Immigration

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Nevermind the Wall — They’re Building Warehouses for Refugee Children

The newest plank of immigration enforcement? Kidnapping children and piling them into detention centers. Washington, D.C. (Otherwords) – Most mornings lately, I’ve woken up to two things. First I hear my toddler, sounding off that it’s time to get up. Then I see the news stories about other toddlers our immigration authorities ripped away from […]

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Nearly 1800 Families Separated At US Border In Just 17 Months

TeleSur

Nearly 1,800 immigrant families were separated at the U.S.-Mexico border from October 2016 through February of this year, according to a senior government official, as President Donald Trump implemented stricter border enforcement policies. The numbers are the first comprehensive disclosure by the administration of how many families have been affected by the policies. Previously, the […]

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Can America Heal the Psychological Wounds of our Syrian Refugees?

Arash Javanbakht

Detroit (The Conversation) – War in Syria and the refugee crisis have been the subject of a heated debate in United States politics, leading to a travel ban and drastic reduction in the number refugees to the U.S. this year. We occasionally hear about brutal deaths and starvation of civilians in Syria from the news, […]

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Trump can’t Actually care much about Syrians if he only let in 11 Refugees this Year

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TeleSur | – – “We are seeing the impact of the Trump administration’s words and policy and actions that slams the door on refugees,” says Oxfam America. The United States has accepted only 11 Syrian refugees so far this year, human rights organizations announced Saturday, just hours after President Donald Trump ordered airstrikes against strategic […]

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Pushing back against Trump Criminalization of Immigrants

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By Aviva Chomsky | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – The immigration debate seems to have gone crazy. President Obama’s widely popular Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, which offered some 750,000 young immigrants brought to the United States as children a temporary reprieve from deportation, is ending… except it isn’t… except it is… […]

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Victimizing Children: The Stunning New Cruelty of Trump’s Immigration Enforcement

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By Jill Richardson | (Otherwords.org) | – – Whatever your views on immigration, we should all agree not to torment small children. We’ve reached a cruel new phase in the U.S. government’s war on immigrants without papers. And it should disturb you no matter what your views on immigration. When undocumented immigrant families are detained, […]

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Ignoring White Supremacists, Trump Smears Immigrants as Terrorists

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By Arnold R. Isaacs | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – When you see an immigrant or a foreign visitor, especially from a Muslim country, should your first thought be that you might be looking at a possible terrorist? Clearly, that’s how the Trump administration wants Americans to react. It was the message in the president’s […]

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Pence’s White Nationalist exclusion of Syrian Refugees Struck Down by Court

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – U.S. District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt has struck down former Indiana governor and present vice president Mike Pence’s attempt to stop Syrian refugees from settling in the state of Indiana. At the time he had cited terrorism concerns. Pence’s stunt, one shared in by some 16 […]