Latest Immigration
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deBuys: Making America Great Again in a New Wild West
The Humanitarian and Environmental Disaster of Trump’s Border Wall
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Contributors: ‘Little Difference If You Die Here or There’
Hundreds of Hondurans Set Out for US Border
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Moss: Immigration and the Prison Industrial Complex
The Prison Industrial Complex can help pinpoint major areas where corporate interests and government overlap. These include detention, surveillance, consulting services, and border wall construction
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Centeno: We Can’t Obtain Immigration Justice in a World of Borders and Nations
The criminalization of migrants ensures that capitalism thrives. When you have 11 million people with no legal status, you create a labor pool that is vulnerable, cheap and exploitable
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Carlsen: As Honduras Collapses, Its People are Forced to Flee
What really motivates so many people to leave, when their chances of making it to relatives and new lives in the United States are so low? When the cost of the journey—in all senses—is so high?
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Mitchell: From denialism to eco-fascism
The right’s new climate change blame game
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Needleman: Reflecting on Immigration this Thanksgiving
Centuries of genocide against indigenous peoples have erased the real history of our hemisphere. Descendants of colonizers call the US a nation of immigrants, claiming ownership of land in the name of white people who displaced original inhabitants
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Moss: Raising the stakes in the struggle over immigration detention
For many activists the key issue will remain one of visibility: making continually clear to the public what it means to criminalize and incarcerate asylum seekers
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Shahshahani: Silence Will Not Protect Us
Immigrants Speak Boldly Despite Threats of Violence
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Monbiot: Performative Oppression
This is how it begins: with a theatrical attack on a vulnerable minority
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Cohn: DACA Arguments in Supreme Court Leave Outcome in Doubt
After the arguments before the Supreme Court in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) case, it is difficult to predict the outcome
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Karamustafa: Humanitarian first and pro-worker second
How the left lost the moral and economic high ground on immigration
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De Luna Navarro: Undocumented Immigrant Enforcement Policies Drive Public Mental Health Crisis
Imagine running away from a lion all your life — that's how 11 million undocumented immigrants feel today, and it takes a toll on their mental health
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Devereaux: Occupy ICE Activist and DACA Recipient Deported for Tweeting
Salazar remembers three phrases sticking out: Your DACA’s expired. You’re in this country illegally. You’re under arrest.
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Isaacs: MACA or Making America Crueler Again
The White House Targets Refugees, Green Card Applicants, and Poor Immigrants
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The same American myths that drove frontier expansion now support closing the borders
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Phillips: Challenging Corporate Complicity in Immigration Attacks
“Close the Camps, Reunite the Families, Never Again is Now.” These and many other chants defending immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers are heard at almost daily actions in San Francisco
ZMag Immigration
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Baroud: 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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Glick: People in Cages on the Border on July 4th
We need to do whatever we can, for as long as necessary, until these vile camps are shut down
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Foster: Caravan: Workers Who Want to Work
In the tradition of the Underground Railroad, anti-racist solidarity is propelling many to take action to free the refugees
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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
Video Immigration
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Ocasio-Cortez: 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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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
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:...
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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...
