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2020 News

(Colombian Vaccination Program to Exclude Undocumented Venezuelans)
12/29/2020
(Félix Vásquez: Honduran environmental activist killed in front of family)
12/28/2020
(GOP-Led Lawsuit Seeks to Overturn DACA Program Protecting DREAMers)
12/22/2020
(Congress Expands Program to Identify Remains of Asylum Seekers Who Died Crossing Border)
12/22/2020
(Jamaican couple celebrate freedom after more than to years Philly church sanctuary)
12/21/2020
(DACA is Backresources to apply and financial aide, etc.)
12/18/2020
White Mexicans have had a role to play on white supremacy
12/18/2020
(Anti-ICE Protesters Clash with Police Outside New Jersey Jail Where Immigrants Held)
12/13/2020
(The Color of Coronavirus: Covid-19 Deaths by Race and Ethnicity in the US)
12/10/2020
(City of the Year: Newark, NJ
12/9/2020
28 migrant children and their parents face deportation after refusing to be separated
11/23/2020
(Over 25,300 fleeing Ethiopia fighting have reached Sudan)
11/16/2020
(DACA Is Restored After Court Rules DHS Head Served Illegally)
11/15/2020
(A Monument to Stupidity: The trauma of the border wall)
10/31/2020
(Immigration policy on DACA, travel ban and family separations will be hard to fix)
10/29/2020
(Asylum: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver)
10/26/2020
(Parents of 545 Children Separated at the Border Cannot Be Found)
10/21/2020
(SCOTUS to Hear Cases on Funding of Trump’s Border Wall and “Remain in Mexico” Policy)
10/20/2020
(Trump’s Walls Must Fall: Greg Grandin with Avi Chomsky)
10/18/2020
(Supreme Court to review Trump bid to exclude undocumented immigrants from congressional seat formula- Census)
10/16/2020
(Trump Plans Pre-Election ICE Raids in U.S. Sanctuary Cities)
9/30/2020
(The U.S. Bears International Responsibility for Forced Sterilization of Women in ICE Detention)
9/29/2020
(ICE’s “Uterus Collector” and Trump’s Racist Immigration Policies)
9/23/2020
(It’s About Time We Banned Private Detention Centers Pt. 1 | Full Frontal on TBS); (Pt. 2)
9/23/2020
(Health Crises Grow at Immigrant Detention Centers)
9/23/2020
(New Film Links Forced Sterilization in California Prisons to Horrific History of Eugenics in U.S.)
9/22/2020
(Whistleblower Nurse in ICE Jail Alleges Forced Sterilization & Neglect Amid 8th COVID Death)
9/22/2020
(Immigrant detainees get poor medical care, face retaliation for speaking out, according to Democrat-led report)
9/21/2020
(Whistleblower Alleges 'Medical Neglect,' Questionable Hysterectomies Of ICE Detainees)
9/16/2020
(New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United Statesclimate migration)
9/15/2020
(San Diego Man Killed by Border Agents Remembered at Chicano Park)
9/15/2020
(The Man Who Refused to Spy: The F.B.I. tried to recruit an Iranian scientist as an informant. When he balked, the payback was brutal.)
9/14/2020
(400,000 Immigrants Can Be Forced to Leave the U.S. Court Rules)
9/14/2020
(An American Writer for An Age of Division)
9/14/2020
(MA Racial Disparity Report/ Harvard Law)
9/11/2020
(It’s Time to Dismantle Caste in the US)
9/1/2020
(The Power of Inclusive. Intergenerational Climate Activismclimate migration)
8/28/2020
What we lose when migrant folks are pushed away from creative work
8/24/2020
(What’s it Like to be in Immigration Lockup During a Pandemic)
8/24/2020
(Migrant kids to be expelled under virus order not entitled to attorneys and other safeguards, DOJ lawyers say); (Ending 'Asylum As We Know It': Using Pandemic To Expel Migrants, Children At Border)
8/6/2020
(Border Patrol Raid Arizona Humanitarian Camp for 2nd Time in 2 Days, Detain 30 Asylum Seekers)
8/3/2020
(Supreme Court Lets Trump Keep Building His Border Wall)
7/31/2020
* (The Great Climate Migration); (Where Will Everyone GoClimate migration)
7/26/2020
(Rare look inside secretive world of ICE crackdown series doc on Netflix)
7/22/2020
(Whistleblowers Say an ICE Detention Center Used Deceptive Tricks to Conceal COVID Outbreak: One was instructed to crank the AC to “freeze out” high-fever detainees who ICE wanted to deport.)
7/21/2020
('My Nigerian great-grandfather sold slaves')
7/19/2020
(On DACA, the president cannot be trusted)
7/15/2020
(Immigrant families in detention have until Friday to make a difficult decision)
7/14/2020
(Congress’s Inaction May Halt Immigration)
7/13/2020
(Higher ed leaders back Harvard-MIT fight against ICE rules: Guidelines would force international students to attend in-person classes amid pandemic or risk deportation, visa denial)
