Im/migrants and Refugees

New Orleans protest targets Sessions

Within hours of learning that Attorney General Jeff Sessions was speaking to the National Sheriffs’ Association on June 18, the…

June 20, 2018

Colorado rally urges ‘zero tolerance’ for family separation

Aurora, Colo. — Nearly 500 people gathered in front of the GEO-ICE Detention Center here on June 14 to protest…

June 17, 2018

Baltimore activists target ICE

A very successful protest was held on the steps of the Baltimore field office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement on…

June 17, 2018

Seattle rally for migrant children and families

In Seattle 300 people demonstrated June 1 at the U.S. Courthouse to denounce the Trump/Sessions’ racist separation of migrant families.…

June 7, 2018

Transgender activist wins asylum

Estrella Sánchez, a Mexican transgender woman, emerged on May 22 from immigration court in the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin,…

June 4, 2018

Border Patrol murder denounced in the streets

Claudia Patricia Gómez González was en route from Guatemala to rejoin her boyfriend in Alexandria, Va., when U.S. Customs and…

June 4, 2018

U.S. war on migrants accelerates

Claudia Patricia Gomez Gonzales, an unarmed woman from Guatemala, was shot in the head and killed on May 23 by…

May 29, 2018

Iowans protest ICE raid

Mount Pleasant, Iowa — Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested 32 immigrant workers after raiding the concrete manufacturing plant MPC…

May 18, 2018

NYC press conference: ‘Not one more’ immigrant detention

“As [immigrants] become a target ... we are here to protect!’ said Ravi Ragbir, a co-director of the New Sanctuary…

May 18, 2018

Union women speak: Organizing to keep TPS

By Phebe Eckfeldt and Sam Ordóñez Boston Temporary protected status (TPS) was enacted in the U.S. in 1990 when Congress…

May 14, 2018