Thursday, December 5, 2024

Tag: immigration

Biden faces pressure to act as Trump’s mass deportation plan sparks...

With Trump’s return to office looming, undocumented immigrants and mixed-status families brace for unprecedented deportation efforts. Activists call on Biden to take immediate action to protect vulnerable populations.

A reformist program on immigration (or what Harris might have said)

A radical program would embrace the freedom to migrate as universal and therefore reorient the global location of investment to serve that freedom both domestically and internationally.

Trump set to execute ‘largest mass deportation operation’ on day 1,...

The move follows Trump’s resounding electoral victory, described as a mandate to fulfill campaign promises, including the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants.

The Haitian migrant lie is a practice run for Trump’s mass...

Make no mistake: The demagoguery over Haitian immigrants in Ohio is just the beginning.

The weaponization of immigrants

Is the far right not just using the rhetoric of anti-immigration, but also using the actual immigrants themselves as weapons?

Trump sparks outrage with plan to deport Haitian immigrants to Venezuela

Trump’s inflammatory remarks about deporting Haitian immigrants from Ohio to Venezuela have drawn widespread condemnation, with critics labeling his rhetoric dangerous and fear-mongering.

Undocumented immigrants pay higher tax rates than top 1% in most...

New study reveals that undocumented immigrants pay nearly $100 billion in taxes annually, contributing more to state and local revenues than the wealthiest Americans in most states, while being excluded from the social programs they help fund.

‘A monstrosity’: Biden blasted over planned executive order on asylum

Migrant rights advocates decry Biden's upcoming executive order, likening it to Trump-era policies and raising significant legal and humanitarian concerns.

Migrants tricked by DeSantis scheme gain legal ground with U visas

The granting of U visas marks a crucial step in recognizing the migrants as victims of a potential crime, thus allowing them to legally work in the United States and providing temporary protection from deportation.

Immigrants held in private northwest detention center report death, suicide attempts...

This all comes as a federal judge blocked Washington state from fully enforcing a law intended to increase oversight at the for-profit immigrant jail, run by GEO Group.

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