tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10064578106425496262024-03-13T22:50:45.912-04:00Weekly News Update on the AmericasWeekly News Update on the Americas covers news from Latin America and the Caribbean, compiled and written from a progressive perspective. It is published by the Nicaragua Solidarity Network of Greater New York, P.O. Box 20587, Tompkins Square Station, New York, NY 10009, weeklynewsupdate@gmail.com.Weekly News Update on the Americashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04816074489426901318noreply@blogger.comBlogger445125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006457810642549626.post-49643176748039499692022-01-12T08:31:00.003-05:002022-01-12T08:32:04.815-05:00Immigration Reform Is Still Possible — With a Strong Social Movement<p><i>2021 didn’t bring anything like the progress many
immigrants and their allies were hoping for. But sustained grassroots
organizing could turn the situation around in 2022.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b>By
David L. Wilson, <i>Truthout<o:p></o:p></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b>January
10, 2022</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;">A year ago, it seemed possible that the country might get
its first truly positive immigration reform since the 1986 “<a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/todays-immigration-debate-rooted-reagan-amnesty-experts-say"><b>Reagan
amnesty</b></a>.”</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The incoming Biden administration was <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/01/20/fact-sheet-president-biden-sends-immigration-bill-to-congress-as-part-of-his-commitment-to-modernize-our-immigration-system/"><b>proposing
legislation</b></a> that would allow most of the country’s 10 to 11 million
undocumented immigrants to apply for legal status. The outlines were
subsequently included in the <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/build-back-better/"><b>Build Back Better</b></a><b>
</b>bill, but the Democrats had to pare the reform back in order to win
approval from the Senate parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough, under the
arcane <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/09/14/1026519470/what-is-budget-reconciliation-3-5-trillion"><b>Senate
reconciliation process</b></a>. The Democrats’ most recent proposal was just a <a href="https://thehill.com/latino/582254-historic-immigration-reform-included-in-house-passed-spending-bill"><b>limited
parole</b></a> for some 6.5 million immigrants, and even that concession wasn’t
enough for MacDonough. She <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/16/senate-parliamentarian-rejects-latest-dem-proposal-on-immigration-525195"><b>nixed
the plan</b></a><b> </b>on December 16.[…]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;">Read the
full article:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/immigration-reform-is-still-possible-with-a-strong-social-movement/">https://truthout.org/articles/immigration-reform-is-still-possible-with-a-strong-social-movement/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgHHefXEvej8fVwWEmfHRMITRAOJHQ0-UmM-q-8yL5GirBMMc8IKbKFme1H1tNTrFsEgYT2MQy9R8E_k_SX6YXwqBIOmGzuyenJlU2czasBgHbg8qXGsOwxTraANSm4-6KJeHdyPir7V5CnpRGk7DcvMStvgYKTkc7w4IwWxQskC5DnxperEiPqHQ4z=s1536" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1536" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgHHefXEvej8fVwWEmfHRMITRAOJHQ0-UmM-q-8yL5GirBMMc8IKbKFme1H1tNTrFsEgYT2MQy9R8E_k_SX6YXwqBIOmGzuyenJlU2czasBgHbg8qXGsOwxTraANSm4-6KJeHdyPir7V5CnpRGk7DcvMStvgYKTkc7w4IwWxQskC5DnxperEiPqHQ4z=w400-h266" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Rally at SCOTUS Photo: Tom Williams/ Cq-Roll/Getty Images</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><br /></p>Weekly News Update on the Americashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04816074489426901318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006457810642549626.post-45918230268342937872022-01-05T10:45:00.004-05:002022-01-05T10:45:41.165-05:00Are there “foreigners” in the U.S. working class?<p><i>Judis, who has decades of experience on the U.S. left,
succeeded in setting forth a clear and concise formulation of a socialist
position in favor of immigration restrictions. In doing so, he inadvertently
demonstrated how completely detached that position is from reality.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b>By
David L. Wilson, <i>MR Online</i><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b>January
3, 2022</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;">The libertarian magazine <i>Reason</i> ran an eye-catching
headline in its August-September issue: “How Mass Immigration Stopped American
Socialism.”</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The <a href="https://reason.com/2021/07/17/how-mass-immigration-stopped-american-socialism/"><b>article
itself</b></a> doesn’t do much more than reveal its authors’ ignorance about
socialism and about socialist labor organizing in the early twentieth century,
but it highlights a problem that has troubled U.S. socialists for more than a
century. Pro-immigrant positions are natural for leftists; they have no trouble
recognizing the <a href="https://theworld.org/stories/2018-05-18/president-trump-s-animals-comment-points-dark-history-using-dehumanizing-language"><b>dehumanization</b></a>
and the appeals to <a href="https://www.amacad.org/publication/racialization-illegality"><b>racism</b></a>
and<b> </b><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/11/26/trumps-xenophobia-is-an-american-tradition-it-doesnt-have-be/"><b>xenophobia</b></a>
that underlie rightwing rhetoric against “open borders” and “illegal aliens.”
