migrants

Constitutionality of Texas governor’s ‘catch and jail’ immigration policy challenged

November 1, 2021 By Jolie McCullough

Congressional Democrats ask feds to investigate whether Texas migrant arrests violate constitutional rights.

Tanzanian Abdulrazak Gurnah awarded Nobel literature prize

October 8, 2021 By David Keyton, Jill Lawless And Cara Anna

The Swedish Academy said the award was in recognition of Gurnah’s “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee.”

Organized labor denounces violent expulsion of Haitian migrants

September 21, 2021 By Fred Redmond

The U.S. government is violently deporting Haitian migrants back to a devastated nation many of them left more than a decade ago. This is an outrage.

Coalition wants Congress to end immunity for federal police, agents

June 4, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg

Support grows for curbing the arbitrary powers of not just police but now Border Patrol, the FBI, and other agencies that can violate civil rights.

There is a migrant crisis, but where and why?

March 31, 2021 By Emile Schepers

Exploitative policies of the U.S., beginning with the infamous Monroe Doctrine, resulted in the unlivable conditions in many of the countries from which immigrants come to the U.S.