Subjects Archives: Immigration

Trump unleashes sweeping deportation plan, sparking legal battles and nationwide protests.

For today I have been asked to speak a bit about my country, Puerto Rico, and the socioeconomic crisis that is currently developing there.1 Given the time constraints, I want to provide you with a brief overview of what is being experienced there by the victims of the crisis. I want to also speak a […]

Sheinbaum stressed that Mexico cannot and should not intervene in U.S. politics, because it is part of Mexican diplomacy. She said she understands when protests are peaceful, but reiterated her call not to resort to violence in demonstrations.

Rallying under the banner “IAM Max,” 200 union members and supporters gathered outside the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) in Tacoma, Washington, on June 6 to demand the release of Maximo Londonio, a member of Machinists (IAM) Local Lodge 695 who has been imprisoned by ICE since mid-May.

Trump deploys 2,000 troops to LA amid anti-ICE protests. Governor Newsom calls it a political stunt: “They want a spectacle. Don’t give them one.”

Hundreds of migrants have been illegally deported by the U.S. to these infamous prisons, currently there are approximately 110,000 prisoners across the country; approximately 85,000 of these prisoners have been arrested since the start of the state of exception, an emergency measure that has been renewed 36 times by the National Assembly since its promulgation in March 2022.

The news that a group of “Afrikaners” (Afrikaans-speaking white people from South Africa) have shown up in the United States, invited by the Trump administration as “refugees,” shouldn’t come as a surprise. Donald Trump is obsessed with South Africa; he has been for years.

The Trump administration’s decision to fast-track asylum for white South Africans—claiming “persecution”—is a political stunt, ignoring that they remain among the wealthiest globally, still controlling most of the country’s land and resources decades after apartheid allegedly ended.

In a barrage of executive orders issued last week, including one late Monday afternoon targeting so-called “sanctuary” cities, President Donald Trump launched a naked attack on the democratic rights of immigrants and the working class as a whole.

After a Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge was arrested on Friday for obstructing justice and harboring an individual, legal experts fear a potential chilling effect.

On March 30, a lynch mob led by neo-Nazi paramilitaries flew the Israel flag as it demanded Haitian workers be expelled from the Dominican Republic. The episode reveals the disturbing connections between the Dominican right-wing and Israel.

Our offshore concentration camps, for now, are in El Salvador and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. But don’t expect them to remain there. Once they are normalized, not only for U.S.-deported immigrants and residents, but U.S. citizens, they will migrate to the homeland.

A federal judge has blocked the deportation of Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian green card holder and Columbia University protest organizer, after his sudden arrest by immigration officials.

An order based on the Alien Enemies Act was issued by U.S. President Donald Trump to supposedly stop an invasion of the defunct Venezuelan criminal gang Tren de Aragua (TDA). This is the first time said law has been invoked since World War II, although it dates back to 1798.

Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish citizen on a student visa, was targeted by pro-Israel groups for co-authoring an op-ed calling for Tufts to divest from Israel

The White House said it planned to once again invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to extradite Venezuelan nationals.

Migrants in Salvadoran prisons are separated from their families and lack adequate and timely protections for their defense.

This Purim, as Jews around the world tell the story of Queen Esther, we must also tell the story that Project Esther plans on carrying out. This Christian Nationalist plan intends to squash the Palestine solidarity movement, crack down on free speech and academic freedom, and deport those who speak out against Israeli apartheid.

Although she is now an academic, she has never left the world of international security, making the subject her area of expertise. She has made a point of trying to lift women’s voices in the field. One of these was the then-U.S. Director of National Security, Avril Haines, whom she spoke with in 2023.

Donald Trump’s second presidential term has been underway for almost two months now, and every day brings headlines testifying to his determination to fulfil his promise of mass deportation of immigrants.