Unions in the Resistance Against ICE
San Francisco workers demonstrate. Photo: David Bacon How Unions Help Immigrants Resist Deportations No one knows better than union activists that there's zero chance for this kind of basic immig…
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Elvira Arellano: Learn from our own history!
The only way we can stop the deportations now is to demonstrate, to commit mass civil disobedience, over and over again. Sanctuary in churches must become militant mass sanctuary in the streets. It i…
Ravi's Deportation Has Been Delayed!
Rally in Foley Square, outside New York Federal Building, Saturday, February 10, 9 am! By New Sanctuary Coalition February 9, 2018 This is a turning point - now more than ever we need to ramp up pres…
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…
Trump Targets NY Immigrant Rights Activists
The administration is now taking aim at a faith-based New York activist coalition. This morning ICE detained the New Sanctuary Coalition 's executive director, Ravi Ragbir, during his scheduled c…
Emergency Rally, Brooklyn, 12/7/17: #ICEOut of the Courts Now!
Update, 12/16/17: There will be another protest for immigrant rights in the evening. RALLY Against Muslim Ban + Tax Scam and Fight for DREAM Act @ Washington Square Park, Dec 7 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm,…
Jury Acquits in Trump’s Favorite “Immigrant Crime” Case
After six days of deliberation, on November 30 a San Francisco jury acquitted Mexican immigrant José Inez García Zárate of murder and manslaughter charges in the July 2015 shooting death of Kate Stei…
Immigrant Shielded From Deportation by Philadelphia Church Walks Free
Since Mr. Trump was elected, 34 people facing deportation have publicly taken refuge inside of churches, including four this week… By Laurie Goodstein, New York Times October 11, 2017 Facing deportat…
NYC, Oct. 11: Panel Discussion on Immigration
Note: Politics of Immigration co-author David L. Wilson will be signing books at this panel. Deportation, DACA, and the Sanctuary Movement Socialist Action Panel on Immigration Wednesday, Oct. 11 fr…
ICE arrests hundreds of immigrants in 'sanctuary cities'
Talia Inlender, a senior staff attorney at Public Counsel, which advocates for immigrants, criticized the focus on sanctuary cities. “It’s clearly a political move that is not actually geared toward …
Texas’s Virulently Anti-Immigrant SB 4 Was Just Blocked by a Federal Judge
The nation’s harshest law targeting sanctuary cities won’t go into effect—for now. By Julianne Hing, The Nation August 31, 2017 Immigrants won a major victory Wednesday night when a federal judge blo…
Update on “Manhattan Church Provides Sanctuary for Mother Targeted by ICE”
Guatemalan Immigrant Who Took Refuge at Church Granted Stay of Deportation By Carolina Pichardo, DNA Info August 22, 2017 WASHINGTON HEIGHTS — The undocumented Guatemalan immigrant with three young k…
The Myth of White Safety in White Numbers
Whites living in and around diverse sanctuary cities are substantially less likely to die from violent death than anywhere else. By Mike Males, YES! Magazine August 22, 2017 The latest manifestation …
Manhattan Church Provides Sanctuary for Mother Targeted by ICE
A Guatemalan immigrant has taken sanctuary with her three children at the Holyrood Episcopal Church in northern Manhattan; the move came after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) told her to p…
Books on Immigration: Two Recommendations
Here are two books on immigration for which we’ve received recommendations from reliable sources, so please check them out..—TPOI editor Elvira's Faith and Barack's Challenge: The Grassroots …
Immigration Practices Challenged in Court: Can They Detain Kids? What About Citizens?
A Ninth Circuit panel has ruled that the government needs to abide by its 1997 agreement to grant immigrant children bond hearings—for instance, the nine-year-old who was held in detention for 18 mon…
Fighting for the Sanctuary Workplace: Unions Mobilize to Protect Undocumented **UPDATED**
This important new article from David Bacon describes ways unions can move to protect workers from ICE raids—and “silent raids”—at the workplace. By David Bacon, Truthout June 24, 2017 Sanctuary work…
The Trump Era Tests the True Power of Sanctuary Cities
By Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker April 18, 2017 Ever since Donald Trump became President, mayors and city council members in “sanctuary cities”—places where local law-enforcement officials limit th…
Two Recent Studies Debunk Anti-Immigrant “Alternative Facts”
Among the right’s favorite talking points are claims that “illegals” are “swarming over the border” and “sanctuary cities” are “breeding crime.” The anti-immigrant forces never present evidence, for …
ICE Raids Update: Dreamer’s Released, Legal Resident’s Shot, and Sessions Rants
The good news is that DACA recipient Daniel Medina Ramirez has finally been released on bail, although the government is still pushing for his deportation. And there’s plenty of bad news. On Monday I…