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Democrats Are Claiming Donald Trump Is Lying About Illegal Migrants Drawing Social Security Benefits Here’s a Town Hall held in Chicago by US Rep Jonathan Jackson confirming illegals are being put on Social Security “They come into this country and get a stipend, link, a free roaming board, free child care, and some of them are getting Social Security, and when my ancestors were released from slavery, they got their clothes on their back. But yet, they were told to be happy. So why am I and everyone in this country footing the bill for people who are non-Americans, who don't vote? ‌ Who don't fight in any of our wars, who've never paid a tax. And we're told that if we say anything, we're xenophobic. Tell me why. Tell us all why. I wanna know. I think it's wrong. I mean, it shouldn't happen, but this is a U.S. immigration. Transparency, that's my brother. That's my brother. We disagree, but that's my brother. I just wanna say anyway, what the sister said, I don't give a damn about no Joe Biden. So... ‌ If that lady wanna pass out something about that, that's her free will. Y'all can't be forcing democracy on people. She got the right, just like you got the right to say vote for Joe Biden. I got the right as somebody who represent formerly incarcerated person to say Joe Biden and Clinton 94 crime bill created that and we haven't recovered from that. ‌ The only asylum seekers that's perpetually discriminated against in this country by everybody is formerly incarcerated people. They have 18,000 homeless ex-cons, yet they're around here talking about public safety. You don't even know where these men are. Then you let more ex-convicts in here in the name of migrants. But they want to tell you... ‌ That is the low, this own the state, its own, its own, uh, the, the, I mean the Republicans, all politicians local. Every in this state don't let them fool you. From the top, from, from the Lieutenant Governor, to Tony Pratt Winkle, to the Mayor, to the Police Chief, to the State's Attorney, to, to the Aldermen, to the Congress person, to the state reps, all are black. ‌ You got 150 elected black positions and our communities look the way they look. And if I say something, if I say something, if it's not with my brother, he just got there. They want to legislate for us without ever bringing us at the table. I did 21 years in the prison. What they gonna tell me about what we need? ‌ They ain't never spend one day in the cell but they legislate for your nephew, cousin, and son. Furthermore, ain't no kids in here. Ain't no teenagers in here. Over 150 murdered young men from ages 16 to 24, and ain't no kids in here? That's the problem. You old people, y'all keep voting the same way, hook, line, and sinker, without ever holding them account. And the very babies go kill y'all ass. ‌ These kids are little wolves. Hey, ain't nothing that's nobody saying no more important than this. Hey, hey, wrap your ass. Ain't nothing nobody's saying more important than this. I'm tired of y'all playing games with these babies. These babies gonna start driving y'all, but they already doing it. They gonna kill you. I think y'all getting hijacked now. 60% unemployment rate for 18 to 24 and you got money for migrants?”

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DENVER — In what could be a national trend, racist, anti-Kamala Harris signs popped up Thursday near multiple bus stops along Colfax Avenue in Denver and in at least one other state.

“I wish I could say I were surprised, but in a year when a Black woman could become POTUS those with hate in their heart are going to coordinate these kinds of atrocious, expensive campaigns to stir division,” Denver City Councilwoman Shontel Lewis said in a statement on X.

The first Denver sign was reported around 5 a.m. by a bus driver at a stop near the intersection of Colfax Avenue and Oneida Street, according to a news release from Denver’s Regional Transportation District.

RTD officials said the metal sign was attached to the bus stop’s pole with rivets and appears to have been installed shortly before it was reported.

Around 8:20 a.m. Thursday, one man in Denver’s Congress Park neighborhood spotted two white women putting up another sign at an RTD bus stop near the intersection of Colfax Avenue and Garfield Street.

“It was one of those things where you know something is out of place, but you don’t know what’s going on,” Congress Park resident Greg Bell said.

Bell said he passed the two women — who were carrying a white stepladder and trash bags he believes were holding the signs — as he made his way into a Sprouts on the corner of the intersection to run a quick errand. His receipt was time-stamped for 8:23 a.m.

As he left the store, Bell said he saw the pair setting up the stepladder in front of the bus stop and one woman climbing onto it while holding a white, metal sign.

When Bell saw photos posted on social media later Thursday morning, he said he immediately recognized the building behind the bus stop sign and realized what the women had been doing.

“This is appalling, illegal and hateful,” Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser wrote in a statement on social media Thursday. “Hate against any of us must be treated as hate against all of us.”

Photos posted by Lewis, the councilwoman, show the signs screwed into the RTD bus stop pole at Colfax Avenue and Garfield Street, outside of National Jewish Health and just west of Colorado Boulevard.

One white sign reads “Blacks must sit at the back of the bus. Kamala’s migrants sit in the front.” Another yellow caution sign on the same pole warns riders of “Kamala’s illegals,” with imagery of people running that is supposed to mimic immigrants crossing the border.

The caution sign is designed after real road signage that used to be posted in California, warning drivers near the San Diego border to watch for migrants running across the freeway. The last of the signs was removed in 2018.

“As a community, we must stand united against hate in all its forms. The recent appearance of racist signs in Denver is deeply troubling and does not reflect the values of our city,” the Denver City Council said in an emailed statement Thursday. “Denver is a place of inclusivity, diversity, and respect, and we will not tolerate messages of division or hate. We stand with all residents in condemning these acts and reaffirm our commitment to building a community where everyone feels safe, valued, and heard.”