7/9/2020
(The Color of Corona Virus. Covid-19 Deaths By Race And Ethnicity in the U.S.)
7/8/2020
(Latinx Community Demands: Unity Task Force Releases Recs)
7/8/2020
(Already affected by crisis in their own countries, refugee students are left behind in online learning: As the coronavirus picture changes daily, so must our thinking about traumatized children)
7/7/2020
(A Woman Without a Country: Adopted at Birth and Deportable at 30.She grew up thinking she was American. When she realized that she wasn’t, her quest to fix the problem put her at risk of deportation.)
7/7/2020
Many Black and Asian Americans Say They Have Experienced Discrimination Amid the COVID-19 Outbreak -Pew Research Center (It’s Time to Dismantle Caste in the US)
7/1/2020
(DACA ‘unlawful’ despite Supreme Court ruling, acting Homeland Security chief says)
6/21/2020
(Supreme Court Rejects Trump Bid To Void California Sanctuary Law)
6/20/2020
(A diabetic immigrant in Ice custody sued for her release. Instead, she got Covid-19)
6/20/2020
(How DREAMers Defeated Trump: Supreme Court DACA Win Shows “Sustained Pressure of Activism” Works interview)
6/19/2020
(What Does it Mean to Be a Black Immigrant in the United States?)
6/19/2020
(How DACA Has Transformed The Lives Of Dreamers — And Their Communities)
6/18/2020
(Trump Can’t Immediately End DACA, Supreme Court Rules)
6/18/2020
(Beyond the Wall: Borders Should Not Be Barriers to Human Rights video)
6/15/2020
(Border Patrol’s Role In Policing Protests Remains Shrouded In Secrecy)
6/10/2020
Anti-Asian Incidents Across US Near 1,900 over 8-Week Period
6/9/2020
(Dismantling Anti-Blackness Together-Black liberation and immigrant rights)
6/8/2020
(Anger and the 'accumulated grievance' of black America citing immigrant communities)
5/29/2020
(Immigrants and the coronavirus pandemic: A conversation with Rep. Judy Chu podcast) 6 million immigrants in essential jobs (in CA 1/3 of essential workers)
5/29/2020
(COVID Racial Data Tracker: Ibram X. Kendi on How Better Data Reveals the True Toll of the Pandemic)
5/27/2020
(How overseas work with refugees can inform emergency education measures in the U.S. during coronavirus)
5/25/2020
ICE Confirms More than 100 Deportation Flights to 13 Countries in an Eight-Week Period
5/21/2020
(Non-essential Knowledge: Latinx Studies in Times of Covid-19)
5/20/2020
(How Immigrant Twin Brothers Are Beating Trump’s Team on Facebook)
5/18/2020
(As COVID-19 spreads in ICE detention, oversight is more critical than ever)
5/14/2020
(Immigration limbo prepared my family for the uncertainty of coronavirus. It also taught us how to cope.)
5/13/2020
(As World Comes to Halt Amid Pandemic, So Do Migrants)
5/4/2020
(Afghanistan Investigating Claims Migrants Were Killed by Iranian Guards)
5/2/2020
(Migration and Africa’s eternal lockdown)
4/29/2020
(Attacks on legal immigration system explained)
4/23/2020
(ICE Has Access to DACA Recipients’ Personal Information Despite Promises Suggesting Otherwise, Internal Emails Show) https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-has-access-to-daca-recipients-personal-information-despite-promises-suggesting-otherwise-internal-emails-show
4/21/2020
‘I am afraid for my life’: Immigrant detainees plead to be released
4/7/2020
(Anti-Asian racism during coronavirus: How the language of disease produces hate and violence)
3/31/2020
Detainees in NM say ICE violating hygiene, distancing rules
3/29/2020
(The Women Who Welcomed Immigrants) https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/20/women-welcomed-immigrants/
3/27/2020
Federal Register DHS CDC order
3/26/2020
(Under the Virus’s Cloak, pursuit of long-sought policies) https://www.nytimes.com/20/us/politics/trump-virus-conservative-policies.html
3/20/2020
(How to Respond to Coronavirus Racism: As COVID-19 infections increase, so too does racism and xenophobia. Use our “Speak Up” strategies to let people know you’re not OK with racist or xenophobic comments about coronavirus or anything else.)
3/20/2020
(In Shift, Trudeau Says Canada Will Return Asylum Seekers to U.S.) https://www.nytimes.com/20/world/canada/trudeau-asylum-seekers-coronavirus.html
3/20/2020
(Immigrant Detainees At High Risk Of Contracting COVID-19 Should Be Released Now, A Lawsuit States) https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hamedaleaziz/immigrant-detainees-coronavirus-risk-early-release-lawsuit
3/16/2020
(A Texas Sized Mess) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS9ERUreev8
