Monthly Archives: November 2025

“We can’t be bystanders when we see illegal and racist kidnappings terrorizing our communities.”

 

 

ICE.arrests

 

Posted above as a Word document:

ICE arrests Canal St. vendor in ‘targeted operation’ right after NYPD raids

By Nicholas Williams and Rocco Parascandola

New York Daily News

November 22 2025

I observe vendors from time to time in Manhattan: on the streets, in parks, and on the subway. They are, from what I have experienced, unobtrusive and “harmless.”

Selling knockoff handbags is a serious crime?

People should not be terrorized and locked up for trying to make a living.

 

— posted by ,Roger W Smith

,   November 2025

 

 

 

 

To our immigrant brothers and sisters, we stand with you in your suffering

 

https://www.usccb.org/news/2025/us-bishops-issue-special-message-immigration-plenary-assembly-baltimore

Bishops’ statement 11-12-2026

 

Catholic teaching exhorts exhorts nations to recognize the fundamental dignity of all persons … To our immigrant brothers and sisters, we stand with you in your suffering, since, when one member suffers, all suffer (cf. 1 Corinthians 12:26). You are not alone!

— United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Fall Plenary Assembly. Baltimore, MD. December 12, 2025

 

 

— posted by Roger W. Smith

  November 12, 20215