As of 10:45 a.m., signs had been found at three RTD bus stops near the intersections of Colfax Avenue and Oneida Street, Colfax Avenue and Yosemite Street and Colfax Avenue and Garfield Street, according to RTD officials.

RTD officials said similar signs had appeared Thursday at Chicago Transit Authority bus stops and that Colorado officials are connecting with other agencies across the county to “assess the magnitude of the coordinated racist activity.”

Shortly before the Legislature ended its property tax-focused special session Thursday, two Denver lawmakers decried the signs from the state House floor, several blocks away from where one of the signs was posted. Several other Democratic lawmakers stood around them, and other legislators stood at their desks, a sign of solidarity in the chamber.

“What I think is important is that we confront our history, and note that if any of us care to say that we have moved forward, that all of us demonstrate that in standing here, undivided, on the declaration that this is hate, and that it’s unacceptable,” said Rep. Jennifer Bacon, a Denver Democrat and the House’s assistant majority leader. “I also want to say that we don’t know who put these up. And so we don’t know who’s part of the problem. We know that we cannot continue to allow people to believe that this is acceptable or allow people to believe that they can grow power from posting signs like this.”

RTD officials are working with the Denver Department of Transportation and the Denver Police Department to remove all the reported signs and investigate each of the incidents, according to a Thursday news release.

“RTD strongly condemns the hateful, discriminatory message portrayed by the signs,” transportation officials wrote in the release. “There is no place for racism or discrimination at RTD or within the communities we serve. The signs do not reflect the organization’s adopted values or promote a welcoming transit environment for all, nor should such vile messaging be tolerated or supported by anyone.”

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On August 3, 1919, several days of racial violence targeting Black communities in Chicago, Illinois, came to an end after intervention by the National Guard. After five days of gunfire, beatings, and burnings, 23 African Americans and 15 white people had been killed, 537 people injured, and 1,000 African American families left homeless.

During the Great Migration, Chicago was a popular destination for many Black people leaving the South in search of economic opportunity and a refuge from racial terror lynching. From 1910 to 1920, the city’s Black population swelled from 44,000 to 109,000 people. The new arrivals joined thousands of white immigrants also relocating to Chicago in search of work. Many Black newcomers settled on Chicago's South Side, in neighborhoods adjacent to communities of European immigrants, close to plentiful industrial jobs. 

Although African American people had fled the Southern brand of racial violence, once in Chicago they still faced racial animosity and discrimination that created challenging living conditions like overcrowded housing, inequality at work, police brutality, and segregation by custom rather than law.

In the second decade of the 20th century, segregation in Chicago was not as legally regulated as in Southern cities, but unwritten rules restricted Black people from many neighborhoods, workplaces, and "public" areas—including beaches. On July 27, 1919, a Black youth named Eugene Williams drowned at a Chicago beach after a white man struck him with a rock for drifting to the “white” side of Lake Michigan. When police refused to arrest the man who had thrown the rock, Black witnesses protested; white mobs responded with widespread violence that lasted five days.

Over that terrifying period, white mobs attacked Black people on sight, set fire to more than 30 properties on Chicago’s South Side, and even attempted to attack Provident Hospital—which served mostly Black patients. Six thousand National Guard troops were called in to quell the unrest, and many Black people left Chicago after the terrifying experience.

Though state officials announced a plan to investigate and punish all parties responsible for violence and destruction of property during the unrest, many more Black people were arrested than white. The subsequent grand jury proceedings resulted in the indictment of primarily Black defendants. Later testifying before a commission investigating the roots of the Chicago violence, the Cook County district attorney admitted this was due to bias in his department of white officers.

"There is no doubt that a great many police officers were grossly unfair in making arrests," he said in 1922. "They shut their eyes to offenses committed by white men while they were very vigorous in getting all the colored men they could get."

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"As we're watching a genocide unfold in Palestine with what looks like full complicity of the United States, we're also witnessing a parallel assault on those rising up to protest this genocide domestically," Diala Shamas, a senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, said during Monday remarks before the Human Rights Committee.

"The public dehumanization of Palestinians at the highest level of US government has led to skyrocketing repression of activism and all expressions of support for Palestine," she added.

Elected officials, including New York City Mayor Eric Adams, have accused Palestinian rights demonstrators of supporting terrorism in a blanket rebuke of protests. There are also increased reports of FBI agents interrogating Palestinians at mosques and immigration officials questioning Palestinians in detention, as well as acts of private violence against people perceived as Palestinian or Muslim.

The dangerous effects of such violent rhetoric are no more apparent than in the case of 6-year-old Wadea Al-Fayoume, who was fatally stabbed 26 times by a neighbor in Chicago in a horrific act of anti-Palestinian hate.

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Cruelty is all the Republicans have left

Thom Hartmann

August 24, 2024 5:55AM ET

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) speaks to members of the press on the steps of the House of Representatives at the U.S. Capitol on May 8, 2024. (Photo by Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

During the 1950s, Republicans were the party that promoted labor unions, Social Security, and a top 91% income tax bracket and 70% estate tax on the morbidly rich. Dwight Eisenhower successfully campaigned on what we’d call a progressive agenda for re-election in 1956.

