News
Curated news resources about immigration and related topics.
2019 News
263 news items
- (Attorney General Becerra Co-Leads Effort to Stand Up for Temporary Protected Status Holders) https://www.oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-becerra-co-leads-effort-stand-temporary-protected-status
- (Adverse Foreign Policy on Immigration and the Way Forward) https://intpolicydigest.org/20/trump-s-adverse-foreign-policy-on-immigration-and-the-way-forward/
- (Pope decries "walls of indifference" migrants face in new lands) https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pope-decries-walls-of-indifference-migrants-face-in-new-lands/
- (Woman Ran Over Girl Because She Was ‘a Mexican,’ Police Say) https://www.nytimes.com/20/us/Nicole-Marie-Poole-Franklin-Des-Moines.html
- (They Built a Homeland Far From China’s Grip. Now They’re Afraid. Uyghurs in Turkey) https://www.nytimes.com/20/world/asia/xinjiang-turkey-china-muslims-fear.html
- (It's time to allow immigrants to earn professional licenses)
- (The New Stateless Peoples: Confronting US Culpability in the Climate Refugee Crisis) https://www.commondreams.org/views/20/new-stateless-peoples-confronting-us-culpability-climate-refugee-crisis
- (The Administration Will Deport People Seeking Asylum In The US To Guatemala Without Them Seeing A Lawyer First) https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hamedaleaziz/trump-administration-deport-asylum-guatemala-lawyers-border
- (What Does it Mean to Be American?)
- (“This Is My Home”: Meet the Lead Plaintiff in the Supreme Court Case to Save DACA) https://www.democracynow.org/20/daca_supreme_court_oral_arguments_lead
- (A Young Girl’s Immigration Journey in “A Line Birds Cannot See”) with 10-minute video https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary/a-young-girls-immigration-journey-in-a-line-birds-cannot-see; http://dp8hsntg6do36.cloudfront.net/5dbb59b234e7945fe5dee626/a83aa5d6-a5d6-439f-beb4-da1576cf5c42mezzanine.mp4
- (Supreme Court May Side With Trump On 'DREAMers'- DACA) https://www.npr.org/20/778545559/supreme-court-may-side-with-trump-on-dreamers
- (Our Roots Beyond Raceportrait f Americans’ identity)
- (How many undocumented immigrants are in the United States and who are they?) https://www.brookings.edu/policy2020/votervital/how-many-undocumented-immigrants-are-in-the-united-states-and-who-are-they/
- (Trump Claims There Is a Crisis at the Border. What’s the Reality? charts) https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/20/us/politics/trump-border-crisis-reality.html
- (Mothers of Invention: Climate Change with a Little Humor Thrown In with Mary Robinson and Maeve Higgins, https://www.mothersofinvention.online/
- (How Latinos saved American cities: After whites fled and before the ‘creative class’ moved in, immigrants kept urban neighborhoods alive) https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/20/how-latinos-saved-american-cities/
- (Underground Lives: The Sunless World of Immigrants in Queens) https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/20/nyregion/basements-queens-immigrants.html
- (Mexican man dies in Border Patrol custody) https://thehill.com/latino/466994-mexican-man-dies-in-border-patrol-custody
- (A Janitor in an Immigrant Detention Center Turned Confiscated Items into Works of Art), https://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/tom-kiefer-el-sueno-americano/
- (18 Leaders Arrested Today at the Capitol While Protesting Destruction of the Refugee Resettlement Program) https://cwsglobal.org/18-leaders-arrested-today-at-the-capitol-while-protesting-trump-administrations-destruction-of-the-refugee-resettlement-program/
- (Asylum Protesters Close Bridge on Texas-Mexico Border) https://www.nytimes.com/20/us/brownsville-texas-border-protest.html
