Advancing immigrant and economic justice in Orange County.
Orange County, CA
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Five months after GKN’s chemical emergency forced 50,000+ people to evacuate, the company has a path back to full operations.
The moratorium residents have demanded doesn’t.
The GKN chemical disaster in Garden Grove wasn't just a corporate failure, it was a failure of public policy.
We joined Senator Tom Umberg and the California Sierra Club in testifying before two California Assembly committees in support of SB 883.
The bill would strengthen safeguards for hazardous chemical facilities, keep dangerous reactive chemicals away from residential neighborhoods, and help ensure no community experiences what Garden Grove endured.
🧵SCOTUS reaffirmed birthright citizenship, rejecting Trump's attempt to dismantle one of the Constitution's most fundamental guarantees.
The real warning is that the far right succeeded in bringing a serious threat to birthright citizenship before the highest court in the land.
5/ It is part of a broader project to narrow constitutional rights, redefine citizenship, and concentrate political power through exclusion.
When extremist ideas become normalized, even long-established constitutional rights become vulnerable.
Harbor Institute for Immigrant & Economic Justice retweeted
If Democrats retake Congress and the presidency, they must commit to abolishing ICE.
For decades, Democrats have compromised with the extreme right hoping for immigration reform that never came.
We need a vision that centers immigrant communities & rejects mass deportation.
The GKN Aerospace chemical disaster exposed more than a public safety failure. It exposed the reality that working-class immigrant communities are being asked to absorb the risks of hazardous manufacturing while corporations profit.
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More than 50,000 people were forced to evacuate after a chemical disaster at GKN Aerospace.
Families displaced. Schools disrupted. Entire communities left wondering whether they were going to be able to go back to their homes.
Community organizations and residents held a press conference to launch the "Arms Embargo: GKN Out of Garden Grove" campaign following the toxic chemical disaster at GKN Aerospace that forced the evacuation of more than 50,000 residents across Orange County.
The coalition is demanding accountability, transparency, a halt to GKN expansion plans, and the permanent shutdown of the facility. Garden Grove residents deserve safety over corporate profits.
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The Santa Ana City Council unanimously supported moving forward with a resolution backing AB 1537, proposed state legislation that would prohibit local and state law enforcement officers from working immigration enforcement-related side jobs tied to detention and deportations.
Supporters say the bill would close what @isaacgbryan (D-Los Angeles) and co-sponsors, including the Harbor Institute for Immigrant & Economic Justice, describe as a “loophole” in California’s sanctuary protections.
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