Latest Immigration
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Rasmus: Trump’s Wall & National Emergency Declaration Coming
The US elite know the next recession, coming soon, will significantly exacerbate the economic problems at home, while intensifying the political instability abroad. And they are preparing–at home and abroad
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Jorden: ICE Announces “New Normal”
North Carolina Immigrant Arrests Climb to 230
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Morales: Undocumented Immigrant Spent Five Years as Trump’s Housekeeper
Morales spent years making Donald Trump’s bed and performing other duties at his New Jersey club, even though she was undocumented
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Jorden: “All He’s Ever Done Is Work”
Raid At Gun Factory Questions Immigrant Right to Identity
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Dorfman: Can “Roma” Teach Trump’s America the Value of Compassion?
Staying in Santiago, Chile, at the moment, I see echoes and reflections of Cleo – the servant at the heart of Alfonso Cuarón’s wondrous film Roma – everywhere
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Baroud: The Faces Behind the Wall
My Experience at the US-Mexico Border
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Corich-Kleim: Arizona Activists Face Jail Time for Providing Life-Saving
An interview on how the Trump administration is criminalizing humanitarian aid at the border
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Cole: GOP must reject Trump’s Wall to really Repudiate Rep. Steve King’s Racism
The only way Republicans can avoid being taken over by the Neo-Nazis the way they were previously taken over by the Evangelicals is to make a clean break with Trumpism and Breitbartism and Mercerism
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Cockburn: Refugees are in the Channel thanks to the Actions of the West
Though the US and its allies are unlikely to win victories against Iran or Bashar al-Assad, by keeping a permanent crisis simmering they ensure many civilians risk everything to flee to Europe
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Will: Nation’s Top Teachers Will Hold ‘Teach In’ at Child Detention Camp
In February, educators will gather outside a massive detention camp for migrant children and stage a 24-hour "teach in"
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Washington: There Is a Real Border Crisis. A Wall Would Only Make It Worse.
On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump used his first Oval...
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Activists, Lawmakers Demand Trump Shut Down Prison Camp for Migrant Children
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Nevins: The Problem with Border Security
Agents are effectively given license to act as judge, jury, and executioner, particularly when firing their weapons into Mexico
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Soltis: Georgia Denies Migrants Equal Access to Higher Education
Educational policies that violate international human rights laws need to be repealed so that every young person, regardless of where they are born or what papers they have, has equal access to higher education
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Baroud: Is There a Plot to Depopulate Palestinian Refugee Camps in Lebanon?
This is not the happy, triumphant ending that generations of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon have hoped and fought for over the years
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Rios: Standing for border communities and vulnerable migrants
Upholding the dignity of border communities and those seeking sanctuary depends on everyone's bold and courageous actions
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It’s the phrase “border security” that freezes my soul every time I hear it uttered, every time I see it in print
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Petersen-Smith: 14,000 Golf Courses, 6,000 Refugees
The United States is a land of plenty, not scarcity — and undocumented immigrants are not the reason our hospitals and social services are crumbling
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A look at an interfaith action in San Diego today with over 400 faith leaders and activists representing an extremely diverse range of spiritual traditions in support of the human right to migrate and seek asylum
ZMag Immigration
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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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Yee: Targeting Southern Sanctuary Cities
As the national debate around sanctuary cities has become increasingly fraught and political, the term “sanctuary” has largely lost its meaning and has come to be used or rejected by various actors for their own purposes
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Bacon: What Trump Can and Can’t Do to Immigrants
Immigrant labor is more vital to many industries than it’s ever been before. Immigrants have always made up most of the country’s farm workers in the West and Southwest. Today, according to the U.S. Department of Labor, about 57 percent of the country’s entire agricultural workforce is undocumented. But the list of other industries dependent on immigrant labor is long—meatpacking, some construction trades, building services, healthcare, restaurant and retail service, and more
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Parsons: Humanity Without Borders
Before the summit convened, it was already clear that rich governments would not be placing the needs of refugees and migrants above their narrow national self-interest.
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Each year since 2012, roughly 20,000 refugees have been resettled in the 13 Southern states
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Martinez: HISTORY HANDBOOK: Scapegoating Immigrants, 1992
In Los Angeles during the 1992 uprising, many longtime Mexican...
Video Immigration
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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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Varoufakis: Europe’s “Hot Spot” Refugee Registration Centers are “Concentration Camps”
Interview on the refugee crisis in Europe, and so-called hot spots that are registration centers for refugees in his country
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Interview on the Islamic State, military action, human rights and refugees
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...
