Hello, dear one. These are challenging times and my heart is with you and your community,

whatever you may be going through right now. I felt compelled to republish this conversation

with Naomi Pake from 2022 because of how pertinent this discussion is for these times on deportation and the deportability

of workers as labor discipline, immigration policy as labor policy, how the military recruits

disproportionately from disenfranchised communities to be deployed disproportionately against

other or the same disenfranchised communities,

the increasing outsourcing of military work to migrant workers, challenging the nation of

immigrants' narrative, and so, so much more. I hope it stirs, expands, and shifts you in the ways

that it did for me, and in the ways that this time needs

from us. And yeah, take good care.

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