Immigration

By Farrah Hassen ( Otherwords.org) – In a deeply disturbing and unprecedented move, the U.S. has begun transferring immigrant detainees to Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. They’re being held without access to their lawyers and families. President Trump has ordered up to 30,000 “high-priority” migrants to be imprisoned there as part of his larger mass deportation and […]

Immigration

The War on Terror Turns on Us: Gitmo and the end of the Rule of Law

Andrea Mazzarino

( Tomdispatch.com ) – President Donald Trump has made no secret of his disdain for immigrants, particularly the non-white variety from south of our border. His statements that immigrants are “poisoning the blood” of our country,” coupled with Fox News reports on Hispanic-appearing migrants who commit crimes, leave little doubt about what he and his […]

Immigration

The Mass Deportation Handoff, Biden to Trump: And the Booming Border-Industrial Complex

Tomdispatch

By Todd Miller It didn’t take long for the border and immigration enforcement industry to react to Donald Trump’s reelection. On November 6th, as Bloomberg News reported, stock prices shot up for two private prison companies, GEO Group and CoreCivic. “We expect the incoming Trump administration to take a much more aggressive approach regarding border […]

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Trump’s “Largest domestic Deportation Operation in U.S. History” would Target America Itself

Andrea Mazzarino

( Tomdispatch.com ) – This country, once a haven for immigrants, is now on the verge of turning into a first-class nightmare for them. President Donald Trump often speaks of his plan to deport some 11.7 million undocumented immigrants from the United States as “the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.” Depending on how […]

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The Weaponization of Immigrants

John Feffer

( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – The immigrants were arriving on children’s bicycles and sometimes even in wheelchairs. According to Norwegian law, immigrants couldn’t cross the border by foot. So, in 2015, they were traveling from Russia to the far north of Norway on any conveyance they could find. It was an odd choice […]

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Trump-Vance are doing to Haitians what the Israeli Right has done to Palestinians — Demonize a Whole People

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The vile and disgusting tactic of J.D. Vance and Don Trump of spreading false, racist charges against Haitians of eating the pets of suburbanites is nothing unexpected. The MAGA wing of the Republican Party thrives on finding poor, weak victims and demonizing them. First they manufacture an imaginary threat, then […]

Immigration

Springfield Native: Vance’s Nazi Lie about Haitians Summoned Nazis to March in our Streets

Ohio Capital Journal

By David DeWitt | – (Ohio Capital Journal ) – Sometimes the disgusting sewer of presidential year politics hits a little too close to home, and you end up watching a national conversation play out largely divorced from reality or the actual experiences of communities intimately connected to your own life. That’s what happened to […]

Immigration

Why the Far Right Lies about Immigrants

Peter Certo

( Otherwords.org ) – When my dad moved to southwest Ohio in the early 1970s, the Dayton-Springfield area’s second city was home to over 80,000 people. When I was growing up nearby in the 1990s, it was 70,000. Today, it’s less than 60,000. Springfield’s decline looks like an awful lot of Rust Belt cities and […]

Far Right

Marjorie Taylor Greene only Cares about some Murders, and not those committed by Far Right with AR-15s

Arnold R. Isaacs

( Tomdispatch.com ) – “Say her name!” Marjorie Taylor Greene shouted from the House floor during President Biden’s State of the Union Address. The same slogan was on the T-shirt she wore under her red jacket, which had a pin with a picture of the person whose name she was referring to — a pin she’d […]