Immigrant Activist to Biden: Close Deportation Cases Now to Take a Weapon Away from Trump

[Uncle Joe]

Arizona voters on Election Day approved a sweeping ballot measure that would allow state and local law enforcement to arrest immigrants suspected of crossing the U.S.-Mexico border outside of ports of entry, while empowering state judges to order deportations. Proposition 314, which creates a series of state crimes targeting immigrants, is modeled after a similar measure in Texas known as S.B. 4 that is currently under review by the U.S. Supreme Court. Only certain portions of Prop 314 are scheduled to go into effect later this month, while the most harmful parts won't be enforced until the Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of the Texas law. The measure has drawn comparisons to Arizona's controversial S.B. 1070, a 2010 law that also gave local police authority to arrest immigrants suspected of being undocumented, though large parts of it were later struck down by the Supreme Court. For more, we speak with Tucson-based activist Alejandra Pablos, who was targeted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement for her activism and has been facing deportation proceedings for years. "People who are speaking out are the first to feel the chills," Pablos says of Trump's looming anti-immigrant crackdown. She urges the Biden administration to do what it can to mitigate the harm, including by closing deportation cases against people like her.

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[Magoo48]

1. Wow.

Doesn’t anyone else on DU admire the tremendous courage of these strong wome?
Or, is lack of response due to the childish old resentment against DN here on DU?
Thousands here still watch MSM and post from sources manipulated and censored by billionaires. Democracy Now is audience supported and independent.
I for one, prefer reading insightful news and hearing from people on the front lines more than seeing one more vid. In the right column With tsf’s face with BOMBSHELL plastered across it only to find out it’s clickbait, and the big news is that Agent Orange shit his pants during a hate rally.