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Big Tech monopolies from Amazon to Facebook to Twitter have too much power over our economy and the fate of our democracy. Their contributions to a growing amount of right-wing conspiracies and work to undermine unionization efforts are just two examples of a growing problem.

In this critical moment where Big Tech giants are violating our rights and undermining our democracy, our elected officials have an obligation to protect our country’s core democratic principles.

So, with the Senate ready to vote on two antitrust bills S. 2992 and S. 2710 we need you to tell them why truly meaningful antitrust reform is needed to rein in Big Tech’s power!

Strong antitrust laws are crucial for us to protect ourselves from increasing concentrated corporate power.

The monopoly power that Big Tech has damages democracy, leads to lower wages for workers, and increases inequality. It’s clear we need to break the growing and dangerous power of Big Tech.

Together, these two sets of bills will prohibit large corporations from giving preference to their own products on their platform, stop them from unfairly limiting the availability of competing products from another business, and prohibit companies from requiring other developers to use their own in-app payment systems.

With momentum to take on Big Tech monopolies building, now is the time to write your elected officials and tell them to pass antitrust reform legislation to stop Big Tech from dominating our lives.

At a time when Big Tech giants are putting their interests before our rights and democracy, your action is critical. Thank you.

-Rick

Rick Weiland, Founder
TakeItBack.Org

The act of June 30, 1834 (4 Stat. 729), defining “the Indian country,” is as much a local act as the donation act of 1023 Oregon or the penal code of the District of Columbia. By its terms, “the Indian country” was limited to “that part of the United States west of the Mississippi, and not within the states of Missouri or Louisiana, or the territory of Alaska, and, also, that part of the United States east of the Mississippi River, and not within any state, to which the Indian …

Source: npr, wiki,

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I… am not a historian, or an educator but the idea that history is being served up online, dictionaries, documentaries, and or possibly history books our kids have to see …and using terms like “Congress creates Indian Territory” is beyond offensive! Yes, Tribes wanted peace, most tried to assimilate while others were defiant … either way they were murdered …. and the most obvious tactic used by white settlers, business owners, and politicians was to keep them uninformed, manipulated, and to keep moving their goal which moved them into unbearable choices that were too much for most… and treaties were broken depending on what group was in Congress

– nativegrl77

Operation Wetback: Use military to deport 1.3M Mexicans ~ Q: was this said in the Oval Office?

Operation Wetback was an immigration law enforcement initiative created by Joseph Swing, the Director of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service, in cooperation with the Mexican government.

The program was implemented in June 1954 by U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell. The short-lived operation used military-style tactics to remove Mexican immigrants—some of them American citizens—from the United States. Though millions of Mexicans had legally entered the country through joint immigration programs in the first half of the 20th century, Operation Wetback was designed to send them back to Mexico.

The U.S. Border Patrol packed Mexican immigrants into trucks when transporting them to the border for deportation during Operation Wetback.

In 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower launched Operation Wetback, a shameful initiative to remove (often violently) thousands of undocumented workers–mostly Mexican nationals. In what has been described as a “quasi-military operation”, border patrol agents, along with state and local law enforcement methodically targeted Mexican-Americans. The result was widespread fear and abuse.

It is estimated that 4,800 people were apprehended on the first day of the military operation. In the end, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) claimed as many as 1,300,000 were deported–many on their own out of fear. There were reports of beatings. Hundreds of families were torn apart. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Source: Fox News latino.foxnews.com OpEd , Mar 29, 2013

Fact Check: Operation Wetback deported 2.1Million Mexicans, not 13Million   A heavily-circulated email states:

“What did Hoover, Truman, and Eisenhower have in common? Hoover ordered the deportation of ALL illegal aliens in order to make jobs available to American citizens; Truman deported over two million Illegals after WWII to create jobs for returning veterans; then Eisenhower deported 13 million Mexican Nationals!”

Is it true? This distortion of history but has picked up momentum as the immigration debate has heated up again. This e-mail’s message is bogus for all three presidents. Details:

Eisenhower did not deport 13 million Mexicans. Only 1/10 that number was ever claimed by the federal officials in charge of “Operation Wetback,” and even that figure is criticized as inflated by guesswork. Officially, just over 2.1 million were recorded as having been deported or having departed under threat of deportation. None of these presidents presided over any general deportation campaign.

Source: FactCheck 2010: “Hoover, Truman & Ike: Mass Deporters?” , Jul 9, 2010

1955: Mexican border “secured” after Operation Wetback . Truman’s successor pushed harder than Truman did, presiding over what was officially called “Operation Wetback,” a vigorous, federally led effort to remove illegal Mexican immigrants from the Southwest. (The term “wetback” is a disparaging term applied to Mexicans who swam or waded across the Rio Grande River–and today is considered an ethnic slur.)

“Operation Wetback” lasted only a few months, deporting about 2.1 million Mexicans. It was announced June 9, 1954. It encompassed “mopping up” activities in northern cities as well, which removed 20,174 illegal Mexican aliens from industrial jobs.

The INS reported by 1955: “The so-called ‘wetback’ problem no longer exists. This is no longer, as in the past, a problem in border control. The border has been secured.” More than half a century later, history has shown that official claim to be a fantasy.

Source: FactCheck 2010: “Hoover, Truman & Ike: Mass Deporters?” , Jul 9, 2010

Op Ed: Treated Mexican border crossings as act of war In 1954, when Eisenhower discovered a million Mexicans here who did not belong, without apology he ordered them sent home in “Operation Wetback.” They went. Had Vicente Fox’s regime colluded in an invasion of the US, as it has for the last 6 years, those presidents would have regarded and treated it as an act of war.

What explains the paralysis of the present White House? George Bush has taken an oath to see to it that the laws of the US are faithfully executed. The immigration laws are clear.

Source: State of Emergency, by Pat Buchanan, p. 17 , Oct 2, 2007

Change immigration quotas to be less discriminatory. There is one sphere in which civil rights are inevitably involved in Federal legislation. This is the sphere of immigration.

It is a manifest right of our Government to limit the number of immigrants our Nation can absorb. It is also a manifest right of our Government to set reasonable requirements on the character and the numbers of the people who come to share our land and our freedom. It is well for us, however, to remind ourselves occasionally of an equally manifest fact: we are–one and all– immigrants or sons and daughters of immigrants.

Existing legislation contains injustices. It does, in fact, discriminate. I am informed that it was realized, at the time of its enactment, that future study of the basis of determining quotas would be necessary.

I am therefore requesting the Congress to review this legislation and to enact a statute that will at one and the same time guard our legitimate national interests and be faithful to our basic ideas of freedom and fairness to all.

Sources: wiki  and internet

So, the question for Americans is… what is the definition of American Values after the era of trump seemingly exposed some ill will?

-Nativegrl77