“My biggest fear is seeing her one morning and not knowing if she’ll come back.” This fear and daily uncertainty is a sentiment shared by the 5.8 million households in the United States that are home to at least one undocumented immigrant, amidst the second term of President Donald Trump. As of 2023, California had […]
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Trump’s Message to California, the Nation
MacArthur Park is a civic treasure of Los Angeles. It stands as a testament to the diversity and resilience of the city and the people that inhabit it. On July 7, these values were challenged. Federal U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents descended upon the park in trucks and horseback, marching down Wilshire Boulevard […]
The Case for a “Civil Gideon”
Across cases nationwide, unaccompanied immigrant children walk into courtrooms alone, with no attorney by their side. Without guaranteed access to legal representation in immigration proceedings, they are often left to confront the full force of the American legal system on their own, along with the subsequent life-altering consequences. In these moments, the idea of “due […]
Orange County’s Resistance to Non-citizen Inclusion
Unless you want your identity to be stolen, never share your personal information to anyone, especially not your Social Security Number. But what should you do when, as a non-citizen, the government wants to seize all your sensitive information? In response to the redaction of 17 Orange County, California non-citizen registrants’ sensitive information, such as […]
Farmworkers: Victims of COVID-19 and Climate Change
Farmworkers are a crucial sector of the labor force who often go without praise. Despite the harsh working conditions, low wages and the increasing threat of climate change, farmworkers are putting their lives even more at risk during the global pandemic. Farmworkers serve an essential purpose in our society as the backbone of our food […]
America’s Forgotten History of Forced Sterilization
In early September, a nurse working at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in Georgia came forward with shocking allegations of medical neglect and abuse, claiming that numerous involuntary hysterectomies (uterus removal surgeries) were performed on detained immigrant women. This allegation understandably evoked fury and outrage among the general public, with numerous people […]
ICE Illuminates America’s Backslide Into Fascism
Last week, Dawn Wooten, a nurse working at an ICE detention facility in Irwin County, Georgia, filed a bombshell whistle-blower report which alleged that female immigrant detainees were being subjected to forced hysterectomies among other unnecessary, non consensual medical procedures. Georgia’s Congressional Republicans have vehemently denied this report, and Department of Homeland Security 2nd-in-Command Ken […]
Sanctuary Cities Keep You Safe
“Sanctuary” Cities are rapidly becoming the new favorite punching bag for the US right wing, seen most notably with Trump attacking them in his 2020 State of the Union. In his brief stint as Attorney General, Jeff Sessions argued, “So-called ‘sanctuary’ policies make all of us less safe because they intentionally undermine our laws and […]
Love No Border: The Significance of Faith-Based Resistance to Trump Immigration Policy
In an era of xenophobia, nationalism and anti-immigrant sentiment, faith-based sanctuary movements are fighting back. The Trump administration’s efforts to stop what it calls illegal immigration and chain migration, alongside the ending of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and President Trump’s controversial language around undocumented persons, have galvanized nationwide movements to protect immigrants […]
Icing Out ICE
As congressional candidates throughout the country campaign this fall, immigration will inevitably be one of the issues most debated and discussed. Over the past decade, immigration has ballooned from a civil debate with some level of bipartisan agreement to a flashpoint in a national culture war, with President Trump as the ideologue fanning the flames […]