The Trump Administration Is Targeting Ilhan Omar to Send a Message to Immigrants
When ICE agents raided Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-Minn.) home in Washington, D.C., this week, they didn’t just invade her privacy to further a politically motivated attack on one of Donald Trump’s staunchest critics. They were also sending a message to immigrants: When a high-profile, elected official who came to the U.S. as a child and naturalized more than 25 years ago can be threatened with deportation, no one is safe.
Immigrant women, Muslim immigrants, refugees and even naturalized citizens can’t help but wonder who will be next.
The spectacle will likely come to nothing—much like other politically motivated Trump prosecution efforts—but it extracts a high toll on Omar, harassing and embarrassing her just weeks before the midterm elections.
-
‘No One Wants to Talk About Women in Tech’: Why WIRED Made an Issue All About Women
-
A Farewell to L7, the Band That Rocked for Choice and Refused to Play Nice
-
An ‘Old Boy’s Network’: Groundbreaking Report Exposes Decades of Catholic Clergy Abuse and Ongoing Protection of Abusers
-
Is the Cornell Rape Case a Turning Point for Men?
Get the Ms. Weekly News Digest:
Sign Up
Listen, Rate, Review and subscribe on:
Tradwives, Turning Point and the Business of Anti-Feminism (with Madeline Peltz)
What’s the deal with tradwives? From Turning Point to Instagram, the movement has found a strong following—and built a commercial empire. It’s even hit the runways, marketing “traditional” clothing to women as the next wave of what’s fashion forward. But what’s behind the curtain? Beyond the idyllic images of returning to the prairie and a slower pace of life, there’s discontent, abuse and women who want out.
This podcast and many more can be found in Ms. Studios or at your favorite podcast aggregator.
-
Get the magazine and join the community
Become a Member -
Support Ms.
Donate
Feminist Daily Newswire
Feminist Majority Foundation
From the Magazine:
Get Ms.’s award-winning feminist reporting delivered directly to your mailbox!
-
Survivors Describe How Epstein Used Their Modeling Dreams to Abuse Them
Jeffrey Epstein “used the modeling industry as a lever to try to get girls into his orbit,” says survivor Lisa Phillips.
Phillips describes how Epstein operated: He asked about her career, about how often she talked to her father (she told him not often), and he specifically wanted to know about her goals as a model. She told him her “big dream” was to work for Ford Models. He told her that she and the other model had to stay over on the island, then assaulted her later that night.
Months later, she says, he called to say he had arranged a meeting with his “great friend” Katie Ford, the CEO of Ford Models. Phillips met with Ford and became a model for the agency.
“Models were being sent to every charity event, every modeling party,” she says, “everything organized through Katie Ford and agents. … It was always us younger girls and older men. We [felt] our bodies weren’t ours and we would just have to put up with it to keep [our] career.”
Part 1 of The Pipeline to Predators, a four-part Ms. investigation into the modeling industry’s connections to Jeffrey Epstein and survivors’ fight for accountability.
Keeping Score: Women Marines Pass Tougher Fitness Standards; Congressional Candidate Hopes Rape Survivors ‘Have the Baby’; Sotomayor Questions Colleagues’ Understanding of First Amendment
In every issue of Ms., we track research on our progress in the fight for equality, catalogue can’t-miss quotes from feminist voices and keep tabs on the feminist movement’s many milestones. We’re Keeping Score online, too, in this biweekly roundup.
This week:
—”That is my greatest fear: that people don’t understand our system of government. They don’t understand what the First Amendment means. Some of my colleagues don’t either, by the way. And I’m not joking about that,” said Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
—A congressional candidate hopes rape survivors “have the baby.”
—Almost 70 percent of American women have experienced sexual violence, and 61 percent reported intimate partner violence (IPV).
—California passes new law finally banning child marriage.
—Mothers of young children remain dramatically underrepresented in government: Only 7.2 percent of Congress members are moms with minor children, compared to 18 percent of the adult population.
—Harvey Weinstein is resentenced to 15 years in prison in New York.
—Amazon accused of discriminating against pregnant employees using reasonable accommodations or medical leave.
—Public pressure led a district attorney to reopen cases against the “Cornell 7” fraternity members accused of gang raping a fellow student.
—Trump flip-flops opinion on mail voting ahead of the November election.
—Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear calls for Democrats to be a “party of compassion and empathy” towards trans students.
… and more.
