Immigration
The Final Debate: More of the Same With a Mute Button
Stripped of political theater, the final debate of the 2020 presidential election showed clearer than ever before that Donald Trump and Joe Biden want to present themselves as candidates of bourgeois “stability.” Though they differ in tactics, their responses showed that they share a vision of shoring up U.S. capitalist interests and revitalizing the decaying U.S. imperialist regime — and that they are more than willing to sacrifice the working class and oppressed across the world to do it.
Madeleine Freeman
October 23, 2020
ICE’s Forced Hysterectomies Are Part of a Long History of State Sterilization of Women of Color
According to a whistleblower report, an ICE detention center is performing hysterectomies on women without their consent or awareness. This is consistent with a long history of forced sterilization of women of color in the United States.
Tatiana Cozzarelli
September 15, 2020
Immigrants Detained in Concentration Camps Go on Hunger Strike
Hunger strikes have become a common form of resistance and struggle in detention centers. Last week, detainees in Bakersfield, California went on a hunger strike to fight unsafe and deplorable conditions.
Elias Khoury
July 16, 2020
Abolish the Police Means Abolish ICE Too
In light of the protests demanding the defunding or the abolition of police, it is imperative that we recognize that local police and ICE are working hand in hand. ICE is detaining protesters and attempting to deport them. We need to abolish both ICE and the police.
Carmin Maffea
July 2, 2020
ICE Agents Are Arresting Black Lives Matter Protesters
ICE agents have been targeting protesters in areas like Arizona and New York City, hard-hit COVID hotspots.
K.S. Mehta
June 14, 2020
U.S. Racist Immigration Policy Is Spreading the Virus, Not Containing It
Building on the existing horrors of the U.S. border, the Trump administration has used the pandemic as an opportunity to continue to enact racist and nationalist immigration policies, to the point of threatening to deport people even after they have tested positive for COVID-19.
Rebecca Margolies
May 14, 2020
ICE and COVID-19: A Deadly Mix For Immigrants
Even during a pandemic, the Trump administration is continuing to attack undocumented immigrants and is tightening legal pathways to immigration.
Eli Kawy
April 24, 2020
Trump to Ban Immigration in Xenophobic “Shock Doctrine”
Donald Trump tweeted out an executive order on Monday night banning immigration in the United States. This is a massive and unprecedented escalation of Trump’s xenophobic and nationalistic immigration policy.
Left Voice
April 21, 2020
ICE Detentions Continue in the Midst of a Pandemic
ICE agents continue to make arrests, even as cities across the United States brace for the COVID-19 pandemic. These actions put detainees’ health at risk, and expose the U.S.’s callous disregard for the lives of migrants.
Otto Fors
March 20, 2020
ADOS: Right-Wing Cooptation of the Reparations Movement
ADOS, or American Descendants of Slavery, is an organization that differentiates itself from non-American Black people, including more recent immigrants who have suffered and resisted for generations. ADOS is co-opting the demand for reparations and making it serve the very systems we should fight against.
Liz Dunn
March 7, 2020