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Archives: Immigration
Trump’s Statue against Liberty
By Daniel Martin Varisco | ( MENA Tidningen ) | - - In 1886, slightly more than a century after the birth of the United States of America, the government of France…
Why Trump’s Muslim ban is bad for business
By Shainaz Firfiray | (The Conversation) | - - Donald Trump’s executive order to restrict immigration from seven countries has sparked widespread criticism from several quarters, including the business world. Not only…
Trump Can’t Make America Great Again without Immigrants
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - In 2016, the US birthrate fell to 59.6 births per 1,000 women, the lowest ever recorded. Birth rates rise and fall over time,…
Trump’s Alt-Reality: White Terrorism against Mosque justifies Muslim Ban
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Trump staffer Stephen Miller, an arch-conservative, defended Trump's Muslim ban on television Monday by pointing to Europe, where he alleged there were Muslim…
The Sadism of Racist Exclusion: Courts Temporarily Block Trump
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Picking on immigrants and refugees is the act of a sadistic bully, since they are the one fairly large group of residents of…
Trump renders Green Cards for 250,000 Iraqis and Iranians Worthless
By Marcelo Rochabrun | ProPublica | - - Update: A spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security told Reuters on Saturday morning that the President’s executive order will, in fact, stop green…
Persecution and the threat to the refugee system
By Brad K. Blitz | (OpenDemocracy.net) | - - We need to accept that for millions of refugees persecution is the principal reason for flight today as it was before, during and…
Why the Great Wall of Trump will be a Costly Failure
David Cook Martín | (The Conversation) | - - Donald Trump tweeted on Jan. 6 that “any money spent on building the Great Wall (for the sake of speed), will be paid…
Obama’s Farewell Address: Racial Discrimination a Challenge Ahead
NBC | (Video Report) | - - "As President Barack Obama's time in office comes to a close, he delivers his Farewell Address from Chicago." President Barack Obama's Farewell Address (Full Speech)…
Can Popular Mobilization & Sanctuary stop Trump’s Deportation Plans?
By Lauren McCauley, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | - - Cost, impossible logistics, political opposition, and community resistance could spell the end of the president-elect's anti-immigrant scheme. President-elect Donald Trump built his…
Hating on “Foreigners” a key Plank of Trumpism: Can it be Fought?
By Ngaire Woods | (Project Syndication) | - - The New Xenophobia: OXFORD – Democratic governments in the West are increasingly losing their bearings. From the shift toward illiberalism in Poland and…
Trump Vows to Deport up to 3 Million Undocumented Migrants Immediately
TeleSur | - - U.S. president-elect Donald Trump didn’t back down from his hardline stance on immigration Sunday in his first interview since winning the election, pledging to deport up to 3…
Top 8 Syrian-Americans whom we’d miss If Trump had Kept them out
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - In his fiery speech demonizing immigrants to America on Wednesday night, Trump took a moment to deplore that the Obama administration has admitted…
Our American Crimes against the Future
By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - I recently dug my mother’s childhood photo album out of the depths of my bedroom closet. When I opened it, I found that…
Top 6 Graphs that Refute Donald Trump’s Lies about the United States
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - AP's Fact Check found that as usual Donald Trump's statistics in his GOP acceptance speech are way beyond the 'damned lies' level. So…
After Trump bashed Brown Immigrants all Year, it’s the British White Guy who tries to Kill Him
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Donald Trump's blatantly racist attacks on immigrants have all along had as their subtext the implication that there is something wrong with those…
The Palmer Raids: When Trump’s Grandfather and Wives could have been Profiled
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Marx said that every great event in history happens twice, the first time as tragedy and the second time as farce. In this…
Despite Terrorism fears, 59% of Americans Welcome Syrian, Iraqi Refugees
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | "American attitudes on refugees from the Middle East": A Public Opinion Poll by Shibley Telhami is just out. Despite the raft of Republican mayors who…