Tag: immigrants
The country Trump seems dead set on imitating
The Trump administration has begun offering wealthy foreigners the chance to emigrate to the U.S. if they fork over $5 million for a so-called gold card—an alternative to the “green card.”
Inside ICE Air: Flight attendants on deportation planes say disaster is...
For migrants who have spent months or years trying to reach this country and live here, it is the last act, the final bit of America they may experience.
A cruel hoax: The political economy of anti-immigration
The deep contradictions of anti-immigration—and other projects—are not overcome by hiding them under the veneer of slogans like “America First.”
The mass deportation handoff, Biden to Trump
Its essential assumption: that Biden adored open borders, while Trump, the demagogue, is on his way to executing a profitable clampdown on them.
American troops as migrants
What the MAGA crowd don’t recognize: the troops they plan to rely on to carry out the deportations of potentially millions of people are, in their own way, also migrants.
Trump suggests ‘one day of brutal police force’ to end crime,...
As Trump spreads baseless claims about rising crime, he calls for a day of violent police action targeting immigrants, prompting backlash and comparisons to authoritarian regimes.
US border wall construction restarts in Rio Grande Valley
The Department of Homeland Security said by law it is required to use the funds already appropriated by Congress in 2019 for the construction of the border wall in the Rio Grande Valley.
DeSantis anti-immigrant law sparks mass worker exodus in Florida
The new law places harsh restrictions on undocumented immigrants.
Amid growing anti-immigrant hate, 8 killed as driver plows into group...
“I can only describe it as a hate crime. It was motivated by hate.”
Report details Biden admin’s ‘cruel and unnecessary’ jailing of asylum-seekers
"The Biden administration must alter course, stop jailing asylum-seekers and treating them as enforcement 'priorities,' [and] use its legal authority to release them."
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GOP tucks $10 billion for voting restrictions into party-line Pentagon funding bill
The measure advanced on a near party-line vote just before lawmakers left Washington for a lengthy summer recess.
Kept in the dark: How Louisiana weakened community air monitoring as industry pushed back
That stretch of roughly 85 miles, widely known as "Cancer Alley," is home to dozens of refineries and chemical plants and to many predominantly Black communities.
Israel and the United States are merging their military. Here’s why.
"From aid to partnership," the U.S. and Israel are set to become even more united in genocide.
How technology is rewriting the way we write
As keyboards and touchscreens replace pens and pencils, the decline of handwriting raises questions about cognition, culture, and creativity.
Atomic Bill and the Payment Due
The play is “a true story about media manipulation at the dawn of the Atomic Age and the New York Times reporter who sold his soul to get the story.”