CREW requests ICE records on immigrants tortured into accepting deportation

CREW requests ICE records on immigrants tortured into accepting deportation

These fingerprints, used in place of signatures, indicated the immigrants’ consent to initiate deportation proceedings and waive their rights to further immigration hearings. Three people provided firsthand accounts of the violent tactics ICE officers used to obtain their prints, including pepper-spraying detainees almost to the point of suffocation, breaking their fingers, and subjecting them to further physical mistreatment in unmonitored rooms. A joint complaint filed by FFI and the Southern Poverty Law Center cites eight cases of forced signatures or fingerprints on stipulated orders of removal, as well as several instances of violence.

The Women Activists Rejecting Biden’s Pro-War “Feminism”

The Women Activists Rejecting Biden’s Pro-War “Feminism”

“To think about fem­i­nism as a move­ment that secures the rights of women, but then dis­re­gard the rights of women who shouldn’t be bombed, shouldn’t be liv­ing under the con­se­quences of U.S. inter­ven­tion­ism, to negate their expe­ri­ences — it isn’t real­ly fem­i­nism,” she says.

Trump pursues recount of 2 liberal Wisconsin counties

Trump pursues recount of 2 liberal Wisconsin counties

Milwaukee County is the state’s largest, home to the city of Milwaukee, and Black people make up about 27% of the population, more than any other county. Dane County is home to the liberal capital city of Madison and the flagship University of Wisconsin campus.

Recounts in Wisconsin and across the country have historically resulted in very few vote changes. A 2016 presidential recount in Wisconsin netted Trump an additional 131 votes.

House Democrats nominated Nancy Pelosi to serve as speaker in the next session of Congress in leadership elections on Wednesday.

House Democrats nominated Nancy Pelosi to serve as speaker in the next session of Congress in leadership elections on Wednesday.

House Democrats also backed Pelosi’s top deputies to remain in their leadership positions with House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland elected to continue on in his role and Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina re-elected House Majority Whip, retaining the third-in-line leadership post.

Democrats sound alarm over possible last-minute cuts to safety-net programs by Trump administration + Biden Victory Brings High Hopes For Disability Community

Democrats sound alarm over possible last-minute cuts to safety-net programs by Trump administration

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Trump makes one last effort to cut Social Security, maximize hurt to the disabled

REAGAN SUSPENDS BENEFITS CUTOFF

Biden Victory Brings High Hopes For Disability Community

If Biden is serious about his support for the Disabled, he’ll reverse this!