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Immigrants Cause Climate Change? CAPS Ads Blame Carbon Emissions on Immigration

The recent ads being run on TV stations such as MSNBC by Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS), is yet another attempt by the racist, right-wing, anti-immigrant movement to take a "hot" issue (pun intended) such as climate change and turn it into "flaming" anti-immigrant rhetoric: Read more >

OIG Reports on S-comm Miss the Point

On Friday, April 6th, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released two reports that ultimately missed the point in addressing key concerns presented by Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) in a request for an OIG investigation into the flawed and controversial "Secure Communities" deportation program.

Lofgren's request for an investigation came at the heels of massive outcry by grassroots groups and communities nationally due to the rampant rights violations and abuses caused by the detention & deportation dragnet. Read more >

NNIRR in Detroit

Black Migration and Immigration—Two Sides of the Same Coin

Ostrich In-depth: 11 Immigration and Health Issues of 2011

[Posted Dec. 30, 2011] Read more >

Community Victory! Mark Gomes freed from ICE detention, reunited with family

At 10:30am on Friday, February 3rd, I got a call from a colleague with news that Mark Gomes, a Bangladeshi man who was detained in Georgia, had been released from ICE custody and was on his way home to his family in North Carolina.  Read more >

A Culture of Cruelty

From our friends at No More Deaths (Tucson, AZ)
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On the 10th Anniversary of 9/11...

Migrant Trail 2011: Why We Walk