Immigration

By Juan Cole | – Few Americans remember that the United States colonized the Philippines and virtually no one but the more historically conscious Filipinos remember how destructive the initial military occupation was, with thousands killed by US troops and hundreds of thousands killed by disease and exposure as a result of the brutality with […]

China

A Modest Proposal for Trump: End Trade War & Maybe China will Build you a Wall (They have Experience)

Tom Engelhardt

(Tomdispatch.com) – We have two intractable issues, one intractable president, and an intractable world, but what if it weren’t so? What if those two intractable problems could be swept off the table by a single gesture from that same intractable man? As a start, consider the problem of President Trump’s embattled “great, great wall,” the […]

Immigration

“Make America Cruel Again:” Trump’s War on Immigrants

Arnold R. Isaacs

( Tomdispatch.com) – “Make America Cruel Again.” That’s how journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Shipler has reformulated Donald Trump’s trademark slogan. Shipler’s version is particularly apt when you think about the president’s record over the last two years on refugee resettlement and other humanitarian-related immigration issues. President Trump’s border-wall obsession and the political uproar […]

Immigration

Democrats To Deny Funding to Trump’s Muslim Visa Ban on 2nd Anniversary

TeleSur

(TeleSur) – “We are dropping American made bombs on countries … the United States then made the decision to block those people inside those countries…” Democratic members of the United States Congress rallied against President Donald Trump’s Muslim ban Monday which reached its second anniversary. “I know first-hand how destructive this policy is to millions […]

Featured

America’s 7 Racist Exclusions: From Muslim Visa Ban to 1930s Exclusion of Jews

Juan Cole

Revised.- ed. Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The two-year anniversary of Trump’s Muslim visa ban and Holocaust Remembrance Day have arrived more or less together, and it is worthwhile reviewing how they reveal an ugly side to America. US history is replete with racism as public policy. It has been more often our history than […]

Immigration

US Uses Migrant Children as ‘Bait’ to Catch Sponsors: Lawsuit

TeleSur

Some 10,000 migrant children being held in Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) shelters are being denied due process rights as asylum seekers, the lawsuit argues. “We have over 10,000 children in custody right now because this administration is using them as bait. This deplorable, deliberate policy means that these children are languishing in detention for […]

Immigration

Trump Gov’t Separated ‘Thousands’ More Immigrant Children Than Originally Reported

TeleSur

The administration of President Trump implemented a ‘zero tolerance’ policy to criminally prosecute and jail all illegal border crossers even those traveling with their children. The U.S. government may have separated “thousands” more immigrant children from their parents than previously known but inadequate record-keeping means the exact number is still unclear, an internal watchdog said […]

Immigration

Not One Network Should Have Aired Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rant

Peter Certo

(Otherwords.org) – The president is going to demonize the media no matter what they do. So why not do the right thing? Way back in 2014 — a century ago, it feels like — President Barack Obama requested time on major networks for an Oval Office address on immigration reform. Fearing the subject was too […]

Immigration

Second Guatemalan Child dies Christmas Eve in US Border Protection Custody

AFP

By Maggy Donaldson | – Washington, DC | AFP | – An eight-year-old migrant from Guatemala died in US government custody on Tuesday, Customs and Border Protection said, the second child fatality in American detention this month. The boy, who was with his apprehended father, had been transferred to a New Mexico medical center showing […]