Tomorrow Project Challenges
Immigration Raids
Protests that started in Los Angeles against the Trump administration's immigration crackdown are gaining momentum in cities across the U.S. Read about it, write about it!
[Photo credit: Mark Abramson for The New York Times, June 10, 2025]
Trump's response to the protests in Los Angeles – to send in the National Guard and Marines – happened against the wishes of California Gov. Gavin Newsom and L.A. police. Newsom called the deployment of military forces "a blatant abuse of power." Protests against the Trump administration are growing. (See the Seven Days story about protests in Burlington.) Is America becoming an autocracy as this opinion piece suggests? "This Is What Autocracy Looks Like" by Michelle Goldberg, The New York Times, June 10, 2025.
Also worth reading: "Trump Wants to be a Strongman, But He's Actually a Weak Man," by Jamelle Bouie, The New York Times, June 11, 2025.
