News
Curated news resources about immigration and related topics.
2021 News
90 news items
- More than 100 civil rights groups ask feds to slash Texas funding over migrant trespassing arrests
- Migrant Truck Crash in Mexico: Disaster ‘in the Blink of an Eye’
- France calls for European aid after 27 migrant deaths at sea
- Four Months, 5,000 Miles: A Refugee Puppet Looks for Home
- Facing Up to the Racist Legacy of American Immigration Laws
- Ted Cruz wants to send migrants from the Mexican border to Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket
- Administration Urged to Halt Efforts to Expand Immigration Detention
- Guatemala police free 126 migrants from abandoned container
- The Racist Legacy Of Early Immigration Law Is Still Alive Today
- What’s Going On at the U.S.-Mexican Border? / The Daily Show
- Sen. Dick Durbin: Will have ‘alternative proposal’ to get Dreamer immigration in $3.5 trillion budget bill
- Democrats blocked from including immigration reform in party-line spending bill
- The Darién Gap: “The Most Dangerous Place I’ve Seen”
- Migration Is Not a “Crisis.” It’s Survival and Resistance to Ongoing Genocide
- 8 Resources for Teaching Immigration in Facing History & Ourselves
- Haiti in Chaos After President’s Assassination as Activists in U.S. Urge Biden to Stop Deportations
- Yes, Immigration Courts Are Political scroll to podcast
- Free the Children: Advocates Demand Biden Close Fort Bliss Detention Center Holding 800 Migrant Kids
- Local organizations met with Vice President on her trip to El Paso
- U.S. to Allow Some Asylum Seekers Rejected Under Trump to Reopen Cases
- The Justice Department Overturns Policy That Limited Asylum For Survivors Of Violence
- U.S. to expand work permits for immigrants who are crime victims
- Solidarity, esperanza and our future: sisters' dispatches from the border
- Activists Call on Thomson Reuters to Cut Ties with ICE
- ‘I’m going to tase this kid’: Government shelters are turning refugee children over to police
- More than 2,100 children separated at border 'have not yet been reunified,' Biden task force says
- “Do Not Come”: VP Harris Sends Anti-Migrant Message in Guatemala, Visits Mexico Amid Deadly Election
- crossing the border has become like a lottery for migrants. Timing is everything. Exclusive: Biden has quietly deployed an app for asylum seekers. Privacy experts are worried
- Gov. Greg Abbott orders Texas child-care regulators to yank licenses of facilities housing immigrant kids
- Strict Border Enforcement Policies Put Migrants in Harm’s Way. Title 42 Is No Exception<U+FEFF>.
- Biden administration scraps plans to house "tender age" migrant children at Texas Army base
- Instead of ankle monitors, new app helps track asylum-seekers released in U.S.
- I.C.E. contracts canceled in Bristol County, MA
- U.S. commits to admitting 250 asylum-seekers per day in concession to advocates
- U.S. border closure cracks under pressure from lawsuits, advocates and the easing pandemic
- Six steps to prevent continued crises at the US-Mexico border
- U.S. stops flying migrant families across southern border states amid pressure from advocates
- 100 undocumented migrants have died trying to enter U.S. this year
- Over 2,100 children crossed border alone after being expelled with families to Mexico
- The Refugee-Led Coalition Creating Collective Care
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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