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DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2025-06-12 · 21:50 UTC

Sen. #AlexPadilla is forcibly removed from #DHS Secretary #KristiNoem's news conference in #LosAngeles

Noem was in L.A. to address the ongoing demonstrations against President Donald #Trump's #immigration policies.

June 12, 2025, 2:32 PM EDT / Updated June 12, 2025, 2:59 PM EDT
By Rebecca Shabad and Jacob Soboroff

"Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., was forcibly removed from a news conference in Los Angeles on Thursday after trying to question Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem during a press conference related to immigration.

" 'I am Sen. Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary,' Padilla said to Noem, which prompted several men to physically push him out of the room. It was unclear who the men were, as several were dressed in plainclothes.

"Padilla's office shared a video of the incident with NBC News. The video shows Padilla being taken into a hallway outside and pushed face forward onto the ground as officers with FBI-identifying vests told the senator to put his hands behind his back. The officers then handcuffed him.

"President Donald Trump's immigration policies — and the administration's handling of demonstrations against those policies — have sparked an outcry in recent days. After protesters clashed with officers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Los Angeles on Friday, the president deployed members of the National Guard, and later Marines, to assist local law enforcement. Dozens of demonstrations have taken place across the country in the days that followed.

"Speaking to reporters later Thursday, Padilla said he was receiving a briefing from military officials when he learned Noem was in the same building and decided to join her briefing.

" 'I was there peacefully,' he said. 'At one point, I had a question, and so I began to ask a question. I was almost immediately forcibly removed from the room, I was forced to the ground, and I was handcuffed.'

"He added, 'If this is how this administration responds to a senator with a question, if this is how the Department of Homeland Security responds to a senator with a question, you can only imagine what they’re doing to #FarmWorkers, to #cooks, to #DayLaborers out in the #LosAngeles community and throughout #California and throughout the country.' "

#ICERaids #ImmigrationCrackdown #Authoritarianism #AuthoritarianRule #ResistICE #USPol #ICERaids #TrumpIsANazi #ThisIsFascism #Project2025

#kristinoem #losangeles #trump #immigration #farmworkers #cooks

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2025-06-12 · 21:32 UTC

#Florida considers easing #ChildLabor laws after pushing out #immigrants

A new law under consideration in the state Legislature would roll back child labor laws to make up for a dwindling labor pool.

By Ja'han Jones
March 27, 2025, 12:15 PM EDT

"As Florida officials enable Trump’s #MassDeportation policies, lawmakers in the state are looking to children to take on some of the jobs that have typically been done by immigrants.

"Making its way through the state Senate is a new law, Senate Bill 918, that aims to loosen child labor laws and allow teenagers to work overnight shifts.

"As CNN reported: 'The state’s legislature on Tuesday advanced a bill that would loosen child labor laws, allowing children as young as 14 years old to work overnight shifts. If the new law is passed, teenagers would be able to work overnight jobs on school days. They are currently prevented from working earlier than 6:30 am or later than 11 pm per state law.'

"#SB918 also 'includes a number of changes including eliminating working time restrictions on teenagers aged 14 and 15 if they are home-schooled and ending guaranteed meal breaks for 16 and 17 year olds,' CNN reported.

"Florida Gov. #RonDeSantis backs the law and has defended the idea of teenagers and college students working these jobs. DeSantis also explicitly linked the effort to the loss of immigrant labor. Speaking about the consequences of state verification laws at an event with border czar #TomHoman, the governor said, 'Yes, we had people that left because of those rules, but you’ve also been able to hire other people. And what’s wrong with expecting our young people to be working part-time now?'

"In recent years, several states — many of them led by #Republican governors — have rolled back child labor laws. This map from the Economic Policy Institute illustrates the spike in states rolling back these laws from 2021 to 2024. Back in 2023, for example, #Arkansas Gov. #SarahHuckabeeSanders signed a bill that made it easier for companies to hire children without getting consent from their parents. One month earlier, The New York Times published a bombshell report about the exploitation of immigrant children in #factories operated by some of the most well-known companies in the U.S.

