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Trump Proposes a Halt of Immigration|| EP 230

2020/4/22
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Judge tosses Twitter suit over surveillance secrecy

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/18/federal-judge-dismisses-surveillance-twitter-suit-193557?cid=apn)

A federal judge has dismissed Twitter's long-running lawsuit aimed at receiving a green light to provide users with a more detailed picture of U.S. government surveillance requests.

On Friday evening, U.S. District Court Judge Yvonne Rogers turned down the social media company's bid to reverse the FBI's classification of statistical reports Twitter wanted to release about demands it receives from U.S. authorities through National Security Letters and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants.

Hundreds of Amazon warehouse workers are set to call in sick to protest its response to COVID-19

https://www.businessinsider.com/hundreds-amazon-workers-call-in-sick-to-protest-coronavirus-response-2020-4)

Hundreds of US Amazon workers are set to protest Amazon's handling of the coronavirus crisis by calling in sick this week.

More than 300 Amazon employees have pledged to not go into work starting Tuesday, according to worker rights group United for Respect). The figures were first reported by The Guardian).

Trump Plans to Halt Nearly All Legal Immigration Into the U.S.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/04/trump-suspend-legal-immigration-green-card-immigrants-travel-ban-coronavirus.html)

The coronavirus has led the U.S. to a dark place of national reckoning. On Monday evening, President Donald Trump announced) his intention to further dim what remains of American life from just two months ago by suspending nearly all legal immigration into the country. “In light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as well as the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT American Citizens, I will be signing an Executive Order to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States!” Trump * tweeted*). The move is being made under the guise of the pandemic and an effort to protect American workers, many millions of whom now find themselves out of work, but it’s hard not to see something deeper and darker in the “America First” president’s motives. It’s hard not to read this as an opportunist seizing an opportunity. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices)