Do you feel that you’re a better citizen than many legal citizens? I’m not sure that’s for me to judge. But that’s precisely the conversation: that people like me should earn our citizenship. But for my fellow Americans ...
Daily Archives: October 2, 2018
For Private Prisons, Detaining Immigrants Is Big Business
Thomas W. Beasley had something for sale, and figured he could market it the same as any other merchandise. “You just sell it like you were selling cars or real estate or hamburgers,” he told an interviewer. ...
American Girl: A Story of Immigration, Fear and Fortitude
It was Jan. 8, 2018, and 14-year-old Emily stood in the bathroom at DuVal High School in Prince George’s County, Md., waiting for a friend. A soft-spoken freshman, Emily often felt overwhelmed in DuVal’s crush of rowdy s ...
Bill would block ICE from arresting immigrant child sponsors
A bill set to be introduced Tuesday comes as both the number of immigrant children in government custody and the length of time those children are being detained are skyrocketing. The Trump administration's own policies ...
Migrant Children Describe Tent City As ‘Punishment,’ Experts Say
Over the past two weeks, hundreds of migrant children have been sent to a tent city in Tornillo, Texas, according to The New York Times, in what experts are calling a humanitarian crisis of the U.S. government’s own maki ...
13,000 migrant children in detention: America’s horrifying reality
You will not be provided schooling, classes of any kind or books. You will spend the next few months with thousands of other children, wondering if and when your childhood will be returned to you. ...
In need of life-saving surgery, he was promised refuge in America. Just 15 months later, he died — still waiting
As non-Muslims who’d fled death threats in Iran, the family barely scraped by in Turkey. His sons had trouble finding work because of discrimination toward refugees. His wife picked through trash bins for food. And the f ...
Pentagon struggling to restart immigrant recruitment program: report
The Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest (MAVNI) program offers foreign-born recruits with strong medical credentials or knowledge of African or Asian languages a relatively speedy path to citizenship for t ...
Outraged by ICE’s treatment of children? How to close your wallet to companies that profit from it
Are you sick of our government separating children from immigrant parents and putting them in cages? Do you think ICE should be abolished? ...
ICE Is Giving More Local Cops the Powers of Immigration Agents. It’s Been a Disaster.
Less than a week after President Donald Trump took office in January 2017, he issued executive orders packed with plans to jumpstart an immigration crackdown, including hiring 10,000 new Immigration and Customs Enforceme ...
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