Above Photo: Pablo Manríquez / Latino Rebels. Washington D.C. — Carlos Eduardo Espina walked to the White House on Monday morning a TikTok star with over 2.5 million followers. By day’s end, the 23-year-old Texan from College Station had become an icon of immigrant rights organizing. “It’s cold,” said Espina as he strolled through downtown Washington, D.C., at 6:30 a.m. “I’m not used to this kind of weather.” It was 27 degrees outside and windy. Weeks earlier, Espina came up with the idea to spearhead “A Day Without Immigrants” on Valentine’s Day. The rationale was simple: the holiday relies on immigrant labor, so what […]
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Above Photo: Electoral workers wait inside a school in Manhattan during early voting in the New York City mayoral election on October 23, 2021. Kena Betancur / AFP via Getty Images. “New York City must be seen as a shining example for other progressive cities to follow.” A New York City law granting more than 800,000 lawful permanent residents the right to vote in local elections took effect Sunday after the recently elected mayor, Democrat Eric Adams, declined to veto it. The New York City Council had voted 33-14—with two abstentions—for the measure to allow noncitizens who have resided in the city […]
Above Photo: Fallen Christopher Columbus statue outside the Minnesota State Capitol after a group led by American Indian Movement members tore it down in St. Paul, Minnesota on June 10, 2020. Tony Webster/Flickr. On George Washington’s birthday, 2018, the Donald Trump administration’s director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, L. Francis Cissna, changed the agency’s official mission statement, dropping the language of “a nation of immigrants” to describe the United States. The previous mission statement had said the agency “secures America’s promise as a nation of immigrants by providing accurate and useful information to our customers, granting immigration and citizenship […]
Demonstrators hold signs about the 2020 census outside the U.S. Supreme Court in 2019. Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images Demonstrators hold signs about the 2020 census outside the U.S. Supreme Court in 2019. Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images Updated at 7:32 p.m. ET The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to a speedy review of President Trump’s attempt to exclude unauthorized immigrants from the census numbers used to reallocate seats in Congress. Last month, a lower court ruling blocked Trump’s push, calling a presidential memo that called for that unprecedented change unlawful. And […]
A panel of judges in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, pictured in San Francisco, ruled on Monday that the Trump administration can end humanitarian protections for immigrants from four countries, clearing a path for their eventual deportation. Jeff Chiu/AP hide caption toggle caption Jeff Chiu/AP A panel of judges in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, pictured in San Francisco, ruled on Monday that the Trump administration can end humanitarian protections for immigrants from four countries, clearing a path for their eventual deportation. Jeff Chiu/AP A federal appeals court panel ruled on Monday that […]
President Trump, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross (center) and Attorney General William Barr walk into the White House Rose Garden for a July 2019 press conference on the census. Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images President Trump, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross (center) and Attorney General William Barr walk into the White House Rose Garden for a July 2019 press conference on the census. Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images A special three-judge court in New York on Thursday blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to make an unprecedented change to […]
A federal judge blocked further the implementation of a rule issued last year by the Department of Homeland Security. Alastair Pike/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Alastair Pike/AFP via Getty Images A federal judge blocked further the implementation of a rule issued last year by the Department of Homeland Security. Alastair Pike/AFP via Getty Images A federal judge in New York issued two strongly worded rulings on Wednesday that put a temporary freeze on restrictive Trump administration immigration policies. The measures, which are now on hold, had broadened the grounds under which immigrants could be considered “public charges,” a […]
Demonstrators rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court in April 2019 to protest against the Trump administration’s efforts to add the now-blocked citizenship question to the 2020 census. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption toggle caption J. Scott Applewhite/AP Demonstrators rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court in April 2019 to protest against the Trump administration’s efforts to add the now-blocked citizenship question to the 2020 census. J. Scott Applewhite/AP Groups led by Common Cause, a government watchdog group, have filed the first federal lawsuit against the Trump administration in response to President Trump’s call to make an unprecedented change to the population numbers […]
