Immigrant Options: Deportation or Deportation
Caught up in this wave of arrests, migrant farmworker organizer Lelo Juarez knew that once detained, his only options were deportation — or deportation. If deported by ICE, he might end up in Uganda...
When Work Becomes a Crime
Under current US policy, an estimated third of workers from other countries working in the US are deemed “criminals” and therefore subject to arrest, indeterminate detention and deportation. How did we get to this point?
Against the Wall: Patrolling the Border
How did she go from a Border Patrol agent moving up the promotional ladder to a fearless immigrant rights activist? She tells you in this week’s interview.
The Power of Peace to End Violence
Asking for peace is dangerous, especially if it’s for a peace that means ending the violence enforcing injustice and exploitation. If you dare to speak out against that violence, you yourself will be subject to threat, attack, arrest — even murder. Maria Elena Valdivia found that out at an early age.
Rounding Up America: Ethnic Cleansing
Trump is on a high-speed ethnic and political cleansing campaign. One person caught in this sweep is Lelo Juarez. We hear his story from Edgar Franks, interviewed by Truthout. Lelo has been a strong advocate for immigrant farmworkers, and has organized against the temporary farmwork program Trump favors. It’s likely he was specifically singled out.
Los laboristas apoyan a los trabajadores inmigrantes
Out of the Shadows: A Golden Ticket
You became a tireless organizer for immigrant rights with a passion that grew from your own experience. Can you speak about the psychological effects of living without papers?
Walk with the Poor
Father Solalinde is well known in Mexico and internationally for giving away all his worldly goods and living in the shelter he built for migrants passing through Oaxaca on their dangerous journey north. Helping migrants threatens the existing social order, which includes the drug cartels operating in collusion with local authorities. But attempts on his life have not deterred him.
US Principle #1: White Makes Right
Trump supporters forget who put food on the table during the most challenging times of the COVID crisis. We are the ones who cultivate the land, and we come to the US not to become citizens but because our people have a long and deep memory, and this is the land of our ancestors. We did not cross the border, the border crossed us.