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According to Mic., the GEO Group has won the first federal contract for a new immigrant detention center in Texas. The contract is worth $110 million and will house 1000 beds for undocumented immigrants or those accused of committing a crime.

The Trump Administration has inspired yet another nationwide protest. In response to a series of policies targeting and threats against immigrants in the United States, protestors across the country are closing their businesses and not going into work for an event called “Day Without Immigrants.”

Major cities across the United States have seen a drastic increase in immigrant arrests due to a concerted effort by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). According to Fusion, as many as 680 arrests were made in just a five-day period. 

Donald Trump galvanized millions of voters in America behind his promise to not only build a wall along the US-Mexico border, but to deport millions of undocumented citizens as well. However, those plans have hit the first of a suspected many snags to come. The Los Angeles Police Department has declared that they won’t play […]

By: Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Young Hispanic and Asian-Americans who are immigrants or have an immigrant parent are more likely to be liberal in their views on politics and immigration than those with families who have been in United States longer, a new GenForward poll shows.

A new law is has the city of brotherly love is offering sanctuary to the city’s immigrant communities.

  A small town in Texas has become the first city to officially ban undocumented immigrant children. League City council members passed a resolution Tuesday evening that makes it illegal for undocumented children to enter the municipality. 

The Unites States is this supposedly great country that professes to be a melting pot, whereas all are welcomed.   But how true is that?  Is this country really the land of the free and the home of the brave?  Because the pictures above depict hundreds of very brave children and individuals who do not look […]

  By: William Darity I frequently hear the following canard used to support the claim that black Americans are their own worst enemy: Other ethnic groups come to America and within one or two generations have climbed solidly into the American middle class – and they do it on their own. So, if they can do it, […]

Just when you think things couldn’t get any more disturbing, a conservative student group proves you wrong. The Young Conservatives of Texas at the University of Texas at Austin announced a new game: “Catch an Illegal Immigrant.”

The L.A. Times is considering no longer using the term “illegal immigrant.” The Associated Press has already announced that they will no longer be using the term, acknowledging that it is a dehumanizing, unfair means to describe a human being.

The illegal immigrant is not a border problem but a business one.  And while it is fair to say the question of illegal immigration brings up all our trauma around race and xenophobia, it is also fair to say it brings out our capitalist as well.  Thus, the “problem” of illegal immigration is not merely […]