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Unions and the Immigration Protests

By Erik Loomis

In General

On June 12, 2025

That David Huerta, who heads SEIU in California, was arrested during the immigration protests in Los Angeles has galvanized a lot of attention on the relationship between unions and immigration. There's a number of stories about this. Here's one in the Times. Here's the one...

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Here’s a Truly Horrible Democrat

By Erik Loomis

On May 14, 2025

A waiter sets up a table in the outdoor dining area on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020, in which Gov. Gavin Newsom, who later called it a "bad mistake," attended a.

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Broken Immigration Law

By Erik Loomis

On April 17, 2025

I claim no knowledge on the details of this, or most any other, legal question. But this is a pretty compelling and disturbing piece on how and why our immigration.

Jaguars and Faces

By Erik Loomis

In General

On February 10, 2025

From any reasonable political perspective, Donald Trump would embrace the masses of Venezuelan migrants to the United States that have helped turn Florida to the far right. After all, they all hate Maduro and anything that reeks of socialism. But Trump just hates immigrants and...

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What Happened to Separated Families

By Erik Loomis

On January 21, 2025

White House senior policy advisor Stephen Miller (R) joins Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders to discuss U.S. immigration policy at the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S..

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Turns Out that Announcing Your Ethnic Cleansing in Advance is a Problem

By Erik Loomis

On January 19, 2025

The one thing we can count on about the second Trump administration is a combination of stupidity and laziness to cut the evil: President-elect Donald Trump's border czar said the.

This Day in Labor History: January 14, 1977

By Erik Loomis

In General

On January 14, 2025

On January 14, 1977, the International Ladies Garment Workers Union lost a union election in Los Angeles after the Immigration and Naturalization Service raided the workplace, deporting many of the union activists. This disgusting action helped spur the ILG to move toward working with immigrant...

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Without Immigration, We Are Nothing

By Erik Loomis

On January 12, 2025

White House senior policy advisor Stephen Miller (R) joins Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders to discuss U.S. immigration policy at the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S..

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,759

By Erik Loomis

On November 24, 2024

This is the grave of Emma Lazarus. Born in 1849 in New York City, Lazarus grew up in a wealthy Jewish family. Her father Moses was a big merchant in.

The Bipartisan Border Wall

By Erik Loomis

In General

On November 4, 2024

We can talk about the great evil that Donald Trump did on the border and the horrible ways he treated immigrants and how he wants to deport them all now. We should. But it's worth noting that the border wall is completely bipartisan, the result...

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LGM Film Club, Part 424: Green Border

By Erik Loomis

On November 1, 2024

Agnieszka Holland's Green Border is a brilliant film and very difficult to watch, in the same way that the greatest films about the Holocaust are. Holland has never shied away.

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Trump’s Deportation Model

By Erik Loomis

On November 1, 2024

Ana Raquel Minian (read her book Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration, it's great!) notes that Trump and Herr Miller have a deportation model in place: Operation Wetback..