"That story should have spurred a nationwide push to strengthen child labor laws. Instead, states like Florida are going in the opposite direction, weakening such laws in part to deal with the fallout from the conservative movement’s demonization of immigrants. They’re essentially using child labor to paper over the gaps left by their draconian immigration policies.

"#Project2025, the far-right playbook for Trump’s second term, specifically calls for rolling back #HazardRegulations around child labor. The text claims, 'Some young adults show an interest in inherently dangerous jobs' and argues that 'with parental consent and proper training, certain young adults should be allowed to learn and work in more dangerous occupations.'

"Even as child labor laws are being rolled back, the Trump administration is working to gut social services, including funds that help provide school lunches to children and programs, like the supplemental nutrition assistance program, that help feed poor families. And if those cuts stay in place, they may leave American families with few alternatives to sending their children to work to keep food on the table."

Source:
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/florida-child-labor-law-sb-918-rcna198275

#DeSantis #DeSatan #SNAPCuts #ResistICE #Authoritarianism #USPol #MedicaidCuts #TrumpIsANazi #AuthoritarianRule
#ThisIsFascism #ImmigrantsFeedUs #ImmigrationCrackdown

#uspol #florida #childlabor #immigrants #massdeportation #sb918

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2025-06-12 · 21:08 UTC

And who will work in the fields? Children?Folks who have just lost #FoodAssistance and #Medicare?#Protestors who piss off Trump?

#Trump’s Immigration #Crackdown Hits #CaliforniaFarms

#Farmworkers hid in fields on Tuesday as word spread that ICE agents were conducting raids in California’s breadbasket, an activist said.

By Bernard Mokam and Pooja Salhotra
June 11, 2025, 9:08 p.m. ET

Excerpt: " 'The #Trump administration is ramping up its immigration crackdown, with a focus on workplaces with undocumented #laborers, such as #farms, #restaurants and #construction sites. Estimates show more than eight million undocumented #immigrants work in the United States.

"Last Friday, federal immigration agents swept through the garment district of Los Angeles, setting off protests that have rattled sections of downtown L.A. and have spread to a number of cities across the country.

"For #farmworkers — about 42 percent of whom are undocumented, according to the Agriculture Department — the escalation in arrests has created widespread fear.

" 'Children are terrified,' Ms. Romero said. 'They don’t want to go to school because they don’t know if their parents will be home when they come back.'

"Local leaders have rebuked the escalation, which could bring hardship to one of California’s agricultural corridors. The #CentralValley — which grows #almonds, #grapes, #walnuts and #cherries, among other crops — produces a quarter of the nation’s food, worth an estimated $17 billion a year, according to federal data.

" 'These actions are completely unjustified and harmful,' said Mayor Luis McArthur of Oxnard. 'They create chaos in our city without contributing much to public safety. Furthermore these actions undermine the very principles of #DueProcess.'

"The raids this week represent the first organized immigration enforcement from the new Trump administration to hit California’s agricultural region, which covers about 40 percent of the state, Ms. Romero said. A handful of federal operations have been conducted in other rural communities in recent weeks. Last month, federal agents pulled over a bus in #AlbionN., and detained 14 immigrants who worked at a nearby farm. In April, three children and their mother were detained at an upstate New York dairy.

"Rural migrants are particularly vulnerable to immigration enforcement because they stand out in towns that are often racially homogenous, said Will Lambek of Migrant Justice, an advocacy organization for farmworkers in #Vermont, where eight dairy workers were detained in April.

"In California, Ms. Davalos said the agents could have made more arrests had the community been less prepared. Once a volunteer spotted officers in the area, an alert was sent through a network of support.

"Federal agents were denied entry to at least nine farms in the Central Coast, Ms. Davalos said. Some growers parked their vehicles in front of their gates. Employees also obscured their cars.
'We demonstrated the power of brave, nonviolent #resistance to #ICE’s tactics of #terror,' Ms. Davalos said, lamenting what she described as politically driven attempts to reach a deportation quota. 'At the end of the day, they’re seizing our family, friends, neighbors and co-workers.'

"If federal immigration enforcement activities continue, #FoodProduction will become increasingly difficult, and food prices could rise, warned Bryan Little, senior director of policy advocacy at the California Farm Bureau."

