Immigration

Get Ready For Unnatural Disasters This Hurricane Season

September 6, 2019 By Jill Richardson, Otherwords.org Educate! Hurricanes, Immigration, Natural Disasters, Undocumented

Donald Trump discusses immigration as if the benefits of residence in the U.S. are a pie. When immigrants get more, the people who were already here get less. In general, that’s not true. When immigrants come here, they don’t just take some jobs (often low-wage jobs U.S. citizens don’t want), they also create new jobs. They need housing, transportation, food, and clothes, and they buy all of those things, creating more jobs for other people in this country.

Three Things You Should Know About Trump’s Racially-Motivated Immigration Wealth Test

September 4, 2019 Jackie Vimo, Nilc.org Educate! Homeland Security, Immigration, Wealth

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently published its final set of regulations on “public charge,” which amount to a racially-motivated wealth test on immigrant families and individuals pursuing a healthy, stable future in the U.S. DHS finalized this rule against widespread public opposition, having received 266,000 public comments on it, the overwhelming majority opposed to its implementation. If the new rule goes into effect, it would devastatingly impact millions and dramatically reshape our immigration system...

“Dirtbag,” “Savages,” “Subhuman”: A Border Agent’s Hateful Career And The Crime That Finally Ended It

August 31, 2019 AC Thompson, Blackagendareport.com Educate! Border Patrol, Immigration, Undocumented

It was late November 2017, and Matthew Bowen, a veteran Border Patrol agent, was seething. A fellow Border Patrol agent in Texas had just been found dead in the field, and Bowen was certain someone who’d been crossing the border illegally was responsible for murdering him. “Snuffed out by some dirtbag,” Bowen, stationed in Nogales, Arizona, said in a text later obtained by federal authorities. Bowen, if lacking in evidence, wasn’t alone in his anger and suspicion. President Donald Trump...

How ICE Blurs The Line Between Enforcement Of Civil Immigration Violations And Enforcement Of Criminal Laws

August 28, 2019 Joan Friedland, Nilc.org Educate! ICE, Immigration, Undocumented

When Congress heads back to Washington, DC, after its long August recess, it will resume the ongoing debate over how many taxpayer dollars the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) should be allocated to do its work. Much of that debate has focused specifically on how to hold U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), one of DHS’s major component agencies, accountable for how much it’s spending — and increasingly overspending — to inhumanely target non–U.S. citizens for detention and deportation.

Community Defense Brigades Will Defend Neighbors When Threatened BY ICE

August 25, 2019 Elizabeth King, In These Times Resist! ICE, Immigration

Faced with President Donald Trump’s escalation of some of the country’s worst immigration policies—massive Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids, the Muslim ban, and tearing migrant children from their families at the country’s southern border—activists and community organizers have rallied behind immigrant communities. One key element of the fightback is the community defense patrol, a rapid response tactic designed to quickly react to ICE activity. Following the recent mass workplace ICE raid in Mississippi, in which 680 people were arrested, the critical need for community education and rapid response to ICE is all the more evident.

Immigrant, Anti-ICE, Anti-Police & Solidarity Activists To Rally At Greyhound Bus Station To Demand: ICE OFF OUR BUSES!

August 23, 2019 Staff, Fightformigrants.org Resist! ICE, Immigration, Undocumented

A coalition of pro-migrant, labor, anti-police brutality, and progressive activists are coming together to rally at Port Authority on August 23 to demand that Greyhound Corporation end collaboration with Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol agents. Every day across the U.S., ICE, DHS and Border Patrol agents are allowed to board buses with Greyhound’s permission in an attempt to detain migrants. Greyhound is NOT required to allow immigration agents onto its buses and should stop all collaboration immediately.

Open Borders: A Progressive Response To The Immigration Crisis

August 22, 2019 Harry Targ, Heartlandradical.blogspot.com Create! Immigration, Migration, Undocumented

People migrate from one place to another for a variety of reasons. A good part of that migration has to do with international relations, national economies, and the increasingly globalized economy. Literally millions of people have moved from one geographic space to another in the twenty-first century, in most cases for reasons of physical fear or economic need. Two prominent causes that “push” people to leave their communities and homeland relate to “hybrid wars” and neoliberal globalization.

