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School on Wheels Brings Education to Migrant Kids at Border
GUEST: Carlos Marroquin, Board Member and organizer with Yes We Can. BACKGROUND: President Donald Trump continues to demonize and criminalize Central American refugees seeking asylum at the border, as his administration holds thousands of families,…
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Undocumented Immigrant in Sanctuary Responds to Raids from Colorado Church
As immigrant communities face ongoing raids across the country, we speak with Rosa Sabido, one of dozens of undocumented immigrants living in churches across the United States. She entered sanctuary in May 2017 in the…
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Communities Fight Back as Threat of ICE Raids Terrorize Immigrant Families
Democracy Now! speaks with Elora Mukherjee, a professor of law and director of the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic at Columbia Law School. She has spent the past 12 years representing immigrant children and adults along the…
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How Immigrant Rights Activists Are Preparing for Looming ICE Deportation Raids
Immigrant communities across the country and their allies are preparing for nationwide raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement planned to begin Sunday that will target undocumented members of immigrant families in at least nine major…
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Rep. Barragán Decries Detention of Migrant Children in Prison Cells
Yazmin Juárez, the Guatemalan mother whose child died from a lung infection after being held in an ICE detention center, testified before members of a congressional panel Wednesday. She shared the story of her daughter,…
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The Inhumane Treatment of Migrants Is Not New
More than a week after lawmakers flocked to the U.S.-Mexico border to observe the horrible treatment of refugee children and families in immigration jails, reports of unsafe and unsanitary conditions for asylum seekers are continuing.…
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America’s Deadly Stealth War on the Mexico Border Is Approaching Genocide
John Carlos Frey’s new book, Sand and Blood: America’s Stealth War on the Mexico Border, chronicles how the U.S.-Mexico border became a war zone through decades of deadly bipartisan immigration policy. But it also examines…
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How Far Will Trump Go On Census 2020?
GUEST: Steven Rosenfeld, Editor, Chief Correspondent & Senior Writing Fellow for Voting Booth a project of the Independent Media Institute BACKGROUND: President Donald Trump has said he is considering using an executive order to include…
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There's "Definite Parallels" between hate groups and Border Patrol group on Facebook
A.C. Thompson, a reporter with ProPublica, uncovered a secret Facebook group that included thousands of current and former Border Patrol agents. Members of the group shared racist, homophobic and sexist messages and memes. Thompson, who…
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How Drug Violence is Changing Migration on the US-Mexico Border
GUEST: Jeremy Slack, Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Texas in El Paso and editor of The Shadow of the Wall: Violence and Migration on the US-Mexico Border. His new book is called…
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Border Agents Caught Posting Racist, Sexist Messages About Migrants & AOC in Secret Facebook Group
Customs and Border Protection has opened an investigation into the posting of racist and xenophobic messages by current and former Border Patrol agents on a private Facebook group. More than 9,500 people are part of…
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Scott Warren Faces Retrial for Providing Aid to Migrants
Federal prosecutors announced Tuesday they will retry humanitarian aid volunteer and immigration rights activist Scott Warren on two charges related to aiding migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border. This comes just a few weeks after a…
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Activists Respond To America’s Concentration Camps
GUEST: Rosa Clemente is a community organizer, 2008 Green Party Vice Presidential candidate, and a doctoral candidate in the W.E.B. DuBois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is also a…
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Under Trump, Democrats have a chance to craft more "humane" immigration policies
Julián Castro led the conversation on immigration reform Wednesday night, challenging the Democratic field to support decriminalizing crossing the border without documentation, but Ana María Archila of the Center for Popular Democracy says all the…
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Trump Admin Moves 100 Migrant Kids Back to “Child Jail”
The Department of Homeland Security has moved 100 migrant children back to a Border Patrol facility in Clint, Texas, where infants and toddlers have been locked up without adequate food, water, sanitation or medical care,…
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Some Progressives to Vote Against Dems on Funding Bill for DHS, Call for Abolition of ICE
A divided House approved a contentious $4.5 billion emergency funding package. This will be to address the border crisis. This happened on Tuesday, under growing pressure to address the Trump administration’s inhumane treatment of migrants.…
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Dr. Scott Allen Condemns Conditions on Border
Immigration jails along the southern border are facing heightened scrutiny following horrific reports of dirty and unhygienic conditions at a detention center in Clint, Texas, and other facilities. Democracy Now! speaks with government whistleblower Dr.…
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