Being a “model minority” isn’t a ticket out of experiencing racism. The “model minority myth” is a political tool to hide America’s systematic discrimination, maintain racial hierarchies, and mask the economic struggles South Asian communities face.
Detention was sold as both a law-and-order necessity and an economic opportunity, welding together the racist politics of the drug war with the rise of private prisons.
Heeding far-right calls for stricter migration controls will not halt the far right’s rise. The resignation of Keir Starmer, the Danish Social Democrats’ recent electoral defeat, and the Dutch Socialist Party’s string of losses all affirm this
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Poet Robert Peake asks us to consider what a road sign says about the lives and needs of migrants.
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California poet Anonymous lampoons James “Bulldog” Uthmeier, Florida Attorney General, who coined the name of the infamous Everglades detention center.
A history of five families in El Paso reveals the city’s significance as a bellwether of America’s immigration policy.
New analysis and firsthand accounts reveal the toll of the crackdown on immigrant communities in L.A. County and beyond. Thousands of people detained during the height of the raids remain in immigration custody or have already been deported.
The 2026 World Cup has become a rebuke to Trump’s homogeneous vision of America, revealing a tournament – and a US team – shaped by migration and diversity. Soccer, when politics and cultural posturing are set aside, can indeed be the great unifier
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