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    Untangling Trump’s Mass Deportation Agenda

    Untangling Trump’s Mass Deportation Agenda

    Published Jun 15, 2018 Since its colonization of indigenous lands, the United States has built its immigration policies on principles of racial exclusion and exploitation. The immigration struggles that our communities face today are not unique to the Trump...

    What to Look for in Any “DACA Solution”

    What to Look for in Any “DACA Solution”

    Ignacia Rodriguez Kmec

    Published Jun 14, 2018

    What Does the Masterpiece Cakeshop Ruling Mean for Immigrant Communities?

    What Does the Masterpiece Cakeshop Ruling Mean for Immigrant Communities?

    Josh Rosenthal

    Published Jun 5, 2018

    The Promise of America?

    The Promise of America?

    Published May 8, 2018 Early in the morning late last month, while it was drizzling, cold, and still a little dark, I stood with a dozen others on the steps of this country’s highest court feeling a lot of anxiety and some hope as I waited in line to get a seat for...

    3 Important Points to Know about Texas’s DACA Lawsuit

    3 Important Points to Know about Texas’s DACA Lawsuit

    Ignacia Rodriguez Kmec

    Published May 4, 2018 On May 1, 2018, Texas and six other states filed a lawsuit against the federal government challenging the legality of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program. They filed the case in the U.S. District Court for the Southern...

    Government’s Supreme Court Argument Tries to Divorce from Trump’s Own Words and Record His Ban on Travel from Muslim-majority Countries

    Government’s Supreme Court Argument Tries to Divorce from Trump’s Own Words and Record His Ban on Travel from Muslim-majority Countries

    Esther Sung

    Published Apr 25, 2018

    Trump’s Ban As Experienced by Yemeni-Americans

    Trump’s Ban As Experienced by Yemeni-Americans

    Published Apr 25, 2018

    Four Ways You Can Help #BringMarcoBack

    Four Ways You Can Help #BringMarcoBack

    Published Apr 23, 2018

    Reflections on Resistance against the Muslim Ban

    Reflections on Resistance against the Muslim Ban

    Published Apr 17, 2018

    Trump’s Latest Muslim Ban Makes Its Way to the Supreme Court

    Trump’s Latest Muslim Ban Makes Its Way to the Supreme Court

    Subha Varadarajan

    Published Apr 2, 2018 On April 25, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether one of the latest versions of Trump’s Muslim ban exceeds the authority of the president under federal immigration law and whether it violates the U.S. Constitution by...

    Trump’s Proposed Immigration Rule Would Harm All of Us

    Trump’s Proposed Immigration Rule Would Harm All of Us

    Madison Hardee and Jenny Rejeske

    Published Mar 29, 2018 On March 28, the Washington Post reported on the latest chapter in the saga of the Trump administration’s attacks on immigrant families—a pernicious attempt to force families to make an impossible choice between meeting their basic needs...

    Wrong Information on USCIS Website Resulted in Rejected DACA Renewal Application

    Wrong Information on USCIS Website Resulted in Rejected DACA Renewal Application

    Published Feb 26, 2018

    Allowed to Finally Shine

    Allowed to Finally Shine

    Published Feb 23, 2018 My name is Fatima. I am 30 years old and have lived almost my entire life as undocumented in the United States. My mother immigrated from Bangladesh to New York when I was a year and a half...

    This Little Piece of Freedom to Be Almost Normal, Like My Peers

    This Little Piece of Freedom to Be Almost Normal, Like My Peers

    Published Feb 22, 2018 My family applied for visitor visas in the early ’90s, and by 1996 we were granted a visa to come visit my grandparents in Chicago from India. It was a really big deal for my family, and the fact that I hadn’t seen my grandparents in three...

    Anywhere We Are Planted We Are Capable of Blooming

    Anywhere We Are Planted We Are Capable of Blooming

    Published Feb 21, 2018 I am a Jamaican-born, American-raised, Black-immigrant woman. Before President Obama’s executive order, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), I was what you’d consider an undocumented immigrant. In some respects, I still am. Why?...