But does socialist support for immigrants’ rights drive away U.S.-born workers?[…]<o:p></o:p></p>
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the full article:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><a href="https://mronline.org/2022/01/03/are-there-foreigners-in-the-u-s-working-class/">https://mronline.org/2022/01/03/are-there-foreigners-in-the-u-s-working-class/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><o:p> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjiQ25g4AS2HUubcm3C-MQx7ir_bU5vyRnY2-aMQss5bx6uJ7Gw_j-77vZ0ZTppx6uUNGXGihF2FZ5SR-tYPRJK1p62zxeWgcqI3beZCZNN8dYnKojiYKDN5eaIa3G9mo0Np8h36ap54lIO8_pqWBiX-L_WmhIFCzvVhnZ-cI_yR8zI7VSfzl4lBYDp=s600" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="397" data-original-width="600" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjiQ25g4AS2HUubcm3C-MQx7ir_bU5vyRnY2-aMQss5bx6uJ7Gw_j-77vZ0ZTppx6uUNGXGihF2FZ5SR-tYPRJK1p62zxeWgcqI3beZCZNN8dYnKojiYKDN5eaIa3G9mo0Np8h36ap54lIO8_pqWBiX-L_WmhIFCzvVhnZ-cI_yR8zI7VSfzl4lBYDp=w400-h265" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Immigrants and supporters march on May Day. Photo: David Bacon</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></o:p></p>Weekly News Update on the Americashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04816074489426901318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006457810642549626.post-12630350043492028112021-12-16T19:17:00.001-05:002022-01-04T19:20:03.642-05:00My Conversation With a Coup Plotter<p><i>I found myself wondering how someone as obviously
intelligent and well-educated as Eastman could present such flimsy arguments.
Was he just lying, or had rightwing ideology warped his mind to the point where
he could believe what he was writing?</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b>By
David L. Wilson, <i>CounterPunch</i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b>December 9, 2021</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;">Claremont Institute legal scholar John Eastman is now best
known for his efforts to help Donald Trump <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/21/politics/read-eastman-memo/index.html"><b>overturn
the 2020 presidential election</b></a>, but in August 2015 he was still a
professor at the Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law and someone whose
legal opinions the New York Times considered worthy of publication.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The occasion back then was a proposal from candidate Donald
Trump to end birthright citizenship. The current requirement that children born
here be recognized as U.S. citizens was “the biggest magnet for illegal
immigration,”<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/where-gop-2016-candidates-stand-birthright-citizenship-n411946"><b>
he argued</b></a>.[…]<o:p></o:p></p>
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the full article:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/12/09/my-conversation-with-a-coup-plotter/">https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/12/09/my-conversation-with-a-coup-plotter/</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span><a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/12/09/my-conversation-with-a-coup-plotter/"></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjx6wOccAk6SZ8LLo-77LYmTvJ3iPov7cJTZYLT9P4dhgWPcUOg-g7osCYG9jY9h9R3MVYwyat3FPOJxUGx_b0SUM43FxlEBWPLB_zMx_lMOC5ltOWDhkof8IliNbeL4a29-VhiHOzRSD9e5af6AWQtedBhGNC0OdkeMPK7hM-by9o2vF22iAIXkf_6=s768" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="685" data-original-width="768" height="356" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjx6wOccAk6SZ8LLo-77LYmTvJ3iPov7cJTZYLT9P4dhgWPcUOg-g7osCYG9jY9h9R3MVYwyat3FPOJxUGx_b0SUM43FxlEBWPLB_zMx_lMOC5ltOWDhkof8IliNbeL4a29-VhiHOzRSD9e5af6AWQtedBhGNC0OdkeMPK7hM-by9o2vF22iAIXkf_6=w400-h356" width="400" /></a></div><br /><o:p></o:p><p></p>Weekly News Update on the Americashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04816074489426901318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006457810642549626.post-88527411512621805502021-12-02T16:42:00.003-05:002021-12-02T16:42:53.032-05:00Media Don’t Factcheck Right-Wing Migration Myths<p><i>[T]his imbalance is typical of much corporate media
immigration coverage. Right-wing media figures and Republican politicians get
little pushback when they promote evidence-free, often absurd claims about
incentives for unauthorized immigration.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b>By David
L. Wilson, <i>Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting</i><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b>December 1, 2021</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked a
bizarre question at President Joe Biden’s November 3 <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/11/03/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-authorization-of-the-covid-19-vaccine-for-children-ages-5-to-11/"><b>press
briefing</b></a>. The president seemed to misunderstand the question, which
referred to potential settlements of a lawsuit stemming from the Trump
administration’s notorious 2017–18 <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3442"><b>family
separation policy</b></a>. Biden bungled his response, apparently calling
reports about the settlement “garbage.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Not surprisingly, the media ran with the story of Biden’s
blunder. Doocy’s question, on the other hand, was mostly ignored or played
down.[…]<o:p></o:p></p>
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the full article:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><a href="https://fair.org/home/media-dont-factcheck-right-wing-migration-myths/">https://fair.org/home/media-dont-factcheck-right-wing-migration-myths/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbnioIQixf_btjEiUpB6tE5p6SgS-ysQ1G3JP1Qju5MV8elbM1ep5yqYTwtkNixhcnb9hoqi145BYpuVSNJ8mkQhQ4crs-nXIF81H0RPrz8ins-g4koN56WxDZA_eetOmItT9ofpsNkCc/s1000/LAT-Immigrants-Photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="520" data-original-width="1000" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbnioIQixf_btjEiUpB6tE5p6SgS-ysQ1G3JP1Qju5MV8elbM1ep5yqYTwtkNixhcnb9hoqi145BYpuVSNJ8mkQhQ4crs-nXIF81H0RPrz8ins-g4koN56WxDZA_eetOmItT9ofpsNkCc/w400-h208/LAT-Immigrants-Photo.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo: Los Angeles Times</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><br /></p>Weekly News Update on the Americashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04816074489426901318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006457810642549626.post-58315791336942323262021-11-02T10:40:00.001-04:002022-01-05T10:43:21.802-05:00The “border crisis” numbers don’t add up<p><i>[T]he “border crisis” narrative ignores several
important differences between 2000 and 2021—the number of successful border
crossings, the legal situation of the migrants who arrive, and the impact of a global
pandemic.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b>By David L. Wilson, <i>MR Online<o:p></o:p></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b>October 29, 2021</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;">In July, environmental activist Laiken Jordahl tweeted out a
<a href="https://twitter.com/LaikenJordahl/status/1421189108219617281"><b>short
video</b></a> featuring what he called “the almighty border wall,” a section of
fence at the Coronado National Forest in Arizona. The fence there includes
several gates that need to be kept open at times of heavy rain. Without them,
explained Jordahl, a staffer at Tucson’s <a href="https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/"><b>Center for Biological Diversity,</b></a>
debris would accumulate behind the structure and floodwaters would eventually
knock the wall down.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The gates were wide open. The only barrier was a few strands
of barbed wire: anyone could easily have clipped the wire and walked through.
