The broken foot and immigration in Massachusetts
The last Friday in August in central Massachusetts was very hot — almost one hundred degrees Fahrenheit (37.778 Celsius). That afternoon, I went out on my front porch to get…
Immigration
Trump deportation operation could target over 13 million people, including millions of “mixed-status” families
The incoming Trump administration and the cabal of fascists and viciously anti-immigrant fanatics that Trump has selected for top cabinet and other government posts are planning what Trump “border czar”…
Trump vows military roundups of millions of immigrants
President-elect Donald Trump confirmed Monday that he intends to declare a national emergency and use the US military to deport millions of migrants as soon as he takes office next January 20. Trump was quoting and…
Anti-Immigrant Agitation in a Nation of Immigrants
In recent days, Donald Trump and his Republican running mate, JD Vance, have doubled down on their false and defamatory claims about legally-admitted Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, thus churning up…
Reigning cats and dogs
Psst... it's mostly white people making jokes about eating pets. I know you're not some irredeemable bigot but ask yourself if you'd be laughing about this debate deceit the same…
A Manufactured Crisis: In Defense of Migration
If one had to zero in on biggest the issue that propelled MAGA populism to the forefront of American politics, it is likely to be immigration. The first cause that…
Biden’s new brutal immigration policies
Migrants were denied the right to seek asylum in the U.S. during the pandemic. Many hoped conditions would improve when Title 42, the act that barred them, lapsed in May.…
Trashing Asylum: The UK’s Illegal Migration Bill
He was standing before a lectern at Downing Street. The words on the support looked eerily similar to those used by the politicians of another country. According to UK Prime…
Crises of migrants and refugees–where should homeless millions go?
The history of humankind of the past hundred years have thrown up a gamut of emotions and heart-wrenching crises. An accentuating challenge is the displacement of millions upon millions of…
Jailing Former Immigration Ministers: Denmark’s Inger Støjberg
It’s not the sort of thing you encounter regularly. A member of a government cabinet, responsible for arguably one of the country’s most important portfolios, found both wanting and culpable…
Migration: The Whole World Is Changing For Good
Waves of anger, fear and open hostility have greeted the influx of refugees and migrants from the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Some have reached levels of paranoia and…
The US Problem With Immigration: Railroaded By The Supreme Court
Immigration, blood source of the United States, its motor of development, has been rocked by judicial pronouncements of late. The Obama administration had put much stock in reforming the general…
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