VAWA Dies in the House of Representatives
While everyone was so focused on the fiscal cliff, the Violence Against Women Act was allowed to die silently alone in a corner.Thanks to House Republican leaders’ failure to push through the Senate’s...
View ArticleLouisiana Undocumented Immigrant Driving Law is Ruled Unconstitutional
The law was initially meant to help combat terrorism, but critics point out that now it is being used to target anyone the police suspect of being in the US illegally. A Louisiana Appellate Court...
View ArticleFederal Government Cancels Scores Of Deportations In Arizona
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s decision to close deportation cases in Arizona highlights its shift away from Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s racial profiling tactics which arrests...
View ArticleTexas Spends Millions Detaining Non-Violent Immigrants in Local Jails
Texas spent more than $156.6 million holding over 131,000 undocumented immigrants in local jails for federal authorities for the past two years.—This post originally appeared at ThinkProgressBy Aviva...
View ArticleGovernor Chris Christie Signs In-State Tuition Bill for Undocumented Immigrants
New Jersey is now the 18th state to grant eligible undocumented immigrants access to in-state tuition.—This post originally appeared at ThinkProgressBy Esther Yu-Hsi LeeNew Jersey Governor Chris...
View ArticleLife of Gay Undocumented Immigrant is Focus of New Film
The hardest stories to tell are always the ones about ourselves.—Jose Antonio Vargas is living the American dream. As an overachieving, socially awkward child growing up in Mountain View, California,...
View ArticleDear Rick Perry: Stop Convincing People Terrorists are Crossing the Border in...
Immigrants in the United States are already stigmatized enough, they do not need to be linked to the issue of terrorism.—Dear Governor Rick Perry,It’s admirable that you are concerned about the...
View ArticleHow DACA Affected the Mental Health of Undocumented Young Adults
Embed from Getty Images—Elizabeth Aranda, University of South Florida and Elizabeth Vaquera, George Washington University“I am getting this wonderful education. I have a job. I fit in. At the same...
View ArticleImmigration Made America Great, Because Immigrants Are Us
Embed from Getty ImagesWhat an unlikely, an incredibly precious, human life we all have. The thin container wrapping that life — its color, its gender, its religious claims and political delusions —...
View ArticleSexual Abuse in US Immigration Prisons
The USian Immigrations and Customs Enforcement service has recently revised the rules applying to immigrants detained and awaiting their deportation hearings. Most notably for me, they’ve strengthened...
View ArticleKids in Cages
Embed from Getty Images FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, April 6, 2018 Attorney General Announces Zero-Tolerance Policy for Criminal Illegal Entry Time wandering, I stumbled across the following written...
View ArticleNobody Gets Out Alive
— We live in a dangerous country. Would it surprise you to learn that the United States has a whopping 100% mortality rate? And it’s projected to remain the same for the foreseeable future. Sad!...
View ArticleHow the Loss of the Mars Opportunity Rover Brings Me a Little Hope for Humanity
I was in my 30s when the Opportunity Mars rover was launched in 2003, on what was meant to be a 90-day mission that turned out to stretch over 15 years. My father, a very talented machinist, had passed...
View ArticleNacido de Nuevo
Filmmaker Evan Kaufmann tells the story of Ramon, a border patrol agent who finds redemption at the hands of an illegal immigrant in a life-altering night. Ramon visits the grave of his 4-year-old...
View ArticleNothing Can Stop This Gay, Undocumented Immigrant From Serving His Community
So much so that when he later moved to Austin, Texas, he attempted to join the Austin Police Department at the earliest possible opportunity. Confronted with legal obstacles that prevented him from...
View ArticleOhio Mauritanian Family Featured in Netflix Docu-Series: ‘Living Undocumented’
Cincinnati, OH – An Ohio family with Mauritanian roots is featured in a new documentary series on Netflix called “Living Undocumented.” Executive produced by Selena Gomez, the series is an intimate...
View ArticleI Come From a Place I Once Didn’t Know
Words by Valeria De La Torre Video by Lexis-Olivier Ray 00:00 the inspiration behind the piece was my 00:03 family has always been like oh you can’t 00:05 you can’t share this with anybody that 00:08...
View ArticleWithout a Pandemic Safety Net, Immigrants Living in U.S. Fall Through the Cracks
By LJ Dawson Ana’s 9-year-old son was the first in the family to come down with symptoms that looked like covid-19 last March. Soon after, the 37-year-old unauthorized immigrant and three of her...
View ArticleTokyo Olmpics, Emancipation Day, and Undocumented Immigrants
Black Canada Talking is a live online event that provides Black Canadians an opportunity to give their takes and POVs on stories that are of importance to them. On the July 25, 2021 edition of Black...
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