ICE Raids Reportedly Blocked in Bay Area
ICE claims that some 800 immigrants were spared detention this week because Oakland’s mayor publicly announced that she’d been tipped off about imminent raids. If this is true, the anonymous source a…
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The Latest Nonsense About Immigration—a Quick Guide
By David L. Wilson, MR Online February 7, 2018 https://mronline.org/2018/02/07/the-latest-nonsense-about-immigration-a-quick-guide/ We’ve seen and heard a lot about immigration in the past few weeks…
Racist Immigration Policies Didn’t Start With Trump
These two articles detail the ways in which racism has always been a crucial element in U.S. immigration policy. Paul A. Kramer’s New York Times op-ed is especially noteworthy for asking “to what ex…
DACA and TPS: Trump Plans to Push 1 Million More Into the Shadows
Trump rants about Salvadoran gangs. Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images On January 9 the administration announced that it was terminating Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for some quarter million Salva…
Updates: Dreamer Protests, Separating Kids From Parents
Congress has passed its short-term spending bill in time to go on Christmas vacation. The politicians managed to forget their promises to protect DACA recipients, despite a week of militant protests …
Next Up: Separating Migrant Kids From Their Parents
The security threat on our borders? Photo: Jennifer Whitney/NY Times The Washington Post reports that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is again considering former department hea…
Want to limit migration? We can start by supporting democracy in Honduras.
This Washington Post op-ed is one of the few pieces in the mainstream U.S. media to note the link between immigration from Honduras and the corrupt and repressive U.S.-backed government there. Far fr…
Texas Detention Center Faces Allegations of Widespread Sexual Abuse—Again
Abuse of this nature is "very widespread" at Hutto, said one woman who has accused a guard at the detention facility of repeatedly sexually assaulting her. "It is a big problem in this…
Border News: New Suit Over CBP Abuses, No Need for More Agents, the Art of the Border, Trumpist Illiteracy
“Not Forgotten”: Graves of people who died trying to cross the border. Photo: David Bacon U.S. Illegally Denying Immigrants Their Right to Seek Asylum at the Mexican Border, According to Lawsuit By R…
Are Trump’s Attacks on Immigrants Backfiring?
The Trump administration is forging ahead with its assault on immigrants. For example, White House chief of staff John Kelly, a man the New York Times once labeled “ sensible ,” continues to display…
Immigration, the Drug War and Big Pharma: Where’s the Outrage?
Here are three stories that have been in the news recently. The corporate media have presented them as unrelated; nothing could be further from the truth . An article in the New Yorker details how th…
More Trump News: The Raids, the Hotline, the Parole Denial Policy
Border art: image from JR, the artist For the moment media coverage of immigration policy is mostly focused on the whether Trump and the Democrats can make a deal on a new DREAM Act, but some outlets…
Trump Announces His DACA “Deal”: The Full Hard-Right Immigration Agenda
Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images White House to Congress: we'll legalize DACA recipients if you crack down on most other immigrants Trump’s “priorities”: restrict asylum, limit family-based lega…
Miscellaneous News: Detention Center Lawsuit, Suppressed Refugee Report, World Citizenship Poll
Victory for Immigrant Hunger Strikers: Lawsuit Challenges Slave Wages at Private Jail By Mike Ludwig, Truthout NWDC protest. Photo: Thomas Soerenes/The News Tribune/AP September 22, 2017 For three ye…