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Immigration Reform Is Still Possible — With a Strong Social Movement
Throughout U.S. history, working people have been held down by their own prejudices, including xenophobia. It has plagued the country since colonial times, and it operates in tandem with racism
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How the Hart–Celler Act Changed America
For those eager to advance the cause of immigrant rights, or for anyone who wants to understand the historical roots of the current political landscape, The Walls Within should be required reading
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Freedom to Stay, Freedom to Move
To create a world where we all have a home, we have to dismantle the border regime — not just borders, but all bordering, all ordering and all exploitative regimes
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Dehumanization gets easier and easier, the more we engage in it. The process is called war. It’s called economic exploitation. And it’s called border control
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Little Amal, Channel deaths and cruelty by design
People cross the channel in small boats because we give them no other choice
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Democrats: Don’t Compromise on a Path to Citizenship
To ensure human rights at home, not only in other countries, legislation is needed to open a path to full citizenship, not just provide a temporary fix
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‘Haitians are Kidnapped Every Day’
Missionary Abductions Shed Light on Growing Crisis
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Advocates for Haitian Asylum Seekers Call for Humane Treatment
“Why are some human beings more deserving of rights than other human beings?”
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Vice-President Harris: It’s Your Turn to Step Up for Immigrant Rights
More than at any time in the recent past, Congress and the Biden administration have the means to open a path to citizenship to millions of undocumented residents
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The US Needs a Deep Reassessment of Its Immigration Policies
The U.S. needs to make its asylum policy clear. It needs to define who it will allow to seek asylum and apply that standard without discrimination
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Democrats’ Free Pass on Immigration Is Over
As he extends Trump-era policies, President Biden discovers that many voters are no longer willing to give him the benefit of the doubt
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Roaming Charges: When the Whip Comes Down
The US is whipping people on the border to preserve a democracy that is incapable of changing a system most of its citizens find morally abhorrent
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End “Inhumane” Deportation & Whipping of Haitian Asylum Seekers
U.S. Border Patrol agents on horseback were filmed chasing, grabbing and whipping Haitian asylum seekers who had gathered in a makeshift camp in Del Rio, Texas
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‘Unfathomable cruelty’ at the border continues under Biden
'It doesn't matter if a Democrat or Republican is president, our immigration system is designed for cruelty towards and dehumanization of immigrants'
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A Setback for Immigrant Rights
And a Reminder of Our Hollowed-Out Democracy
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Biden Vows Mass Deportations as Thousands of Haitian Refugees Shelter in Del Rio
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Which forms of slaughter were your ancestors escaping? And what forms of bondage did they find here?
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The Groundbreaking Decision That Struck a Blow to Racist Immigration Laws
Nearly 100 years ago, Congress passed a law making it a felony to reenter the US after being deported. Now a judge has found it too racist to be allowed
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The path to citizenship is the path to a more democratic America
Citizenship, and the voting rights that go with it, are ultimately issues of agency, power, and voice
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Spain’s VOX party and the threat of ‘international environmental populism’
In the coming years, we should expect global warming to become one of the major threats from which a ‘European people’ needs to be ‘protected’
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After Devastating DACA Ruling, Dreamers Vow to Push for Legalization
"We’re done waiting,” she said. “We’re done having to take a back seat. We’re done playing nice.”
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Noncitizens May Soon Be Eligible to Vote in New York City
A bill extending the right to vote to noncitizens has a supermajority in the city council — the latest push to revive the tradition across the U.S.
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Imagine a country so clueless that its population ranks “illegal immigration” as a more serious concern than the biggest issue of our or any time – the climate catastrophe
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Taking a Wrong Turn on Immigration Detention
The administration is helping to reinforce an extensive system of institutions, policies, attitudes, and values that cast migrants as criminals
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President Trump, Child-Trafficker-in-Chief
While the Department of Homeland Security claimed that MPP would “decrease the… ability of smugglers and traffickers to prey on vulnerable populations,” in fact it does the opposite
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If Farmworkers Are “Essential,” Why Are They Treated So Badly?
Over the course of U.S. history, farmworkers, although essential, have been terribly mistreated
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Immigrant farm workers have long been essential to the U.S. But they have never been recognized, respected or properly rewarded for their labor
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Witnessing the Hell That a Migrant Can Face
At Obock, Djibouti, 2,000 migrants gather each day along the waters of the Gulf of Aden; they look for boats to get them to Yemen
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Who Killed Oscar and Valeria: The Inconvenient History of the Refugee Crisis
The haunting image of the bodies of Salvadoran father, Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez, and his daughter, Valeria, who were washed ashore at a riverbank on the Mexico-U.S. border cannot be understood separately from El Salvador’s painful past
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AOC Challenges Trump Official on Secret Border Patrol Facebook Group
"You don’t think that having 10,000 officers in a violent, racist group sharing rape memes of members of Congress points to any concern?"
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Hopkins Students Sit-In to Oppose University Police and ICE Contract
The protestors say they will occupy Hopkins until officials end the militarization of its campus
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Europe’s White Supremacists Have Powerful Allies
After a massive neo-fascist march in Poland and new reports of neo-Nazi influence in Ukraine, Lev Golinkin says both the US and Russia have troubling ties to Europe's far-right
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Plane Wreck At Los Gatos (Deportee)
A version of the legendary song
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President Obama should issue a general pardon for undocumented immigrants
A message on the critical problem faced by undocumented immigrants on the verge of a Trump presidency
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Immigrant Children Abuse—the Latest U.S. Border ‘Crisis’
Jack Rasmus welcomes long time immigrant justice journalists, David Bacon and Alexandra Early, to discuss the latest issue in immigrant rights: the surge of 50,000 plus children across the US southern border
Blogs
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Viva la Huelga! – Farm Workers on Strike
As workers walked past fields of strawberries and blueberries into...
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“The Afghanistan War and the Occupy Movement are Not Over;
Talk at the Event, Celebrating the One Year Anniversary of...
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The London call: No more police state tactics
Activists in London, Ontario, Canada have prepared this local version...
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