No Border Patrol agents were in sight; neither were any would-be migrants.[…]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b>Read
the full article:</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><a href="https://mronline.org/2021/10/29/the-border-crisis-numbers-dont-add-up/">https://mronline.org/2021/10/29/the-border-crisis-numbers-dont-add-up/</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh6G29ezyBMaOfvrZ4wmv7RGAGt34QjF0m1kw_avnU9ZrME89j1TuXvNJM1r2cxAmNPF5suerAIcxr3hwyxi2Jrjybraa8o4I_uT9oll-ahQkt13gzwrwD_KLxSVM3-bzldJT3lNHYzNf_wODJaPOPZjfYu6oYfWEe65nXEQf-BXc_7z7xuRjyzX9JG=s1024" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="687" data-original-width="1024" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh6G29ezyBMaOfvrZ4wmv7RGAGt34QjF0m1kw_avnU9ZrME89j1TuXvNJM1r2cxAmNPF5suerAIcxr3hwyxi2Jrjybraa8o4I_uT9oll-ahQkt13gzwrwD_KLxSVM3-bzldJT3lNHYzNf_wODJaPOPZjfYu6oYfWEe65nXEQf-BXc_7z7xuRjyzX9JG=w400-h269" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo: David Bacon</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>Weekly News Update on the Americashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04816074489426901318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006457810642549626.post-66299346646441433952021-07-21T14:26:00.000-04:002021-07-21T14:26:00.468-04:00Let’s Call the “Border Crisis” What It Is: Another Big Lie From the Right<p><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Undocumented immigrants
aren’t actually a problem, but the Republican Party has framed them “as
criminals and lawbreakers and a grave threat to the nation in order to motivate
and mobilize the Republican base, to great effect,” Massey told Truthout. Up until
now, the Democrats have failed to push back, he added.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">By David L. Wilson, <i>Truthout</i><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">July 20, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Republican politicians and
commentators spent the last week of June promoting their claim that this year’s
increase in apprehensions at the U.S.-Mexico border constitutes — in the words
of Fox News host </span><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/transcript/hannity-on-illegal-immigration-at-southern-border-biden-administrations-policy-changes"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Sean Hannity</span></b></a><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> — “a crisis of a monumental scale.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The campaign’s high point
came on June 30 when former president Donald Trump visited a stretch of the
border wall near Pharr, Texas, and delivered a number of “</span><a href="https://www.borderreport.com/politics/trump-plays-loose-with-facts-on-border-visit-but-hammers-home-rise-in-illegal-migration-fentanyl-trafficking/"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">questionable statements</span></b></a><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">” about his administration’s supposed enforcement
successes.[…]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Read the full article:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/lets-call-the-border-crisis-what-it-is-another-big-lie-from-the-right/"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">https://truthout.org/articles/lets-call-the-border-crisis-what-it-is-another-big-lie-from-the-right/</span></a><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmaNH8St1JpeYbXhC-k4x4IHJeTT2n_inr_QiZwvxBszjtpzzuywAdv7hbzRyLkZXWciftcF8LXCdeG7EsMgvFeJzNFUOb73cN5QD5rH7DAr0nyLPdC22naGAbmPmsPu009G07o4p_dcg/s1536/2021_0720-lindsey-graham-ted-cruz-border-1536x1024.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1536" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmaNH8St1JpeYbXhC-k4x4IHJeTT2n_inr_QiZwvxBszjtpzzuywAdv7hbzRyLkZXWciftcF8LXCdeG7EsMgvFeJzNFUOb73cN5QD5rH7DAr0nyLPdC22naGAbmPmsPu009G07o4p_dcg/w400-h266/2021_0720-lindsey-graham-ted-cruz-border-1536x1024.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">GOP pols tour the border in March. Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><br /></p>Weekly News Update on the Americashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04816074489426901318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006457810642549626.post-75813734814583651832021-07-18T15:17:00.006-04:002021-07-18T15:17:48.399-04:00 It’s the US Government’s Immigration Policy That’s Illegal<p><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">“The violation of asylum
seekers’ rights over the past three years under both Trump and Biden
demonstrates how easily a president can ignore and even defy the law —
especially when the victims are poor or marginalized and not enough of us speak
out.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">By David L. Wilson, <i>Jacobin</i><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">July 12, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="color: #191919;">Th</span><span style="color: #191919; font-size: 12.0pt;">ere’s
a crisis on the imaginary line that separates the United States from Mexico,
but it’s not the one politicians and media outlets have been talking about.</span><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #191919;">Earlier this year, the US
political class was focused on a supposed “</span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/03/23/theres-no-migrant-surge-us-southern-border-heres-data/"><b>surge</b></a><span style="color: #191919;">” in migration and on serious — but not </span><a href="https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/spike-unaccompanied-child-arrivals-proves-enduring-challenge"><b>unprecedented</b></a><span style="color: #191919;"> — failures in the </span><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/no-good-choices-hhs-is-cutting-safety-corners-to-move-migrant-kids-out-of-overcrowded-facilities"><b>treatment
of unaccompanied minors</b></a><b><span style="color: #191919;">.</span></b><span style="color: #191919;"> This distracted attention from two far more serious
issues: the Trump administration’s misnamed </span><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/the-us-has-disappeared-more-than-42000-migrants-wheres-the-outrage/"><b>Migrant
Protection Protocols</b></a><span style="color: #191919;"> (MPP), now
discontinued, and the ongoing use of the US health code’s </span><a href="https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/guide-title-42-expulsions-border"><b>Title
42</b></a><span style="color: #191919;"> to exclude asylum seekers
