Skip to content

Tag: immigration

Columns

Fresh Hell
February 16, 2018
What If You Could Get Your Own Immigrant? From the ivy-clad brain trust of our elite universities comes an innovative proposition: the Visas Between Individuals Program, in which Americans can sponsor an immigrant in order to extract their labor at below minimum wage rates, ...

Dreams Deferred
February 02, 2018
To be young, gay, and undocumented in Alabama is to understand that "deferred action" means your freedoms are on hold.

If They Are Not Coming for You Today
May 11, 2017
Welcome to Interviews for Resistance. Since election night 2016, the streets of the United States have rung with resistance. People all over the country have woken up with the conviction that they must do something to fight inequality in all its forms. But many are wondering ...

Time to Unite
May 01, 2017
Welcome to Interviews for Resistance. Since election night 2016, the streets of the United States have rung with resistance. People all over the country have woken up with the conviction that they must do something to fight inequality in all its forms. But many are wondering ...

In Defense of Sanctuary
April 06, 2017
To move away from sanctuary by dismissing it as “merely symbolic” is either “merely ignorant” or “merely cowardly.”

It Is Just Open Season Now
March 02, 2017
There is a hypocrisy in being shocked about Trump proposing a border wall when the compromise by Republicans and Democrats included this ramp-up of ICE and CBP and a border wall that was deeply, deeply militarized. I think that is one of the things that we need to pay attention ...

Undoing Islamophobia
March 01, 2017
Muslim Americans must be at the forefront of the fight to preserve—and increasingly, to restore—them in the face of the most sustained assault they have received in many decades. A concerted effort on all these fronts, both nationally and globally, may well ensure that at ...

Un Dia Sin Inmigrantes
February 22, 2017
We are unable to make a difference in politicians’ deals but we live here, we make money here, and we spend money here. So we are going to spread the message for the community and be ready in the best way possible. We are not going to go out and make noises for nothing. No, ...

Borderline Delusion
February 16, 2017
No room in this history for settler colonialism and slavery, none for the importation of cheap, easily exploited labor in the “on” periods, for the racial exclusions of the “off” periods expressed in a preference for white European populations.

Deportation Nation
February 14, 2017
I think we sugarcoat it by making it very procedural, but actually, that night she was kidnapped from her family and there are many of us in the community that took action. We had them waiting outside in vigil for Lupita in hopes that the director would have released her. ...