"This can't be the end," said Zepeda, who has lived in L.A. now 33 years, almost twice as long as he lived in El Salvador. "After so many years here, so much work and effort, there has to come something good." ...
Daily Archives: January 29, 2018
Trump tells DACA recipients not to worry. They know better than to believe him.
On Wednesday, during an impromptu press conference at the White House, President Donald Trump had nothing but love and comfort for the 690,000 young unauthorized immigrants affected by the end of the Deferred Action for ...
“You are not shitholes”: at the Grammys, musicians offer words of support to immigrants
With the final performance on the Grammys stage Sunday night, Logic had a few things to say about diversity and immigration. ...
Trump’s immigration framework leaks, and everyone hates it
Democrats aren’t happy either. Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez, D-Ill., said on Twitter it didn't pass the “laugh test.” ...
Trump’s two-faced immigration strategy rides an ancient racist dichotomy
As the drama around Dreamers and the government shutdown unfolded, Donald Trump’s racism was on full display for anyone not dedicated to denying it. Referring to African and Latin American countries as “shitholes” behind ...
DACA isn’t just about social justice — legalizing Dreamers makes economic sense too
Earlier this month, hopes were high that a bipartisan deal could be reached to resolve the fate of the “Dreamers,” the millions of undocumented youth who were brought to the U.S. as children. ...
Immigration’s Border-Enforcement Myth
We’ve been here before. The last major immigration reform bill, the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, which was signed by President Ronald Reagan, legalized nearly three million undocumented immigrants in excha ...
Anti-immigration vitriol is rooted in white supremacy
While I appreciated The Post’s focus on anti-immigrant zealot Stephen Miller’s role at the center of the debate on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, I was disappointed to see the article quote Mark Krikorian defend ...
What the 1920 Wall Street bombing tells us about modern immigration scare tactics
hat same anti-immigrant hysteria, in which immigrants were scapegoated for acts of terrorist violence, appeared again this month when President Trump touted a Department of Justice study claiming that immigrants are disp ...
Why the Trump administration is trying to make Muslim immigrants seem dangerous
The narrative that mass attacks are a Muslim problem has been fractured by the regular occurrence of mass shootings and the increasing prominence of avowed white supremacists in our political landscape. Even the FBI has ...
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