sharpton. i m alicia menendez. will he are won t comply. we begin this sunday with the january six committee subpoena showdown with donald trump. the committee voted unanimously to demand testimony from the former president. to show trump knew he lost and had a premeditated plan to declare victory. well traumatic incredibly dramatic where will this all lead? trump not known for cooperating with investigations season valton. so, what if he chooses to ignore the subpoena. committee matter says the panel hasn t ruled out contempt. i won t engage in any hypotheticals at this moment. as the subpoena hasn t been served but i what i will say. with previous subpoenas what you ve seen the committee do, is be deliberate and take the response to our subpoenas on a case by case basis. president biden has called committees evidence, devastating. including new clips of lawmakers in hiding during the attack. senate majority leader chuck schumer recalls that fateful day. it could be
disconnected. the attack on daca by politicians on millions of lives of undocumented people is not a coincidence. it is it s a plan to ensure that undocumented people remain out of democracy and out of the ability to have rights in this country. and so what s at stake is our democracy. it s our ability to say without any hesitation that in this country immigrants belong here and we re here to stay. i ve been in this work for the last 12 years. i ve grown up in this immigrant rights movement and we have yet to deliver citizenship for undocumented people in this. our message to democrats, our message to republicans is get it done. we have a golden opportunity, a golden opportunity to say that immigrants belong here and push back against a fascist minority who could say we don t along here. that s what s at stake. it s an issue that if you look at if you poll americans left and right, you ll see that
democratic challenger lieutenant governor mandela barnes last week. i want to take a listen to what johnson had to say about biden s handling of ? president biden came into the office, and remove that first necessary step that we must take. you cannot offer amnesty, stop a wide open border, or you ll have a flood of millions of more people coming to this country illegally. first of all i wish biden was more concerned with defending every inch of u.s. territory against the invasion of the southern border. to fact check, there s no amnesty, andrea, we ve seen the danger of the use of terms such as invasion play out in recent memory. we don t need to wonder what language this leads to. i wonder what goes through your mind as you hear those comments? just how much grounding we ve lost in the immigrant rights movement. the very linda tack, anti-migrant attacks, not just in the united states but in the world. and you see elected if elected
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has repeatedly retaliated against immigrant rights activists for exercising their First Amendment rights, according to a series of complaints filed by Professor of Clinical Law Alina Das ’05 and students in the Immigrant Rights Clinic (IRC) she teaches. Alleged retaliation against noncitizen activists has included detention and deportation.
BATON ROUGE - Production is underway at the LSU Library. Crews are filming a pilot for a new series inspired by the Immigrant Rights Movement that is set to be pitched to major networks.