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All Posts For - Immigration

May Day March and Rally

May 1, 2019 Uncategorized Immigration Comments are off for this post

The annual march and rally for just immigration reform, housing justice, and dignity for all immigrants is always full of terrific energy, moving speakers and music that will have you dancing. Join us!

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Seattle’s Mayor Had the Perfect Response to Trump’s Threat to Send Immigrants to Sanctuary Cities

April 15, 2019 Current News Immigration Comments are off for this post

Here’s a message to President Trump: Seattle is not afraid of immigrants and refugees. What does scare us? A president and federal government that would seek to weaponize a law enforcement agency to punish perceived political enemies. A would-be despot who thinks the rule of law does not apply to...

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Trump’s Shutdown Offer Creates a De Facto Asylum Ban for Central American Minors

January 22, 2019 Current News Asylum Comments are off for this post

The Trump administration had claimed that it would support legislation known as the BRIDGE Act — which includes protections for Dreamers — in exchange for concessions by Democrats. Upon closer investigation, that turned out to be a lie.

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Something That Doesn’t Love a Wall. A President Who Does.

January 8, 2019 Current News Immigration Comments are off for this post

What is true and awful is the impact of this idiotic federal shutdown—a lockout, really—tied to the Trump tantrum over his preposterous wall, which the majority of the public does not even want. Hundreds of thousands who count on a federal paycheck already are—or soon will be—struggling to buy groceries...

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Veterans Call on Troops to Refuse Deployment to Southern Border

November 2, 2018 Current News Immigration Comments are off for this post

Two war resisters, Fanning and Rapone, urged soldiers to disavow the president’s racist attempts to portray migrants as dangerous in order to galvanize his base ahead of the elections, and work together to show Trump that they will not participate in criminalizing and endangering the lives of asylum-seekers.

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Trump Sending 5,200 Troops to the Border in an Election-Season Response to Migrants

October 30, 2018 Current News Immigration Comments are off for this post

More than 5,000 active-duty military troops will deploy to the southern border by the end of this week, Defense Department officials said on Monday, an escalation of a midterm election show of force against a caravan of Central American migrants that President Trump has characterized as an “invasion of our...

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The U.S. Causes Refugee Crises. Now It’s Slashing Refugee Admissions.

September 19, 2018 Current News Immigration Comments are off for this post

US policies toward refugees in the past have often been political and not just humanitarian, and there is a strong instrumental streak in the admissions patterns. In other words, Washington has often asked what we get out of letting refugees in, and not just what we can do for them.

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Trump Administration Redirected $10 Million From FEMA to ICE at Start of Hurricane Season

September 12, 2018 Current News Corruption Comments are off for this post

Sen. Jeff Merkley, who found the document while seeking ways to combat the child separations, called it a “scandal,” linking it to the financial pressures of family detentions at the border. “And for what?” he said. “To implement their profoundly misguided ‘zero tolerance’ policy.”

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This vile, unadulterated racism

August 31, 2018 Current News Immigration Comments are off for this post

In the borderlands of southern Texas, the State Department is denying passports to hundreds and perhaps thousands of men and women who have official birth certificates demonstrating they were born in the United States.

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A Journalist’s Fight for Asylum and a Free Press

August 2, 2018 Current News detention Comments are off for this post

Gutierrez Soto’s case is emblematic of the cruelty of President Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigrants and asylum-seekers, as well as Trump’s increasingly vitriolic disdain for the free press.

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