Trump’s anti-immigrant push
We can only rely on each other
by Aly Wane and Dana CloudAly Wane predicts what’s coming for immigrants in the Trump era.
Immigrants Are Leaders in Our Class Struggle
by Avery Wear
Avery Wear argues that immigrant workers are creating the first grassroots opposition to Trump’s second-term agenda and are critical to building an effective labor movement.
Borders are prisons and prisons are borders
by Kristen Godfrey
Kristen Godfrey argues that the Left must call for an end to borders and nation-states, and build solidarity among Black people and immigrants in and out of the United States to resist displacement and immobility
The bipartisan attack on immigrants
An interview with Aly Wane
by Aly Wane and Dana CloudDana Cloud sat down with immigration justice activist Aly Wane to discuss how Democrats and Republicans, despite differences in rhetoric, have the same border agenda.
Bring us your huddled masses…we got something for ‘em
Scenes from the social crisis
by Aaron AmaralAaron Amaral reports on one of the latest of two hundred sites in New York City where newly arriving asylum seekers are being temporarily warehoused, and the contradictory community response.
The fight for migrant rights in the U.S.
Interview with Justin Akers Chacón
by Brendan StantonBrendan Stanton interviews Justin Akers Chacón, a socialist based in San Diego. Akers Chacón campaigns for worker and immigrant rights in the U.S.-Mexico border region and is the author of The Border Crossed Us: The Case for Opening the U.S.-Mexico Border.
Biden, borders, and the fight for migrant rights
by Tempest
The Biden administration’s policies have precipitated a humanitarian crisis on the U.S./ Mexico border. While it repealed some of Trump’s vicious anti-immigrant orders, the administration has maintained a closed border, expelled over 170,000 people, thrown over 19,000 children into detention centers, and pressured Mexico to bar migrants on its southern border. At an April 25 virtual event, socialists and activists discussed Biden’s betrayal of his campaign promises and what the movement must do to win migrant justice. The video of this panel is available here.
Biden’s border regime
Postcards from the honeymoon
by Ashley SmithAshley Smith analyses Biden’s immigration proposals and executive orders, and finds small steps forwards lost to the rapid return to a reactionary status quo ante.