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San Diego "Honk for Justice" Calls for the Release of people in ICE Detention 
Author Pedro Rios serves as director of the AFSC’s U.S./Mexico Border Program and has been on staff with AFSC since 2003. He is a steering committee member of the Southern Border Communities Coalition, which brings together over 60 organizations along the Southern border working to support migrants and border communities....
Posted: Sun Apr 5, 2020 4:49PM
Arizona border wall contractor's parent company is among world's most polluting companies 
The parent company of Southwest Valley Constructors -- now building the border wall, violating all federal protection laws, destroying endangered species and bulldozing the pristine Sonoran Desert -- is a global mining and construction corporation that is listed as one of the most polluting companies in the world....
Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2020 9:09AM
The Evolution of Trump’s Attacks on Immigrants 
Racism meets Big Data...
Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2019 4:58PM
Antifa is not an organization 
This isn't a conspiracy theory with loose threads. There's no jumping off of Occam's Razor or lizard people, or Mandela effect here - THIS IS REALLY HAPPENING IN FRONT OF OUR EYES. If you're not angry, ashamed, and afraid - you're not paying attention....
Posted: Fri Aug 2, 2019 10:53AM
Fighting the Causes of Flight The refugee debate is back again but only the symptoms are in the spotlight. Refugees are fought instead of the causes of flight. The political failure is as dreadful as the forgetfulness of the media and politics. For the first time, more than 70 million persons are fleeing from war, persecution and conflicts. Every two seconds a person becomes a refugee....
Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2019 3:05AM
Trump Blames Migrants for Appalling Conditions at Detention Centers Reposted from Common Dreams under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License....
Posted: Thu Jul 4, 2019 5:54PM
American Independence Day 2019 
This article, reposted from the World Socialist Web Site, recalls and examines the elementary proposition, first established in 1776, that the United States is a nation of immigrants....
Posted: Thu Jul 4, 2019 8:33AM
Trump to launch military-style immigration raids nationwide this weekend 
The Trump administration is intentionally seeking to inflame a mood of terror among immigrant workers and their families and friends.
Press leaks suggest that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will launch a military-style round-up of undocumented immigrants in 10 major US cities Sunday-- including San Francisco....
Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2019 7:03AM
Trump administration to evict 55,000 children of immigrants from public housing 
Under a fascistic government rule targeting immigrants, 108,000 people in the United States face eviction and homelessness....
Posted: Mon May 13, 2019 9:29AM
HUD moves to force undocumented immigrants from public housing In an effort that pits public housing tenants against one another, reportedly last Wednesday evening on April 17, 2019, the Trump administration and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced a new proposal to force undocumented immigrants from our nation’s public housing units!...
Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2019 5:35AM
Trump Is 'Going To Go Full Animal’ Says Steve Bannon 
Donald Trump’s former chief adviser predicted Mr. Trump would “come off the chains” and use the Mueller Report to “bludgeon” his opponents and ignore congressional oversight requests for documents. Attorney General Barr's memorandum on Mueller's report left Trump feeling vindicated, triumphant and unleashed....
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2019 12:49AM
Documents Reveal ICE Using Driver Location Data From Local Police for Deportations 
Local governments like Merced and Union City, California, are feeding their residents’ personal information to ICE, even when it violates local privacy laws or sanctuary policies. California Senate Bill 34 and the California Values Act (SB 54) are supposed to prohibit local law enforcement agencies from sharing license plate information and personal information for immigration enforcement or with out-of-state or federal agencies....
Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2019 2:15PM
"Capitalism will make migrants out of all citizens" No one speaks about the right to be deeply rooted in one's country and not to be uprooted by global capitalism. In reality, the elite is demophobic. That means, it hates people and democracy. We must be populist and not elitist today, democratic and not demophobic, and defend national sovereignty and not globalization....
Posted: Mon Mar 4, 2019 3:49AM
Settlement Reached in Customs and Border Protection Sexual Assault Case 
Teen Was Assaulted by Border Patrol Agent in Texas...
Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2019 11:19AM
On the Refugee Debate The rulers want to divert from the real causes of the refugee wave and from their own misdeeds because the cause of the misery is an exploitation crisis of capital and the greed of mammoth world corporations. Only the prospect for a future in their country can stop refugees, not borders. Just trade would be the first step. Borders are a thorn in the eye to capital....
Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2018 9:21AM
Caravan Seeks Safety from Murder and Poverty The caravan is being harassed with tear gas....
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2018 1:57PM
Keep Them Here: A Brief Discussion of Temporary Protected Status This is a brief discussion of the situation that TPS recipients are going through....
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2018 1:02PM
Join us at the Border in San Diego December 8th – 10th Solidarity Actions for migrant caravan...
Posted: Sat Dec 1, 2018 8:53PM
Mexican Government Demands Investigation After U.S. Fires Tear Gas At Asylum Seekers The Mexican government is demanding a full investigation after U.S. border authorities fired tear gas Sunday into a crowd of Central American asylum seekers on November 25. Pedro Rios, the director of the American Friends Service Committee’s U.S./Mexico Border Program, witnessed the incident from the U.S. side....
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2018 2:12PM
Refuse Fascism LA Members Witness War on Immigrants at the Border 
On November 25th, members of Refuse Fascism LA traveled to San Ysidro, the town right next to the U.S /Mexico border, where they joined a protest in support of asylum seekers. Photos by Peter Switzer, except where noted....
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2018 4:47AM