Stephanie Teatro

Tennessee stands to lose $25M in funding from USAID, focused on agricultural partnerships in Southeast Asia.

From LA wildfires to hurricanes, immigrants help rebuild after disasters. Trump may deport many As the number of extreme weather events exacerbated by climate change increases, there is a growing workforce of laborers, many of them without legal status.

The TN legislature is advancing an extreme immigration enforcement agenda as they advance disaster relief for victims of Hurricane Helene. Who will help Tennesseans rebuild? www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...

“Today we’re not talking about abortion and today we’re not talking about gun rights. But two, three years from now, we could be. And if we set the precedent penalizing any elected official for voting their conscience — whether it’s good or bad — then we’ve set a dangerous precedent for the future.”

The Unchecked Authority of Trump’s Immigration Orders The President is recasting migration as a form of “invasion,” broadening his already expansive powers and making anyone in the U.S. who’s undocumented a potential target.

How to understand Trump’s day-one immigration orders and the havoc they unleashed. My latest: www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

On the 1st day of his 2nd term of office, President Trump issued 10 executive orders & proclamations seeking to change the face of U.S. immigration law & policy, touching nearly every aspect of an already complex and exacting system.

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Opinion | Who will rebuild Los Angeles? Immigrants. And many of them will be doing it under threat of family separation.

“It will be a moral failure that as immigrants work to get Southern California back on its feet — cleaning up mountains of debris, erecting wooden beams, installing drywall & wiring electrical systems — they will be doing so under threat of family separation.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

The Flooding Will Come “No Matter What”: Climate Change is Already Forcing People From Their Homes The complex, contradictory and heartbreaking process of American climate migration is underway.

An excerpt from one of the best books of 2024, “On The Move” www.propublica.org/article/clim...