3/11/2020
(Immigrants in WA Detention Center Demand Protection from Coronavirus, Not Posters in English) https://www.democracynow.org/20/coronavirus_ice
3/10/2020
('This is retaliation': ICE transfers Cameroonian women asylum-seekers after protest)
3/2/2020
(Child Dies at Sea as Greece Cracks Down on Migrants From Turkey) https://www.nytimes.com/20/world/europe/migrant-death-greece.html
3/2/2020
(Months After Puerto Rico Earthquakes, Thousands Are Still Living Outside) https://www.nytimes.com/20/us/puerto-rico-earthquakes-fema.html
3/1/2020
(No Way Out: Report Finds Central American Asylum Seekers Trapped in Mexico in Dangerous Conditions) https://www.democracynow.org/20/avril_benoit_immigration
2/28/2020
(Federal judge dismisses lone conviction against Arizona border aid volunteer Scott Warren) https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/border-issues/20/judge-tosses-conviction-arizona-border-aid-volunteer-scott-warren/4893132002/
2/27/2020
(Immigration agents accused of targeting parents taking their kids to school) https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/20/ice-criticized-detaining-parents-school-trump-enforcement-push/4891529002/
2/27/2020
(Justice Dept. Establishes Office to Denaturalize Immigrants) https://www.nytimes.com/20/us/politics/denaturalization-immigrants-justice-department.html
2/26/2020
(Naturalized Citizens Make Up Record One-in-Ten U.S. Eligible Voters in 2020) https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/20/naturalized-citizens-make-up-record-one-in-ten-u-s-eligible-voters-in-2020/
2/26/2020
(Supreme Court Rules for U.S. Agent Who Shot Mexican Teenager) https://www.nytimes.com/20/us/politics/supreme-court-mexico-shooting-death-penalty.html
2/25/2020
(From Being Tortured in Sri Lanka to the U.S. Supreme Court) https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/from-being-tortured-in-sri-lanka-to-the-u-s-supreme-court/
2/24/2020
(Sotomayor issues scathing dissent in Supreme Court order that could reshape legal immigration) https://www.cnn.com/20/politics/sotomayor-dissent-supreme-court/index.html (How Medical Negligence at the US Border Killed an Immigrant Father) https://www.thenation.com/article/world/ice-death-negligence/
2/24/2020
(A Trove of Historic and Handwritten Mexican Cookbooks Are Now Online) https://hyperallergic.com/543537/mexican-cookbooks/
2/24/2020
(‘He Turned Purple’: U.S. Overlooks Ill Asylum Seekers) https://www.nytimes.com/20/us/politics/trump-asylum-remain-in-mexico.html
2/22/2020
(Xenophobic Bullying in Schools: Roots of the Cause) https://sharemylesson.com/blog/xenophobic-bullying
2/21/2020
(Xenophobic Bullying in Schools: Roots of the Cause) (Addressing Xenophobia with Culturally Responsive Schools)
2/21/2020
(Video Immigration Hearings Deny Children’s Right to Fair Proceedings) https://www.theyoungcenter.org/stories/20/video-immigration-hearings-are-a-threat-to-childrens-right-to-fair-proceedings
2/21/2020
(Poem of the border: Prayer) https://www.nytimes.com/20/magazine/poem-prayer.html
2/21/2020
(Can you work in the UK under its new points-based immigration system?) https://qz.com/1804992/could-you-work-in-uk-under-the-points-based-immigration-system
2/21/2020
(A Country That Welcomes Migration) https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/world-we-want/20/colombia-venezuela-migration/
2/19/2020
(Teacher allegedly told student who didn't stand for national anthem, 'go back to your country': A group of students held a sit-in at the Chicago high school in protest.) https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/teacher-allegedly-told-student-who-didn-t-stand-national-anthem-n1136371
2/13/2020
(Bullied kids, scarred schools) https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/local/school-bullying-trump-words/
2/13/2020
(No Way Out: MSF-Doctors without Borders-Report finds damaging health impacts of US-Mexico migration policies. Central American Asylum Seekers Trapped in Mexico in Dangerous Conditions) https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/what-we-do/news-stories/news/no-way-out-msf-report-shows-damaging-health-impacts-us-mexico
2/11/2020
(NYC-DC tensions over sanctuary policy escalate after ICE agent shoots man in the face) https://www.cnn.com/20/us/new-york-ice-agent-shooting-tensions/index.html
2/7/2020
(Hundreds of Salvadorans deported by US were killed or abused, report reveals) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/05/salvadorans-deported-us-killed-abused-report
