US Immigration
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Despite the failure of their previous attempts to reach the United States — not to mention the obvious dangers of the journey — on February 26, [José Luis] Hernández and 16 other AMIREDIS activists set out from Honduras in a caravan to Washington, DC, with the intention of raising awareness about the circumstances that force…
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In the second episode of Periphery, Angelika Albaladejo and I interviewed Jose Magaña-Salgado, an attorney and policy advocate at the Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) in Washington DC. We talked with Jose about the overcriminalization of immigrants in the United States. I’ve written a fair amount about US immigration policies and practices on this blog in…
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Cross-posted with Public Diplomacy Musings Two recent killings of Mexican immigrants by American police have sparked outrage in both the U.S. and Mexico. Antonio Zambrano-Montes, an undocumented agricultural worker, was allegedly throwing rocks at police before he was shot and killed last month in Pasco, Washington. Rubén García Villalpando, another unarmed, undocumented immigrant from Mexico, was shot and killed…
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Human Rights Watch released a report last week highlighting the apparently systemic failure of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to properly screen Central American migrants, particularly Hondurans, for “credible” or “reasonable” fear of returning to their countries of origin. According to data obtained from CBP via a Freedom of Information Act request, “the vast…
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The New York Times just published a new report that adds to the long and lengthening list of horrors experienced by immigrants and their families: The federal government is investigating how detailed information about migrant children being held at two American military bases wound up in the hands of con artists who are using it…
Mike LaSusa 