Massive ICE raids over the weekend yielded 35 total arrests according to the AP after the initial target was to take in around 2,100 total people.
One potential reason for the ICE and the Trump administrationโs massive fail when it came to trying to meet their inhumane numbers is the mass communication and networking that citizens undertook to protect immigrants leading up to and during the weekend.
The AP further reported that immigrants rights activists led massive โknow your rightsโ campaigns in cities like Houston, New York and Chicago who have large immigrant populations.
โTo inform the public, they used hotlines, text networks, workshops, social media and promoted a smartphone app that notifies family members in case of an arrest.โ
However, this isnโt the end to the Trump administrationโs attempts to sow discourse amongst the American public when it comes to immigration and try to stop migrants and asylum seekers from coming over the border altogether.
This past week, the Administration has rolled out plans to limit the number of migrants and asylum seekers from Central America, allow officials to deport more unauthorized immigrants without a court hearing and have reportedly discussed lowering the refugee cap to near zero.
๐ฌ What else weโre talking aboutโฆ
๐ฌ๐ง The UK has its own blonde problem
As expected, Boris Johnson was elected to succeed Theresa May as British Prime Minister, a role heโs expected to take on Wednesday. Despite his notorious laziness and lack of solution, heโll be expected to devise a plan to get Britain out of the EU within the next 99 days.
โ๏ธ Donald Trump files a lawsuit against the Ways and Means Committee
According to Axios, Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit (as a private citizen) against the House Ways and Means Committee, New York Attorney General Letitia James and New York tax commissioner Michael Schmidt in an effort to prevent them from releasing his state tax returns.
๐ฝ9/11 Victims Compensation Fund extended through 2092
In a 97-2 final tally, the Senate today voted to fund the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund through 2092. Senators Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) were the only senators to vote no.
The fund, which helps roughly 93,000 9/11 first responders and victims who are still being monitored and/or treated after the attacks back in 2001 would have seen aid run out by 2020. According to the New York Daily News the total number of people killed as a result of the 9/11 attacks is set to exceed 2,977 people.
๐ฑ Apple in talks to buy Intelโs Smart Phone Modem Chip Business
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple is still in talks to buy Intelโs smartphone modem chip business. The reason behind this is looking to develop its own modem capabilities for its iPhone after a recently settledย legal dispute with Qualcomm.
๐ Tom Hanks is a spot on Mister Rogers
The new trailer for โA Beautiful Day in the Neighborhoodโ dropped Monday and featured Tom Hanks nailing the role of the TV icon Fred Rogers.
The movie is set to be released this upcoming Thanksgiving.
๐ฎ Is GameStop the next to die?
Is GameStop the next retailer to succumb to the online and digital revolution that has killed the likes of Blockbuster and Borders? Not so fast GameStop chief customer officer Frank Hamlin says in a recent interview with GameSpot citing that the physical game business still has a market due to the internet still not being available to everyone and games like Red Dead Redemption II and itโs potential 8K graphics capability pushing a file size of 400 GB.
Still, though, the Companyโs share price is hovering right around $4 which is down from the $55 it was back in November of 2013 and the $60 it was back in 2007.
๐ Mark Sanchez retires from the NFL to take an ABC/ESPN college football broadcasting job
32-year-old Mark Sanchez, a former fifth overall pick of the New York Jets has opted to call it a career after receiving zero offers from NFL teams this offseason. โThe Sanchizeโsโ decision though was essentially made for him after ABC offered him a very lucrative job in which heโll take over for Mack Brown during the main in-studio televised broadcasts.
Aside from being an epic bust, Sanchez did see some success his first two years in the League but will be most remembered for his epic โbutt fumbleโ against the New England Patriots.
๐คฃ MTV has released the 2019 VMA nominees
Weโre not sure why theyโre still doing this.
