Truthout
Immigration
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Reframing the Immigration Debate Amid Election Season Xenophobia
Candidates debating immigration policy rarely consider how US policy encourages migration, let alone the benefits of immigration.
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For Immigrants – and All of Us – a Time to Fight
To be American was not about ancestry but to commit oneself heart and soul to the ideal of equality.
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Night of Broken Immigrants and Politics of Liberation Psychology
His broken body reflects not only the US' broken immigration policy, but its broken, even pathological, view of immigrants.
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Since When Has Monoculture Been a Founding American Principle?
It's not about people immigrating to the US, but a strong desire for monoculture, to be surrounded by people who think each other.
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Hundreds of Detained Children and Mothers Could Soon Be Released
Roughly 1,400 mothers, fathers and children locked up awaiting their asylum hearings could soon be released.
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The Booming Business of Border Exclusion
Along US borders, private companies are cashing in on the creation of an unprecedented system of exclusion.
“Las Patronas” Make Mexico’s “Train of Death” a More Humane Place
This cargo train carries Central American immigrants that hope to cross into the United States in search of a better future.
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Visions From the Inside: Detained Immigrant Women Speak Out in Letters and Pictures
Nothing paints a more accurate picture of the Karnes immigrant detention center than the words of the women imprisoned inside.
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Trump Migrant Proposals Could Be “Catastrophic” to Both the US and Mexico
Raising fees on Mexicans who cross the border to do business could have a greater impact - and affect Americans who do vote.
The Politics of Fear: Why Donald Trump Is No Laughing Matter
Donald Trump embodies many of the damaging characteristics and principles that have defined the United States for centuries.