How The U.S. Created The Central American Immigration Crisis

August 18, 2019 Rebecca Gordon, Tom Dispatch. Educate! Central America, Immigration, US coup, US Imperialism

It’s hard to believe that more than four years have passed since the police shot Amílcar Pérez-López a few blocks from my house in San Francisco’s Mission District. He was an immigrant, 20 years old, and his remittances were the sole support for his mother and siblings in Guatemala. On February 26, 2015, two undercover police officers shot him six times in the back, although they would claim he’d been running toward them with an upraised butcher knife. For two years, members of my little Episcopal church joined other neighbors in a weekly evening vigil outside the Mission police station, demanding that the district attorney bring charges against the men who killed Amílcar. When the medical examiner’s office continued to drag its feet on releasing its report, we helped arrange for a private autopsy, which revealed what witnesses had already reported

ICE: You’re Not Welcome In The South

August 16, 2019 By Justin Vest, Otherwords.org Resist! ICE, Immigration, South, Undocumented

Last week, I dropped my kids off for their first day of school in our small Alabama town of not even 7,000 people. The kids were excited, but I was a nervous wreck. My kids — ages 8 and 11 — are my heart and joy. Would they have everything they need? Like every dad, my mind raced through a million scenarios. My oldest is starting middle school. What haven’t I anticipated? What might come up and wreck his whole day, setting the tone for the school year? None of these came close to what families faced just a few hours west from us on their first day of school.

The Tech Employee Backlash, Whole Foods Edition

August 15, 2019 Staff, Technology Review Resist! Immigration, Whole Foods, Workers

A group of anonymous Whole Foods employees is calling out Amazon (which bought the supermarket chain in 2017) for working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). An open letter, posted via the group’s Twitter account, criticizes Amazon for providing cloud computing services to Palantir, a data analytics company that works for ICE, which has been cracking down on undocumented immigrants. The group, called Whole Worker, also asks Amazon to stop selling its facial-recognition technology, Rekognition, to law enforcement and demands that it stop business with “any other company involved in the continued oppression of marginalized groups.”

‘Let Them Go!’: Tears, Shock Over ICE Raids At Mississippi Food Processing Plants

August 8, 2019 Rogelio Solis and Jeff Amy, Clarionledger.com Educate! ICE, Immigration, Mississippi, Undocumented

MORTON — U.S. immigration officials raided numerous Mississippi food processing plants Wednesday, arresting 680 mostly Latino workers in what marked the largest workplace sting in at least a decade. The raids, planned months ago, happened just hours before President Donald Trump was scheduled to visit El Paso, Texas, the majority-Latino city where a man linked to an online screed about a "Hispanic invasion" was charged in a shooting that left 22 people dead in the border city.

Opposition To Trump’s Migration Deal Has Sparked A Growing Student Occupation In Guatemala

August 8, 2019 Jeff Abbott, Wagingnonviolence.org Resist! Guatemala, Higher Education, Immigration, Student Activism, Trump Administration

Late in the afternoon on July 29, students from Guatemala’s only public university, the University of San Carlos, took control of the university’s museum in Guatemala City’s historic center. Their goal was to block the country’s congress from holding sessions there, as the congressional building undergoes remodeling. “The facilities of the university are part of our heritage. Here great thinkers were formed,” said Lenina García, the general secretary of the Association of University Students Oliverio Castañeda de León, or AEU.

Resistance To Private Prison Industry Mounts Amid Debate Over Trump’s Immigration Detention Policies

August 6, 2019 Lauren-Brooke "L.B." Eisen, Brennancenter.org Educate! Detention Centers, Immigration, Private Prisons, Undocumented

Controversy over immigration policy is shining an unwelcome spotlight on the private prison industry, which runs detention facilities that house tens of thousands of immigrants. The private prison industry is under renewed scrutiny, and things are not going well for it. Prison companies were already under fire, accused of putting profits above the well-being of incarcerated individuals and staff at the dozens of federal and state prisons and local jails they run around the country.

ICE Contracts Are Booming. See Which Vendors Are In Your State.

August 5, 2019 Staff, Readsludge.com Educate! ICE, Immigration, Undocumented

Companies and other entities that make money from Immigration and Customs Enforcement contracts are flush in 2019, thanks to President Trump's harsh immigration operation. On July 24, Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Richard Blumnethal (D-Ct.) sent a letter to the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) asking for more information on its reported rampant use of solitary confinement. A joint investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists...

Immigrant Rights Activists Protest Inside And Outside Of The Democratic Debates

August 1, 2019 By Vera Parra, Movimiento Cosecha Resist! Immigrant Rights, Immigration, Joe Biden

Members of the Movimiento Cosecha protested during the presidential debates of the Democratic Party. They protested outside with blockades and inside interrupting former Vice President Biden. Immigrant rights leaders are calling on all Democratic candidates to commit to stopping all deportations on day one in office. Cosecha is calling on Democratic candidates to commit to ending all deportations on their first day in office.

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