| On September 16, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an order authorizing the deployment of the National Guard and other federal police agencies to Memphis, TN. Right wing Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, and Tennessee Senators Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty stood by his side. While they gut Medicaid and other social programs, give some of the largest tax breaks ever to the rich, layoff federal workers and attack collective bargaining rights for more than 500,000 others, they’re dumping billions into ICE to terrorize immigrant workers and indiscriminately racially profile Latinx people, and billions more into these phony deployments to cities with major Black populations. After deploying the Guard and federal agencies in Washington, DC several weeks ago, Trump said he intended to next target New Orleans, St. Louis, and Chicago. Sixty-three percent of Memphis’ nearly 635,000 residents are Black. Nearly a quarter of the city lives in poverty. Over one third of those living in poverty are children, while Black and Latinx people each account for nearly a third of the total of those living below the poverty line. Eighty thousand Memphis residents are Latinx, and another nearly 50,000 are immigrants. Memphis is also the international headquarters of FedEx. In 2024, FedEx brought in over $87 billion in revenue. The vast majority, nearly 70%, of FedEx workers earn between $25,000 and $40,000 per year, or an average hourly wage of $16.96. FedEx is a notoriously anti-union corporation, who has busted efforts by workers to organize, and spent $837,000 on union busting firms between 2014 and 2018 alone. Elon Musk, another notorious anti-worker billionaire, recently opened a massive supercomputer facility in Memphis, sending poisonous toxic emissions into the nearby Black community. (continued) |
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