Activists Camp At State House For Giving Undocumented Immigrants Driver’s Licenses By Lucas Phillips, Boston Globe. July 21, 2020 Activists Camp At State House For Giving Undocumented Immigrants Driver’s Licenses2020-07-212020-07-21https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/boston-e1595353821853.jpg200px200px Above photo: An encampment has been erected in front of the State House since Friday. People with Pioneer Valley Workers Center and Cosecha Massachusetts are rallying for driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants. Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff. Two groups urging state legislators to include a provision that would allow undocumented immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses have been encamped outside the State House gates since Friday morning, according to organizers. Happening now | Immigrant families are […]
President Trump departs a July 2019 press conference on the census with U.S. Attorney General William Barr (center) and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in the White House Rose Garden. Alex Wong/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Alex Wong/Getty Images President Trump departs a July 2019 press conference on the census with U.S. Attorney General William Barr (center) and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in the White House Rose Garden. Alex Wong/Getty Images President Trump is signing a memorandum Tuesday that calls for an unprecedented change to the constitutionally mandated count of every person living in the country — the exclusion of unauthorized […]
Black Immigrants On The Front Lines Of COVID-19 By Jeremy Robbins, New American Economy. July 3, 2020 Black Immigrants On The Front Lines Of COVID-192020-07-032020-07-03https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/black-immigtant-in-the-us.-ap-e1593783451755.jpg200px200px Above photo: Barwako Abayle, an immigrant student from Burlington High School, listens during a meeting with lawmakers about racial inequality at her school on April 26, 2012 in Montpelier, Vermont. By Toby Talbot, AP. As the country continues to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, Black immigrants — immigrants who identify as Black regardless of country or region of birth — are playing an important role on the front lines in healthcare, food supply, education, and biomedical industries. Healthcare Black immigrants make up a […]
I’m an immigrant—and I’m not alone. Padma Lakshmi opens each episode of her new Hulu series Taste the Nation with that mantra, and it’s one that’s powering the food author and TV host during the Trump administration’s all-out war on immigrants, from the “Muslim ban” and separating children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border to the recent suspension of immigrant-worker visas through 2021. “I find this disconnect between the policies that are made in Washington and how they actually affect people on the ground,” says Lakshmi. “I think it should be a requirement for each of these lawmakers deciding on […]
Angela Stanton King, a candidate for Georgia’s 5th District and goddaughter of Dr. Alveda King, joined Laura Ingraham tonight to discuss Barack Obama’s town hall today on racism and race relations. Former Attorney General Eric Holder also spoke out against racism in America today. Here was Angela’s response to Obama and his ‘wingman’ Eric Holder– Angela Stanton King: I have to challenge that. Because if America is so bad why are they fighting to open our borders for all of these illegal immigrants to just flow into our country and have access to opportunity. So America isn’t as bad as they’re […]
Gary Waters/Fanatic Studio/Getty Images Gary Waters/Fanatic Studio/Getty Images This year started off busy for Daphne and Alex. After almost five years together, they got married. Daphne was training for a new job at a local theater in Colorado. Alex was juggling gigs as a motion-graphic freelancer and a barista. When the coronavirus hit, they found themselves among the millions suddenly jobless. But for them, that came with an unexpected anxiety: Is it safe to apply for unemployment? “We were just wondering for a long time … how is it going to affect the green card application?” Alex said. “Immigration-wise I just […]
A Democratic group has accused the Department of Homeland Security of violating federal regulations by revealing private information about immigrants to reporters at conservative news outlets. On Monday, Democracy Forward, a left-leaning anti-corruption advocacy group, sent a letter to the DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties requesting that the agency open an investigation into the department’s press office. The organization said that according to emails obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests, DHS communications staff had on at least ten occasions provided or confirmed to reporters details about the citizenship and immigration status of people accused of crimes in […]