"We cannot stand by and watch Congress disintegrate into playing games and leave the dreams and aspirations of so many young people aside," said Jorge-Mario Cabrera, spokesman for the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Right ...
Daily Archives: February 5, 2018
‘Collateral arrests’ by ICE amount to racial profiling, violate immigrants’ rights, lawyers say
Hernandez, 46, said he had no idea which law enforcement agency had just arrested him — or why — until he arrived at a downtown L.A. processing facility and saw the word "immigration" written on a wall. ...
“Chain migration” is an American tradition
I bet Samuel Reigar was a pretty good dad. This is because in the 19th century he was a so-called “chain migrant.” ...
Why Donald Trump Should Fear Norwegian Immigrants the Most of All
Over the past couple of weeks, thanks to the president’s racist comments about Haiti and African countries he can’t even name—remember “Nambia”?—as well as the stamp of approval he awarded future immigrants from Norway, ...
The Best Book on Immigration You Will Read This Year Comes From a Former Border Patrol Agent
At the beginning of his debut book, The Line Becomes a River, Francisco Cantú sits down with his mother over a Christmastime eggnog and brandy to explain why, after graduating from college with a bachelor’s in internatio ...
The Fight for a White America
A century ago, nativists won the battle over immigration. The Trump administration is determined to repeat it. ...
No Progress on ‘Dreamers’ as Another U.S. Shutdown Looms
Whether the lack of progress signaled the possibility of another federal government shutdown next week was unclear, but it worried the Dreamers, young people who were brought illegally into the United States as children. ...
AP Exclusive: US Rep Visits El Salvador to Meet Deported Man
That's why Green, a Houston Democrat, flew to El Salvador on Saturday to meet with Escobar in the hopes it will call attention to the plight of families separated by deportation. Another 200,000 people could be forced to ...
Activists Held Funeral For ‘American Dream’ After Trump Revealed Immigration Deal
Immigration advocates from several organizations, including the National Korean American Service & Education Consortium (NAKASEC), the Korean Resource Center and the Central American Solidarity Association, as well as se ...