The quote from Avakian:
‘Now I can just hear these reactionary fools saying, “Well, Bob, answer me this. If this country is so terrible, why do people come here from all over the world? Why are so many people trying to get in, not get out?”...Why? I’ll tell you why. Because you have fucked up the rest of the world even worse than what you have done in this country. You have made it impossible for many people to live in their own countries as part of gaining your riches and power.’ —Bob Avakian, BAsics 1:14
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A recent report from CNN:
CNN —’The Trump administration is planning to dismiss asylum claims for potentially hundreds of thousands of migrants in the United States and then make them immediately deportable as part of the president’s sweeping immigration crackdown, according to two sources familiar with the matter…It marks the latest in a series of moves by the administration to bar migrants from receiving protections in the US. As federal authorities come under pressure to deliver historic immigration arrest numbers, administration officials have quietly been working on efforts to make more people eligible for removal…The people being targeted in this case are those who entered the US unlawfully and later applied for asylum, the sources said. Their cases are expected to be closed, therefore leaving them at risk of deportation. It could affect hundreds of thousands of asylum applicants…over the last decade, the majority of applicants who applied for asylum with US Citizenship and Immigration Services, or USCIS, self-reported how they entered the US, with around 25 percent saying they entered the US unlawfully. That amounts to at least a quarter of a million people, according to a federal report analyzing asylees in 2023. The others entered legally via a port of entry through various visas…Under US law, people who are seeking protection from violence or persecution in their home country can claim asylum to remain in the United States. Trump effectively sealed off access to claiming asylum at the US southern border upon taking office. There are currently around 1.45 million people with pending affirmative asylum applications…’
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Karaoke background to “YMCA”: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRjFavXA8pE
+ Lyrics re-do as “Trump Must Go Now”
People, don’t be ruled by a clown. I said
People, pick yourselves off the ground, I said
People, ‘cause they can’t keep us down
There’s no need to be submissive
People, you have power to show, I said
People, fascist Trump has to go, you can
Rise up and I’m sure we will find
Many ways to throw his ass out
Its right and good to say Trump Must Go Now
It’s right and good to say Trump Must Go Now
We have all kinds of ways for folks to end this regime
We can get rid of Trump and his team
Right now!
It’s right and good to say Trump Must Go Now
It’s right and good to say Trump Must Go Now
We can take to the streets, we can stop the machine
We can do whatever it takes
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People, are you listening to me? I said
People, do you want to be free? I said
People, we can’t live under Trump
But you've got to know this one thing
No one does it all by themselves, I said
People, put your fear on the shelf
And just rise up, saying Trump Must Go Now
I'm sure you’ll be glad you did this
It’s right and good to say Trump Must Go Now
It’s right and good to say Trump Must Go Now
We can take to the streets, we can stop the machine
We can do whatever it takes
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People, Fascism’s on a roll, I said
People, right now, history calls
I mean, what’s the point of this life
In a world so full of this strife
I’m glad someone came up to me and said
People we can take to the streets
There's a group that says Trump Must Go Now
They can help us back on our way .
It’s right and good to say Trump Must Go Now
It’s right and good to say Trump Must Go Now
We can take to the streets, we can stop the machine
We can do whatever it takes
Trump Must Go Now…….
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