During the Reagan years, Republicans embraced Milton Friedman’s neoliberalism with its free trade, opposition to unions, ending free college, and tax cuts for the fat cats. They called themselves “the party of new ideas.” They may have done more harm than good, but for most Republicans it was a good-faith effort.

Today, they’ve pretty much given up on all of that. All they have left is cruelty.

When Governor Tim Walz gave his heartwarming acceptance speech Wednesday night here at the DNC in Chicago, his son Gus was caught on camera proudly proclaiming, through tear-streaked eyes, “That’s my dad!”

The response from Trumpy Republicans was immediate: Ann Coulter wrote, “Talk about weird.” Rightwing hate jock Jay Weber posted, “Meet my son, Gus. He’s a blubbering b---- boy. His mother and I are very proud.” Trumpy podcaster Mike Crispi ridiculed Walz’s “stupid crying son,” adding, “You raised your kid to be a puffy beta male. Congrats.” Another well-known podcaster on the right, Alec Lace, said, “Get that kid a tampon already.”

Compassion for a learning-disabled child is dead on the right: all they have left is cruelty.

Ronald Reagan helped shepherd through Congress the most consequential border bill in American history, and when it needed updating Oklahoma’s Republican Senator James Lankford worked with Democrats to update it in a meaningful way. Trump demanded Republicans kill the legislation, invoking the memory of his tearing over 5,500 babies away from their mothers and trafficking them into fly-by-night “adoption” schemes (around 1000 are still missing) and his demand that the border patrol shoot immigrants in the legs.

Trump’s acolytes in Congress don’t even pretend any more to have a border policy: all they have left is cruelty.

Stephen Miller and 16 Republican state attorneys general are suing for the right to tear apart about a half million American families because at least one member of their family has brown skin and is not yet a US citizen.

Their hatred has almost no limit because all they have left is cruelty.

President George HW Bush worked with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to unwind the USSR in the hope of creating a democratic Russia. Neither expected Vladimir Putin to turn that nation into a virtual concentration camp where gays are routinely murdered, child pornography is legal (and they’ve kidnapped over 700,000 Ukrainian children), and dissenters are tortured, poisoned, and sent to brutal Siberian gulags. Donald Trump celebrates Putin, calling his invasion of Ukraine “genius” and “savvy,” handing Putin’s ambassador a western spy and top-secret information in his first month in office, and trying to abandon America’s traditional role as a moral leader in the world.

Trump’s GOP has abandoned our founding principles: all they have left is cruelty.

During the 2020 election, Trump followers tried to run a Biden/Harris campaign bus off the road in Texas, threatening to kill the occupants (which they believed included Kamala Harris). A crazed Trump supporter broke into Nancy Pelosi’s home and attacked her 82-year-old husband with a hammer. Trump tweeted a picture of the bus being attacked, writing below it, “I LOVE TEXAS!” and repeatedly makes jokes about the attack on Pelosi, as if to encourage future attacks on the families of other Democratic politicians. Most recently, Donald Trump posted a picture on social media of Joe Biden tied up in the back of a pickup truck with a bullet hole in his forehead.

Not a single elected Republican (as best as I can find with a pretty thorough web search) has condemned any of these, because all they have left is cruelty.

Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis turned down federal money that would have fed 2.1 million low-income children in his state; he was one of 13 Republican governors to do the same, in a nation where one in seven children — over 11 million every year — go to bed hungry.

We are literally the only developed country in the world with a massive child hunger problem because all Republicans have left is cruelty.

When President Obama succeeded in passing and signing the Affordable Care Act, it offered every state funds to expand Medicaid to give healthcare coverage to all their low-income citizens with the federal government covering 90% of the cost. To this day, ten states under Republican control have refused to accept the money, leading to millions of preventable illnesses and early deaths.

Republican states could have joined all the Blue states and every other developed country in the world by providing universal healthcare, but refuse to because all they have left is cruelty.

When a 10-year-old girl was raped and impregnated, Republicans like Congressman Jim Jordan, Governor Kristi Noem, Fox’s Tucker Carlson and Jesse Waters, and Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost ridiculed the claim. When the rape and pregnancy were proven and the girl fled Ohio to a state where abortion was legal to terminate the pregnancy, Indiana's Republican Attorney General Todd Rokita promised to launch an “investigation.”

Rokita didn’t investigate the rape, however: he instead went after the physician who performed the abortion. Because cruelty is all Republicans have left.

When Donald Trump lost the 2020 election by seven million votes, he sent a violent mob against the US Capitol. As they tried to murder the vice president and speaker of the house, covered the walls of the building with feces and defaced priceless paintings, Trump gleefully watched on live television for over three hours while refusing to call in the national guard or take any other meaningful action.

Five civilians and three police officers died as the result of his sending that murderous mob because all he and his GOP have left is cruelty.

This week Americans saw Democrats display compassion, care, respect, and reverence for our democracy. We saw the best of this country, hope for the future, and actual plans to improve the lives of Americans.

Last month, in sharp contrast, we watched the Republican convention and saw, instead, a cavalcade of anger, bile, grievance, hate, and, of course, cruelty.

