GOP-led Florida House committee advances Ron DeSantis' anti-child agenda

A 12-year-old Latino child pleaded with a Florida House committee last week to stop Gov. Ron DeSantis’ agenda targeting vulnerable asylum-seeking children and other migrants. The bill, HB 1355, would …

Border agents lied about boy's in-custody death. We still don't know if anyone was held accountable

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) inspector general confirmed last September that border agents lied about the in-custody death of a 16-year-old boy in May 2019. They’d claimed they’d checked …

Biden admin has now been enforcing anti-asylum Title 42 policy longer than previous admin

One-hundred organizations have plead with the Biden administration to stop its misuse of the debunked Title 42 policy, which they said in their Feb. 2 letter has deported asylum-seekers back to …

Biden admin says it supports legal status for asylum-seeking kids and parents separated at border

The Biden administration has said that it supports legal status for the thousands of asylum-seeking children and parents cruelly ripped apart at the southern border by the previous administration …

Texas attorney general's latest lawsuit shows how Republicans don't want any immigrants here, period

Ken Paxton, the very corrupt Republican attorney general of Texas, doesn’t want any immigrants here, period. We know this because he has filed a lawsuit seeking to block an immigration program that …

Butterfly center that fought border wall temporarily closes after staff attacked by extremists

The National Butterfly Center near Mission, Texas, released a shocking statement this week, announcing it would be forced to shut down for the weekend due to credible threats. “We simply cannot risk …

Fox host romanticizes old-timey immigrants while calling today's refugees 'poison'

For a while late last year, I pondered dipping my toe into the phantasmagorical world of Republican-pranking. Republicans tend to be so obtuse, I reasoned, that repeatedly fooling them would be a …

ICE blocked from re-detaining immigrants freed from two California facilities due to pandemic

Detained immigrants and their advocates scored a major court victory this week, reaching a “groundbreaking” settlement in a lawsuit filed nearly two years ago over unsafe pandemic conditions.

Under an …

Following blowback from families and lawmakers, New Jersey to reinstate fund for excluded workers

Following public blowback from the state’s immigrant families and Latino lawmakers, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said on Thursday that he would restore millions of dollars in emergency relief for …

Florida Republicans advance anti-immigrant bill targeting asylum-seeking children

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ ongoing war on children got a thumbs-up in the state’s senate this week, when a committee approved an anti-immigrant bill that includes a provision that blocks …

Here's your chance to demand justice for families cruelly separated at the border

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in December announced that it was requesting public input on preventing the inhumane and traumatic separation of children and parents at the southern border. …

Immigrant applicants are in limbo because their paperwork is stuck in a cave. No, really

Immigration attorney Susan Cohen tells The Wall Street Journal that she represents a married Boston couple (both have opted to keep their names private) who filed their citizenship applications in …

Deported immigrants are best served by organizer networks, not a ‘benevolent administration’

by Irene Romulo

This article was originally published at Prism

The day before Halloween, Jesus Alberto “Beto” Lopez and his mom spent hours baking nearly 100 loaves of traditional pan de muerto for …

Biden’s first year in office left roadblocks for BIPOC progress

This article was originally published at Prism

President Joe Biden was lauded a year ago for being the first president to directly address white supremacy as one of the country’s major crises during …

Nearly 1,000 faith leaders and immigration groups urge Biden 'to reverse course' on ICE detention

Nearly 1,000 faith leaders and immigrant rights groups are calling on the Biden administration to halt its expansion of the immigration detention system, writing they “are disturbed by several recent …

San Diego's wretched Otay Mesa immigration prison is seeing near-record COVID-19 cases

When it comes to COVID-19, private prison profiteer CoreCivic’s San Diego immigration prison was at one point the worst hit site in the nation, reporting 98 confirmed cases among detained immigrants …

Months after releasing remaining immigrant, California jail is once again locking people up for ICE

Immigrants and their advocates won a major victory last fall, following the release of Ricardo Vasquez Cruz from a northern California jail last October. Vasquez Cruz had been the remaining immigrant …

GOP teeing up racist ads going into midterms. Democrats can fight back by championing immigrants

Two organizations tracking anti-immigrant advertising say they’ve documented more than 700 such ads leading into the 2022 midterms, including attacks against the Biden administration over a so-called …

Majority of voters want Biden admin to stop pursuing new private immigration detention contracts

New polling finds that an overwhelming number of voters oppose the Biden administration’s expansion of private immigration detention contracts. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and …

Spanish homework assignment for middle schoolers calls Americans 'pretty' and Mexicans 'ugly'

Students have a lot to deal with in today’s day and age: surviving a global pandemic, going to school among anti-mask protests, and big-picture polarization among political parties they mostly can’t …