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On June 12 a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals handed down a decision upholding a Hawaiian court’s order temporarily halting enforcement of Trump’s travel ban. In contrast to ot…
Despite all the media attention the Islamophobes get, their "anti-Sharia" rallies turned out to be pathetic little affairs overshadowed by counter-protests.--TPOI editor Seattle counter-pro…
Tweet Billionaire aerospace and Budget Suites magnate Robert Bigelow announced his belief that Earth currently is home to space aliens who have infiltrated our planet, and he claimed to have s…
The Mutual UFO network headquarters issued a “non-pology” saying they can’t police people’s personal views after PA Director, John Ventre, posted a racist rant on his personal Facebook page ab…
“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…
Moving forward, this movement will have big problems to tackle, and many questions loom large. Our next steps should respond to these key tasks and questions… By Marisa Franco, Truthout May 2, 2017 H…
If this seems a practice only of years long past, consider that today we need merely replace “Japanese-Americans” with “Muslims” for the parallels to emerge. By George Takei, New York Times April 28,…
Exile from one’s home is historically considered one of the worst punishments the state could employ; it was, after all, one of the traditional Greek and Roman punishments for murder, their alternati…
While the media remain focused on Syria and Russia, the Trump administration is signaling its intention to step up the repression of immigrants—and maybe their supporters as well. Yesterday Attorney …
In its “ State of Black Immigrants 2016 ” report, co-authored with the New York University School of Law Immigrant Rights Clinic, the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI) found that Black immig…
By Democracy Now! February 28, 2017 President Donald Trump is slated to give his first presidential address to Congress today. Democratic lawmakers have begun giving their tickets away to immigrants …
Hundreds of thousands of people have now seen the video of Romulo Avelica-Gonzalez being detained by ICE agents as his 13-year-old daughter cries. Trump claims he’s just deporting “bad hombres,” but …
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 …
Judges upheld order issued last week to prevent 90-day travel ban from seven Muslim-majority countries and 120-day freeze on US admission of any refugees By Ben Jacobs, The Guardian February 10, 2017…
A federal appeals court panel is expected to rule soon on the executive order barring refugees and visitors from seven Muslim countries. By Josh Gerstein, Politico February 7, 2017 The Justice Depart…
Setback for Trump: Appeals court won't put travel ban back yet By Laura Jarrett, CNN February 5, 2017 Washington (CNN)A federal appeals court early Sunday morning denied the US government's …
By Stephen Piggott, Southern Poverty Law Center January 23, 2017 Julie Kirchner, the former executive director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), has been named chief of staff …
Resistance at Tule Lake A documentary by Konrad Aderer first public screenings in February-March 2017 premiering at CAAMfest 2017 resistanceattulelake.com https://www.facebook.com/ResistanceAtTuleLak…