Because cruelty is all Republicans have left.

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✶full name: daniel choi ✶nickname(s): dan ✶dob: march 15, 1982 ✶age: 42 years old ✶gender & pronouns: cisman, he/him ✶sexual orientation: queer ✶relationship status: single ✶occupation: senior associate at heller & co attorneys at law ✶hometown: chicago, il ✶previously lived: chicago, il and new york, ny ✶time in blue harbor: 14 years ✶current neighborhood: deer park ✶faceclaim: gong yoo

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TLDR;  daniel choi, born in chicago to south korean immigrants, lost his parents in a tragic housse fire at the age of eight. as a result, he was placed in foster care where he remained until he aged out of the system ten years later. due to the trauma of losing his parents, daniel developed selective mutism that took several years of speech therapy and the friendship of his foster sister, jia. he developied a passion for justice and decided to pursue a career in family law to advocate for children and families in need. initially working in new york, he later moved to blue harbor to be closer to his foster sister. he is now a respected lawyer at heller & co. daniel is dedicated to ensuring no child endures the same hardships he did through his work and by actively volunteering bright sparks and mentoring kids in the community.

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Moor Mother - Circuit City back cover

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Reverse Gentrification of the Future Now

The present realities of housing for low-income people living in Philadelphia are located temporally-spatially near the one in Circuit City. We are experiencing an affordable housing crisis, and this crisis is exacerbated by the average of 22,000 eviction filings each year and the unknown number of illegal evictions.  In my work as Managing Attorney of the Housing Unit at Community Legal Services, where we provide legal representation and advice to more than 3,000 low-income tenants a year, I hear countless stories of tenants who face racial, sex, gender, family, ethnicity, and disability discrimination from landlords; stories of tenants intimidated into not complaining about substandard housing conditions that exacerbate health and safety problems; or tenants who received eviction filings from disgruntled landlords that have resulted in virtual blacklisting from future homes and opportunities for stability. Growing displacement and mass evictions of entire buildings of often low-income residents is a particularly vicious form of eviction that has widespread health and economic impacts, and destroys economic, cultural, and racial diversity in neighborhoods. Mass evictions, often unexpected, further aggravate the city’s shortage of affordable housing—existing affordable housing units are often lost forever, putting pressure on resources and housing stock elsewhere in the City and concentrating poverty in particular neighborhoods.

Compounding these issues is pervasive housing discrimination –  single mothers and their children, seniors, Black people, LGBTQ people, immigrants, and people living with disabilities are disproportionately impacted by evictions and lack of access to safe, habitable, and affordable housing.  Tenants face systemic and individual discrimination at every stage of the process – they are barred from getting into a new home for discriminatory reasons, and often kicked out of their homes for those same reasons.1 The ACLU, for instance highlights how “women of color bear the burden of eviction,” noting that women of color made up 62% and 70% of the tenants facing in eviction in Chicago and Philadelphia respectively.2 These and other instances of structural inequity related to housing disproportionately impact the City’s poor, Black and Hispanic populations live in racially concentrated poverty.3 This loss of housing has a distinct racial impact, where 63% of African-Americans live in project-based housing compared with 44% of the city’s population, and where African-Americans are disproportionately more likely to carry severe housing cost burdens in the city.

These types of inequalities are often framed in terms of spatial inequality and displacement from location. However, as Helga Nowotowny notes, “power, exercised by central authorities, establishes itself over space and over time.”4 (emphasis added). Hierarchies of time, inequitable time distribution, and uneven access to safe and healthy futures inform intergenerational poverty in marginalized communities the same ways that wealth passes between generations in traditionally privileged families. Sociologist Jeremy Rifkin says that “temporal deprivation is built into the time frame of every society,” where people living in poverty are temporally poor as well as materially poor.”5 For example, time poverty is routinely used to penalize marginalized people in the justice system, where being ten minutes late to court can mean losing your job, kids, home, and freedom. Time and temporal inequities show up at every step of the eviction process, for example, from the short or fully waivable notice requirements for termination of a lease agreement, to the time required for an evicted family to vacate a unit that is severely out of line with the time needed to secure new housing.  Inevitably, marginalized Black communities are disproportionately impacted by both material, spatial, and temporal inequalities in a linear progressive society, with many Black communities forced to occupy “temporal ghettos” as well as spatial ones.  

Circuit City considers both the implications of time and of space involved in privatization of public housing, gentrification, displacement, and redevelopment. There is no set year or place in the play, but instead a layering of multiple temporal spaces.  The residents of Circuit City  are integrating the time(s) of redevelopment, privatization,  and hyper-gentrification, into the pre-established temporal dynamics of the community, layered over and within the communal historical memory and the shared idea of the future(s) of that community. Nested within those layers are individual, subjective temporalities and the lived realities of the residents, at odds with the linear, mechanical model of time on which Circuit City and its external spatial-temporal constructs are etched.  It takes as its central provocation a practical strategy for achieving a Black flight, a reverse gentrification, and inverse displacement, and the conditions necessary for temporal autonomy and spatial agency.  Circuit City is presented using Black Quantum Futurism praxis as a critical framework, fusing Afrodiasporan philosophies and rituals with quantum physics, recovering artifacts of Black temporal consciousness, and dismantling oppressive social temporal constructs.

