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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…
Recent Polls, DACA/TPS Fallout, MS-13 Solution, Border Deaths Polls show Americans are closer to Democrats than Donald Trump on immigration Americans want to help DREAMers, don’t want a wall, and don…
It’s not the first time the Democrats have failed the Dreamers. In 2009-2010 the party controlled the Congress and the White House, but supposed “master strategist” Chuck Schumer held off on promotin…
Here’s new research supporting our contention that most native-born people in the U.S. would benefit from the passage of the DREAM Act. How would it affect the DREAM Act fight in Congress now if the…
This article from Vox gives a pretty clear idea of how the immigration impasse is playing out in Washington. The Democratic politicians are generally willing to give away a lot—too much, most activi…
Immigrant rights march in Los Angeles, 2016. Photo: Molly Adams Immigrants aren't just economic factors; they're human beings -- in the case of the Dreamers, human beings who have been member…
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 …
As of 4 pm today, December 19, Dreamers are sitting in at the offices of a number of Congress members. For live coverage from inside the office, go here: http://weareheretostay.org/dreamact-sitins/ S…
This is the text of an email from Presente Action about the arrests of seven activists at the Capitol on December 15 for sitting in at congressional offices to demand inclusion of the Dream Act in th…
Democratic Congressional leaders Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi still claim they’ll get “something on immigration” before the year ends, but they’ve backed off their threat to shut the government dow…
A House tax bill could push thousands of US graduate students out of careers in science and technology, weakening the US edge in those fields. Are Republicans hoping to replace them with immigrant sc…
Protesters in the Senate Office Building. Photo: Getty Images Over 8,000 Immigrant Youth Take Over Nation’s Capitol & Walkout From Schools in CA, TX, OK, DC, MD, VA Tell Paul Ryan & Mitch McC…
For years anti-immigrant pundits and politicians have been denouncing undocumented women they say come here to have “anchor babies”—U.S. citizen children who supposedly will protect them from deporta…
November 3, 2017 CONTACT: Inga Sarda-Sorensen, ACLU National, 347-514-3984, mailto:isarda-sorensen@aclu.org Stephen Wilson, ACLU of Texas, 713-325-7010, mailto:media@aclutx.org SAN ANTONIO — The fede…
Photo: The Independent/courtesty of family We’re Suing the Government for Its Detention and Abuse of Rosa Maria, a 10-Year-Old Child With Cerebral Palsy By Amrit Cheng, ACLU October 31, 2017 At this …
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…
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…
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…
