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Immigration
DeSantis’s Election Strategy? Competing With Trump to Be Crueler to Migrants.
DeSantis and Trump's efforts to outdo each other on anti-immigrant rhetoric could stoke racist violence, critics warn.
The Mediterranean Shipwreck Tragedy Was an Outcome of Militarism
Horror spreads everywhere when militarism reigns and weapon sales proliferate, displacing those fleeing violence.
Biden’s Asylum Policy Continues Tradition of US Cruelty to Haitians
Biden has recycled some of Trump’s racist asylum policies.
Mediterranean Migrant Shipwreck Reveals Cost of Cruel European Asylum Policies
Eighty-one people have been confirmed dead, but roughly 500 more likely drowned when the ship sank, locked below decks.
Immigrants Face Medical Neglect, Solitary Confinement and Torture in ICE Jails
At least three facilities operated by the private prison company CoreCivic use torture as retaliation against migrants.
GOP Governors Send National Guard Forces, State Troopers to Texas-Mexico Border
The border is already militarized with walls, surveillance, Border Patrol and thousands of troops deployed by Biden.
Human Rights Advocates Expose Systemic Reproductive Injustices by Border Patrol
“The agency knows this is happening, and they’re turning away from the problem,” said one immigrants' rights attorney.
Newsom Says DeSantis Might Be Charged With Kidnapping for Transporting Migrants
The California Department of Justice is investigating whether dozens of migrants were tricked into flying to Sacramento.
8-Year-Old Migrant Who Died in CBP’s Custody Was Denied Hospital Treatment
Anadith Tanay Reyes Álvarez was denied ambulance transport to a hospital until she suffered a seizure on May 17.
Trump Makes Xenophobic Campaign Pledge to End Birthright Citizenship
Over a century of legal precedent and a constitutional amendment would bar Trump from taking such an egregious action.