J.T.
Just for the Record! Fixed for TACO
TRUMP’S MASS DEPORTATION HITS ITS OWN WALL
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So much to read, yet, such little time. This reality notwithstanding, here are four articles I think you should check out this weekend and why.
1. Aryan Brotherhood members found guilty of ordering L.A. County murders from prison – Matthew Ormseth, L.A. Times
2. LADWP paying up to $1,975 an hour to Munger, Tolles & Olson, to defend against lawsuits from the Palisades – Matt Hamilton & David Zahniser, L.A. Times
3. Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan Hits Its Own Wall – Brittany Gibson, Axios
4. Revisiting Obama‘s Presidency and its Impact on the Democratic Party – Yeva Nersisyan, The Hill
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J.T.
Why Should We Be Deported? This is very, very hard for a family
In 1905 Donald Trump’s grandfather Friedrich Trump, originally born in Kallstadt, a small village in Germany, was threatened with deportation for failing to report for military services in the 1880s and instead migrating to the United States. While in New York during this time, he met his wife, Donald Trump’s grandmother Elisabeth Christ, who herself had immigrated to the U.S. from Kallstadt in 1902.
In an effort to remain in Bavaria, where he had resettled by 1904, Friedrich Trump pleaded with Prince Luitpold, a stand-in leader of Bavaria who himself was only in charge because of his nephews’ mental incapacities for governance.
In the letter quoted above, published by Harper’s Magazine in 2017, Friedrich Trump cites undue hardship upon him and his family due to the news of the pending deportation from Bavaria, noting in particular its adverse effects on his mother, his wife Elisabeth, and his daughter Elizabeth.
Ultimately, Prince Luitpold rejected this plea, and Friedrich Trump and his family were forced to return to the U.S. in June 30, 1905.
Their son Fred, Donald Trump’s father, was born just four months later in October, and due in no small part to the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the 14th amendment just seven years earlier, was officially a U.S. citizen for being born here. The rest is Los Cuentos; let the city know!
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J.
Btw L.A., did you know…?
Did you know that on L.A. Metro’s A Line, formerly known to a generation as “The Gold Line,” the dilapidated, creaky building you can see from the Chinatown to Lincoln Heights/Cypress station, is actually the former Lincoln Heights jail?
In 2016, the L.A. Times noted that: “In the early years of the jail, which opened in 1931, some people were hauled to the building along the concrete-lined L.A. River because they were gay, leading to the creation of a separate wing, according to the Los Angeles Conservancy. Many of those arrested during the 1943 Zoot Suit riots, in which [white] servicemen targeted young Mexican Americans, were taken to the Lincoln Heights Jail on North Avenue 19.”
The jail was also used for the federal government’s efforts against labor-organizing across the nation during the 1930s. One prisoner, E. Yagamuchi, was taken by authorities from the Imperial Valley and jailed for two years there, presumably for involvement with local labor organizing. Yagamuchi faced deportation to Japan before the International Labor Defense (ILD) organization rallied to his defense. In August 1932, the ILD’s efforts won him and another Japanese-American, Tetsui Horiyuchi, a “voluntary departure” to the U.S.S.R. instead.
The Lincoln Heights jail was officially closed in 1965, including because of overcrowding conditions that became well too apparent when residents taken from the Watts neighborhood were booked there during the Watts Rebellion in August 1965.
Now, 58 years after the fact, the youngest member of L.A. City Council, who also just completed her first year in office, is looking to transform the former jail into social housing for the Lincoln Heights community. Think it can’t be done? Hear about it and more through our latest podcast with Council Member for L.A.’s 1st District, Eunisses Hernandez.
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J.T.