Latest Immigration
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Critics are demanding answers after the Trump administration refused to allow prominent Palestinian human rights activist Omar Barghouti to enter the United States for a speaking tour, despite his valid U.S. visa
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Jackson: The Politics Behind Trump’s Empty Border Threats
Don’t worry about Trump closing the border. Even his administration won’t be that self-destructive
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Andiola: Trump Purges DHS Leadership
Threatens to Make Immigration Policies Even More Draconian
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Joseph-Salisbury: No deportation is justified
We must fight to end to the inhumanity of detention
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Beck: Navigating Corruption, Inequality and Trump
As President Trump continues his threats to close the U.S.-Mexico border to stop the flow of asylum seekers, we look at the response from Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and the first four months of his presidency
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Lacy: ICE Teaming With North Carolina Republicans to Fight Pro-Immigrant Sheriffs
North Carolina sheriffs’ offices for years had been working hand in hand with ICE in its efforts to intimidate and arrest undocumented people
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Frey: Why the Real Migration Crisis Is in Central America
President Trump has announced the United States will cut off funding to the so-called Northern Triangle countries of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador
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Neuburger: Braceros Then and Now
The level of abuse, the intensity of the racial hatred being directed against immigrants (and others outside the narrow frame of white supremacy), is such that we are in ugly, dangerous territory
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Molinar-Arvizo: Worse Than the Wall
The agencies that separate families, abuse children, and deport innocent people should be just as toxic as Trump’s wall
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deBuys: How to Make a Difficult Situation Awful
Or Why Donald Trump’s Great Wall Is Viagra for Him, But a Border Disaster
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Fletcher: Trump’s Wall Is a Symbol With a Long and Toxic History
The task for those believing in justice, then, is to take the crisis on directly and not fall prey to evasion or ignorance
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Petersen-Smith: Progressives Should Support Open Borders — With No Apology
Supporting freedom of movement isn’t just the right thing to do. It’s a political winner for the left
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Feffer: The Psychology of the Wall
Wall are cropping up all over the world. But as with guns, the sense of safety and security that comes from a wall is almost entirely illusory
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Rasmus: Trump’s Wall & National Emergency Declaration Coming
The US elite know the next recession, coming soon, will significantly exacerbate the economic problems at home, while intensifying the political instability abroad. And they are preparing–at home and abroad
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Jorden: ICE Announces “New Normal”
North Carolina Immigrant Arrests Climb to 230
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Morales: Undocumented Immigrant Spent Five Years as Trump’s Housekeeper
Morales spent years making Donald Trump’s bed and performing other duties at his New Jersey club, even though she was undocumented
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Jorden: “All He’s Ever Done Is Work”
Raid At Gun Factory Questions Immigrant Right to Identity
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Dorfman: Can “Roma” Teach Trump’s America the Value of Compassion?
Staying in Santiago, Chile, at the moment, I see echoes and reflections of Cleo – the servant at the heart of Alfonso Cuarón’s wondrous film Roma – everywhere
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Baroud: The Faces Behind the Wall
My Experience at the US-Mexico Border
ZMag Immigration
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Jorden: ICE Announces “New Normal”
ICE agents may also make “collateral arrests,” detaining anyone in the area who is not capable of providing official documentation to prove their citizenship or legal status at their discretion
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Baroud: Is There A Plot To Depopulate Palestinian Refugee Camps In Lebanon?
Clearly there are those who are keen to rid Lebanon of its Palestinian population
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Jorden: A New Caravan Heads North for the American Dream
They’re gathering in the early morning hours of Friday, October 12, 2018 outside the city. At least 100: nursing mothers and motherless teens, a man on crutches and another pushed by his brother in a wheelchair
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Miller: The Border Fetish, The U.S. Frontier as a Zone of Profit and Sacrifice
Borders have become another way of making sure that nothing gets in the way of the sanctity of business as usual in a world that desperately needs something new
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Bacon: Don’t Punish the Dreamers
The “dreamers,” young recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, more than anyone are the true children of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) —they have paid the price for the agreement. Yet they are the ones punished by the administration of President Trump
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Yee: Targeting Southern Sanctuary Cities
As the national debate around sanctuary cities has become increasingly fraught and political, the term “sanctuary” has largely lost its meaning and has come to be used or rejected by various actors for their own purposes
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Bacon: What Trump Can and Can’t Do to Immigrants
Immigrant labor is more vital to many industries than it’s ever been before. Immigrants have always made up most of the country’s farm workers in the West and Southwest. Today, according to the U.S. Department of Labor, about 57 percent of the country’s entire agricultural workforce is undocumented. But the list of other industries dependent on immigrant labor is long—meatpacking, some construction trades, building services, healthcare, restaurant and retail service, and more
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Parsons: Humanity Without Borders
Before the summit convened, it was already clear that rich governments would not be placing the needs of refugees and migrants above their narrow national self-interest.
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Each year since 2012, roughly 20,000 refugees have been resettled in the 13 Southern states
Video Immigration
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Noor: 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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Golinkin: 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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& The Flood: Plane Wreck At Los Gatos (Deportee)
A version of the legendary song
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Chomsky: 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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Varoufakis: Europe’s “Hot Spot” Refugee Registration Centers are “Concentration Camps”
Interview on the refugee crisis in Europe, and so-called hot spots that are registration centers for refugees in his country
Audio Immigration
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Rasmus: 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
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Melody and Lyrics: Lonnie Ray Atkinson Translation: Julie Nastri Vocals:...
Blogs Immigration
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Maslauskas Dunn: Viva la Huelga! – Farm Workers on Strike
As workers walked past fields of strawberries and blueberries into...
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Bohmer: “The Afghanistan War and the Occupy Movement are Not Over;
Talk at the Event, Celebrating the One Year Anniversary of...
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Black: The London call: No more police state tactics
Activists in London, Ontario, Canada have prepared this local version...
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George: The Return of Refugee Politics
Like shades of the rampant xenophobia that occurred just before...
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Forte: Sour Chutney: The Ethnopoetics of Exploitation, Transplantation, and Violence
Sour Chutney: The Ethnopoetics of Exploitation, Transplantation, and Violence
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Cat: Aristotle U. Occupation – Greece
Occupation of the Aristotle University Thessaloniki Rector’s Office – against...
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Simpson: No Exit: Our Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants
In Jean-Paul Sarte’s play, No Exit, 3 people are locked...
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Nicíomhair: Petition for asylum seeking family in Belfast
Hello, I am writing to ask you to take a...
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Tabaddor: A country without immigrants?
The United States, as we know it today would not...
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Immigrants are less likely to comit crimes than natural citizens...
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Nicíomhair: What faces sans-papiers in France?
Round-ups The hunt for sans-papiers is in full swing in...
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Street: Immigration Doesn’t Have to Be a Zero Sum Game Pitting Natives Against Newcomers
My visiting-professorial year in and around in one of the...
