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Texas Governor Lifts Pandemic Restrictions While Blaming Migrants for COVID
Texas is the largest state so far to lift its mandate on face masks and fully reopen businesses.
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Immigration Activists Welcome Reform Bill But Warn of Long Fight Ahead
Migrant justice activists are celebrating the bill’s introduction but worry the legislative process will weaken it.
![Central American migrants watch a television airing the U.S. Presidential Inauguration ceremony at the Migrant Shelter in Ciudad Juarez, state of Chihuahua, Mexico on January 20, 2021.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/05/2021_0218-migrant-shelter-biden-400x300.jpg)
Biden Plans to Use “Inclusive” Language in Future Discussions on Immigration
While the new language has been praised, advocates are calling for Biden to take concrete action: Stop deporting people.
![Allies of Black immigrants gather at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial to remember the Black immigrants who have been deported, on February 10, 2021, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/02/2021_0217-deportations-400x300.jpg)
Biden Spent Black History Month Deporting Black Immigrants. Where’s the Outrage?
Anti-Blackness is baked into the immigration system, and ICE has merely operationalized it.
![Workers move sections of the border wall on January 20, 2021, in Sasabe, Arizona.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/05/2021_0211-border-wall-400x300.jpg)
Biden Rescinds Trump’s Emergency Order Diverting Tax Dollars Toward Border Wall
In a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, President Joe Biden announced that Trump's initial order “was unwarranted.”
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Despite Biden’s Moratorium, ICE Deports Dozens to Haiti — Including a Baby
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has deported at least 72 people to Haiti, including 22 children.
![Migrants and associates install tents as part of a protest on Republique square in Paris on November 23, 2020, one week after migrants were evacuated from a makeshift camp in the northern Paris suburb of Saint-Denis without being relocated.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/02/2021_0209-france-migrants-400x300.jpg)
Immigrants Shouldn’t Have to Sacrifice Themselves to COVID for Basic Rights
Let’s push for immediate amnesty and path to citizenship for all immigrants, whether or not they are deemed “essential.”
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Border Patrol Policies Are Designed to Kill Hundreds of Migrants Each Year
A new report outlines dozens of incidents in which Border Patrol left migrants en route to the U.S. to die.
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ICE Has Begun Detaining Women at One of the Nation’s Deadliest Facilities
Notorious for lethal medical neglect, Stewart Detention Center has turned particularly deadly amid the COVID pandemic.
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Immigration Advocates Urge Biden Administration for More Concrete Change
Hundreds have been deported in the last week, even as Biden signed several executive orders undoing Trump's policies.