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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • It doesn’t sound radically different (like, local police patrolling the streets for ICE). But the difference I see is proactive organization at the city/state government level, helping grassroots organizations.

    Ponce de León shared strategies Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration has used to push back, like lawsuits, executive orders and close collaboration with community groups.

    At the online meetings Ravindran helps organize, other cities are getting everything from advice on how to fight for more legal protection funds in budgets to tweakable scheduling documents for volunteer patrols outside schools.



  • he plans to sell everything – the soap, the building, their home and most of their belongings. He has already started the paperwork he hopes will allow France to recognize their marriage and extend to him a long-term visa.

    Driving away great people.

    Other people who are not white and have fled persecution in their home countries are in a much more difficult situation, the men and their friends acknowledge. Those undocumented immigrants do not have friends with the governor’s office in their contacts. They cannot reach a member of the state Senate so easily. They do not have the money for a lawyer or a quick flight to France.

    They also cannot risk telling their story. That’s why Rick and Jeremy will keep telling theirs.