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The White House is now cutting out part of the Central American Minors (CAM) program that the Obama administration set up in 2014 to admit some underage refugees fleeing violence in El Salvador, Guat…
…[E]fforts to define and manipulate the definition of “family” in immigration matters are not new. For more than 100 years the government has done so, often reflecting political exigency and racial b…
By Cody Wofsy, ACLU June 26, 2017 After the Supreme Court ruled today that it would hear arguments on the Muslim ban that a number of lower courts have ruled against, the president claimed “clear vic…
By Michael P. McKinney and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon, The Journal News June 9, 2017, updated June 10, 2017 OSSINING - A 19-year-old Ossining High School student was taken into custody by federal immigration …
In 3 Months, 3 Immigrants Have Died at a Private Detention Center in California Members of Congress have cited the Adelanto Detention Facility for "egregious" medical errors. By Madison Pau…
“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…
“I thought that entering this country, which had always been my dream, was always going to be an unforgettable day.... It was. But it was the saddest and ugliest day I could have imagined.” By Sharon…
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…
The following three reports make it hard to believe the Trump administration is sincerely interested in protecting U.S. citizens. Trump claims ICE will just be deporting “the bad ones,” on the q…
March 2 marked the anniversary of Honduran activist Berta Cáceres’ assassination. The suspects appear to be linked to the country's corrupt and violent military, which is trained and funded by th…
So much for claims that Trump's deportations only target “bad hombres.”—TPOI editor By David Nakamura, Washington Post February 18, 2017 Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly has signed sweep…
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 Mark Landler, New York Times February 4, 2017 WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A day after a federal judge temporarily blocked President Trump’s immigration order, the nation’s borders were open on Saturda…
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…
No other group of migrants from Latin America receives the same special treatment from the US government as the Cubans do. By Adriana Maestas, teleSUR via Truthout March 23, 2016 While President Oba…
As investigative journalist Allan Nairn said on Democracy Now! in January: "Well, you know, if you go and burn down your neighbor's house, don't complain when, as they run from the flame…
By Jeff Abbott, Truthout February 13, 2016 This year Guatemala inaugurated a new president: Jimmy Morales, a former comedian known for a racist television show in which he regularly performed in blac…
Global Voices February 13, 2016 On the night of Thursday February 11, 2016, the administration of Durham Public Schools in North Carolina unanimously passed a resolution condemning the arrests and in…
