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Federal court halts Trump’s immigration ban

1/28/17 at about 8:45 EST:  Per Dale Hoe, Director, ACLU Voting Rights Project

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updated to add:  from The New Civi Rights Movement

A federal judge in New York on Saturday evening issued a nationwide order blocking the deportation of people detained in the U.S. under President Donald Trump’s immigration and refugee ban.

U.S. District Judge Ann Donnelly, an Obama nominee who took the bench in 2015, issued the ruling in response to a lawsuit brought by the ACLU, the National Immigration Law Center and other groups on behalf of two Iraqi men detained at JFK Airport earlier Saturday.

Both men had U.S. Visas and were in the air when Trump signed the order Friday, which blocked people from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the country for 90 days. The order also halted the U.S. refugee program for 120 days, and indefinitely suspended the intake of refugees from Syria.

Initial reports on Twitter indicated that the judge’s order applies only to those who were either in transit or had already been detained. That means it won’t necessarily prevent the Trump administration from implementing the ban going forward.

So, it looks like it only includes those who are currently detained or are in the process of traveling to the US.

Federal court halts Trump’s immigration ban

ACLU sues White House over immigration ban

ex0skeletal:

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Saturday sued the Trump administration on behalf of two men who were detained at an airport while traveling back to the U.S. because of President Trump’s immigration crackdown.

Read the full article here.

Many of you aren’t sure what to do to combat this absurd immigration ban. You can start by donating to the ACLU, who also fight for reproductive and LGBT rights, among many other issues. If you can’t afford to donate, please signal boost.

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Cory Booker on Twitter

See the video.

‘For myself,’ said Faramir, ‘I would see the White Tree in flower again in the courts of the kings, and the Silver Crown return, and Minas Tirith in peace: Minas Anor again as of old, full of light, high and fair, beautiful as a queen among other queens: not a mistress of many slaves, nay, not even a kind mistress of willing slaves. War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend: the city of the Men of Númenor; and I would have her loved for her memory, her ancientry, her beauty, and her present wisdom. Not feared, save as men may fear the dignity of a man, old and wise.’

Cory Booker on Twitter

Trump’s Immigration Order Expands the Definition of ‘Criminal’

1/27/17:

In Trump’s EO:

anyone who has “committed acts that constitute a chargeable criminal offense,” meaning anyone the authorities believe has broken any type of law — regardless of whether that person has been charged with a crime….

“fraud or willful misrepresentation in connection with any official matter or application before a governmental agency,” a category that includes anyone who has used a false Social Security number to obtain a job, as many unauthorized immigrants do….

anyone who “in the judgment of an immigration officer” poses a risk to either public safety or national security. That gives immigration officers the broad authority they have been pressing for, and no longer requires them to receive a review from a supervisor before targeting individuals…

so basically anybody.  Whether or not it can be accomplished is another matter:

in order to put the 15,000 additional immigration agents he wants in place around the country and along the border, Mr. Trump needs spending approval from Congress. Even then, additional detention centers would also be needed.

The most significant hurdle is the tremendous backlog in the immigration courts. Even if immigration officials initiated thousands of deportations immediately, court dates for those immigrants would be at least a year and a half away.

Trump’s Immigration Order Expands the Definition of ‘Criminal’

Tax Plan Sows Confusion as Tensions With Mexico Soar

1/27/17, NY Times:

Mr. Trump appeared to embrace a proposal by House Republicans that would impose a 20 percent tax on all imported goods. The White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, told reporters that the proceeds would be used to pay for the border wall…

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But the House plan would offset that revenue by reducing the 35 percent corporate income tax rate, and would thus generate no new federal revenue over all. It was unclear how that fit with Mr. Spicer’s repeated contention Thursday afternoon that revenue from the tax adjustment would help finance construction of the border wall.

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Moreover, the tax would not be paid by Mexico. It would be paid by companies selling Mexican goods in the United States. Some might raise prices, imposing the cost on consumers, while others might be forced by competitive pressures to absorb the tax, reducing their profits. Many economists also doubt that the change would end up penalizing imports or encouraging exports. They predict that the value of the dollar would rise, offsetting those effects.

All a recipe for inflation.

The Federal Reserve will then likely raise interest rates in attempt to keep inflation from getting out of control (which they have expressed the intent to do already).  Raising interest rates reduces economic growth rates (which have already taken a small dip), and as a result unemployment rates climb.  

Ah, the days of stagflation.  I remember you well.     

A key difference between The Great Inflation of the 1970s and now, however, is that wage growth is much lower than it was.  And with the current political climate around the minimum wage, it’s not likely to get any better.

Stagnating wages + increasing unemployment + inflated prices = bad news

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Tax Plan Sows Confusion as Tensions With Mexico Soar

Trump’s flashy executive actions could run aground

larinah:

“President Donald Trump’s team made little effort to consult with federal
agency lawyers or lawmakers as they churned out executive actions this
week, stoking fears the White House is creating the appearance of real
momentum with flawed orders that might be unworkable, unenforceable or
even illegal…

Inside the West Wing, it is almost impossible for some aides to know
what is in the executive orders, staffers say. They have been written by
Stephen Miller, Trump’s senior White House adviser for policy, and
Steve Bannon, Trump’s chief strategist, according to people familiar
with the matter. Ideas for some of the Trump executive orders came from
transition officials and so-called “landing teams,” sources say, who
weren’t working in the White House. “


I don’t know how factual all of this is, but if the idea that Steve Bannon is writing executive orders for Trump to sign with his fancy pens doesn’t terrify you, I don’t know what possibly could.

Trump’s flashy executive actions could run aground

afrogeekgoddess:

nativenews:

Federally recognized Indigenous Nations should brace for possible termination policy under Trump

Whether we like it or not, Saglutupiaġataq is now president of the United States and Republicans control Congress. Federally recognized Alaska Native and American Native Nations should brace for the worst, including the possibility that Congress may move to terminate federally recognized Nations.

The termination era of 1953 to 1968 involved Congress stripping Nations of their lands and criminal jurisdiction. The policy was thinly disguised as an attempt to lift Natives in the States and Alaska Natives out of poverty by assimilating them into mainstream society. However the real goal was to privatize and ransack American Native and Alaska Native lands.

From the American Indian Relief Council:

From 1953-1964 109 tribes were terminated and federal responsibility and jurisdiction was turned over to state governments. Approximately 2,500,000 acres of trust land was removed from protected status and 12,000 Natives lost tribal affiliation. The lands were sold to non-Indians the tribes lost official recognition by the U.S. government….Public Law 280 which was passed in 1953 turned power over to state governments to enforce most of the regular criminal laws on reservations as they were doing in other parts of the state.

Saglutupiaġataq’s administration apparently began mobilizing to pursue the privatization of Indian lands as early as October 2016 with the formation of his 27 member Native American Affairs Coalition. The Coalition is chaired by “Cherokee” pretendian Rep. Markwayne Mullin. Like the termination policy of more than 60 years ago, the Coalition contends that impoverished Native Nations are saddled by federal regulations that stymie self-reliance and prosperity. Tribal lands should be privatized, it argues, so that American Indians can pursue development projects that lift them out of poverty.

Saglutupiaġataq has tapped Montana Rep. Ryan Zinke for secretary of the Interior, the federal agency overseeing the Borough of Indian Affairs. Zinke is a known fraudster with little integrity. Scientific American characterizes Zinke as a “mixed bag” with an anti-environment, pro-industry voting record. It is unlikely that he will be a friend to Indian Country or to Alaska Natives.

Keep reading

“Saglutupiaġataq (“the compulsive liar” in Iñupiatun)”

Source: nativenews