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THE PROHIBITION OF ALCOHOL, DRUGS AND IMMIGRANTS

by James E. Gierach

Immigration a problem? Want to be a “sanctuary city?”

Immigration attorney Christopher Richardson in a Chicago Tribune Op-Ed piece published Saturday, December 2, 2021, points out the common failings of the prohibition of alcohol (Prohibition a century ago) and today’s out-of-control immigration. Both prohibitions attempted to control problems but both prohibition-endeavors came with unintended consequences.

Richardson writes that the prohibition of alcohol came with “an explosion of smuggling, organized crime, and increase in the murder rate and, yes, [out-of-control borders].” He’s absolutely correct.

Prohibition is a boon to all those negatives as his Op-Ed well explains. But drug prohibition does more than help organized crime and invite price-gouging with human smugglers charging $4,000 to $20,000 to circumvent USA immigration rules. Global drug prohibition policy makes life unlivable in many South and Central American countries. Mexico, too.

Violent crime and corruption are the inseparable sidekicks to substance prohibitions, and immigration prohibition, adding to the economic pressures already bearing heavily on migrants who in desperation escape home and become drug-war refugees and migrants.

If American sanctuary cities and border states are to solve the immigration problem, then America must change global drug policy, permit life to be more livable in the countries producing these drug-war refugees. As pols scramble to build tent-cities and spend hundreds of million of taxpayer dollars trying to provide humanitarian food and shelter and help build the future for migrants, as pols should, we must reform drug policy, globally.

We must end United Nations recreational drug prohibition embodied in the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, subscribed to by 186 nations of the world. As we can see—drug-prohibition policy accomplishes the very things it aimed to prevent: addiction, overdose, disease, violence, gang proliferation and corruption.

As Helen Clark, former New Zealand prime minister and chairwoman of the Global Commission on Drug Policy, has said, “The US led the world into the war on drugs, and now America must help lead us out of it. The war on drugs does not and cannot reduce harm. It fuels negative and perhaps unintended consequences, and it is outdated in the face of new challenges and threats.”

In a poll released June 9, 2021 by the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 83 percent of respondents believe the drug war to be a massive failure.” (Alex Norcia, “Poll Shows Huge Public Opposition to ‘War on Drugs,’ After 50 Years,” Filter, June 9, 2021, https://filtermag.org/war-on-drugs-poll/.) That known and agreed, it is time for the next step away from substance prohibition, and migrant prohibition, and the myriad crises caused.

American pols must start looking at longterm solutions, perhaps a “Silver Bullet Solution” to the problem-aggravating drug-prohibition paradigm.

Palos Park, Illinois

December 2, 2023

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Jasmine Crockett named national co-chair of Harris-Walz campaign

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s rising star got another boost this week as she was named a national co-chair for Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign.

The Dallas Democrat, who has enjoyed internet fame for her energetic confrontations with Republicans, anticipates a busy fall travel schedule as she rallies support across the nation for Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

“Any state that is a battleground state, I will be there,” Crockett said Thursday after a Dallas Regional Chamber congressional forum at the Hyatt Regency Dallas.

“I will be on the ground. I will be talking to organizers. I will also be talking to large crowds of just kind of everyday people.”

Crockett said she’s begun racking up frequent flier miles for the campaign, traveling directly from last week’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago to Michigan, where she visited several cities. She said she’s also been to Georgia, Arizona and Pennsylvania for the campaign and was about to catch a flight to Los Angeles to headline fundraisers.

Serving as a national co-chair does not typically involve participating in the daily nuts and bolts of running a campaign. Rather, it identifies trusted surrogates who can speak on the candidate’s behalf and attack an opponent.

Crockett joins another Texas Democrat on the list of Harris-Walz co-chairs, U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-El Paso. Escobar carried over that role from the Biden-Harris campaign and served as the closing night co-chair of last week’s national convention.

Escobar has been a prominent voice pushing back on Republican criticism of Harris’ record on illegal immigration and border security.

In Crockett, the Harris campaign is getting a dynamic up-and-comer who has not hesitated to throw elbows at Republicans.

Crockett, 43, emerged as one of President Joe Biden’s fiercest defenders after his stumbling performance in the June debate with former President Donald Trump. After Biden bowed to mounting pressure and stepped aside as the nominee, Crockett quickly pivoted and embraced Harris’ candidacy.

Crockett was tapped for a high-profile speaking slot at last week’s convention, delivering a speech that combined affection for Harris with stinging barbs directed at Trump.

She went for viewers’ heartstrings as she recounted questioning her decision to go to Washington shortly after joining Congress last year.

“As I approached Vice President Harris for our official photo, she turned to me and asked, ‘What’s wrong?’ … She saw the distress. I immediately began crying,” Crockett said. “The most powerful woman in the world wiped my tears and listened.”

While Crockett cast Harris as a dedicated and caring public servant, she rhetorically savaged Trump as an entitled, crooked creature of inherited wealth.

“She’s lived the American dream, while he’s been America’s nightmare,” she said, adding, “Kamala Harris has a résumé, Donald Trump has a rap sheet.”

