Category Archives: Anti-ICE

BREAKING: National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman pens a moving poem in the wake of the tragic ICE killing of innocent Minneapolis mother Renée Good.
Gorman is perhaps best known for writing and delivering her poem “The Hill We Climb” at President Joe Biden’s inauguration. Now, her words come to us as our country is torn apart by MAGA fascism…

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California’s Economy Getting Hit By Immigration Raids

A June report from the Bay Area Council Economic Institute found that, based on their wage contributions to the economy alone, undocumented workers generate nearly 5% of California’s gross domestic product. That proportion rises to 9% when ripple effects of their labor are added.
With 2.28 million undocumented immigrants living in California, they represent 8% of workers in the state. And the population has deep roots, with nearly two-thirds having lived in the state for over a decade. Their total contribution in local, state and federal taxes is $23 billion annually, according to the Bay Area Council Economic Institute.

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