they were stopping people who looked like they worked in the fields.” Fuentes says one customer pulled in just to pump gas and agents approached him and detained him. ... Growers and agricultural leaders in California and across the nation have warned that Trump’s promised mass deportations will disrupt the nation’s food supply, leading to shortages and higher prices. In Kern County this week, just the word of the deportations inspired workers to stay away from the fields. ... “We’re in the middle of our citrus harvesting. This sent shockwaves through the entire community,” said Casey Creamer, president of the industry group California Citrus Mutual, on Thursday. “People aren’t going to work and kids aren’t going to school. Yesterday about 25% of the workforce, today 75% didn’t show up.” He pushed back on the Border Patrol’s claims they’re targeting bad people. He said they appeared to be general sweeps of workers. “If this is the new normal, this is absolute economic devastation,” said Richard S. Gearhart, an associate professor of economics at Cal State-Bakersfield. ... “So, you WILL see, in the long run, food inflation and food shortages,” he wrote in a text message. He predicted immigrants, even ones with documents, would stop shopping, going to school and seeking health care. “So, this could have some serious deleterious long run impacts beyond lost farm productivity. Losses in education and health would be catastrophic,” he said. “Basically, you know how Kern County complains about oil? This event would be analogous to shutting down oil production. Economic catastrophe.”
See also, Newsweek, "New California Immigration Raids Are 'Sowing Chaos"