President Donald Trump has ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to begin rounding up approximately 2,000 undocumented immigrants in ten major US cities today. The targeted immigrants are mainly those who missed a court date as part of their processing.
The raids, which had originally been scheduled to occur three weeks ago, were postponed by Trump as a negotiation tactic so Democrats, led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, could save face before signing on to a $4.6 billion immigration bill on June 27 which will reduce aid to migrant children suffering in inhumane border shelters and secure more funding for the same reactionary agencies like ICE that brutalize, deport, and oppress the undocumented immigrant masses. The Democrats safeguarded their reputation with the postponement and some other minor concessions but in the end joined in giving the green light to increase the capacity of anti-immigrant government agencies.
The part of the bill dedicated to humanitarian aid serves to make the larger goal of the bill more palatable: to give more weapons and resources to those who stalk, arrest, terrorize, deport, and kill the undocumented immigrant masses. Nearly a third of the approved funds will go to the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees both ICE and the border patrol.
The bill is just one of the many reforms in the long line of struggle of the undocumented immigrant masses. Like the others, it doesn’t fundamentally change the conditions that brought them to this country. In fact, the continued oppression and terrorizing of the Latin American nations where many immigrants come from will be intensified after Trump signs this bill.
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On July 12, 2019, the movement of the Black Vests stormed the Pantheon of Paris, a location with a strong symbolism because it represents the heart of the Republic. The spaces were occupied by upwards of 700 Black Vests. Chants, speeches, and slogans rang out in the Pantheon. “What do we want? Papers! For whom? For all!” In response, the police showed up to evacuate the spaces. The migrants were pressured to leave the Pantheon but refused to be dispersed by the police in order to avoid arrests. People yelled the chant, “We stay all together, no one will separate us.” The Black Vests are calling for an audience with Edouard Philippe to pass their demands. No response has come yet from the Prime Minister who spent his year violently repressing social movements. However, the police did not charge the migrants, not many arrests have been reported for the moment, and inside the Pantheon the cops did not show violence. The state clearly fears the masses joining the Black Vest movement and is avoiding instigating a larger mobilization.
On May 19, 2019 the movement also launched a massive occupation of the Charles-de-Gaulle Airport with the same demands. Again the chosen location had an enormous symbolism because it’s the airport where people board the plane to be deported.
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NEW YORK: Banker and Child Predator Epstein Faces New Charges
By Cassie Moran
Billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was arrested Saturday for the second time on charges of sex trafficking involving underage girls. In court on Monday, he pled not guilty to abusing dozens of girls as young as fourteen at his homes in New York City and Palm Beach between 2002 and 2005, despite taking a sweetheart plea deal in 2007 on the same charge.
As a hedge fund manager and philanthropist, Epstein moves in the highest circles of the ruling class, even once as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, chief decision-makers of US imperialism.
Epstein’s enormous wealth includes a ranch in New Mexico, mansions in Palm Beach and Manhattan, a private island in the Caribbean, sixteen cars, two private jets, and an unspecified number of yachts. Property on this scale means that Epstein had the space and resources to perpetrate his crimes away from anyone who might interfere with his exploitation of young women.
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CHICAGO: Police Tase and Pepper Spray Man for Recording Them
By Kim Hyung-Sang
Over the Fourth of July weekend, Chicago police attacked and arrested a man who was recording a traffic stop at a Mobil gas station at 2801 S. Pulaski Rd.
Angel Ramirez, his wife Anna Morentin, and their children were at the gas station when police started to pull passengers out of another car and search them. In a video posted by Morentin on Facebook, a woman passenger is seen yelling at the officers that she had just gotten out of the hospital and that she had proof she can show them, before a police officer begins to handcuff her. In response, Ramirez started to record the incident several feet away with his phone.
After handcuffing the woman, the officer moved towards Ramirez and ordered him to back up, pushing him in the process. Ramirez told the officer twice not to touch him, still recording. That was when the officer started to grab at Ramirez’s phone. Another police officer joined in, asking Ramirez, “Hey, you’re gonna be resistant?” before several other officers from the 10th District began to arrest Ramirez.
As Ramirez yelled at them not to touch him, officers tased him at least twice. His children in the car started to scream and cry. In the video recorded by Morentin from inside the car, Ramirez is heard saying that he was not only tased four times, but that he was pepper sprayed and that his face was burning.
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Ethiopian Jews Riot Against Police Killing of Unarmed Teen
By Jennifer Kelly
The settler-colonial state of Israel has been wracked by protests and riots following the police murder of a teenage Ethiopian Jew named Solomon Tekah. On Sunday June 30, he was killed after supposedly throwing stones at the officer who attempted to break up a fight between him and another teen – an account which witnesses dispute.
This kind of state violence is commonplace in Israel, which was established in 1948 in the interests of imperialism, mainly US imperialism, and has since escalated its oppression of the Palestinian people who continue to fight back and resist the occupation.
Following Tekah’s murder, Ethiopian Jews rioted in the thousands, burning cars and tires and overturning police vehicles, throwing stones and Molotov cocktails, and shutting down roads. Over a hundred officers have been injured in the riots, and nearly two hundred protesters have been arrested, many of whom were denied medical treatment and legal representation.
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BRAZIL: Latifundio and Military Police Steal Land, Peasants Retaliate
By Jakob Stein
The past several weeks have shown both the villainous actions of the latifundio and police as well as the heroic struggle of the peasants in the Brazilian countryside. The Bolsonaro government has instituted a new wave of land reintegration against peasants who have fought to transform fallow lands, previously owned by large corporations and abusive landlords, into productive farms and communities as part of the agrarian revolution in the country.
On July 9 in northern Minas Gerais, in the municipality of Miravânia, a major operation involving more than one hundred military police ended with the seizing of land and destruction of family homes in the Olaria Barra do Mirador Community. Armed military police threatened peasants into signing agreements that legalized the theft of their land, financed and orchestrated by Walter Arantes... The families of the Olaria Barra do Mirador Community, supported by the League of Poor Peasants (LCP) of the North of Minas and South of Bahia, have occupied nineteen previously unproductive lands. The Defense Committee of the Families of Olaria Barra do Mirador stated, “If anyone intends to commit this crime against families, he will provoke the daylight and have no peace in his life! We are not alone in this fight!” ...On July 2, in the Barrolândia district in southern Bahia, peasants who had been previously forced out of their land on behalf of the multinational corporation Veracel Celulose, fought back against the armed “private security firm” GPS. The armed paramilitary, known for repeated acts of aggression and intimidation against the peasant families who occupied the region, tried to force families who were camped by the road out of the area, but were met with sticks, machetes, and scythes. The encounter ended with GPS abandoning the area with one “security” officer injured, and six of their cars set ablaze.
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