Latest Immigration

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  Kolhatkar: Will Biden Ensure My Family Is Reunited?

  Trump’s cruel anti-immigrant agenda separated untold numbers of families, including mine. Will the new administration fix the mess?
• Nichanian: ICE Suffered Blows in the South in Last Week’s Elections

  Voters in populous Georgia and South Carolina counties elected sheriffs who ran on ending contracts with ICE
• Skalski-Fouts: Migrants Face “Double Threat” Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

  A look at the economic and social impacts of the coronavirus pandemic with a particular focus on refugees, asylum seekers, and migrant workers
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  Devereaux: Border Patrol Leaves Migrants in Remote Town as Deaths Rise

  Dumping hundreds of migrants in the remote Mexican border town of Sasabe puts them at risk from organized crime
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  Pearson: Guatemalan and Mexican governments use pandemic to turn back refugee caravan

  “People who are fleeing crime and searching for a better future shouldn’t be treated like this”. “But there is something that we have, as migrants. We don’t give up, we do everything to achieve our goals.”
• Nathan: First She Was Separated From Her Family, Now She’s Separated From School

  A refugee child, once separated from her mother at the border by Trump, now struggles with online school.
• Caballero: Am I a modern slave?

  Lyn Caballero describes her experiences as a migrant domestic worker and explains why domestic workers are campaigning for immigration policy change
• Vine: The U.S. ‘War on Terror’ Has Displaced 37 Million People

  Here’s why we used the numbers we did — and what they can and can’t tell us
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  Loick: Europe’s necropolitics sparked the fire at Moria camp

  The disaster at the Moria refugee camp exposes European authorities’ utter neglect for human life. To resist means to imagine a different politics altogether
• Speller: Women in ICE Detention Centers Were Given Hysterectomies Without Informed Consent

  A look into the practices putting immigrants detained in the Irwin County Detention Center (ICDC) — operated by private prison company LaSalle Corrections — at risk and allegedly irreparably harming their health and freedom
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  Cockburn: America’s War on Terror is the True Cause of Europe’s Refugee Crisis

  What we are really seeing in those pathetic half-swamped rubber boats bobbing up and down in the Channel are the thin end of the wedge of a vast exodus of people brought about by military intervention by the US and its allies
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  Devereaux: “There Is No Mercy”

  As the Coronavirus Descended on the Border, the Trump Administration Escalated Its Crackdown on Asylum
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  Pearson: Closure of Border to Refugees Spreads Misery as US Tourists Vacation in Mexico

  Around 91 percent of migrants apprehended while trying to cross from Mexico into the U.S.’s Southwest border are being sent back within as little as two hours.
• Guerrero: A Direct Legacy of Slavery, Domestic Worker Exploitation Is On the Rise In the U.S.

  The pandemic has left already vulnerable workers even more exposed to abuses on the job
• Goessmann: Manufacturing a Moral Crisis: Media and Refugees

  Today one rarely finds a report in newspapers and broadcasts about refugees. Nobody seems to care about them anymore. Why is that?
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  Kolhatkar: President Trump, Child-Trafficker-in-Chief

  The administration has been found to be flouting the United States’ own anti-trafficking laws by deporting thousands of children and families seeking asylum, practically delivering them into the hands of traffickers across the border in Mexico
• Kay: Risking Death for Tomatoes

  Concerns about access to healthcare and preventing COVID-19 loom large among tomato harvesters in Florida
• Green: Rural Organizing Pays Off

  "Organizing in rural spaces with progressive, multiracial solidarity messaging is the future. Either we get there first or white supremacists get there first.”
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  Devereaux: Before Portland, Trump’s Shock Troops Went After Border Activists

  The purported threat of antifa was long used to justify militarized targeting of immigration activists. Now it’s being used against protesters in Portland
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  De Luna Navarro: Need Money for a Green New Deal? Get It From ICE

  With the money we spend on ICE and CBP, we could solar power nearly 35 million homes.