President-elect Joe Biden plans to “immediately” introduce a sweeping immigration reform bill during his first days in office. The new legislation, currently being drafted by congressional Democrats and immigrant rights advocates, will include a pathway to citizenship for an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants. Top Latino and immigrant advocacy groups …
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On an average day, more than 40,000 noncitizens are held in some 200 Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers around the country — a mix of private prisons and county jails with federal contracts. The overwhelming majority do not have lawyers, and there is little in the way of government …
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On Tuesday, the Department of Health and Human Services announced that it will begin holding unaccompanied migrant children at Fort Sill, a 150-year-old military base in Oklahoma. In World War II, the site was used as an internment camp for Japanese-Americans. The move comes in response to a surge of …
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Housing discrimination is how Donald Trump got his start in public racism. If you are unfamiliar with the history, the Department of Justice sued the Trump family real estate management company in 1973 for barring rentals from prospective non-white tenants in New York City. The government found that the Trump …
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When indie luminary Manu Chao first released his 1998 debut, Clandestino — and the song of the same title — he sought to humanize the millions of migrants, survivors of civil war and poverty, hustling to survive on the mean streets of European cities. Often derided as “clandestinos,” or what …
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