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/NFWuO

#ResistICE #Authoritarianism #ImmigrationCrackdown #ICERaids #TrumpIsANazi #AuthoritarianRule #ImmigrantsFeedUs #NoHumanIsIllegalOnStolenLand #HungerGames #EatTheRich #ThisIsFascism #Project2025

#foodassistance #medicare #trump #crackdown #californiafarms #farmworkers

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2025-02-04 · 00:12 UTC

#PresidentElonMusk says he and #Trump are shutting down #USAID

Musk announced the planned closure of the foreign assistance agency early Monday on social media.

by David Ingraham, February 3, 2025

"Tech billionaire [and self-appointed President] Elon Musk said Monday that he and President [in name only] Donald Trump were in the process of shutting down the U.S. Agency for International Development, escalating their war on the federal bureaucracy and defying the constitutional power of Congress to determine how money is spent."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/elon-musk-says-trump-are-shutting-usaid-rcna190388?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
#TechBroFascism #USPol #GlobalPol #AuthoritarianRule #authoritarianism #fascism

#presidentelonmusk #trump #usaid #techbrofascism #uspol #globalpol

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2025-02-04 · 00:12 UTC

#PresidentElonMusk says he and #Trump are shutting down #USAID

Musk announced the planned closure of the foreign assistance agency early Monday on social media.

by David Ingraham, February 3, 2025

"Tech billionaire [and self-appointed President] Elon Musk said Monday that he and President [in name only] Donald Trump were in the process of shutting down the U.S. Agency for International Development, escalating their war on the federal bureaucracy and defying the constitutional power of Congress to determine how money is spent."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/elon-musk-says-trump-are-shutting-usaid-rcna190388?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
#TechBroFascism #USPol #GlobalPol #AuthoritarianRule #authoritarianism #fascism

#presidentelonmusk #trump #usaid #techbrofascism #uspol #globalpol

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2025-02-04 · 00:12 UTC

#PresidentElonMusk says he and #Trump are shutting down #USAID

Musk announced the planned closure of the foreign assistance agency early Monday on social media.

by David Ingraham, February 3, 2025

"Tech billionaire [and self-appointed President] Elon Musk said Monday that he and President [in name only] Donald Trump were in the process of shutting down the U.S. Agency for International Development, escalating their war on the federal bureaucracy and defying the constitutional power of Congress to determine how money is spent."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/elon-musk-says-trump-are-shutting-usaid-rcna190388?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
#TechBroFascism #USPol #GlobalPol #AuthoritarianRule #authoritarianism #fascism

#presidentelonmusk #trump #usaid #techbrofascism #uspol #globalpol

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2025-02-04 · 00:12 UTC

#PresidentElonMusk says he and #Trump are shutting down #USAID

Musk announced the planned closure of the foreign assistance agency early Monday on social media.

by David Ingraham, February 3, 2025

"Tech billionaire [and self-appointed President] Elon Musk said Monday that he and President [in name only] Donald Trump were in the process of shutting down the U.S. Agency for International Development, escalating their war on the federal bureaucracy and defying the constitutional power of Congress to determine how money is spent."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/elon-musk-says-trump-are-shutting-usaid-rcna190388?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
#TechBroFascism #USPol #GlobalPol #AuthoritarianRule #authoritarianism #fascism

#fascism #authoritarianism #authoritarianrule #globalpol #uspol #techbrofascism

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2025-02-04 · 00:12 UTC

#PresidentElonMusk says he and #Trump are shutting down #USAID

Musk announced the planned closure of the foreign assistance agency early Monday on social media.

by David Ingraham, February 3, 2025

"Tech billionaire [and self-appointed President] Elon Musk said Monday that he and President [in name only] Donald Trump were in the process of shutting down the U.S. Agency for International Development, escalating their war on the federal bureaucracy and defying the constitutional power of Congress to determine how money is spent."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/elon-musk-says-trump-are-shutting-usaid-rcna190388?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
#TechBroFascism #USPol #GlobalPol #AuthoritarianRule #authoritarianism #fascism