CNN this week published a story that feeds right into the anti-immigrant narrative of the far-right, approaching the same xenophobic Bill Melugin/FOX News-like clickbait that we see on other channels. Specifically, the CNN story proclaimed that “mugglers with ties to ISIS helped migrants enter the U.S., raising alarm bells... Continue »
It’s no surprise that a main actor from the ugly demonstrations protesting the welcoming of migrant families to New York City in recent weeks is Curtis Sliwa, a failed Republican mayoral candidate and Guardian Angels leader who’d already spent the spring and early summer ranting about migrant arrivals, CNN... Continue »
English Reuters Smuggler with extremist ties helped Uzbeks cross US-Mexico border, US says By Ted Hesson August 29, 2023 Associated Press 6 men killed in ambush in southern Mexico town near Guatemala border known for migrant smuggling August 29, 2023 Associated Press Migrant woman dies after a ‘medical emergency’... Continue »
America’s Voice is among more than 100 human, civil and immigrant rights organizations that have signed a letter authored by the National Immigration Project urging the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to end collaboration with Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s inhumane and likely illegal Operation Lone Star.  While the border... Continue »
English La Opinion Republican Debate: Trump the Ventriloquist By Maribel Hastings August 28, 2023 Washington Post U.S. soldier in Texas wounds man in unusual cross-border shooting By Nick Miroff August 28, 2023 Texas Tribune Texas National Guard member fires across Rio Grande, wounds Mexican citizen By Uriel Garcia August... Continue »
American communities are mourning following a racist massacre that took the lives of three Black Americans at a store in Florida this past weekend. The three victims – identified as 52-year-old Angela Michelle Carr, 29-year-old Anolt Joseph Laguerre Jr., and 19-year-old Jerrald De’Shaun Gallion – were gunned down by... Continue »
English Associated Press Florida Governor Ron DeSantis booed at vigil as hundreds mourn more racist killings By Russ Bynum and Aaron Morrison August 27, 2023 New York Times 11 Fatal Minutes That Have Jacksonville Confronting Racism Yet Again By Nichole Manna, Anna Betts and Patricia Mazzei August 26, 2023... Continue »
English NBC News Vivek Ramaswamy celebrates his immigrant family while pushing far-right border policies By Sakshi Venkatraman August 24, 2023 National Review GOP Candidates Are Glossing Over Two Big Illegal-Immigration Solutions By Henry Olsen August 25, 2023 Politico DeSantis: I’d strike drug cartels in Mexico ‘on day one’ By... Continue »
The GOP’s race to the bottom on immigration was on full display at the first Republican presidential debate on Wednesday night, where candidates endorsed waging war within the border of our neighbor and ally Mexico, called for mass deportation, spread pernicious lies about the fentanyl crisis, and invoked white... Continue »
English The New York Times On Immigration, Republican Candidates Stoke Sense of Menace at Debate By Miriam Jordan and Jennifer Medina August 24, 2023 The Dallas Morning News GOP contenders vie to outdo each other on border security at first presidential debate By Todd J. Gillman August 23, 2023... Continue »