Tag: Immigration

How a century of immigration law has evaded constitutional rights.

It faces serious obstacles, but the uncertainty and terror it has already unleashed is real—indeed, part of the point.

Setting the record straight.

Trump’s “invasion” narrative and the real story of pain in America.

Along a recently designated historic trail on the U.S.-Mexico border, colonial legacies hide in plain sight.

The problem isn't new; it's the bordered logic of global apartheid itself.

The recent electoral success of a party with Nazi origins must be understood as part of the long history of white Swedes’ desire for racial homogeneity.

Twenty years of cruel anti-immigrant policy have left thousands of asylum seekers in limbo, detained in offshore prisons or in mainland commercial hotels.

On language and belonging.

For decades Haitian migrants have been subjected to brutal mistreatment by the U.S. government, much of it at Cuban detention facilities.

The UN Convention on Refugees gives form to a humanitarian ideal, but states still judge what counts as harm and who deserves protection.

The legacy of September 11 continues to normalize state-sanctioned barbarity.

Celebrations of multiculturalism obscure the country’s settler colonial history.

East African countries host seven times more refugees than we do. Their policies look beyond their borders; so should ours.

Watch our release of the documentary short The Rifleman. Then read an interview with the filmmaker.

Non-college-educated U.S.-born workers have every reason to be enraged by declining wages and living standards, but more restrictive immigration policies won’t solve these problems.

Noam Chomsky on the Capitol coup attempt, 2020 unrest, and the Biden administration.

The Trump administration has rejected calls for mass humanitarian release and continues to deport detainees to Latin America.

When Celes Tisdale led poetry workshops at Attica State Prison, soon after the 1971 uprising, some of the prisoners were still recovering from gunshots.

We need a more just conception of citizenship—one that abolishes the distinction between “natural” and naturalized citizens.

A leaked Homeland Security database confirms what many suspected: the U.S. government is trying to punish and intimidate people advocating for immigrant rights.