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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
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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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Abramsky: Trump Is Unleashing Militarized Goon Squads Against Immigrants in Sanctuary Cities
By the time you read this column, elite US Border Patrol Tactical (BORTAC) units might be battering down the doors of immigrant families in sanctuary cities in California, New York, Illinois, and elsewhere around the country
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Devereaux: Trump Is Blowing Up a National Monument to Make Way for Border Wall
“What’s particularly frightening right now is that Trump has weaponized DHS, politically weaponized them.”
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Abbott: A Dispatch From the Caravan
The massive open migration from Central America highlights the growing sense of desperation in the region
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Elbaum: Senate Conducts Another U.S. Trial Where Racism Decides the Outcome
It's no accident that on the same day the Senate voted not to hear any witnesses in its sham impeachment trial the Trump administration announced it was adding six countries, including Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation, to its restrictive travel ban
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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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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
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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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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
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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...
