Tag: Undocumented immigration
11 Arguments for Open Borders
A world not divided by militarized borders would help form a world where sustainability and justice take precedence over extraction and exploitation.
Migrants wait for asylum hearings at the US-Mexico border on May 10, 2023, as seen from San Ysidro, Calif.
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Most arguments for open borders begin by addressing counterarguments, trying to assuage fears of overcrowding,
Only a Social Movement Can Win Real Immigration Reform
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September 1, 2023
Activists marched for three days straight, demanding that Congress finally change the immigration registry date.
At the beginning of the 1990s, Sahuayo, a small city of factories and craftspeople near Michoacan’s Lake Chapala, could not provide enough work to support its growing population. People had
The Techno Dystopia Flourishing at the Border
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A Wave of Evictions Is Devastating California’s Farmworkers
EDITOR’S NOTE: The names of undocumented people in this story have been changed to protect their identities.
Tulare, Calif.—Lidia Torres got scared when the new eligibility clerk at the labor camp knocked on her door. She would have to come to the office, Vanessa Carter told her, and reverify the immigration documents she’d provided when she first moved in six
Javier Zamora and the Canon of Undocumented Literature
In the most trivial sense, books about being undocumented are about immigration. Dan-el Padilla Peralta’s Undocumented, Julissa Arce’s My (Undocumented) American Dream, Jose Antonio Vargas’s Dear America, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio’s The Undocumented Americans, and Qian Julie Wang’s Beautiful Country are all about how US immigration policies can sever family ties and categorically exclude populations deemed “undesirable.” These narratives are also about much more: They are about family, childhood, trauma, gender, loss, and