President Biden’s proposed immigration reforms could provide a pathway to citizenship for more than 11 million undocumented immigrants, but the proposed changes also offer fresh opportunity for [...] Continue Reading
Immigration
Activist Scholarship: Against the Devil
By Daniel O’Connell The Devil’s Fruit: Farmworkers, Health and Environmental Justice by Dvera I. Saxton. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ, Paperback, $34.95. Although many of us are [...] Continue Reading
Push for Legalization of Essential Workers in Covid Relief Bill
By Sunita Sohrabji Rep. Raul Ruiz (D–Palm Desert) joined several immigration advocates on Feb. 16 to push for an immediate path to legalization for more than 5 million undocumented essential [...] Continue Reading
Exploitation or Dignity for Migrant Farmworker Families?
By David Bacon (Editor’s note: This article summarizes the conclusions of a report by the Oakland Institute, Exploitation or Dignity: What Future for Migrant Farmworker Families in the United [...] Continue Reading
Trump Escalates War on Immigrants Amid Worsening Covid-19 Pandemic
By Sunita Sohrabji The Trump administration has made 400 policy changes detrimental to immigrants through its tenure at the White House, with 63 fresh blows meted out amid the Covid-19 [...] Continue Reading
Border and Racism Issues
By Leni Villagomez Reeves There are two issues to address. They are closely related. First, we must realize that it is U.S. policies and direct interventions that have produced violent unstable [...] Continue Reading
World’s Immigration and Poverty under the Pandemic
By Eduardo Stanley The number of victims is soaring around the world because of Covid-19, with over 100,000 dead persons in the United States while President Trump is playing golf. He leads the [...] Continue Reading
Double Jeopardy of Being a DACA Recipient during a Pandemic
By Diego San Luis Ortega The Covid-19 pandemic has changed life as we know it. We all fear for the health of our families and anxiously await new information to help us weather this crisis. But [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Jail Transfers Immigrants to ICE Custody
By Stan Santos Fresno County continues to violate the civil rights and basic humanity of immigrants in custody as it facilitates the transfer of arrestees to ICE [U.S. Immigration and Customs [...] Continue Reading
Cárcel de Fresno Transfiere Inmigrantes a ICE para Deportación
Por Stan Santos El Condado de Fresno continúa violando los derechos civiles y humanos de los inmigrantes detenidos ya que facilita la transferencia de detenidos a ICE (Immigration and Customs [...] Continue Reading
Central Valley Dreamers Travel to D.C. for DACA Hearing
By Juan Santiago The Dreamers’ movement reached a pivotal moment in November when the Supreme Court heard oral arguments over a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) case. The case made it [...] Continue Reading
Rally in Support of a Father Arrested by ICE
By Eduardo Stanley On the cold morning of Dec. 7, dozens of people gathered to rally in support of a family whose father was arrested by ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) while he was [...] Continue Reading