2/5/2020
(El Salvador Says It's Not Ready to Receive Asylum Seekers) https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/20/world/americas/ap-lt-el-salvador-asylum.html
2/5/2020
(What Happens When a Person Is Deported?) https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/20/border-deported-immigration/
2/4/2020
(Supreme Court allows administration to move forward with cruel "public charge" rule) https://www.afsc.org/blogs/news-and-commentary/what-you-need-to-know-about-trumps-cruel-public-charge-proposal
2/4/2020
(‘Then why didn’t you stay in Mexico?’: A Latino dad was interrupted by a white man at meeting about racism in schools) https://apple.news/Av1JqRUNaQ36OLVNbdJowgw
2/4/2020
(Greece’s Answer to Migrants, a Floating Barrier, Is Called a ‘Disgrace’) https://www.nytimes.com/20/world/europe/greece-migrants-floating-barrier.html
2/1/2020
(Weighty refugee decisions on local government have painful results) https://www.nytimes.com/20/world/africa/trump-refugees-local-governments.html
2/1/2020
(The Absurd Theatrics of the Border Wall-video) https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/605923/border-wall-design/
1/31/2020
(Solidarity Cities in Europe: a new urban policy approachSanctuary Cities) https://roarmag.org/20/solidarity-cities-in-europe-a-new-urban-policy-approach/
1/30/2020
(Protesters call for end to ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy) https://fox5sandiego.com/20/protesters-call-for-end-to-remain-in-mexico-policy/
1/29/2020
(New Report Shows “Return to Mexico” Policy is Dangerous for Migrants) https://www.afsc.org/story/new-report-shows-%E2%80%9Creturn-to-mexico%E2%80%9D-policy-dangerous-migrants
1/29/2020
(A Week on the Border: Observing the Consequences of Remain in Mexico) https://www.wola.org/analysis/a-week-on-the-border-observing-the-consequences-of-remain-in-mexico/
1/27/2020
(The Injustice of This Moment Is Not an ‘Aberration’: From mass incarceration to mass deportation, our nation remains in deep denial. By Michelle Alexander) https://www.nytimes.com/20/opinion/sunday/michelle-alexander-new-jim-crow.html, interview with Michelle Alexander, https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/ten-years-after-the-new-jim-crow
1/17/2020
(Creating Steelhenge on the Border- climate change on border) http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176651/tomgram%3A_william_debuys%2C_creating_steelhenge_on_the_border/
1/16/2020
(Honduran migrants gather try forming new caravan) https://www.foxnews.com/world/honduran-migrants-new-caravan
1/15/2020
(Who is born a US citizen? History) https://theconversation.com/who-is-born-a-us-citizen-127403
1/15/2020
(How music helps us understand displaced communities in Uganda) http://theconversation.com/how-music-helps-us-understand-displaced-communities-in-uganda-129390
1/13/2020
(When You Can’t Go Home Again: Immigrants and Artists Reflect) https://hyperallergic.com/529562/when-home-wont-let-you-stay-ica-boston/
1/11/2020
(Mexican asylum seeker kills himself at border) https://thehill.com/changing-america/resilience/refugees/477515-mexican-asylum-seeker-commits-suicide-at-border
1/9/2020
(How Educators Are Rethinking The Way They Teach Immigration History) https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/20/history-teachers-immigration-policy/
1/9/2020
(Activist Faces Jail Time for Resisting Massachusetts Sheriff’s Collaboration With ICE) https://medium.com/@karen.savage/activist-faces-jail-time-for-resisting-massachusetts-sheriffs-collaboration-with-ice-380649e0e9d9
1/6/2020
(More Republicans Are Elected To Congress When Immigration Is Higher) https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/more-republicans-are-elected-congress-when-immigration-higher-109801
1/2/2020

Attribution

The resource list was compiled by Lynn Ditchfield with contributions from:

  • Anita Botti
  • Cheri Cluff
  • Michael Ditchfield**
  • Victoria Dryfoos
  • Camila Fernandez
  • Justen Foster
  • Shari Geistfeld**
  • Linda Graham
  • Marissa A. Gutierrez-Vicario
  • Julie Huff**
  • Naomi Ostwald Kawamura
  • Jenik Munafo Khelalfa
  • Roslyn Sue Le Mesurier
  • Kendra Mills
  • Vivian Maria Poey
  • Nadia Sahila
  • Jane Sampaio
  • Guy Michel Telemanque
  • Rachel Toon
  • Others

* - especially informative content

** - special thanks

Funds to help support granted in part by:

  • Mass Cultural Council (MVLCC)
  • Martha’s Vineyard Vision Fellowship