“Weaponizing a 200-year-old law to facilitate mass deportations is pure xenophobia and would repeat one of the darkest episodes in United States history,” said Erol Kekic, senior vice president of programs at Church World Service.
“Diversity, equity and inclusion, that’s code in the mouth of the president for Black people,” said Jacqui Lewis, senior minister at Middle Collegiate Church in New York City and author of the forthcoming book “The Just Love Story Bible.”
“Donald Trump’s election brings us to one of the most dangerous moments in our country’s history,” said National Immigration Law Center President Kica Matos.
Christian nationalism inspired much of last year’s surge in anti-immigrant, anti-Black, anti-LGBTQ and antigovernment activity, The Southern Poverty Law Center noted in its report “The Year in Hate & Extremism 2023.”
David Gushee’s book “Defending Democracy from Its Christian Enemies” warns that many Christians have adopted a “holy war mindset” and are “flirting with, blessing or engaging in violence. And that’s part of the story of January 6.”
These events are replete with MAGA superstars, conspiracy theorists, January 6 insurrection organizers and violence-laden rhetoric of an “America First” white Christian nationalism.
“It is heartbreaking to see Congress embrace a budget bill that strips meals and health care away from children and families to fund massive tax breaks for the super wealthy and an unaccountable private school voucher program,” said PSEA President Aaron Chapin.
The Bucks County Beacons’s reporting on Senate Bill 780 was incomplete and inaccurate, argues the head of the Bucks County Democratic Committee in an OpEd.
Education reporter Peter Greene breaks down Mahmoud v. Taylor.
“Head Start has been called one of the most successful anti-poverty programs in American history and continuing this comprehensive program is a reason for hope,” said Adam Clark, region advocacy coordinator for Pennsylvania State Education Association.
“This bill would allow you to set aside any state law, you could pollute the air as much as you want, you could pollute the water as much as you want, you could do anything essentially that you wanted that would ordinarily violate the law,” said former Secretary for PA’s Department of Environmental Protection David Hess.
