All posts tagged: Manfred Stanley

A cruel war is disempowering our empowering communities

A cruel war is disempowering our empowering communities

(RNS) — Tom Homan, the Trump administration’s “border czar,” recently announced that the spectacle of violence and cruelty in Minneapolis, which resulted in the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, was coming to an end. It’s worth taking stock of what the city and the country have been through over the past two months as federal agents targeted highly visible communities in Minnesota that are marked by their skin color and non-European origins. The Department of Homeland Security’s anti-immigrant surges are said to be aimed at sanctuary cities or Democratic ones. But nearly everywhere its agents have appeared, DHS has focused on Somali, Haitian, southeast Asian (Hmong, Cambodian, Vietnamese, Thai), Arab and Latino immigrants and their American citizen families. On Feb. 2, a federal judge halted a cruel plan hatched by Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem to end Temporary Protected Status for more than 300,000 Haitian immigrants, a move that would have made these legal residents suddenly subject to deportation. While Noem argued that Haiti’s situation had improved and TPS was no longer …