That kind of no-holds-barred rhetoric has helped Crockett make a name for herself as clips of her confronting Republicans in Capitol Hill committee hearings have spread on social media platforms.

The most viral was her May showdown with U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga.

The House Oversight Committee was considering whether to hold U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for withholding audio recordings of Biden’s conversations with special counsel Robert Hur.

The proceedings went off the rails after Greene told Crockett, “I think your fake eyelashes are messing up what you’re reading.”

Democrats objected, but the panel’s Republican chairman, Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, ruled Greene did not violate rules against personal attacks.

Crockett posed a question to Comer.

“If someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody’s bleach-blond, bad-built butch body, that would not be engaging in personalities, correct?” she said in an obvious reference to Greene.

The moment created an online firestorm that included a string of parody songs incorporating what Crockett quickly dubbed her “B6″ alliteration.

Her campaign filed an application to trademark the six-word phrase. She began raising campaign funds by selling branded merchandise featuring the phrase as part of a “Crockett Clapback Collection.”

Crockett served one term in the Texas House, representing a district that includes portions of southern, East and West Dallas. When the late former U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson announced her retirement, she endorsed Crockett as her successor.

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Mexican prosecutors weigh treason charges after drug lord ‘El Mayo’ Zambada’s arrest in US

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Mexican prosecutors weigh treason charges after drug lord ‘El Mayo’ Zambada’s arrest in US

Mexican authorities are considering bringing charges against those who handed over the country’s most-wanted drug lord and co-founder of the Sinaloa Cartel, Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada Garcia, to the U.S. last month.On July 25, U.S. officials announced that Zambada Garcia was taken into custody in El Paso, Texas, alongside Joaquín Guzmán López, the son of the cartel’s other co-founder, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.Guzmán López flew to the U.S. to turn himself in to U.S. authorities, but abducted Zambada Garcia before leaving Mexico, forcing him onto the plane, officials said.Instead of thanking the U.S. for apprehending Zambada Garcia — who is responsible for leading a cartel that has terrorized and spread violence across Mexico for decades — Mexican prosecutors are considering treason charges against Guzmán López and anyone else involved in the abduction.EL CHAPO’S SON PLEADS NOT GUILTY IN CHICAGO COURT AFTER ARREST IN TEXAS WITH CARTEL LEADER ‘EL MAYO’The Mexican attorney general’s office announced on Sunday it had opened a criminal investigation “for the possible crimes of illegal flight, illicit use of airports, immigration and customs violations, kidnapping, treason, and any other crimes that may apply.”The U.S. was offering a $15 million reward for the capture of Zambada Garcia, and Mexico’s response to the apprehension is based on the country’s penal code that lays out prison sentences of up to 40 years in prison for treason, the Associated Press reported.The penal code article not only includes traditional definitions of treason like attacking Mexico on behalf of a foreign power or serving a foreign army, but also states treason is committed by anyone who illegally abducts “a person in Mexico in order to hand them over to authorities of another country.”‘HUGE WIN FOR THE WORLD’: US CELEBRATES AS SINALOA CARTEL LEADERS ARE ARRESTEDThe clause was added in response to the abduction of Mexican doctor Humberto Machaín, who was kidnapped in Mexico in 1990 and handed over to the U.S. Machaín was wanted for allegedly participating in the 1985 torture and murder of Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent Kiki Camarena.President Andrés Manuel López Obrador reportedly said Monday he questioned the U.S. policy of detaining drug cartel leaders, asking, “Why don’t they change that policy?”Zambada Garcia’s lawyer, over the weekend, released a letter from his client, claiming he was ambushed and kidnapped when he believed he was going to meet with the governor of Sinaloa. Instead, Zambada Garcia claimed, he was taken against his will to the U.S.GUNMEN ON JET SKIS KILL 12-YEAR-OLD BOY ON CANCUN BEACH WHILE FIRING AT RIVAL DRUG DEALER: MEXICAN OFFICIALSZambada Garcia also reportedly claimed in the letter that Guzmán López asked him to attend a meeting on July 25 with local politicians, but instead, he was led to a room and knocked down before a hood was placed over his head. Zambada Garcia said he was handcuffed, driven to a landing strip in a pickup truck, and forced into a private plane that delivered him to U.S. soil.In the letter, he raised questions about the links between Sinaloa politicians and drug traffickers, though Gov. Richa Moya denies any links to criminals and claimed he was not in Sinaloa on the day of the abduction. Instead, Moya reportedly said he was in Los Angeles.The attorney general’s office has taken the case over from Sinaloa state prosecutors.Zambada Garcia has been charged in numerous U.S. cases, including one filed in February in the Eastern District of New York accusing him of conspiring to manufacture and distribute fentanyl. Prosecutors said he led “one of the most violent and powerful drug trafficking organizations in the world.”Now that Zambada Garcia is behind bars, experts say many powerful people in Mexico will be concerned that in a bid for a more comfortable deal, he could cooperate with U.S. authorities and accuse them of collaborating with the cartels.Fox News’ Adam Shaw and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration has begun the process of removing from city shelters dozens of migrant families, including those with children who attended Chicago Public Schools.

Just days after the CPS school year ended, officials this week began the eviction process to continue to ease pressure on overstretched resources in shelters run by the city and state.

