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Tea Partier Labrador. (Kyle Mills/Lewiston Tribune) From the Immigration Action Bulletin Number 15 May 19, 2017 Welcome to the “Anti-Immigrant Wish List” edition of the Bulletin. Last week, with …
“As a leader in the UndocuBlack Network, an organization comprised of and advocating for currently and previously undocumented Black immigrants, I find USCIS’s investigation very troubling, even crim…
ACTION ALERT! The Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI) is calling for activists to telephone Homeland Security today, May 19, and demand that the government not go ahead with its plan to end TP…
The 2010 earthquake. Photo: Tequila Minsky/NY Times Some 50,000 Haitians have been able to live legally in the United States since 2010 under Temporary Protected Status (TPS), a special immigration s…
The second edition of The Politics of Immigration is due out in a little more than a week, but we’ve already started facilitating events and making additions to our blog and our website . We’re …
Since late January Aaron Bobrow-Strain, an associate professor at Whitman College in Washington state, has been circulating a weekly bulletin with a roundup of immigration news, action alerts, and b…
Over the weekend of May 5 Nicole Kushner Meyer—the sister of Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner—was in Beijing seeking Chinese investors for one of the Kushner family’s real estate projects. Meyer made …
This important article breaks two mainstream media taboos: it shows how immigration status enables corporation to super-exploit workers, and it mentions one of the ways in which Washington’s foreign …
The Pew Research Center provides lots of useful information in two recent reports. One of these, released on April 25, shows that the number of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. remains around the …
The April 21 protest in support of immigrant workers at Tom Cat Bakery in Queens brought four arrests and extensive coverage in New York media. Of the 31 workers threatened by ICE, 18 are continuing…
During the Obama administration employers and the government used the “silent raid” as a major tool for intimidating undocumented workers. In this scenario a company notifies some of its employees …
“Why don’t they just get legal?” people ask. Well, one reason is that they might be arrested and deported when they go for their green card interviews. And a domestic abuse victim now needs to think…
Rony Chavez Aguilar’s case isn’t that unusual. According to Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Clearinghouse, from 2008 to 2012 ICE asked local jails to detain 834 U.S. citizens for possible…
This is why I think, in many ways, the immigration conversation is a racial justice conversation.… I think that it would be a lie to have an analysis of the immigration system that doesn't speak …
Photo credit: Values & Capitalism . Marx wrote about immigrant workers nearly 150 years ago, and he was certainly not infallible, but a great deal of his analysis sounds remarkably contemporary.……
Photograph: USA Today By ABC10, KXTV (Sacramento, CA) February 3, 2017 A new president is in charge of the U.S. and there is much uncertainty amongst the nation regarding immigration policies. With …
By Bill Chappell, NPR February 2, 2017 Ruffling U.S. ties with one of its closest allies, President Trump is sharply criticizing an Obama-era agreement with Australia — a deal that also reportedly pr…
By Caitlin Dickerson, New York Times January 16, 2017 When Donald J. Trump announced he was running for president in a 2015 speech calling Mexican immigrants criminals and rapists, Rachel McCormick d…
By Rebecca Schneider, CounterPunch January 4, 2017 “You have reached the voicemail box of…” “You have reached the voicemail box of…” “You have reached the voicemail box of…” Panic set in. I was supp…
We should anticipate that his administration will unleash a deportation regime unprecedented in recent U.S. history. By Bob Libal and Judy Greene, Huffington Post November 23, 2016 Last week’s “60 M…