from entering the country.[…]<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Read the full article:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://jacobinmag.com/2021/07/us-immigration-policy-legality-title-42-biden-trump-asylum-mpp-border-surge-human-rights/"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">https://jacobinmag.com/2021/07/us-immigration-policy-legality-title-42-biden-trump-asylum-mpp-border-surge-human-rights/</span></a></span>Weekly News Update on the Americashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04816074489426901318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006457810642549626.post-41024433169963281582021-06-16T21:49:00.002-04:002021-06-16T21:50:19.534-04:00Hey VP Harris, Here Is a Progressive Way to Address the Root Causes of Migration<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRTmFoqAQOIvLUI_baurhAf4Tw46Y-uxoswvGZm9gL7cQlN0zEHxXbAd-gGdA77P_tJpzOuR04s3O9m_Kj6Wc_svHLEUeu7x4n-cLpMdltRvuimCxsmIoEPI_VMHvkklQmqmpejY-1xCo/s1536/HarrisGuatemala.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1536" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRTmFoqAQOIvLUI_baurhAf4Tw46Y-uxoswvGZm9gL7cQlN0zEHxXbAd-gGdA77P_tJpzOuR04s3O9m_Kj6Wc_svHLEUeu7x4n-cLpMdltRvuimCxsmIoEPI_VMHvkklQmqmpejY-1xCo/w400-h266/HarrisGuatemala.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">VP Harris meets with Guatemalan officials. Photo: Kent Nishimura/LAT/Getty Images</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>This isn’t to say that
progressives should view their program as primarily an answer to the supposed
“border crisis.” After all, there’s no reason to fear migration.... But the
occasional spikes in border crossings give progressives an opportunity to go on
the offensive, to describe the ways that their program would improve the lives
of working people both at home and abroad.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">By David L. Wilson, <i>Truthout</i><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">June 13, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The recent focus on the
rising number of Central American asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border
could have one positive result: it creates an opening that activists can use to
promote a progressive foreign and domestic agenda.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The two parties are split
over how to slow the current rise in migration. Republicans favor the sort of
harsh measures that the Trump administration inflicted on migrants; centrist Democrats
also support deterrence, but they propose moderating it slightly and spending a
few billion dollars to address Central American migration’s root causes. Vice
President Kamala Harris’s statements during her June 7-8 trip to Guatemala and
Mexico were typical.[…]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Read the full article:</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/hey-kamala-here-is-a-progressive-way-to-address-the-root-causes-of-migration/">https://truthout.org/articles/hey-kamala-here-is-a-progressive-way-to-address-the-root-causes-of-migration/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></o:p></p>Weekly News Update on the Americashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04816074489426901318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006457810642549626.post-36249245552159286622021-05-25T15:33:00.002-04:002021-05-25T15:34:18.763-04:00Media ‘Border Crisis’ Threatens Immigration Reform<p><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">E</span><span style="font-family: times;">stablishment
coverage has featured hyperbole about recent migration trends and an
inexcusable lack of historical context. Worse yet, this style of reporting
could have serious consequences in the real world: It may sabotage prospects
for a long overdue reform of the US immigration system.</span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">By David L. Wilson, <i>Fairness
and Accuracy in Reporting<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">May 24, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">It’s no surprise that
right-wing media have hyped a supposed crisis on the US/Mexico border, or that
much of the television coverage of current immigration issues has tended to be
superficial. What’s striking is how badly the situation has been represented in
the more centrist and prestigious parts of the corporate media.[…]<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Read the full article:<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://fair.org/home/media-border-crisis-threatens-immigration-reform/"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">https://fair.org/home/media-border-crisis-threatens-immigration-reform/</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO2HxBVk1g3Wo5yQpE1fD8k5bHpGcNe-RRrfC1dL7c0cQ3n_v1BOaqf_acqXPT7WyxA9142wvANxALghVIK2_fUGRXGKT5Tklo6pwEfRdICYWj8k9KwTDuW25jhsLoy2Gt3vTY1w2BHF4/s1024/NYT-Border-Crossing-1024x532.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="532" data-original-width="1024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO2HxBVk1g3Wo5yQpE1fD8k5bHpGcNe-RRrfC1dL7c0cQ3n_v1BOaqf_acqXPT7WyxA9142wvANxALghVIK2_fUGRXGKT5Tklo6pwEfRdICYWj8k9KwTDuW25jhsLoy2Gt3vTY1w2BHF4/s320/NYT-Border-Crossing-1024x532.png" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 10.4px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Photo: Herika Martinez/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><br /></p>Weekly News Update on the Americashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04816074489426901318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006457810642549626.post-12591766243402054542021-02-20T15:11:00.002-05:002021-02-20T15:11:32.488-05:00Crediting Xenophobia—Rather Than Organizing—With Raising Workers’ Wages<p><i></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEfluvs-ONZqKBGMb8mtqedGBKVyubSfcQ29KcrZB4FVB40b9Cko73acWjRFDDHeKBykgZdzqvU5rrR4PaLjsRHtZb71QjawCvMdNZikXnk69hSS8aN9hRhNTqhkPswlpfy-ei8P3q0zo/s1000/Economist-Statue-of-Liberty.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEfluvs-ONZqKBGMb8mtqedGBKVyubSfcQ29KcrZB4FVB40b9Cko73acWjRFDDHeKBykgZdzqvU5rrR4PaLjsRHtZb71QjawCvMdNZikXnk69hSS8aN9hRhNTqhkPswlpfy-ei8P3q0zo/w400-h225/Economist-Statue-of-Liberty.jpg" width="400" /></a></i></div><i><span style="line-height: 107%;">For
years, the media narrative has been that repressive immigration
policies—billions spent on immigration enforcement, families torn apart,
thousands dying on the southwestern border—will somehow lead to wage hikes.
