My Generation Made a Naive Error
By José Mujica My generation made a naive error. We believed that social change was only a matter of challenging modes of production and distribution in society. We did not understand the immense role of…
Politics
Trump’s Deportations Could Increase Migrant Labor
By Teresa Cotsirilos and Ted Genoways The U.S. food system is propped up by low-wage immigrant workers from farm to table. From California’s strawberry fields to Florida’s orange orchards, at least 70 percent of the…
Pulling The State Down by Its Own Bootstraps
How 15 years of budget cutting has impacted NC Commentary by Rob Schofield Several important policy priorities have defined conservative Republican governance of North Carolina during the last 15 years – the culture wars, the…
Universities to Students: Leave the Country
ICE just said they didn’t actually have to. By Natasha Lennard Homeland Security’s changes to SEVIS, the Trump administration said, have no bearing on a student’s lawful nonimmigrant status. “Terminating a record in SEVIS does…
Trump Wants Kids to Represent Themselves in Court
By Maggie Grether The notice from the Department of the Interior arrived in the middle of the workday. Alexa Sendukas, a managing attorney at the Galveston-Houston Immigrant Representation Project, opened her inbox to a notice…
Inside the Purge of U.S. Immigration Courts
By Isabela Dias On February 14, Kerry Doyle sat at the court in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, preparing for her new job as an immigration judge. She was excited to step into such a consequential position. Each…
HUD and ICE Collude, Target Mixed-Status Families
By Eileen Markey On May 20 housing justice groups including People’s Action, VOCAL-NY, Texas Organizing Project, Arkansas Community Organization and others rallied in DC—and in more than a dozen communities from Duluth to Akron to…
Volunteer Patrols
Protecting San Diego immigrant communities from ICE By Roberto Camacho In the early-morning twilight on a cool Friday in April, a half dozen people gathered in a small parking lot in the San Diego neighborhood…
VA Healthcare Under Threat
Trump’s plans to undercut, privatize vets’ medical care By John Ketwig Veterans who get their health care from “The VA,” actually the cabinet-level Department of Veterans Affairs, need to be aware that the Trump administration…
Why Oligarchs Want a Recession
Commentary by Van Jackson A recession is looming. Trump himself recently affirmed that his economic plans would induce a recession in the near term. He remarked when asked as much by an interviewer, “There is…