Sixty years ago on Oct. 3, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Hart-Celler immigration reform act into law. LBJ’s signature ended 40 years of race-based National Origins policy that favored bringing White northern European immigrants to America and restricting immigrants from less-desirable places in Europe, plus additional roadblocks for entry of people from Asia, Latin America, and Africa.
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The sinking of a boat allegedly carrying drugs from Venezuela has turned out to have ominous political and military implications. President Trump has taken the entirely illegal (and irrational) step of authorizing the US military to issue shoot-to-kill orders against suspected drug smugglers.
It’s time, it’s time, it’s time to dump Trump! It’s time to dump Trump and all Republicans, and other elected officials, who support the President’s illegal, immoral, and devilish political objectives.
Once again this misogynistic racist seizes an opportunity to silence a strong Black woman. Strong Black women have long been a thorn in the side of Donald Trump because has no respect for Black folks of any kind.
America’s democracy is sick. It suffers from political cancers that eat away at its strength, spread through its institutions, and weaken its ability to survive. Regrettably, these cancers are generated from within by political idealogues wanting a government based on authoritarianism, retribution, and conservative principles. Democrats prefer a government founded on people sovereignty, human rights, free/fair elections, and leaders’ accountability. If untreated, these cancers will destroy the nation from within.
According to a September 3, 2025 article in the Guardian, during June and August, U.S. immigration authorities deported approximately 80 Russian asylum seekers, shackled and handcuffed, to Egypt. Upon arrival, they were forced by Egyptian and Russian authorities onto ICE planes heading for Moscow, where they were immediately turned over to the FSB (the dreaded Russian Federal Security Service).
Chicago’s Streets Still Moving to America’s Historic Rhythms
We can’t make America great Again, until Americans are safe Again!
Our journey beyond the god of violence
Yet the Trump administration has demanded outrageous sums from universities that champion liberal education…Columbia – 200 million; Harvard – 500 million; the University of California – one billion. They excuse their meddling by claiming that these universities support antisemitism. But protesting a war that has a civilian casualty rate of 83% is not antisemitism.