Tag: migrants

"Let's not concede that having refugees in our cities is something to be threatened by."

If President Trump succeeds in his assault on citizenship as an inclusive, irremovable right, then Lady Liberty will find herself, like Ellis Island, a mere reminder of another world, of a lost America, a country that once was a beacon of hope for those fleeing oppression.

There is, of course, no emergency, despite the rape fantasy that the president has regularly tried to pass off as public policy.

"We don't want money for an institution that is demonizing and criminalizing our immigrant neighbors."

We speak with an undocumented housekeeper from Guatemala named Victorina Morales, who helped expose what was happening on the Trump properties by speaking on the record to The New York Times.

"This verdict challenges not only No More Deaths volunteers, but people of conscience throughout the country."

U.S. authorities fired tear gas at migrants at the Mexican border during the first hours of the new year.

"Now people are fleeing from the misery and horrors for which we are responsible."

The risk we took at the border is overshadowed by the risks taken by the courageous participants of the migrant caravan.

No longer willing to collude in their oppression, Central Americans are coming to the U.S. in the open and en masse.