Saul Degraw says:

L2: NYPD cops are not under Trump’s control. Andrew Cuomo ordered them to let protesters to JFK and they relented. I suppose this could work but Trump seems to fire anyone who he perceives as a threat to his authority.

L3: I think this depends. They can hire refugees who are already here. Though it would be interesting to see someone sue that they were denied a job for not being a refugee.

L5: I wonder how Jacobin would react to a Working Class Party that was economically socialist or left but socially conservative. The problem we have seen is that no one agrees on the definition of who and who is not working class and sometime’s working class movements get treated by other members of the working class as “sub working class.” Loomis on LGM believes that the WWC always puts their race identity above their class identity. The fight for 15 is a working class movement conducted by the urban working class who also happened to be POC usually. The response from the WWC seem to be “You aren’t really working class. You are below us.”

Ed2: I think Lee and Fillyjonk cover this above. I’ve also seen what Fillyjonk mentions in essays done by working-class people who were the first in their families to go to college. They had no help or experience in dealing with the forms and functions of college. Here is a representative sample from a Cuban-American who got into Cornell:

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/23/opinion/sunday/taking-my-parents-to-college.html?_r=0

I was a first-generation college student as well as the first in our family to be born in America — my parents were born in Cuba — and we didn’t yet know that families were supposed to leave pretty much right after they unloaded your stuff from the car.

We all made the trip from Miami, my hometown, to what would be my new home at Cornell University. Shortly after arriving on campus, the five of us — my parents, my younger sister, my abuela and me — found ourselves listening to a dean end his welcome speech with the words: “Now, parents, please: Go!”

Almost everyone in the audience laughed, but not me, and not my parents. They turned to me and said, “What does he mean, Go?” I was just as confused as they were: We thought we all needed to be there for freshman orientation — the whole family, for the entirety of it. My dad had booked their hotel through the day after my classes officially began. They’d used all their vacation days from work and had been saving for months to get me to school and go through our orientation.

Further down:

She sighed into the phone and said: “Just read me the first question. We’ll go through it a little at a time and figure it out.”

I read her the topic slowly, pausing after each sentence, waiting for her to say something. The first topic was two paragraphs long. I remember it had the word intersectionalities in it. And the word gendered. And maybe the phrase theoretical framework. I waited for her response and for the ways it would encourage me, for her to tell me I could do this, that I would eventually be the first in my family to graduate from college.

“You’re right,” she said after a moment. “You’re screwed.”

Other parents — parents who have gone to college themselves — might have known at that point to encourage their kid to go to office hours, or to the writing center, or to ask for help. But my mom thought I was as alone as I feared.

The woman who wrote this essay had a happy ending but how many others do not?

There is also the fact that foreigners tend to have money. My law school’s undergrad unit has a reputation for taking in a lot of Asian students with sometimes questionable English skills. These students are very wealthy though. I see them driving very fancy and new sports cars. I see them wearing clothing by designers whose stuff costs hundreds of dollars per an item. This is a far cry from when I was in college and seemingly everyone just rolled out of bed and attended their first class in PJs.Report