They haven’t, and they won’t.</span></i><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b>By David L. Wilson, <i>Fairness
and Accuracy in Reporting<o:p></o:p></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b>February 19, 2021</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">The
Economist (</span><a href="https://www.economist.com/united-states/2020/02/13/immigration-to-america-is-down-wages-are-up"><span style="line-height: 107%;">2/15/20</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;">) ran a brief article last year with
a startling headline: “Immigration to America Is Down. Wages Are Up. Are the
Two Related?” Maybe, the article’s anonymous author answered, at least for the
short term.</span></p>
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right were quick to cite this conclusion as support for former President
Trump’s efforts to deter immigration.[…]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><b>Read the full article:<br /></b><a href="https://fair.org/home/crediting-xenophobia-rather-than-organizing-with-raising-workers-wages/">https://fair.org/home/crediting-xenophobia-rather-than-organizing-with-raising-workers-wages/</a></div>
Weekly News Update on the Americashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04816074489426901318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006457810642549626.post-83793853263320666932020-09-30T10:00:00.000-04:002020-09-30T10:00:17.793-04:00 The Democrats’ immigration agenda: Bolder, but not bold enough<p><b>By David L. Wilson, <i>MR Online</i></b></p><p><b>September 23, 2020</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The immigration plank in this year’s <b><a href="https://democrats.org/where-we-stand/party-platform/">Democratic Party
platform</a></b> is a reminder that real immigration reform isn’t going to
happen without serious grassroots organizing.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The platform, which the Democratic National Convention
approved on August 18, is largely based on a <b><a href="https://mronline.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/UNITY-TASK-FORCE-RECOMMENDATIONS.pdf">110-page
document</a></b> produced by six policy task forces that former vice president
Joe Biden and Vermont senator Bernie Sanders set up in May. According to the <b><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/17/us/politics/joe-biden-economy-democrats.html">New
York Times</a></b>, the Democrats were seeking “to assemble a new governing
agenda…far bolder than anything the party establishment has embraced
before.”[…]</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Read the full article:</p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://mronline.org/2020/09/23/the-democrats-immigration-agenda/">https://mronline.org/2020/09/23/the-democrats-immigration-agenda/</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>Weekly News Update on the Americashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04816074489426901318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006457810642549626.post-11138360009713860012020-08-19T17:02:00.000-04:002020-08-19T17:02:12.692-04:00 Anti-Immigrant Policies Are Not Only Cruel, They Also Have an Economic Cost<p><i>Legalization and a fair work
visa program would raise wages for many U.S.-born workers as well. This wage
increase would in itself provide an important stimulus to an economy facing its
worst crisis since the 1930s.</i></p>
<div style="text-align: left;"><b>By David L. Wilson, Truthout<br /></b><b>August 19, 2020</b></div>
<p class="MsoNormal">U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the
government agency that processes visas, green cards and citizenship
applications, claims it’s going broke. USCIS officials are threatening to
furlough some <b><a href="https://fcw.com/articles/2020/07/24/russell-uscis-furloughs-postponed.aspx">13,400
employees</a></b> as early as August 30, after initially planning the measure
for August 3. The furloughs would add to what was already a huge backlog in
application processing, creating a disaster for tens of thousands of immigrant
applicants. As many as 126,000 people already approved for citizenship may not
be naturalized in time to <b><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/looming-immigration-services-shutdown-may-fuel-voter-suppression-in-2020/">register
for the November elections</a>.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<div style="text-align: left;">Trump administration officials blame the agency’s financial
problems on the COVID-19 pandemic...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><b>Read the full article:<br /></b><b><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/anti-immigrant-policies-are-not-only-cruel-they-also-have-an-economic-cost/"><span style="font-weight: normal;">https://truthout.org/articles/anti-immigrant-policies-are-not-only-cruel-they-also-have-an-economic-cost/</span></a></b><br /></div>
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President Trump’s decision <b><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-responds-to-covid-19-spike-by-cracking-down-on-immigration/">to
suspend</a></b> the majority of U.S. guest worker programs for at least six
months, announced in a June 22 <b><a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/proclamation-suspending-entry-aliens-present-risk-u-s-labor-market-following-coronavirus-outbreak/">proclamation</a></b>,
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suspension is “a bold move … to <b><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/trump-immigration-workers-coronavirus/2020/06/22/3b969e88-b489-11ea-9b0f-c797548c1154_story.html">protect
American jobs</a></b>,” while South Carolina GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham warns it
will have “a <b><a href="https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1275199130848178180">chilling
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<br />Weekly News Update on the Americashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04816074489426901318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006457810642549626.post-49352259123776335772020-05-04T21:36:00.000-04:002020-05-04T21:36:31.682-04:00Trump’s Immigration Suspension Doesn’t Prevent Unemployment or COVID-19 Spread<i>The new policy wouldn’t have more than a minimal impact on
joblessness in the United States, even if immigration actually determined
employment levels — and it <a href="https://www.cato.org/blog/three-reasons-why-immigrants-arent-going-take-job">generally
