Immigrants

By ERNIE GOTTA Unions have been at the forefront of the opposition to raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and President Trump’s growing authoritarianism. Anti-ICE mobilizations have included thousands of union members across the U.S. who demand an end to ICE terror in their communities. The mass opposition to ICE shows a dynamic initial […]

By N. IRAZÚ The immigrant movement is now at the center of struggle within the United States. It is the spearhead of Donald Trump’s racist and anti-worker policies. In his position as president—and toying with the idea of staying that way indefinitely—he decided to use the immigrant population of Los Angeles as a laboratory for […]

By CARLOS SAPIR As National Guard troops confront anti-ICE protesters in Los Angeles, the mobilizations against Trump’s agenda and the repressive actions taken to quiet it have both reached a new level. The Friday, June 6, massive ICE raids in Los Angeles were intended to inaugurate a new “normal” degree of authoritarian, anti-immigrant repression. The […]

By BEN MARTINEZ On March 15, President Donald Trump signed an executive order invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, a wartime law, that would allow the government to detain and deport citizens of an “enemy nation.” That same night, three planes landed in El Salvador, carrying 261 men. The Trump administration had deported the […]

By JOSE MONTEROJO Immigrants and their allies are responding to the Trump administration’s attacks on their community with organizing and mobilizations across the country. From California to the East Coast, immigrant organizations and communities are marching in the streets, holding legal training to prepare immigrants for ICE raids, and preparing networks to defend immigrants from […]

By Jose Monterojo From Jan. 7 through Jan. 10, immigration agents carried out a series of unexpected raids in California’s Central Valley, in an operation dubbed “Operation Return to Sender.” In Bakersfield, Calif., undercover agents in marked and unmarked vehicles confronted farm workers in front of a gas station and a shopping center, asking for […]

By DYLAN EDWARD Springfield, Ohio, has become a focal point of national headlines and social media attention due to the spread of far-right conspiracy theories alleging that Haitian immigrants are killing and eating local pets and wild ducks in the park. The racist rumors emerged after Erika Lee, a Springfield resident, posted in a local […]

By N. IRAZU “It is important we uplift the voices of the compañeros. We want all detention centers to be shut down.” —Juana, immigrant activist with Papeles Para Todos Dozens of detained immigrant workers have been carrying out labor and hunger strikes In Mesa Verde and Golden State Annex in California[1] and at the Buffalo […]

By WORKERS’ VOICE We met in the city of Orosi, Calif., with a farmworker, Ixtel, to conduct this interview to learn about the situation of the farmworkers. The lack of coverage of this sector of the working class of the United States, and especially California, is disproportionate to the key role that it represents in […]

By N. IRAZU On July 1, immigrants detained in the private detention centers of Mesa Verde (MV) and Golden State Annex (GSA) in California launched a labor and hunger strike. The struggle that these immigrant workers are now carrying out within these detention centers is of the utmost importance not only for the brave struggle […]

By MESA VERDA-GOLDEN STATE ANNEX SOLIDARITY COMMITTEE Strikers are demanding an end to ICE detention centers, release from detention, an end to solitary confinement, restoration of free phone calls, and for ICE to stop violating its own standards. McFARLAND and BAKERSIELD, Calif., July 1 — Today, 59 workers detained at Golden State Annex (GSA) and […]

By Jose Monterojo At the end of January, Biden presented a concession to the far right of the Republican Party on the issue of immigration policy. In his proposal, Biden asked Congress to grant him the authority to close the border when the amount of incidents of people trying to cross into the United States […]

The events that took place on the night of Monday, March 27, at a National Institute of Migration (NIM) center, in which 40 migrants died, highlight the migratory crisis and the repressive policies of the Mexican and U.S. governments, especially when their first reaction was to blame the migrants who set fire to mattresses and […]

By Una Tolca “Detention center.” Sounds innocuous, doesn’t it? Like a children’s amusement center, or a welfare center. But it isn’t. A detention center in the United States is a macabre institution that forms a key part of the capitalist control and repression of migrants at the border and in the interior of the country. […]

By Una Tolca BAKERSFIELD, Calif.—It is April 27, 2022, and a migrant detainee strike breaks out at the Mesa Verde Immigration Detention Center. And now it is July, and the strikers are still fighting. It is not a hunger strike: Inspired by the wave of strikes and union organizing that is shaking the country, this […]

Statement of Workers’ Voice/La Voz De l@s Trabajadores on the current situation at the US border 23 September 2021 Our party stands in solidarity with immigrants from Haiti who are being brutalized by the US capitalist regime, and with the people of Haiti suffering the most recent and acute crises impacting their country. Open the […]