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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.
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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
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Jozef: The Biden administration has spent Black History Month deporting Black immigrants
Why aren’t people in the streets?
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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."
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Review of Asylum For Sale: Profit and Protest in the Migration Industry, Edited by Siobhán McGuirk and Adrienne Pine (PM Press, 2020)
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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
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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
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/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
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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?
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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
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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.”
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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.
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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
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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
ZMag Immigration
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Kolhatkar: President Trump, Child-Trafficker-in-Chief
While the Department of Homeland Security claimed that MPP would “decrease the… ability of smugglers and traffickers to prey on vulnerable populations,” in fact it does the opposite
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Wittner: If Farmworkers Are “Essential,” Why Are They Treated So Badly?
Over the course of U.S. history, farmworkers, although essential, have been terribly mistreated
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Immigrant farm workers have long been essential to the U.S. But they have never been recognized, respected or properly rewarded for their labor
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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
Video Immigration
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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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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
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:...
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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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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...