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Late on the evening of April 20, President Trump tweeted
that he was <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1252418369170501639">temporarily
suspending immigration</a> to the United States. For justification he cited
what he called “the attack from the Invisible Enemy” — that is, COVID-19 — and
“the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT American Citizens.”</div>
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Government officials had to scramble to make sense of
Trump’s tweet, but by April 22, the White House staff had tacked together a
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Volunteers bring groceries to immigrants on lockdown. Photo: John Moore/Getty Images</span></span></td></tr>
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<br />Weekly News Update on the Americashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04816074489426901318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006457810642549626.post-91786683794777416362020-04-12T21:45:00.001-04:002020-04-12T21:45:18.225-04:00Trump Welcomes More Guest Workers Amid Crisis While Rejecting Asylum Seekers<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;">
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="background: rgb(248, 248, 248);">This type of exploitation hurts all U.S. workers, both jobless citizens and underpaid foreign workers, but the situation is rarely discussed in the media or in political debates</span></i><span style="background: rgb(248, 248, 248);">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Two recent news items neatly sum up U.S. immigration policy during the COVID-19 crisis.<span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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The most successful
of Trump’s anti-immigrant measures up until now — and possibly the most vicious
— hasn’t been getting the attention it deserves.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_1fob9te"></a>In
operation since late January, <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2019/01/24/migrant-protection-protocols">Migrant Protection Protocols</a> (MPP), originally called “<a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-remain-in-mexico-policy-sends-asylum-seekers-back-into-danger/">Remain in Mexico</a>,” allows the U.S. government to push most
non-Mexican asylum seekers into Mexico once immigration officials have cleared
them to make an asylum claim. As of early September, the number of people
forced into Mexico under MPP had reportedly risen to <a href="https://time.com/5671108/us-pregnant-migrants-labor-mexico/">more than</a><a href="https://beta.washingtonpost.com/immigration/trump-officials-say-border-crossings-fell-again-in-august-heap-praise-on-immigration-enforcement-deal-with-mexico/2019/09/09/d9948624-d30f-11e9-86ac-0f250cc91758_story.html"> 42,000</a>.[…]<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Weekly News Update on the Americashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04816074489426901318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006457810642549626.post-71684997832637201882019-08-24T10:44:00.000-04:002019-08-24T10:44:26.073-04:00ICE Raids Benefit Bosses by Creating Fear in Workers<div class="MsoNormal">
<i>In 2000, an immigration official
admitted that the authorities rarely detained undocumented workers “unless the
employer turns a worker in, and employers usually do that only to break a union
or prevent a strike or that kind of stuff.”</i></div>
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On August 7, Immigration and
Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents carried out coordinated raids at seven
agricultural processing plants in Mississippi, detaining 680 immigrant workers.
Officials told <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/08/08/what-we-know-about-five-companies-targeted-mississippi-ice-raids/">The
Washington Post</a> that the operation was “the largest single-state workplace
enforcement action in U.S. history.”</div>
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The massive operation generated
terror in immigrant communities already traumatized by a massacre <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/09/us/el-paso-suspect-confession.html">targeting
people of Mexican origin</a> in El Paso, Texas, days earlier, and much of the
U.S.-born population was outraged by images of detained workers’ <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/09/us/el-paso-suspect-confession.html">sobbing
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raids in the past, news accounts noted that the <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/adolfoflores/ice-raids-employers-arrest-charges-immigrants-business">employers
remained free</a> while their workers were led off to migrant jails in
handcuffs.[…]</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">ICE raid in Los Angeles. Photo: Allen J. Schaben/LAT via Getty Images</span></span></td></tr>
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Weekly News Update on the Americashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04816074489426901318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006457810642549626.post-80935347442129857792019-04-13T15:08:00.000-04:002019-04-13T15:08:07.597-04:00A Progressive U.S. Policy Must Extend Beyond Open Borders<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<i><span style="color: #444444;">Opening
the borders is a realistic policy proposal, but we need to view it as inseparable
from the broader progressive agenda.</span></i></div>
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<b><span style="color: #444444;">By
David L. Wilson, <i>Truthout</i></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent;"><b>April 13, 2019</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Two
recent articles — by <b><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/16/opinion/open-borders-immigration.html">Farhad
Manjoo</a></b> in <i>The New York Times</i> and <b><a href="https://fpif.org/progressives-should-support-open-borders-with-no-apology/">Khury
Petersen-Smith</a> </b>in <i>Foreign Policy In Focus</i> — make the case that
U.S. progressives need to embrace open borders as a policy. Petersen-Smith adds
that they should support it “without apology.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">It
would certainly seem natural for leftists to support the right to migrate.
