Latest Immigration

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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.
• 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...
• Juravich: They’re Back: Concessions Are Coming

  We must stand up against blaming downwards—the demonization of immigrants, poor folks, and people of color
• 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?
• Cortes: How DREAMers Defeated Trump

  Supreme Court DACA Win Shows “Sustained Pressure of Activism” Works
• 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