Im/migrants and Refugees

Revolutionary Venezuela welcomes refugees

Venezuela has offered asylum to 20,000 Syrian refugees. President Nicolás Maduro, head of the revolutionary Bolivarian government, made the announcement…

September 16, 2015

U.S. wars caused refugee crisis

U.S. wars, starvation sanctions and planned destabilization are the overwhelming cause of the surge of hundreds of thousands of war…

September 8, 2015

Deportations, racism vs. “humane” democracy

Jorge Ramos, the nightly news co-anchor on Spanish-language TV station Univisión who was thrown out of Donald Trump’s press conference…

September 3, 2015

Victory for Houston activist at immigration hearing

Houston -- The Intensive Supervision Appearance Program was pressured into halting, at least for now, the deportation of Houston activist,…

September 3, 2015

Fortress Europe kills

In an article in the Workers World of Aug. 15, Deirdre Griswold wrote of the migrants to Europe: “These refugees…

August 22, 2015

War on migrants continues unabated

While the courts quibble with the Obama administration on his November executive action, hundreds of thousands of workers continue to…

August 5, 2015

As conditions for migrants worsen, solidarity is key

Immigrants and their advocates have waited for years for Washington to create a humane pro-worker policy that would provide some…

July 15, 2015

New Orleans protest: ‘Not one more deportation!’

Chanting “Sin papeles, sin miedo/Without papers, without fear,” 800 people rallied behind calls to “End detention” and “Ni una más…

July 15, 2015

‘Libertad!’ End detention of migrant families

Bern Township, Pa. — On one side of the road were 300 migrant workers, family members, and supporters from Philadelphia…

July 15, 2015

Billionaire racist rhetoric trumped

Billionaire mogul Donald Trump announced his bid for the 2016 U.S. presidential elections on June 15. Normally it would not…

July 4, 2015