After all, the socialist movement’s historic slogan has been “<b><a href="https://jacobinmag.com/2019/03/marx-grave-highgate-desecration-fascism">Workers
of all lands unite</a></b>,” and its anthem is “<b><a href="https://www.marxists.org/history/ussr/sounds/lyrics/international.htm">The
Internationale</a></b>.” But in the past few years, a number of people on the
left <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">have
come out against the concept.[…]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Read the
full article:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://truthout.org/articles/a-progressive-u-s-policy-must-extend-beyond-open-borders/">https://truthout.org/articles/a-progressive-u-s-policy-must-extend-beyond-open-borders/</a></div>
Weekly News Update on the Americashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04816074489426901318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006457810642549626.post-79617054518359737832019-03-14T13:14:00.000-04:002019-03-14T13:15:29.163-04:00Students, the Sixties, and How to ‘Fail Better’<b><span style="color: #444444;">By <span class="coauthors"><span style="border: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">David L.
Wilson, <i>MR Online</i></span></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #444444;">March 13, 2019</span></b><span style="color: #444444;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmFalViaQ6O_6jt4WT888TRa_SfevveNictn4piiyNEzmFaqxozuY3NNSRvnO_xZPdhQYFo25ww782EKqIdF_2zZwsrCv0uEM0nckvP-rTkQ-dtGMcXGb8imxQQM7iEN61FUfMBHE9OdM/s1600/YouSayYouWantRevolution.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="333" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmFalViaQ6O_6jt4WT888TRa_SfevveNictn4piiyNEzmFaqxozuY3NNSRvnO_xZPdhQYFo25ww782EKqIdF_2zZwsrCv0uEM0nckvP-rTkQ-dtGMcXGb8imxQQM7iEN61FUfMBHE9OdM/s200/YouSayYouWantRevolution.jpg" width="133" /></a><em><span style="border: none 0in; color: #444444; padding: 0in;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0578406543/counterpunchmaga"><span style="color: #222222;">You Say You Want a Revolution: SDS, PL, and Adventures in
Building a Worker-Student Alliance</span></a></span></em><span style="color: #444444; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">, </span></div>
Edited by John F. Levin and
Earl Silbar (San Francisco: 1741 Press, 2019), 364 pages, $18.95.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">In <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wyl-tIsNEFc"><span style="border: none 0in; color: #222222; padding: 0in;">pop culture versions</span></a> of
1960s activism, student radicals are often depicted as spoiled upper-class kids
rebelling against their privileged parents, engaging in random acts of
violence, and despising the nation’s wage-earning majority. In reality, the
100,000 or so youths in the student movement were largely drawn from the lower
middle class, and some from the working class; their parents were frequently in
general agreement with their children’s politics; the period’s radical activism
was much more about leafleting, petitioning, and tabling than about
confrontations with the police; and far from rejecting the country’s workers, a
significant part of the movement considered finding ways to approach this class
a central political issue.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<em><span style="border: none 0in; color: #444444; padding: 0in;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pg/yousayyouwantarevolution/posts/"><span style="color: #222222;">You Say You Want a Revolution: SDS, PL, and Adventures in
Building a Worker-Student Alliance</span></a></span></em><span style="color: #444444;">is a useful introduction to the actual experience of many
or most of the student activists a half-century ago.[…]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Weekly News Update on the Americashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04816074489426901318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006457810642549626.post-81995990381260030862019-01-28T23:10:00.001-05:002019-01-28T23:10:33.144-05:00Why don’t the media fact-check “amnesty” claims?<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo: David Bacon</td></tr>
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<i>“The practice of citing conservative agitators is often characterized as
“<b><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/18/opinion/both-sides-now.html">bothsidesism</a></b>,”
but here the news outlets only presented one side—the one on the far
right—without even a hint that the claims might not have a factual basis.”</i><br />
<i><br /></i>
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<b>By David L. Wilson and
Jane Guskin, <i>MR Online<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<b>January 28, 2019</b></div>
<br />
On January 20 Donald Trump actually said something accurate about
immigration.<br />
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Anti-immigrant pundits like Ann
Coulter were attacking the president because he appeared to be offering to
extend <b><a href="https://www.uscis.gov/archive/consideration-deferred-action-childhood-arrivals-daca">DACA</a></b>
protection for three years. They took to the airwaves and social media to
denounce any DACA extension as an “<b><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/coulter-rips-trump-daca-offer-calls-him-a-jeb_us_5c43c6b1e4b027c3bbc25bf2">amnesty</a></b>.”
“No, Amnesty is not a part of my offer,” Trump <b><a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/426198-trump-defends-immigration-proposal-against-amnesty-criticism-from">tweeted
back</a></b>, and for once he was right.[…]</div>
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<a href="https://mronline.org/2019/01/28/why-dont-the-media-fact-check-amnesty-claims">https://mronline.org/2019/01/28/why-dont-the-media-fact-check-amnesty-claims</a></div>
<br />Weekly News Update on the Americashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04816074489426901318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006457810642549626.post-73737988281790388772018-11-10T19:20:00.002-05:002018-11-10T19:20:55.158-05:00The US Must Take Responsibility for Asylum Seekers and the History That Drives Them<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<i>Anyone who has followed the history of US involvement in
Latin America and the Caribbean knows that the current crises in the region are
absolutely “our problem.”</i></div>
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<b>By David L. Wilson, <i>Truthout</i></b></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">
<b>November 10, 2018</b></div>
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Most people are capable of holding two or more conflicting
ideas on any given issue. Immigration is no exception.</div>
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A large segment of the US public was horrified in May and
June when they saw the Trump administration snatching toddlers away from
Central American mothers who arrived at the US border seeking asylum. Many
would still be appalled if they knew that the White House is seeking to
<a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/10/12/17969780/family-separation-trump-plan-children-orphans"><b>continue the practice</b></a> in a different form. Most undoubtedly feel genuine
sympathy for young people trying to escape violent gangs or abusive partners.
