Latest Immigration

• Rovics: Refugee Ancestors

  Which forms of slaughter were your ancestors escaping?  And what forms of bondage did they find here?
• Mystal: The Groundbreaking Decision That Struck a Blow to Racist Immigration Laws

  Nearly 100 years ago, Congress passed a law making it a felony to reenter the US after being deported. Now a judge has found it too racist to be allowed
• Moss: The path to citizenship is the path to a more democratic America

  Citizenship, and the voting rights that go with it, are ultimately issues of agency, power, and voice
• Nadal: Spain’s VOX party and the threat of ‘international environmental populism’

  In the coming years, we should expect global warming to become one of the major threats from which a ‘European people’ needs to be ‘protected’
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  Kolhatkar: After Devastating DACA Ruling, Dreamers Vow to Push for Legalization

  "We’re done waiting,” she said. “We’re done having to take a back seat. We’re done playing nice.”
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  Chomsky: Migration Is Not the Crisis

  What Washington Could Really Do in Central America
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  Cohen: Noncitizens May Soon Be Eligible to Vote in New York City

  A bill extending the right to vote to noncitizens has a supermajority in the city council — the latest push to revive the tradition across the U.S.
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  Street: Imagine a Nation Like This

  Imagine a country so clueless that its population ranks “illegal immigration” as a more serious concern than the biggest issue of our or any time – the climate catastrophe
• Moss: Taking a Wrong Turn on Immigration Detention

  The administration is helping to reinforce an extensive system of institutions, policies, attitudes, and values that cast migrants as criminals
• Perez Rocha: Excessive Corporate Power is a Root Cause of Migration

  Under U.S. trade agreements, corporations are suing developing country governments for sums that far outstrip the value of humanitarian aid
• Garcia: Free the Children

  Advocates Demand Biden Close Fort Bliss Detention Center Holding 800 Migrant Kids
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  Swanson: Remember to Forget the Alamo

  Mexico once had a problem with a local provincial government promoting illegal immigration from the United States into Mexico in order to engage in the illegal slavery of illegally trafficked people
• Moss: The Urgent Need to Educate America about Climate-Related Migration

  As long as the Biden administration cedes center stage on a critical issue like climate migration, other voices will dominate the stage and define the narrative
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  Devereaux: The Biden Admin Is Routinely Sending Mexican Children Back to Danger

  While the administration vowed to end Trump’s practice of expelling unaccompanied minors, the practice persists for children from Mexico
• Villeda: The Root Cause of Central American Migration Is US Imperialism

  It would be nice if the US government acknowledged that its imperialist meddling in Central America drove millions to flee to the United States
• Zhang: AOC Calls Out Kamala Harris

  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) has criticized Vice President Kamala Harris’s recent comments on immigration, calling them “disappointing.”
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  León: Can a Driver Uprising Make Food Apps Deliver?

  “There is no labor movement without organizing the new workforce, which just happens to be immigrant in New York”
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  Monbiot: Britain’s borders: wide open to Covid, slammed shut for people in need

  The government has gone to extreme lengths to close our borders to refugees and people seeking work, yet has left them wide open to Covid-19
• Miller: A World of Bikes, Not Walls?

  Demilitarizing the Border
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  Cohn: US-Made Border Crisis Persists Despite Biden’s About-Face on Refugee Cap

  This week’s news of the Biden-Harris administration’s about-face on U.S. refugee policy was a win for all the progressive forces that have been pressuring Biden