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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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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, (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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. (...)
Suzi Weissman interviews Myrna Santiago & Alicia Rusoja.
ON HER JACOBIN radio show in late July, Suzi Weissman interviewed Myrna Santiago and Alicia Rusoja, just back from the U.S.-Mexico border. Myrna Santiago is a professor teaching Latin American history and director of the Women & (...)
While much of the media continues to focus on the Mueller report and the squabbles between the White House and the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives, Trump’s real crimes are scarcely addressed or ignored altogether.
This column will take up only one of these crimes, Trump’s (...)
There was a time when even Ivy League scientists supported racial restrictions at the border.
In early 1921, an article in Good Housekeeping signaled the coming of a law that makes President Trump’s campaign for immigration restriction seem mild by comparison. “Biological laws tell us that (...)
Humanitarians say Trump’s crackdown creates hostile environment for their work and refugees, migrants crossing border.
Green Valley, Arizona - Shura Wallin shuffles through a stack of drawings given to her by migrant children. She finds the one she is looking for and lifts it up. It depicts a (...)
Rights groups ramp up efforts to aid migrants, refugees as they face new hurdles due to Trump’s ’zero-tolerance’ policy.
San Diego, California - Victor* first came to the United States in 2006. He left his village in the mountains of Peru during the country’s civil war in the 1990s after his (...)
While the plight of children of asylum seekers separated from their parents fades from the news, hundreds remain incarcerated and still not reunited. Of these some 400 are children of parents who have already been deported, and there is very little chance that these families can be reunited (...)
It is now abundantly clear that the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy towards parents with children seeking asylum in the U.S. was to separate the children from their parents, keep the children in the U.S., and deport the parents.
Early on, White House Chief of Staff said that (...)
THE TRUMP administration has failed to meet a federal court’s deadline for reuniting immigrant children in its custody with the families that they were torn from under the government’s policy of family separation.
On June 26, U.S. District Court Judge Dana Sabraw granted an injunction in a (...)
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