10 Dec, 2022
It wasn’t long ago that we awoke to images and stories of families separated at the border, of migrant children locked into dirty, crowded, chain-link pens. For many Americans, this was an alarming introduction to the politics of cruelty that have played out in different periods of American immigration history, but with particular force in the past few years.
Shortly before he died, Congressmember and human rights activist John Lewis wrote a farewell to his fellow citizens, declaring: “Democracy is not a state.
2 Aug, 2022
A gross injustice against young immigrants is slowly working its way through the courts. It centers upon a federal judge’s ruling last year that the DACA Program (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) was “unlawful,” a ruling that puts in doubt a program that has given tens of thousands of young people brought here as children a temporary, renewable reprieve from deportation...
Like a gravitational field, there’s a narrative that exerts a powerful pull on U.S. immigration policy...
3 Sep, 2021
It's easy to say, "our immigration system is broken." Or to declare: "we are a nation of immigrants."...
“As the struggle for immigrant rights continues to be fought across America, new battlegrounds may come into view, then fade...
“”Post-truth is pre-fascism.” This statement closes one chapter of historian Timothy Snyder’s recent book…” Andrew Moss Published in: Donaldsonville Chief,...
“As we enter a new year, 800,000 Dreamers await news of their fate in this country. Thwarted by a president...
“After ending President Obama’s DACA Program (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) in September, Donald Trump announced earlier this month that...
