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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 (...)
We can fight to backtrack to when certain terrors were less explicit, or we can chart a new course.
The Trump era has created a new social ritual, a verbal tic added to any greeting, like a secret handshake to identify yourself as a part of the beleaguered opposition. If I ask someone how (...)
Well over 100,000 people took to the streets June 30 in approximately 750 cities and towns in every state across the country to protest the separation of immigrant children from their parents seeking asylum, and to denounce the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy that made this cruel (...)
THE TRUMP REGIME’S “no tolerance” separation of refugee families at the U.S. border was a designed and calculated show of sadistic cruelty to appeal to the most racist sectors of Trump’s voting base. Instead, it has horrified the country and the world—leading to a mass outpouring of protests and (...)
In response to the massive public outcry against his policy of the forcible separation of immigrant parents seeking asylum from their children, Trump issued an executive order July 20 that such separations should be stopped. A victory? Not so fast. In his executive order, Trump also (...)
Even Trump had to back down. The heartbreaking images and audio recordings of migrant Mexican and Central American children being separated from their parents after having been arrested crossing the U.S.-Mexican border, and the chorus of bipartisan complaints, made continuing the policy of (...)
Now seems like a good moment to admit that we don’t know what we are talking about when it comes to immigration. President Trump has signed an executive order that is intended to stop the separation of families at the border, but not the policy of prosecuting and detaining everyone who is seen (...)
Alan Maass reports on the demonstrations that pressured the Trump White House into a retreat — with accounts of local protests from Hector A. Rivera, Jesse Joseph, Karl Schwartz and Robin Gee.
PROTESTS ERUPTED in cities, towns and beyond against the Trump administration’s inhuman family (...)
The outrage over Trump’s heartless family separation policy provides an opportunity to reverse the bipartisan consensus that has long victimized immigrants.
The photos seemed to speak for themselves, perfectly capturing the heartbreaking brutality of the Trump administration’s immigration (...)
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