This is the grave of Emma Lazarus. Born in 1849 in New York City, Lazarus grew up in a wealthy Jewish family. Her father Moses was a big merchant in the sugar trade (which yes, of course meant involvement in slavery, as did most northern...
immigration
We can talk about the great evil that Donald Trump did on the border and the horrible ways he treated immigrants and how he wants to deport them all now..
Agnieszka Holland's Green Border is a brilliant film and very difficult to watch, in the same way that the greatest films about the Holocaust are. Holland has never shied away.
Ana Raquel Minian (read her book Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration, it's great!) notes that Trump and Herr Miller have a deportation model in place: Operation Wetback. In 2016, Donald Trump’s signature campaign promise was to build a wall between the United...
For years, the one good thing you could say about American business interests is that they were pro-immigration. Yes of course it was for selfish reasons, but at least that.
I can't wait for Democrats to get blamed for the skyrocketing price of milk if Trump wins and then puts Stephen Miller in charge of the ethnic cleansing campaign: Over.
Landscape While Trump and Vance lie about Haitians eating pets and Biden responds by ending the program that allows Haitians to stay in the country, actual Haitians are suffering horribly. Almost 48 percent of people in Haiti are experiencing acute food shortages amid ongoing armed...
The thing about actions like the Biden administration has just taken, closing the path to immigrants from selected countries with bad governments to stay in the U.S., is that it.
Gabriel Winant has a piece about the racist attacks on the Haitians of Springfield, Ohio at the New York Review of Books. He goes into the history of Springfield quite.
Trump is using all the tropes these days: Immigrants are no longer welcome in Donald Trump’s America. Instead, the Republican presidential nominee posited that under his potential second administration, he would round up and mass deport noncitizens based on their “serial numbers.” Speaking with Full Measure’s...
A Brookings piece goes into this in depth and the answer is that, against the conventional wisdom shared by immigrant haters and even many union folks, Trump's plans would have.
The United States has a highly mixed record on immigration. It likes to claim that it is pro-immigrant, but it is only pro-past immigration. It never really or has been.