It’s Time for Direct Action in America
By LIAM McMAHON On Tuesday, July 30, Never Again Action, a group of Jews and allies organized in opposition to the Trump administration’s inhumane immigration and deportation policies, protested at […]
Tag Archives: Immigration
Democrats Must Imagine a New Immigration Framework
By SADIE KELLER When the first Democratic debates turned to immigration, most candidates sang a familiar tune: They criticized the president and spoke in platitudes about American values. Given the Trump […]
The Only Ones Who Get It
By ABE ASHER On Monday in West Texas, a delegation of more than a dozen congressional Democrats toured detention facilities in which the Trump administration has been holding migrants for […]
Separating Families At The Border? It’s Just Part of Their Plan.
By ABE ASHER Children at the southern border of the United States are being held, separated from their parents and siblings, sometimes in warehouses, 20 to a cage, sometimes for […]
The Case for Disbanding ICE
By ABE ASHER ICE, the immigration and customs enforcement agency, is out of control. You’ve seen the stories. They’ve become ubiquitous over the last year. People who have lived in […]
The Normalization of Trump’s Joint Address
By HARRIS WALKER Last night, Donald Trump delivered the most important speech of his young presidency as he addressed a joint session of Congress for the first time. The significance of […]
The Firing of Sally Yates
By NATHAN CARPENTER Last night, acting US Attorney General Sally Yates was fired by President Donald Trump for refusing to comply with Trump’s demands for the Department of Justice to enforce […]
The Next Great American Moment
By ABE ASHER In the wake of Donald Trump’s executive order banning Muslim immigrants and refugees from seven countries on Friday, we’ve heard plenty of talk about how the action […]
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