Immigration

Trump’s Immigration Policy ‘Fever Dream’

Trump’s Immigration Policy ‘Fever Dream’ Trump’s Immigration Policy ‘Fever Dream’

Child detention, reduced asylum, a pointless wall: What unites these hateful policies?

Oct 5, 2018 / John Washington

Could the Trump Administration Succeed in Detaining Child Migrants Indefinitely?

Could the Trump Administration Succeed in Detaining Child Migrants Indefinitely? Could the Trump Administration Succeed in Detaining Child Migrants Indefinitely?

In seeking to overturn the Flores Agreement, the administration is undoing two decades of precedent.

Oct 5, 2018 / Michelle Chen

This Labor-Trafficking Case Exposes the Twin Cities’ Seedy Subcontracting Underbelly

This Labor-Trafficking Case Exposes the Twin Cities’ Seedy Subcontracting Underbelly This Labor-Trafficking Case Exposes the Twin Cities’ Seedy Subcontracting Underbelly

Workers allege that their employer engaged in labor trafficking, theft of public funds, and insurance fraud.

Sep 28, 2018 / Michelle Chen

Utica Refugee Center

Building Immigrant Communities in the Trump Era Building Immigrant Communities in the Trump Era

Immigrant networks ought to be supported and funded, not dismantled and driven into hiding.

Sep 28, 2018 / Kavitha Rajagopalan

Immigrant rights rallies

Trump’s Latest Assault on Immigrants Shreds a Half-Century of Reforms Trump’s Latest Assault on Immigrants Shreds a Half-Century of Reforms

New restrictions on the meaning of “public charge” will bump millions from public assistance and create a caste of untouchables.

Sep 26, 2018 / Sasha Abramsky

Refugees welcome in Germany sign

Germany’s Faith-Based Sanctuary Activists Have Created a National Movement Germany’s Faith-Based Sanctuary Activists Have Created a National Movement

But it’s under growing pressure from politicians waging war on the right to asylum.

Sep 19, 2018 / Caitlin L. Chandler

Border wall

The Fandango Doctrine The Fandango Doctrine

On using the arts to restore the amity and goodwill among people on both sides of the US-Mexico border.

Sep 17, 2018 / Kabir Sehgal

Jimmie Akesson

Is the ‘Swedish Model’ of Social Democracy Endangered? Is the ‘Swedish Model’ of Social Democracy Endangered?

The rise of the right-wing populist Sweden Democrats is stunning—but the Social Democrats have been losing ground for decades.

Sep 17, 2018 / Lars Trägårdh

Ain Issa refugee camp

Trump Creates a Worldwide Border Crisis for Refugees Trump Creates a Worldwide Border Crisis for Refugees

By slashing the number of refugees it is willing to take in, the United States is abrogating its humanitarian duty.

Sep 12, 2018 / Michelle Chen

A father and his son await tutorship by immigration lawyers in Tijuana, Mexico, Friday, April 27, 2018.

Don’t Let the Trump Administration Indefinitely Detain Immigrant Children Don’t Let the Trump Administration Indefinitely Detain Immigrant Children

You can also join a campaign to defund detention centers and sign up to phone bank to stop Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court.

Sep 11, 2018 / no-paywall / NationAction

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