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Politics

Trumpism Before Trump

We can’t fully appreciate the current anti-immigration moment without understanding the decades-long investment by right-wing movement politics.

Robert Tsai, Calvin TerBeek

Politics

California Today, America Tomorrow

Political lessons from the state of resistance.

Felicia Wong

Global Justice

The Border Is Not a Wall

It is an ever-widening surveillance zone that turns borderland citizens into guardians of the state.

Matthew Longo

Global Justice

Immigrants Welcome*

Trump’s Muslim ban was not just an abberation: U.S. citizenship has long been predicated on whiteness as it was understood in 1790.

Maytha Alhassen

Global Justice

Who Gets the Right to Stay?

The moral right of states to apprehend and deport irregular migrants erodes with the passage of time.

Joseph H. Carens

Global Justice

Open for Business, Not Human Rights: Trump's Priorities in Central America

A recent conference made it clear: military and corporate interests will prevail.

Lauren Carasik

Race

Refuge for Fugitives

We can learn from the surprising coalition of people who sheltered and rescued escaped slaves.

Stephen Kantrowitz

Class & Inequality

Basic Income Is a Dead End

Basic income is a seductive poison that would benefit the margins of society at the expense of the middle class and immigrants.

Anke Hassel

Global Justice, Literature & Culture

Riding La Bestia

Following the 2014 immigration crisis, Valeria Luiselli began volunteering at a New York City immigration court. This is what she heard.

Valeria Luiselli

Politics

How Immigrants Became Criminals

Immigrants are not committing more crimes than in the past. Rather the definition of “criminal” has broadened significantly.

Alan A. Aja, Alejandra Marchevsky

Politics

Do Outsiders Have Legal Rights?

Stayed or not, Trump's ban highlights the need for strong immigrant rights.

Adam Hosein

Law & Justice

Whom Do Sanctuary Cities Protect?

Public safety is precisely why sanctuary cities are a good idea.

Lauren Carasik

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