Still, a lot of these same sympathetic Americans don’t actually want the asylum
seekers to come here.</div>
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<br />Weekly News Update on the Americashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04816074489426901318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006457810642549626.post-9143340386947418182018-11-06T16:12:00.002-05:002018-11-06T16:12:43.295-05:00How can we make “Abolish ICE” a Reality?<i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Two of the immigrant rights movement’s historic demands provide a basis for actually closing the agency, and beyond that for building a movement to demand more fundamental changes.</i><br />
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<span lang="EN"><b>October 25, 2018</b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN">Over the past few months immigrant rights activism has come to be defined largely by a demand to “abolish ICE.” The drive to close down Immigration and Customs Enforcement—a Department of Homeland Security agency responsible for internal enforcement of immigration laws—has figured in headlines, garnered support from activists and a few Democratic politicians, and provoked furious denunciations from conservatives. But despite the attention there seems to be little agreement on what’s meant by the phrase, or on how to turn it into a reality.[...]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><a href="https://mronline.org/2018/10/25/how-can-we-make-abolish-ice-a-reality/" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration-line: none;">https://mronline.org/2018/10/25/how-can-we-make-abolish-ice-a-reality/</a></span></div>
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Weekly News Update on the Americashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04816074489426901318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006457810642549626.post-90746869719823216082018-09-06T23:21:00.000-04:002018-09-06T23:21:20.066-04:00No More Compromises: We Need Immigration Amnesty Now!<b>By David L. Wilson, <i>Truthout</i></b><br />
<b>September 6, 2018</b><br />
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In mid-April, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
carried out a <b><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ice-busts-225-people-sweeping-six-day-raid-new-york-article-1.3950760">six-day
operation</a></b> in the New York metropolitan area, detaining a total of 225
people.</div>
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<a href="https://www.workers.org/2018/05/18/nyc-press-conference-not-one-more-immigrant-detention/">One
month later</a>, a young US citizen named <a href="https://twitter.com/NewSanctuaryNYC/status/995013327255474176">Augustina</a>
stood in Manhattan’s Foley Square, a few hundred feet from ICE’s regional
headquarters, and told a crowd of journalists and supporters how the series of
raids — code-named “Operation Keep Safe” — had impacted her and her family. Claiming
they were police, ICE agents “welcomed themselves in” at the family’s East
Harlem apartment, she said, and led away her diabetic mother, who had lived in
the United States for more than 30 years. As the oldest citizen left in the
family, Augustina was now having to file for guardianship of her 12-year-old
sister.</div>
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The media had covered the number of immigrants arrested in
the April raid, Augustina noted, but not how it had affected their friends and
relatives. “We’re not just numbers,” she said. “When will our undocumented
families be recognized as human beings?”[…]</div>
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<br />Weekly News Update on the Americashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04816074489426901318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1006457810642549626.post-41078104678028684852018-08-01T10:14:00.000-04:002018-08-01T10:14:27.171-04:00Trump Welcomes Immigrants, but Only if They Can Be Exploited<i>After three years of telling his base that he “<b><a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/president-trump-puts-american-jobs-first/">puts
American jobs first</a></b>,” surely Trump wouldn’t try to expand the guest
worker programs — or would he?</i><br />
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The US mainstream media had <b><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-bashes-media-claims-credit-korea-talks-michigan-rally-n869836">two
competing events</a></b> to cover the night of April 28: the annual White House
Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, DC, and a Trump rally in Macomb County,
Michigan, a predominantly white working-class suburb of Detroit. Journalists
mainly focused on the dinner, but the more important story may have been a
remark President Trump made in the course of his <b><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?444641-1/president-trump-remarks-michigan-rally&start=2016">80-minute
speech</a></b> at the rally.</div>
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As reported by the immigration-restrictionist <b><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180723150338/https:/cis.org/Huennekens/Trump-Praises-Guestworkers-Michigan-Speech">Center
for Immigration Studies</a></b> (CIS), around 33 minutes into his talk, Trump
began praising guest worker programs. “For the farmers it’s going to get really
good,” he started.[...]</div>
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direction the protests will take, but they could turn out to be the U.S.
version of Argentina’s </i>escraches<i>.
Someday members of our political elite may finally have to answer for their
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Seven years of military
dictatorship in Argentina ended in 1983, but the regime’s officers remained a
powerful force. The newly formed democratic government tried to appease them by
passing <b><a href="http://www.lacampora.org/2015/06/16/a-10-anos-de-derogacion-de-las-leyes-de-obediencia-debida-y-punto-final/">two
laws</a></b> that granted almost total impunity for the junta’s many crimes:
the “disappearance” of as many as 30,000 people, systematic torture, the
dumping of live detainees from airplanes, and the practice of seizing the
children of murdered activists and handing them over to childless military
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Prison for the torturer": confronting Astiz. Photo: Clarin/AFP</td></tr>
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