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Immigrants Swept Up in Mississippi Raids Face Courts That Deport Most Defendants Mike Ludwig, Truthout The immigrant workers swept up in last week's mass raids at meatpacking plants in Mississippi will likely appear in the already backlogged immigration courts in Louisiana and Tennessee. This year, cases in New Orleans and Memphis have resulted in deportation orders against 93 percent and 89 percent of the defendants, respectively. Meanwhile, waves of hunger strikes have swept through jails in the region as immigrants protest their indefinite detention in isolated facilities.
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Extreme Inequality Is Driving Anxiety and Depression in the U.S. Robert Raymond, Truthout The country's growing mental health crisis isn't only caused by genetically predetermined chemical imbalances in the brain, but also by the social, economic, and political issues that are driving depression, anxiety and stress, research shows. As social relationships become more fraught with status concerns, especially in countries like the U.S. and U.K. with extreme inequality, studies show that individuals at all income levels experience chronic anxiety leading to depression.
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Documents Show FBI Targeted Ferguson Black Activists Over White Supremacists Igor Derysh, Salon The FBI ranked Black nationalists and animal rights activists as bigger threats to national security than white supremacists and terror groups like al-Qaeda among its official counterterrorism priorities, according to a leaked copy of the agency's official Consolidated Strategy Guide. Despite the rise in white supremacist violence, the FBI predicted in its 2018 guide that the threat posed by white supremacists would only decline.
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Brexit Is Not the Holy Grail Its Supporters Are Imagining Sasha Abramsky, Truthout For the U.K.'s Conservative Party, Brexit has become a romantic quest for something that would instantly turn Britain into an economic and political powerhouse. In reality, should Prime Minister Boris Johnson actually deliver Brexit by November 1, as promised -- with no deal or a poor deal -- it will likely prove calamitous for the U.K.'s economy, as well as its citizens living and working in the EU.
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Stacey Abrams Applauded for Fair Fight 2020 Initiative Against Voter Suppression Jake Johnson, Common Dreams After experiencing firsthand how voter suppression impacts elections in her narrowly unsuccessful Georgia gubernatorial race against Republican Brian Kemp, Stacey Abrams launched an initiative aimed at bolstering voter protections nationwide ahead of the 2020 elections. The initiative, Fair Fight 2020, will ensure voters in battleground states across the country are protected from sneaky and unlawful suppression tactics as they head to the ballot box next year.
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"Give Us Your Rich": Trump Is Changing Wholesale Who Gets Into U.S. Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! This week, acting Director of Citizenship and Immigration Services Ken Cuccinelli attempted to rewrite the poem inscribed on the Statue of Liberty to make a case for limiting immigration to the United States. Cuccinelli's comments come amid recent moves by the Trump administration to thwart immigration and target immigrants already in the U.S.
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The Government Relies on False "Evidence" Against Migrants Melissa del Bosque, ProPublica After the Trump administration was forced by the courts to rescind its "zero tolerance" immigration policies, it discovered new ways to quietly continue them. A new U.S. State Department gang intelligence-gathering initiative that was established in El Salvador in 2017 is responsible for providing false evidence that allows the administration to continue to systematically separate hundreds of families and to deport asylum seekers.
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How States Can Better Care for Direct Care Workers Negin Owliaei, Inequality.org Direct care jobs, like home health and personal care jobs, are predicted to be among the fastest-growing occupations over the next few years. However, the quality of these jobs in no way reflects their importance or the growing need for these workers. A new report offers some recommendations for state policy makers looking to strengthen the backbone of the care economy: the direct care workers themselves.
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Puerto Rican Resistance Began Long Before Rosselló Yulissa Arce, Truthout The uprising that overthrew Puerto Rico's Gov. Ricardo Rosselló was not a spontaneous and unique event but the culmination of decades of grassroots organizing and resistance by a people fed up with being the U.S.'s colonial experiment. The leaked social media texts that sparked the uprising are a revelation of the injustices and corruption foisted on Puerto Rico through decades of austerity, neglect and violence by the U.S.
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We Ignore Thousands of Threatened Plant Species at Our Own Peril Lorraine Chow, Truthout We take plants for granted because they are all around us, but more than 20 percent of the world's known plant species are threatened with extinction. Agriculture, resource extraction, invasive species and climate change are causing plant species to disappear rapidly. This doesn't bode well for our own survival. It's time to urge our elected representatives to protect plants with a stronger Endangered Species Act.
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