“Ravi Ragbir, the executive director of the New Sanctuary Coalition of NYC, was detained on Thursday when he went to his check-in with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE. Ravi’s detention sparked a peaceful protest that was met with police violence. Police arrested 18 people, including members of the New York City Council. He is…
“United States Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) participated in a TedX interview with Dr. Bret Simmons of the University of Nevada, Reno. The Senator discussed the vicious cycle of exclusion that has historically gripped America as it’s struggled with the issue of immigration. In this deeply personal conversation, Senator Cortez Masto discusses her historic role…
“As President Trump continues his crackdown on immigrant communities, a growing number of people are taking sanctuary in churches across the country to avoid deportation. A new report called “Sanctuary in the Age of Trump” says more people are now taking sanctuary than at any time in the United States since the 1980s. We end…
“President Donald Trump continues to crack down on undocumented immigrants, including those that have not been convicted of a violent crime. But the U.S. does not monitor the fate of deportees, who have been kidnapped, extorted, sexually assaulted or even killed. Sarah Stillman, who tracked some of these cases for The New Yorker, joins Hari…
“The U.S. has accepted more refugees than any other country since 1980, but the Trump administration is now reversing course. In this special report for PBS NewsHour Weeeknd, produced in partnership with public radio station WNYC, correspondent Matt Katz has the story of how new American policies are creating uncertainty for a married Congolese refugee…
“President Trump met with Republican and Democratic lawmakers at the White House over his offer to protect the nearly 800,000 young undocumented immigrants known as DREAMers in exchange for funding to build a border wall. The meeting came after the Trump administration announced it is ending the temporary protected status for as many as 250,000…
You’ve all heard this popular refrain: Undocumented and sometimes even documented immigrants threaten the jobs of American citizens. A more perverse accusation used by anti-legal immigration trolls and politicians is that these sometimes lower wage earners “take” jobs from Black people. This is a tactic often used by these trolls and politicians to create a…
When I was with the Voicewaves project in Long Beach, I had worked with young people who had signed up for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). I remember how proud and excited they were. They believed that they could now live and work out of the shadows. Their names and contact information, their lives, are…
