The lake effect snowstorm that blasted Cleveland overnight and into the morning has caused school cancellations and general delays around the city. It’s also prompted organizers of a Trump immigration order protest/march originally planned for this afternoon to be rescheduled for Friday at 4 p.m. (of course, more Clevelanders can probably make it that day anyway and by then, we might be protesting 17 other Trump-related actions too). Details below.
Civic leaders will join together for a demonstration in Market Square to denounce the Trump administration’s executive actions on immigration. These executive orders, calling for the construction of a border wall and threatening the withdrawal of federal funding from sanctuary cities, prioritize the deportation of illegal immigrants without considering the circumstances that drove them to emigrate from their homes. The documents promise to expand Immigration and Customs Enforcement by a combined total of 15,000, but no amount of border control or enforcement will affect whether or not migrants make the difficult choice to leave their countries and seek safety in the US.There are several push factors existing in Mexico, Central America, and Colombia. Chrissy Stonebraker-Martinez, co-director of the InterReligious Task Force on Central America, said, “Neoliberal and militaristic US foreign policies are often at the root of the push factors for refugees who are fleeing violent social and economic persecution. If we promoted true democracy in our international relations, rather empirical, unbridled, domineering policies, refugees would have less reason to flee violence and poverty.”
The Trump administration’s executive actions claim to target dangerous criminals, but, in reality, the new policies are vague enough to put at risk the status of families and individuals who, in the administration’s words, “In the judgment of an immigration officer, otherwise pose a risk to public safety or national security.”
Jose Mendez from DreamActivist Ohio, said of his personal experience with immigration policies, “As a Dreamer, I can’t continue to live in anxiety day by day. We need Congress to act and fix our broken immigration system. I will continue to fight for my family and myself no matter how tough the battle gets.”
Civic society will continue to fight for the rights of immigrants. We call on this administration and the 115th Congress to do everything in their power to reverse these executive orders.
What: Demonstration denouncing Trump’s executive orders on immigration
When: Friday, February 3 at 4 p.m.
Where: Market Square, the corner of W 25th St and Lorain Ave
Who: InterReligious Task Force on Central America and Colombia, DreamActivist Ohio, Greater Cleveland Immigrant Support Network, Lorain Ohio Immigrant Rights Association, Cleveland Jobs with Justice, Ohio’s Voice and others.
This article appears in Jan 25-31, 2017.
If you believe in a cause nothing stops you.
Too bad snowflakes! Looks like a day of crayons!
– “Bring the Noise” –
Really…”of course, more Clevelanders can probably make it that day anyway and by then, we might be protesting 17 other Trump-related actions”…way to be objective.
Newsflash, asshats on the right…SCENE is a progressive, left-of-center publication, with a progressive, left-of-center audience and readership. Deal with that fact or GTFO.
So fuck your “snowflakes” and “libtrards”,…gentlemen’–why the hell are you even here? You’re nothing but a pack of goddamned Fascist trolls, and you can just kiss my ass.
Chuckles the Clown
Oh Chuckles….
Perhaps your beliefs in the “left-leaning readership” of Scene are as wrong as your beliefs on the nation as a whole. And perhaps you should clean up your language if you want your comments to be taken seriously.
Wassamatta, swearing bothers you? If you need to be protected by the Grammar Police, go home to your PeeDee cesspool. Can’t take the heat, then get out of the kitchen, instead of bitchin’…the cooks are not gonna turn the stove down for whiners like you.
So… saying, that “we might be protesting 17 other Trump-related actions too”has become leftist? Maybe you don’t need the grammar cops, you need the Thought Police. I said progressive, not leftist…don’t you even know the difference?
Agent Orange’s approval rating is only 40 per cent…maybe less…right out of the starting gate…and more and more people are becoming engaged…and enraged… and they’re taking to the streets…ALREADY…
So yeah, I think the nation as a whole backs my side…a good 60%…where I come from…that’s still a majority…even though a mere 80,000 hicks and hillbillies put Donny’s sorry ass into the Oval Orifice..
SCENE does not favor Trump, or his actions. And that’s why you’re here…to piss and moan. Oh, my, I said piss…so sue me…or…get over it…
Chuckles the Clown
Oh Chuckles, you are so predictable. I realize that your post-menopausal rage has clouded your judgement, but let me clarify a few things for you.
1. I could not care less about your language or swearing. I let you know it diminishes the impact of your statements, because it shows you to be unhinged. If you want to make a fool of yourself, feel free. Ill get over it.
2. Your perverted version of “progressivism” is, in fact, leftist. And i love the “takin it to the streets” comment…what is this, 1969 again? Its not. And the majority is not with you. That’s why your ideology controls no major function of government anymore.
3. I don’t care what Scene favors or not – I live in Cleveland and I appreciate their culture writing. When the venture into politics, which they know nothing about, i make comments. God Bless America.
4. 80,000 hicks…..haha! Hurts to lose, doesn’t it.
1.No, you won’t get over it. You are one of those smug trolls who has to have the last word. If you don’t like my comments, don’t read them. Playing the age card now, are you? You must be down to stems and seeds.
2. You just missed the target. Not 1969…maybe 1968…or even 1970. At the moment, it looks like 1973. Remember that one? In less than a year, Nixon was gone. Unfortunately, Pence is no Ford. He’s not even a Yugo. And yeah, it was a mere 80,000 hicks. Not exactly a mandate. You think you won a blowout, when it was more like a buzzer-beater. But keep drinking the Kool-Aid and thinking you’re a majority, at 40% or less Buyer’s remorse is now beginning to set in among your sheeple. it will only grow.
3. I live in Cleveland, too…and SCENE folks live here as well. They do babble on (too much) about food and craft beers and chefs and “eateries” (their word,not mine) but whatchoo gonna do? You think they know less about politics than they do, merely because they happen to tilt left.? Okay, keep believing it, if it helps. Whatever gets you through the night, pal.
4. Last word is yours. I know you want it, so have at it. God Help America.
Chuckles the Clown
1. Is there an age card? I have no idea. I simply recall you shouting down one of your own because they had only attended a fraction of the protests you have. The narcissism is actually pretty sad.
2. Actually liked the Yugo joke. But I’m afraid there is no :buyers remorse”. The man is doing exactly what he promised, and I know I couldn’t be happier. I don’t think the protests calling for no borders and no nations helps your cause….it solidifies the right.
3. I believe they “report” through an ideological lens. And that clouds judgement.
4. You know me all too well!