Oppressions

By ERWIN FREED ICE agents kidnapped Victor Sánchez at a routine immigration check-in in Hartford, Conn., on Wednesday, Sept. 24. Victor is a community leader, father, and worker. He is involved not only with immigrant justice organizing but also helping people achieve sobriety. Victor has been in the United States since 2004. According to a […]

By AVA FAHY and ERWIN FREED Early Wednesday morning, Sept. 24, three detainees at the ICE field office in Dallas were shot by a gunman who was later identified as Joshua Jahn, 29. According to reports, the shooter then turned the gun on himself and died by suicide. Three immigrant detainees were shot, and out […]

By ERWIN FREED and AVA FAHY Kilmar Abrego Garcia—a union sheet-metal worker, husband and father, and member of the immigrant advocacy group CASA—was finally released from a Tennessee jail on Friday, Aug. 22. Unfortunately, he was re-detained three days later, on the morning of Aug. 25, during an ICE “check-in.” A press conference organized by […]

By JOHN LESLIE Immigrant Justice activists and their allies are demanding the release of Catalina “Xóchitl” Santiago, a respected community organizer and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient. Xóchitl was seized by Border Patrol agents at the El Paso airport on Sunday, Aug. 3, while she was traveling for work. Agents disregarded her legal […]

BY ROSA AURELIA On Thursday, July 24, Yale Medicine and Yale New Haven Health announced that they would be ending their surgical (and medication based) gender-affirming health care for patients under the age of 19. This decision came immediately after Connecticut Children’s Medical said it would do the same. These developments have grave implications for […]

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 BRIAN CRAWFORD “No crime in American history—let alone a crime that never occurred—produced as many trials, convictions, reversals and retrials” as the case of the Scottsboro Boys,” wrote Douglas Linder in “Famous Trials.” Nine young Black men boarded a freight train in Chattanooga, Tenn., bound for Memphis. Accusations of rape would be the catalyst […]

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 RIO NERO During the 2024 election cycle, immigrants and transgender people became the primary targets of a scapegoat campaign that was launched by the Republican Party and deepened by the Democrats, which now has borne fruit in the form of a slew of executive actions. As of March 26, both transgender people and immigrants […]

By RIO NERO During the 2024 election cycle, immigrants and transgender people became the primary targets of a scapegoat campaign that was launched by the Republican Party and deepened by the Democrats, which now has borne fruit in the form of a slew of executive actions. As of March 26, both transgender people and immigrants […]

By MICHAEL SCHREIBER May 19 marks the 100th birthday of Malcolm X—a seminal political leader of the 20th century. Malcolm’s ideas and teachings, as expressed in his speeches and interviews, have had an influence lasting far beyond his own time—not only on the movement for Black liberation in the United States but on liberation movements […]

A VOICE FOR BLACK LIBERATION By BRIAN CRAWFORD August will mark the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Voting Rights Act, one of the major achievements of the civil rights movement. But rather than celebrate this landmark, Donald Trump has signed an executive order that would disenfranchise millions. Registering to vote would require proof […]

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 […]

y BRIAN CRAWFORD Donald Trump has returned to power, and the far right is confident that he will surpass what he carried out during his first term. The administration is prepared and motivated; armed with the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 as its program, it is primed to do damage. Consistent with the right-wing strategy in […]

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 […]