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, by LA BOTZ Dan
We know racism stands at the center of Donald Trump’s politics, but one recent absurd story shows just how dangerous it is. And it reveals just how profoundly sick is our society, that he still has the support of half of the electorate.
During the presidential debate between Kamala Harris and (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
The U.S.-Mexico border and immigration have become the center of the U.S. presidential campaign. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and the Republican Party are claiming—as they did in 2016 and 20—that murderers, rapists, and drug dealers are carrying out an “invasion” of the United (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
Immigration and the southern border have become central issues in the current political debate and could be decisive in the November 2024 election. Former president Donald Trump, who began his presidential bid in 2015 calling Mexican immigrants drug dealers, criminals and rapists, promised to (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
Venezuelan immigrants to the United States, whose numbers have grown dramatically in the last few years, won a victory this week when Joseph Biden’s administration granted them Temporary Protective Status. TPS will allows some 472,000 Venezuelan immigrants who have been in the United States as (…)
, by MIAH Malik
At 11:59 PM EDT on May 11, Title 42 of the Immigration law expired. The code was enforced for three years during the coronavirus pandemic. Title 42 allowed the government to stop and expel migrants from entering the country.
Since its enforcement, millions of political and economic refugees (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
U.S. President Joe Biden, using his executive authority, has put in place a new immigration policy designed to stop most of those seeking to immigrate into the United States.
With the expiration of Title 42, a public health measure used by former president Donald Trump and then by Biden (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
The United States faces a complicated immigration crisis. The current crisis revolves around Title 42, a regulation invoked by former president Donald Trump to expel migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border. While President Joe Biden has recently attempted to ended Title 42 expulsions, the rightwing (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
“No human being should be used as a political pawn in the nation’s highly polarized debate over immigration”.
On September 14, 48 Venezuelan migrants who had come to the United States seeking asylum and had been legally admitted to the country in Texas were lured by an agent of Florida (…)
, by NEVINS Joseph
A 1994 US policy was supposed to deter migration by securing popular access points. Instead, it drives people to enter the US by more hazardous means, such as being crammed in hot tractor-trailers.
The June 2022 deaths of 53 people, victims of heat stroke, in the back of a tractor-trailer in (…)
, by GROPPI Michele
The killing of the al-Qaida leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in Kabul by a US drone strike on July 31 raises some crucial questions. It appears the ruling Taliban were aware of, and gave their blessing to, al-Zawahiri staying in one of the residential areas in Kabul. But did someone in their hierarchy (…)
, by INGRAM Haroro J., MILTON Daniel, MINES Andrew
Ayman al-Zawahri, leader of al-Qaida and a plotter of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, has been killed in a drone strike in the Afghan city of Kabul, according to the U.S. government.
Al-Zawahri was the the successor to Osama bin Laden and his death marked “one more measure of closure” to the (…)
, by Correspondents l’Anticapitaliste
The horror at the US-Mexico border: at least forty-six people were found dead inside a semi-trailer in San Antonio, Texas, on Monday, 27 June. The terrible discovery was made by a worker who heard cries for help coming from inside the trailer and found a pile of bodies inside.
In a desperate (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
Photographs and videos of U.S. Border Patrol agents using their horses and what appeared to be whips against would-be Haitian immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border led last week to outrage, widespread condemnation, and to protests against President Joseph Biden, including from leaders of his own (…)
, by MIAH Malik
United States president Joe Biden continues to show his government’s true face in the mass deportation of Haitian migrants.
In mid-September, nearly 15,000 Haitian migrants, peacefully camped under a bridge on the Mexico-Texas border, were rounded up by US border patrol agents on horseback, (…)
, by JOHNSON Jake
As the Biden administration faces criticism for not doing enough to assist those fleeing Afghanistan, an analysis released Monday showed that the roughly $19 billion the Pentagon budgeted for the U.S. occupation of the country in 2020 alone could cover initial resettlement costs for 1.2 million (…)
, by SHEPPARD Barry
Despite promises made during his election campaign, Biden in office is continuing Trump’s policies on refugees fleeing the horrific conditions in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, conditions flowing from U.S. im-perialist policies.
An article in the June 26 New York Times reported, “Human (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
How should the United States respond to the issue of immigration? It’s a question that divides Republicans from Democrats and progressives from socialists. Is an issue that fueled former President Donald Trump’s rise to power and also contributed to his fall. At the moment it’s a hot political (…)
, by BACON David
In April, President Donald Trump announced in a tweet that, while stopping almost all kinds of legal immigration for at least two months, he was placing no limits on the continued recruitment of H-2A temporary migrant farm worker by growers. Trump claimed the escalating COVID-19 pandemic made (…)
, by SHEPPARD Barry
Sand and Blood: America’s Stealth War on the Mexico Border. By John Carlos Frey. Bold Type Books, New York, 2019, 243 pages, $28 hardcover.
“I WAS SURE that if I had stayed in the desert, I would be dead.”
Much of the power of this book comes from the author John Carlos Frey’s personal (…)
, by SHEPPARD Barry
When asylum seekers and other immigrants are rounded up by the Border Patrol, they are first held in detention centers before being sent on to agencies that are supposed to rule on their cases.
Border Patrol agents have for some time blocked reporters from entering their detention centers. (…)
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