When the Trump administration announced this month it would criminally prosecute everyone who crossed the border illegally, which meant jailing immigrant parents and separating them from their children, it effectively ma ...
Daily Archives: June 1, 2018
Kesha Stands With DREAMers in New Video for ‘Hymn’: Watch
She encouraged her followers to donate their money and time to learning about DREAMers by attaching a link to her #HereToStay Network fundraiser, which pools funds to “provide resources to undocumented families and youth ...
“Child abuse by government”: How child-parent separation at the border is traumatizing kids
President Trump and his administration acolytes have made it crystal clear that immigrants, refugees — pretty much any human who doesn't fit with their thin, racialized doctrine of acceptability — aren't welcome in the U ...
Hustling in Flushing: A Chinese Immigrant Couple Struggles to Decode Life in Queens
Hilgers tells the story of a Chinese immigrant couple through dual narratives of departure and arrival. In the first, Zhuang Liehong, a 30-year-old fisherman’s son and tea shop owner, and his wife, Little Yan, come to Fl ...
Vulnerable Republicans See Immigration as Political Salvation
He says it does not faze him, but there is nothing like the political gallows to focus the mind of an endangered politician, and Mr. Denham, a Republican, is responding in a way that touches almost everybody here in Cali ...
Immigrant tuition law debated in Kansas governor’s race
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach tweeted recently that repealing the policy of allowing some young immigrants to pay the lower tuition rates reserved for legal state residents would “stem the rising tide of tuition ...
Complaint targets separation of immigrant families at border
The groups filed a petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, which investigates alleged human rights abuses in North and South America. ...