It’s the second significant wave of forced removals at shelters since the city began ordering mostly single men and some single women to find housing elsewhere. Now, entire families are being told the same.

Homeless advocates and experts said moving the families from shelters could be detrimental to the children’s sense of stability. For many of the migrant children, school has been the only structure in their lives after traveling for months to the United States, the experts said.

“Going through this eviction process is stressful and very challenging for them,” said Alyssa Phillips, education attorney for the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless.

More than 43,000 migrants have arrived in Chicago since August 2022 when Republican Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas first ordered asylum-seekers be shuttled to Chicago and other northern cities to share the costs of the high number of people as well as to make a political statement about the nation’s immigration policies.

The migrants — who mostly come from Venezuela — are escaping their country of origin’s economic and political turmoil caused by tanking oil prices and a far-left federal government. Chicago has spent about $150 million so far to shelter and feed those who have arrived here.

In mid-March, Johnson’s administration began enforcing a limit of 60 days for migrants to stay at city shelters. At the time, the city made exceptions on a case-by-case basis, including for medical issues or because some asylum-seekers were in the process of securing housing. Families with children had been given three, 30-day extensions to ease disruptions.

Phillips said families were originally supposed to be evicted in the middle of the school year, but she and other advocates pushed back.

Friday was the last day of school and family evictions began this past Monday. Four individuals exited the shelter system on Tuesday, the day after evictions started, according to a spokesperson at the city’s Department of Family & Support Services. About 40 people are expected to leave in the next week.

Following a Chicago City Council meeting Wednesday, when asked how migrant children’s education might be disrupted by evictions, Johnson, a former CPS teacher, didn’t directly answer the question and instead said his ultimate goal was to help migrant families find houses of their own.

“The standard is not shelter in perpetuity,” he said. “The standard and the expectation is that people can actually live sustainable, fruitful lives in Chicago or anywhere else in America.”

Once migrant families are evicted from shelters, they are asked to go to the city’s “landing zone” in the West Loop, where they are allowed to temporarily sleep on CTA buses in the landing zone’s parking lot while they reapply to reenter the shelter system.

On Wednesday, many migrant families expressed uncertainty about how that process will work, or if shelter space will be available. As of Wednesday, of 966 total people evicted from shelters, more than 55% had reentered the system — a collection of 17 warehouses and once-shuttered buildings now housing 6,722 people.

Maria Perez, a volunteer with Southwest Collective who works with migrants at the shelter on the Lower West Side, said she has seen several families leave the shelters this week. She said she last saw those families standing on nearby street corners with their belongings and waiting for Uber drivers to pick them up.

“They’ve already made so many journeys to make it here,” she said. “I can’t imagine what they’re thinking.”

City officials have said repeatedly that they give migrants exit dates to push them toward finding their own, independent housing options. The city officials have said they’ve coupled the eviction process with wraparound services from case managers and nonprofit organizations.

But those staying in shelters on Wednesday said they hadn’t received any guidance on where to find housing or resources.

Virginia de Jesus, a 27-year-old from Valencia, Venezuela, said she and her son arrived at a shelter on the Lower West Side two days ago and they have yet to receive any support from shelter workers. They were told by officials at the shelter that they needed to leave in 60 days, which de Jesus said was not enough time to find independent housing.

“The workers seem to be in their own world,” she said. “We don’t know where to look for help. We really don’t know what to do.”

Her 6-year-old son Sebastian, who wore a blue and red cape, occupied himself by sweeping the pavement outside the shelter. In his home city, his mother said, he went to school for maybe two hours a day, three days a week.

She said she hoped to register him for school but wasn’t sure where she would be living in a month and a half.

The large population of asylum-seekers who have arrived in Chicago seeking assistance has contributed to record rates of homelessness in the city. More than 18,000 people experienced homelessness according to a point-in-time count conducted in late January. That’s a threefold increase from last year.

The numbers are slightly skewed because, at the time of the count, the city was sheltering a record numbers of migrants, spurred by an increase in border crossings in the winter. The count also doesn’t include migrants who were “doubled up,” or sharing a house with others.

But the count indicates a trend: following the end of a state-funded rental assistance program, the migrant population in Chicago is increasingly overlapping with people experiencing homelessness. In fact, city and state officials and nonprofit leaders are in the preliminary stages of a plan to combine the legacy homeless shelter system with the shelter system for migrants.

Homeless advocates said combining the shelter systems will take time and coordination but will be beneficial for all unhoused Chicagoans. Still, those working with migrants said there will be large logistical hurdles, such as translation services.

This has more implications for children, said Darcey Merritt, a professor at the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work.

“They’re at some really sensitive developmental stages in their lives,” Merritt said. “They will end up behind in school.”

The Chicago Public Schools system is federally required to support the enrollment and education of students who are homeless or in temporary living situations. For migrant children who move, this means providing free transportation to stay at the school near their shelter if they wish.

There were 23,470 students in temporary living situations enrolled at the end of May — a 46% increase from last May and the most ever recorded at this time of year, according to data provided by the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless. CCH attributes the increase in part to the thousands of migrant children who have arrived over the past year.

With so many students in volatile living situations, migrant advocates said it will be important to communicate that children have the right to stay in the same school. They hope to connect them with summer programming.

