#anti-immigrant

Anti-immigrant prejudice in the 1920s: on January 5, 1920, Federal agents raided the offices and workroom of the Laisve, a Lithuanian daily newspaper, at 455 Grand Ave. in Brooklyn. The periodical, printed by the Lithuanian Co-Operative Public Society, was said to be radical in its policies and publishing.

Yesterday, in one of the busiest streets in Dublin, Ireland, a man stabbed 3 children, a woman and another man. A woman and a man disarmed him and the perpetrator was then beaten. He was arrested and then shortly taken to be treated for his wounds.

The victims were treated for their injuries, the worst of the injuries was a 5 year old girl who spent the night in the intensive care unit.

The man was verified to be Algerian, and despite having lived in Ireland for the past 20 years is being flagged as "an irish attacking immigrant." (these facts have been passed through grapevines and articles, if someone has more accurate facts I'm more than happy to change this post).

This then led to riots against immigrants taking place in city centre. For context, the anti immigrant riots have slowly escalated. 3 years ago, there were monthly protests. 1 year ago, there were weekly protests.

Yesterday, busses, trains and cars were burnt.

Stores were looted.

Hotels/Camps where refugees were staying were attacked.

Police were assaulted.

Students were forced to take shelter in their friends homes or in college for the entire night.

Today, there have been rumors of these same anti-immigrant groups attacking bus/train stops in order to, and I quote: "Kill all immigrants, just kill 'em all."

Tomorrow, there is a protest planned in city centre against all immigrants in city centre.

These highly organized and well funded voices crowd out constituent voices, and that needs to stop because it's led to all sorts of nonsensical losing campaign ad strategies and irrational policy decisions that both insult and materially harm people.

Who are these dipshit wonks who fell for the polling that legal immigration is unpopular or that most people dislike immigrants, based basically on a lot of silly polling that asked right-wing framed questions? Some of this polling would just ask vague questions or straight up "Do you want foreigners taking your job & completely open borders or no?" They never asked "Do you want people who immigrated 'the right way' stripped of their legal status?" Politicians need to start hearing specifics from their constituents, and we need to crowd out these political consultants and lobbyists.

My letter to reps:

I don't think immigrants who did all the right paperwork the right way should be stripped of their legal status just to meet some arbitrary quota of deportations because someone over-promised the amount of migrant workers that could be found to have committed crimes. It's not even fair to the ICE workers. And it's really unfair to people following the rules like my ancestors.

Please feel free to copy or repurpose for your own letters to reps.

My grandfather was an immigrant from Poland.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has issued a ban on admissibility for lawful permanent resident status for anyone who has been affiliated with a Communist Party. 

This is an anti-communist immigration ban targeting China and other socialist rivals to the U.S. empire. This is far from the first time that the U.S. has weaponized immigration policy for the sake of anti-communism. And yet we wonder why the Chinese diaspora is dominated by anti-communist voices ready to serve as mouthpieces for U.S. empire.  

https://www.uscis.gov/.../20201002-PartyMembership.pdf