Latest Immigration

• Staff: Richland, Washington protesters demand ‘No kids in cages’

  On Feb. 27 more than 50 protesters gathered in Richland, Washington to demand that Pres. Joe Biden close the ICE concentration camps, release the detained children and abolish ICE.
• Perry: If it were a narco lab, it would be working

  Biden’s immigration policy includes spending $4 billion in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras to address the problems that spur migration
• Jozef: The Biden administration has spent Black History Month deporting Black immigrants

  Why aren’t people in the streets?
• Pilkington: Outcry As More Than 20 Babies and Children Deported by US to Haiti

  Ice accused of sending ‘defenseless babies into the burning house’ as deportations of 72 carried out in apparent breach of Biden order
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  Kay: Groups across the South are working to fix a broken farm labor system

  "It feels good to let people know that they don't have to take that kind of stuff as an H-2A worker. Workers don't have to just sit back and accept it."
• de la Luna: Asylum For Sale

  Review of Asylum For Sale: Profit and Protest in the Migration Industry, Edited by Siobhán McGuirk and Adrienne Pine (PM Press, 2020)
• Granados Ceja: Biden’s Immigration Declarations Open Up New Political Terrain for Organizers

  The U.S. will need to both undo the damage already done by Trump and move away from the type of imperialist foreign policy championed by both Republicans and Democrats
• Babakarkhil: The Winter’s Tale: Solstice on the Streets of Paris

  Ahmad Soheil Ahmadi interviews Obaidullah Alam Babakarkhil, the chairman of the French Refugee Council, about the privations suffered by homeless refugees as the winter solstice approaches
• Yako: Seagulls Without a Sea

  Days at Internally Displaced Persons Camps in Iraq
• /Colectivo Santuario: Five Women in Sanctuary Call on Biden to Free Them Through Executive Actions

  Each one of us has taken sanctuary as a last resort; we know that if we leave our houses of worship even for a moment, we will face immediate deportation
• Corbett: ‘Huge Victory’ for Immigrants

  Federal Judge Orders Trump Administration to Fully Restore DACA
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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