Imagining America Without Immigrants
The U.S. has always depended on immigrant labor to remain competitive in science, technology, agriculture, and manufacturing. Trump closing the borders would be disastrous.
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The Case for Civil Disobedience
One of the 18 Jewish activists arrested in Boston for protesting the South Bay migrant detention center wonders what it will take to shut down ICE and close these modern-day concentration camps.
In America, “Never Again” Is Now
The GOP may be up in arms over AOC’s calling migrant detention centers “concentration camps.” But what do you call it when kids are literally being held in WWII-era Japanese internment camps?
This Is Not My American Dream, a Refugee’s Perspective
A Syrian woman studying in the U.S. describes the terrifying reality of having to flee her homeland, knowing she may never be able to return and see her family.
Trump’s Anti-Immigration Policies Are Following a Familiar Playbook
In America, xenophobic hardliners are leveraging courts to separate more families at the border and take away women’s right to safe, legal abortion and birth control.
Can We Fight Crime With Public Shaming?
Humiliation-based punishments are designed as deterrents, but sentences that embarrass the most vulnerable among us are cruel, and represent the worst of American policies.
Trump’s Curious Obsession With Human Trafficking
The occupant in the Oval Office claims he’s going after gangs kidnapping women and children and selling them into sexual slavery. The irony.
How To Survive a Government That Wants to Kill Us
They loot tax-funded FEMA, designed to keep us safe during natural disasters, to pay for ICE, which separates, deports, and dehumanizes people. Now it’s up to us to save one another.
Are Evangelical Adoption Agencies Stealing Children?
American religious groups have a long history of adopting children from asylum seekers and from families in poorer nations. But are they saving kids’ lives—or trafficking them?