A History of Human Caging with Kelly Lytle Hernández
Historian Kelly Lytle Hernández tells the story of human caging in Los Angeles, from the Spanish Conquest to the mid-twentieth century, in her new book City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, …
César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández: On DACA
Immigration law scholar @crimmigration breaks down the lies, misdirections and bigoted absurdities conveyed by Attorney General Jeff Sessions when he announced that the Trump Administration would cruelly make some 800,000 …
Dara Lind: Trump’s uncomfortable resemblance to Obama on immigration
What Trump has accomplished is spread fear through immigrant communities and, with the Muslim and refugee travel bans, made bigotry the explicit cornerstone of immigration policy. But on immigration, as …
Peter Andreas: Trump’s Wall Is Already Built
Donald Trump won the presidency in significant part by pledging to do something that his predecessors had already mostly accomplished: building a big, beautiful wall on the border with Mexico. …
Fighting the Trump bans: Linda Sarsour and Nicholas Espíritu
Today, we bring you two interviews. The first is with Nicholas Espíritu from the National Immigration Law Center, one of the groups mounting legal challenges against the ban, who will explain …
Trump didn’t invent being terrible on immigration: César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández & Chris Newman.
Donald Trump launched his campaign by calling Mexican immigrants “rapists” and pledged to build a “a big, fat, beautiful wall” on the southern border that, of course, Mexico is going …