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By Wayne Ince (Big Sarge) · big-sarge.blog At Jewish Community Services of South Florida this summer, eighteen Haitian employees finished their last shifts. Some had worked as home health aides there for more than twenty years. Four hundred Holocaust survivors relied on their care. When the work permits expired, the aides who were left picked up the missing hours and the agency called it overtime. That is what Florida just did to the people who bathe its parents, lift its dis

Courtroom - Wix.com Thirteen thousand Haitians with Temporary Protected Status work in this country as nursing assistants. Eight thousand more work as home caregivers. Fifty thousand American children have a Haitian TPS holder for a parent. On June 25, six justices of the Supreme Court decided the government can strip the legal status of every one of those parents, and that no federal court is permitted to ask whether the government followed the law on its way there. The case

Wix.com AI generated image only *By Wayne "Big Sarge" Ince* The June jobs report came out while people were watching fireworks. It said the U.S. added 57,000 jobs, about half of what forecasters wanted, and the share of adults working or looking for work slid to 61.5 percent, the lowest since March 2021.[1][2] The headline unemployment rate ticked down to 4.2 percent, but the Bureau of Labor Statistics was clear about why. People left the labor force. They did not find better

America did not hand equality to anybody. People forced it into law while power kicked, lied, delayed, and called itself patient. Let me be straight with you. Civil rights law was never a gift. Nobody in power woke up one morning, looked at Black America, and decided the country had been unfair long enough. That is not how power works. Power concedes when it gets cornered. Power moves when people organize, bleed, sue, march, vote, and make the lie too expensive to keep sellin

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Discover how military domestic deployment impacts immigrants, revealing key challenges and opportunities. The debate over military force inside U.S. borders often centers on politics, public safety, and budgets. Less visible is another question that quietly shapes thousands of lives: how does military domestic deployment impact immigrants? Behind every order sending National Guard troops or Marines into American cities are immigrants in uniform, immigrant families waiting at

President Donald Trump’s August 2025 decision to deploy about 800 National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., and to place the Metropolitan Police Department under temporary federal control has ignited a contentious debate about federal power, public safety, and the boundary between help and occupation. The administration framed this move as a response to rising crime, but the timing, legal basis, and optics create a high-stakes constitutional and political test.

Photo Credit: Author DigitalDivideWayne Introduction: Recently, the dysfunction within the Republican Party has reached alarming levels,...

In recent years, an alarming trend has emerged in the United States - the rise of national book bans. These bans directly impacting the...

The Jan 6th insurrection at the United States Capitol was a shocking and unprecedented event that sent shockwaves through the nation....

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I'm almost sure that Republican Senator Lindsay Graham rode a horse named Hyprocisy to work because of the hypocritical statements made....

This essay is a critical examination of Anti-Woke movement against social justice and equality