- (Administration to broadly expand DNA collection of migrants in custody) https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-admin-broadly-expand-dna-collection-migrants-custody-n1061471
- * (Shoot Migrants’ Legs, Build Alligator Moat: Behind Trump’s Ideas for Borderreview of policies) https://www.nytimes.com/20/us/politics/trump-border-wars.html
- (Admin ignored its own evidence of climate change's impact on migration from Central America) https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-admin-ignored-its-own-evidence-climate-change-s-impact-n1056381
- (Model Citizen José Samuel Solis Lopez Is Now a ICE Prisoner) https://www.thedailybeast.com/jose-samuel-solis-lopez-a-citizen-by-any-other-name-is-a-prisoner-now
- (The US Has “Disappeared” More Than 42,000 Migrants. Where’s the Outrage?) https://truthout.org/articles/the-us-has-disappeared-more-than-42000-migrants-wheres-the-outrage/
- Climate Change Claims a Lake, and an Identity
- (Migrant children at Homestead detention center were exposed to hazardous chemicalsin Spanish) https://impactolatino.com/denuncian-polucion-toxica-cerca-de-centro-de-ninos-inmigrantes-en-florida/
- (“I Don’t Want to Die”: Honduran Teen with Cystic Fibrosis Says Deportation Would Kill Him) https://www.democracynow.org/20/headlines/i_dont_want_to_die_honduran_teen_with_cystic_fibrosis_says_deportation_would_kill_him
- (Eighth person this fiscal year dies in ICE custody: report) https://thehill.com/latino/460983-eighth-person-dies-in-ice-custody-this-year-report
- (Journalists Blocked from Attending Secretive Immigration Tent Courts) https://www.texasobserver.org/immigration-court-tent-laredo-trump-migrant-protection-protocols-mexico/
- (Supreme Court says Trump administration can begin denying asylum to migrants while legal fight continues) https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-says-trump-administration-can-begin-denying-migrants-asylum-while-legal-fight-continues/20/94b90da4-d017-11e9-8c1c-7c8ee785b855_story.html?noredirect=on
- (From a Lebanese Refugee Camp to Harvard, Ismail Ajjawi Inspires Other Palestinian Students) https://www.democracynow.org/20/palestinian_student_ismail_ajjawi_harvard
- ('I refuse to die in here': the marine who survived two tours and is now fighting deportation) https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/06/i-refuse-to-die-in-here-the-marine-who-survived-two-tours-and-is-now-fighting-deportation
- (ICE Protesters Block Streets In Boston; 12 Arrested At Amazon) https://boston.cbslocal.com/20/never-again-ice-protest-boston-cambridge-amazon-arrests/
- (Exclusive: Document reveals the FBI is tracking border protest groups as extremist organizations) https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-document-reveals-the-fbi-is-tracking-border-protest-groups-as-extremist-organizations-170050594.html
- (US government watchdog details trauma experienced by separated migrant children) https://www.cnn.com/20/politics/family-separation-inspector-general-report/index.html
- (Motherhood Interrupted: Borders, Bodies, and Chaucer’s Griselda) family separation
- (“All-Out Attack”: Anti-Immigrant Policies Target Children, Cancer Patients & Servicemembers) https://www.democracynow.org/20/lee_gelernt_aclu_immigrant_rights
Attribution
The resource list was compiled by Lynn Ditchfield with contributions from:
- Cynthia Aguilar
- Anita Botti
- Cheri Cluff
- Michael Ditchfield**
- Victoria Dryfoos
- Camila Fernandez
- Justen Foster
- Shari Geistfeld**
- Linda Graham
- Marissa A. Gutierrez-Vicario
- Julie Huff**
- Naomi Ostwald Kawamura
- Jenik Munafo Khelalfa
- Roslyn Sue Le Mesurier
- Kendra Mills
- Vivian Maria Poey
- Nadia Sahila
- Jane Sampaio
- Guy Michel Telemanque
- Rachel Toon
- Others
* - especially informative content
** - special thanks
Funds to help support granted in part by:
- Mass Cultural Council (MVLCC)
- Martha’s Vineyard Vision Fellowship
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