"#DHS and #DOJ⚡cannot cateogrically shut out the public from immigration court proceedings in most instances, a New York-based judge ruled Monday.

They also⚡can't prevent observers from quietly communicating about legal/religious support, she says."
-K Cheney
#1A #FreeSpeech #Immigrants #USPol
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.659752/gov.uscourts.nysd.659752.62.0.pdf

Dying on the doorsteps of the wealthy

There is something deeply broken in America when a truth like this is revealed. No doubt there are many other similar tragedies similar to that of Francisco Camey

Many American’s abhor undocumented labor while others take advantage of it. How these groups overlap is likely unknown but I expect there is a certain amount of intersection - a cruelty of Darwinian convenience

#immigrants #migrants

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/21/realestate/where-billionaires-summer-a-gardener-died-in-the-snow.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sFA.gxXY.U7KO6PoO8xfM&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Rep Haridopolos:🚨"The#1 reason why we've these higher #housing costs IMO is you'd 10M ppl coming here illegally over 4 yrs. You'd too many ppl demanding housing."
-A Rupar

"Nonsense.🚨1st, the 10M# is wrong: it’s Ms too high.➕many migrants moved in with ppl already here (so didn't need new housing).

2nd, we know why housing spiked:🚨COVID! The spike began months BEFORE the huge rise in migrants entering."
-A R-Melnick

Egregious #lies from Trump's R allies➡️ blaming IMMs‼️
#DHS #Immigrants #USPol

"#USCIS🚨is proposing to increase the cost to green card holders of becoming a US citizen by $570, & wants to eliminate existing fee waivers for certain low-income #immigrants.

The Trump admin🚨says it no longer believes in encouraging naturalization with low-cost options."
-A R-Melnick

Only the wealthy are served by the #TrumpRegime. Vulnerable ppl, esp IMMs (the poor, those the fed govt "made illegal"...): suffering under Trump's #ReignOfTerror: #ICE #DeathCamps, #deportations...
#DHS #USPol

#PortlandOR - #GrowPortland #CommunityGardens

"From 2010 - 2018, Grow Portland transformed underused land throughout Portland into thriving gardens. We built or sponsored multiple gardens that help people grow healthy food for their families and communities. Our work focused in East Portland, the most ethnically diverse and lowest income area of our city.

"Grow Portland led the successful expansion of #CommunityGarden access for #refugees and #immigrants, creating important healing spaces for families recovering from trauma and displacement. Our organization is now focused on school garden education through our #GardenSchool program where we partner with regional schools. Community gardens are managed by our partners, the City of Portland Community Gardens Program and nonprofit, Outgrowing Hunger who can help interested gardeners enroll in a plot in these gardens.

"Our community gardens work started at the height of the financial crisis when our region faced a huge waiting list for community garden plots. Grow Portland built and sponsored ten gardens throughout Portland, helping more than 5,000 new gardeners access land and resources— more than two-thirds of these gardeners are low income, refugees, immigrants and/or people of color."

FMI and garden locations:
https://www.growportland.org/community-gardens

#SolarPunkSunday #Oregon #FoodSecurity #BuildingCommunity #SchoolGardens #YouthInAgriculture #GrowYourOwn

Comes after a year in which #MarcoRubio has used his power as secretary of state🚨to🎯individual #immigrants. In previous memos, he has recommended specific individuals be deported by #DHS, arguing that their continued presence in the🚨US undermined foreign policy.

The latest memo appears to be the 1st time Rubio🚨has used this authority to recommend the #deportation of an activist rlt to a foreign election.

#Colombia #ElectionInterference #Fascism #Retribution #1A #USPol
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/us/rubio-beto-coral-colombia.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

#WorldRefugeesDay

We arrived in Canada, as war refugees seeking asylum, in the depths of Winter, 1979. Just most of Dad's side of the family made it to Canada. Mom's villager family was trapped & couldn't get out; they're still in Vietnam.
Both my matriarch & patriarch Grandparents were war refugees from the Indochina wartimes - in both Vietnam & China. Our family members had to flee from more than one war & resettle, multiple times over several generations. We know how to survive & rebuild our lives, over & over again.

I support all fellow past & present refugees struggles for basic human rights, dignity & creating a good life for themselves/their families. I am against wars & greed-filled inhumanity - like most war refugee survivors.

“In a country where possessions counted for everything, we had no belongings except our stories.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Refugees

#AsianMastodon #WarDiaspora #refugees #immigrants #GlobalSouth #TootSEA #WarSurvivorsForPeace #SupportRefugees