Originally Published in Salon Heather Digby Parton - March 22, 2021 Media can educate the public without ratcheting up the hysteria by calmly providing the historical context It was inevitable that a crisi ...
Category: Culture & Politics
The Sunday News Shows Went All-In on the “Border Crisis,” and I Think It Gave Me Hives
Originally Published in Mother Jones Opinion by Ian Gordon - March 21, 2021 What is a Powerhouse Roundtable, anyway, if it’s not in front of a metal fence? It was Border Crisis Day on ...
Fact-Checking Claims on the Migrant Surge at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Originally Published in The New York Times Linda Qiu - March 20, 2021 As migrants arrive at the southwestern border in increasing numbers, lawmakers and officials are misleading about border policies, migrants, t ...
Durbin: ‘I think I’m close’ to getting Senate votes needed to advance DREAM Act
Originally Published in CNN Veronica Stracqualursi and Daniella Diaz - March 21, 2021 (CNN) Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin said Sunday that he thinks he is "close" to securing the Republican votes needed to overc ...
My parents came to the US from Korea for a better future. We must stop the hate
Originally Published in CNN Opinion by Jain Kim - March 21, 2021 Jain Kim, a CNN staff member, has lived in Atlanta for almost 20 years and is a member of the Atlanta chapter of the Asian American Journalists Assoc ...
Ilhan Omar leads Democrats in demanding Biden end ICE contracts with state, local jails
Originally Published in Fox News March 15, 2021 Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., led a group of progressive Democrats on Monday in demanding that President Biden's administration end contracts between federal immigration ...
Silent no more
Originally Published in Time Cady Lang - March 20, 2021 A tragedy in Atlanta and America’s long history of violence against Asians IT WAS HEARTBREAKING AND HORRIFYING—BUT TO MANY, IT WASN’T A SURPRISE. The news t ...
O.C. organizers protest Biden administration’s deportation of Vietnamese refugees
Originally Published in the Los Angeles Times Vera Castaneda - March 18, 2021 Organizers hold signs at a VietRISE-led rally in Orange County’s Little Saigon on Sunday. (Tim Phan) Asian American organizatio ...
Border State Voters Support Humane Immigration Reform
Originally Published in The Nation Aída Chávez - March 19, 2021 A poll of Arizona voters shows that, unlike their elected officials, they care more about policy than congressional procedure. Barbed wire curl ...
The House Passes Two Immigration Bills. But Will Broader Immigration Reform Be Possible?
Originally Published in Time Lissasandra Villa - March 18, 2021 Activists and citizens with temporary protected status (TPS) march along 16th Street toward the White House in a call for Congress and the Bid ...
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