Tag: immigration
The triumph and tragedy of the Olympic Refugee Team
It's beautiful that there's an Olympic team for 82 million displaced people. But have we accepted mass displacement as the new normal?
Senators question DHS and ICE on abuse allegations against migrants
"The allegations of violence and brutality against vulnerable refugees seeking safety here in the United States are unlawful and disturbing.”
Rights groups demand Biden reverse Trump immigration changes as COVID surges...
This comes as more than half of ICE’s immigration detention centers are currently reporting coronavirus outbreaks.
‘Victory’: Federal judge invalidates latest Trump effort to kill DACA
"This is a victory for our courageous plaintiffs, DACA-eligible youth across the country, and all of our communities."
How immigrant communities are confronting COVID challenges
"With Caribbean people in general, we have a way of adapting to situations [that] we’re put into to make the most out of them.”
New engineering report finds privately built border wall will fail
Portions of the wall were in danger of overturning if not fixed due to extensive erosion just months after it was built.
Gassing immigrants in detention with a highly toxic industrial disinfectant
The inhumanity of the overlords administering this toxin to their captive victims is little different from that which was punished, often with death sentences, in the Nuremberg Trials that followed World War II.
We can’t talk about immigration without acknowledging black immigrants
With strong, rich roots in the U.S., Black people are part of this country’s immigration narrative.
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DNC approach to Israel is political malpractice and moral failure
On no issue is that more apparent than the DNC’s insistence on treating Israel as above serious reproach.
The US bombs kids so Palmer Luckey can have nice things
Because for every bomb the U.S. and Israel drop, a bunch of men in cushy offices profit off all the death.
Oil regulators found hundreds of wells violating Oklahoma rules. Then they ignored their findings.
Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking water pollution, the state chose not to act.
‘You can’t live without us’: How Big Oil pivoted from climate-friendly messaging to normalize...
More than 1,500 independent advertising agencies and 4,000 individual creatives have signed Clean Creatives’ pledge to refuse future fossil fuel contracts.
Thanks, MAGA, for exposing six corrosive myths that plague America—if we survive!
So kudos to today’s rightwing bellicosity for making clear the U.S. unilaterally wields deadly, rapacious power, whether sensible or stupid or gratuitous.