Advocates, however, said it is virtually impossible to talk to migrants while they’re staying on buses at the landing zone.

Gleidis Calderon, a 22-year-old mother from Maracay, Venezuela, said her eviction date is July 17, but she doesn’t know how to find stable housing.

On Wednesday afternoon, she sat in the shade of a driveway by the shelter on the Lower West Side with her 7-year-old daughter Eudima. She said her daughter has been restless since school let out.

With nothing to occupy their time, Calderon said children inside the shelter were fighting. She’d left Venezuela seeking a safer life only to find herself worried about the wellbeing of her kids.

“Here, they aren’t doing anything. They aren’t learning anything,” she said.

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There's biting off more than you can chew, and there's last night's episode of The Good Wife, which took a run at issues of institutional racism and the police killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner and ended up smashing into a wall. It was easy to tell something unusual was afoot when the show opened with a title card reading "This episode was written and filmed prior to the grand jury decisions in Ferguson and Staten Island … All mentions of 'Ferguson' are in reference to the events in August 2014 after the shooting death of Michael Brown." Which prompted the question: How would this episode, centered on a political debate between State's Attorney candidates Alicia Florrick and Frank Prady, tackle such a complicated topic?

The answer: clumsily, to say the least. The Good Wife usually excels when keeping it topical, and is remarkably nimble for a network show, getting to current events much more quickly than a 22-episode CBS behemoth should. It's tackled sensitive issues (such as campus rape or NSA wiretapping) with verve and intelligence, and also throws many a sly wink to saucier political theater (Peter's Eliot Spitzer-like affair is core to the original premise) and the Internet memes of the hour. This episode, for some colossally silly reason, featured all of the above. We had Alicia moving to fight off publicity about Peter's latest affair (a fling with his in-house counsel), the firm negotiating a divorce suit for its faux-Google CEO Neil Gross (somehow the words "the Fappening" were uttered), and a looming jury verdict on the homicide of a black Chicagoan, with racial tension about to boil over if the white cops responsible were exonerated.

This show often excels at spinning so many plates at the same time, somehow seamlessly switching between comic material, political squabbling, and truly weighty issues. Not this time. It's hard to say what the biggest misstep was, but things really came apart when Alicia and Frank Prady, their debate interrupted by the breaking news of the jury's verdict, started an impromptu discussion in a hotel kitchen over the best ways to address systemic racism in law enforcement, while the kitchen staff (mostly people of color) gathered and began to interject.

Why are two white people debating the best way to improve diversity at the State's Attorney office, asked one onlooker. Why pledge to decrease focus on drug crime when such crime can impact minority communities, said another. Another recent immigrant expressed the feeling that African-Americans are responsible for most crime, setting off even more furious debate, a cacophony of yelling that had Alicia and Frank looking befuddled. Herein lies the problem of the episode: It sought to make no real point outside of "issues of race in America sure are complicated!" Alicia and Frank staked out their ground, but the show was careful to side with no one and rather tugged at its collar. It felt patronizing, to say the very least, and like the show was trying to acknowledge recent events while admitting it lacks the authority to really dig into them.

Just as tin-eared was a plot centering around the political tinderbox on Chicago's streets as the verdict came in, with Governor Peter Florrick trying to corral two rival religious leaders in the community (recurring characters on the show played by Frankie Faison and Gbenga Akinnagbe) and the mayor, who was inexplicably absent. Peter made the choice to take to the streets and stand in silent solidarity with the leaders of the protest, which seemingly calmed the potential for serious clashes between police and protestors. This was handled with a little more subtlety—Peter made a good political call without too much grandstanding and let those with authority over the issue do the talking—but was mixed in with the dull drama of him breaking off his affair with Connie Nielsen's character, which could have waited a couple of weeks.

This show has done much, much better in the past. A multi-episode plotline in season three explored the banal, systematic racism of the State's Attorney's office, with Peter promoting Cary to a top deputy position despite his relative lack of experience. Peter saw Cary as a good hire, as he indisputably proved to be, but also as a peer in a way that he probably could not have with the office's more-experienced black attorneys. Over the span of several episodes, the show did a nuanced job exploring Peter's bias, which he could never really acknowledge to himself, as a way of examining ingrained white privilege. In contrast, “The Debate” tried to tackle the issues of Ferguson and Eric Garner in just 42 minutes.

The Good Wife is about to go on another break before returning in March for the final 10 episodes of the season, and at the very least, the stakes for that run are now clearly laid out. The law firm has re-hired the mean and wonderful bulldog David Lee (Zach Grenier), and with Cary back in his office, we should have plenty of juicy courtroom drama in a season that's been a little lacking of late. Alicia is finally, firmly committed to the idea that she's the right person for the job, and is throwing herself into her campaign. Tech magnate Neil Gross has fired the firm, so hopefully we never have to hear the words "ChumHum" again. It's been a muddled season, but this framework offers great potential for a big turnaround. And with any luck, “The Debate” will prove a lesson to the show in the future, prompting it to slow down and give searing topical issues the time they deserve.

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Indiana Attorney General threatens lawsuits against Gary, East Chicago over immigration policies https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/indiana-attorney-general-threatens-lawsuits-against-gary-east-chicago-over-immigration-policies/3452285/