Latest Immigration
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AP: New ICE Guidelines Say International Students Must Leave U.S. If Classes Go Online
“It’s going to cause enormous confusion and uncertainty,. ICE is clearly creating an incentive for institutions to reopen, regardless of whether or not the circumstances of the pandemic warrant it.”
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Klikauer: Right-Wing Resentment in Germany
Source: Countercurrents The rise of AfD right-wing extremism may well...
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Juravich: They’re Back: Concessions Are Coming
We must stand up against blaming downwards—the demonization of immigrants, poor folks, and people of color
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Wolff: ICE is Leaving Immigrants to Die in Detention
And Retaliating When They Speak Out
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Kolhatkar: Trump Using Pandemic to Wage War on Immigrants and Separate Families
It looks like the president’s goal is to make America white
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Licata: Supreme Court DACA Decision
Was it more concerned about humanity or legality?
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Cortes: How DREAMers Defeated Trump
Supreme Court DACA Win Shows “Sustained Pressure of Activism” Works
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Gonzalez: Immigrants Protest Demolition of NJ Public School
Interview on the fight to save the largely immigrant Lincoln Annex public school from demolition to make way for the Robert Wood Johnson Hospital’s $750 million cancer center
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Danticat: U.S. Deports COVID-19-Positive Immigrants to Haiti & Guatemala
The United States continues to deport thousands during the coronavirus pandemic, causing a dangerous spread of COVID-19 to Central America and the Caribbean
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Ruiz: NYC Immigrant Communities & Mutual Aid
Organizing and helping through mutual aid despite extraordinarily difficult circumstances
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De Luna Navarro: Undocumented Workers Need a Bailout, Too
Beyond performing essential labor, we are humans — and, in a pandemic, that should be enough to deserve help
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Jorden: ICE Eases Threat but “Essential” Immigrant Farmworkers Struggle to Feed Themselves
Immigrant farm workers have long been essential to the United States. But they have never been recognized, respected or properly rewarded for their labor
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Prashad: These Migrant Workers Did Not Suddenly Fall From the Sky
They have not benefited from their work, but they have certainly enriched the few who are now hiding with their wealth behind their curtains, afraid of the reality that made them rich
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Bacon: America’s Farmworkers—Now ‘Essential,’ but Denied the Just-Enacted Benefits
The undocumented workers who pick the nation’s food are excluded from the CARES Act
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Cole: Nearly 1/3 of US Doctors are Foreign-Born, on Pandemic Front Lines
It turns out we need those foreigners after all, despite what Trump thinks
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Provost: Who’s happy about coronavirus?
Our rights and democracies are under threat. But how this crisis reshapes our world depends on us
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Hallinan: The Corona Virus & Immigration
How Austerity and Anti-immigrant Politics Left Italy Exposed
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Devereaux: Lawmakers Demand ICE Stop Arresting Immigrants to Prevent Spreading Coronavirus
More than a dozen Democratic lawmakers are calling on the Department of Homeland Security to freeze its enforcement-to-detention pipeline
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Biddle: ICE Uses a Rigged Algorithm to Keep Arrestees in Detention
The ACLU Says It’s Unconstitutional
ZMag Immigration
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Wittner: 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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Prashad: 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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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
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:...
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...
