Immigrants

The Struggle for Immigrant Rights in the Face of Trump: ‘Respect our Existence or Expect our Resistance’

April 10, 2025 UNAC Editor Action!!, Civil Resistance, Democracy and Consent, Democrats and Republicans, Immigrants, Immigration, Lawfare, Legislation, Migrants and Refugees, The War at Home, US Borders, US Hypocrisy, War on the Poor

by Cristóbal Cavazos, published on Socialist Action, March 8, 2025 The unbelievable struggle that the Trump administration’s attack on undocumented immigrants workers has stoked, particularly among Mexican and Central American workers, some with close to the 30 years in the United States, has been as revolutionary as it has been necessary. It could be summed up in one phrase: Respect our Existence[…]

Momodou Taal On His Fight Against The Trump Administration

March 29, 2025 UNAC Editor Deportation, Fascism, Human Rights, Immigrants, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Lawfare, Palestine, Political Analysis, US Government Action, US Hypocrisy, Violence Against Protesters

by D. Musa Springer, published on Popular Resistance, March 25, 2025 ‘This Fight Is Bigger Than Me, And We Can’t Afford To Lose It.’ In an interview with Mondoweiss, Momodou Taal discusses the threat of deportation for his Palestine activism, Cornell’s cooperation with the government crackdown on free speech, and what is at stake in his fight against the Trump[…]

President Maduro Demands End to Persecution of Venezuelan Migrants

March 29, 2025 UNAC Editor Human Rights, Immigrants, Racism, US Government Action, Venezuela

By Telesur and Resumen Latinoamericano , published in Workers World,, March 22, 2025. Translation: John Catalinotto Venezuela: President Maduro demands respect for national identity and an end to the persecution of Venezuelan migrants. On March 22, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro demanded respect for his country’s national identity and an end to the persecution of Venezuelan migrants, while denouncing arbitrary kidnapping[…]

Tren de Aragua: Reality and Propaganda

March 29, 2025 UNAC Editor Immigrants, Prisons and Prisoners, Propaganda, US Government Action, US Hypocrisy, Venezuela

By Eligio Rojas, published on the Orinoco Tribune, March 21, 2025 “Cosmic dust.” This is how President Nicolás Maduro described the defunct Tren de Aragua, the criminal gang whose name echoes across Latin America and beyond as if it was an organization with a central command, camps, and an arsenal. “The Tren de Aragua is cosmic dust in Venezuela; it[…]

Stop the Attacks on Palestinian Rights Activists

March 26, 2025 UNAC Editor Action!!, Featured, Immigrants, Palestine, Protest, Resistance, Statement, Student Activists, The War at Home, US Government Action, US Hypocrisy, Violence Against Protesters

United National Antiwar Coalition, UNAC Statement Mahmoud Khalil, a Syrian born Palestinian and former graduate student at Columbia University, has been detained in a prison in Louisiana and threatened with deportation for his association with pro-Palestine protests at Columbia, where he was a negotiator between the University and the student activists. He is not the only foreign student to[…]

Yale Purges Dr. Helyeh Doutaghi, Another Targeted Palestine Activist

March 19, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Action!!, Immigrants, Oppression of Women, Resistance, Rights of Opressed Peoples, Student Activists, The War at Home, US Law, US Politics, Women

by Sue Harris, published on Workers World, March 19, 2025 Dr. Helyeh Doutaghi, deputy director of the Law and Political Economy Project at Yale Law School, was suspended, cut off from her information technology accounts and banned from campus in March of this year. She was accused of terrorism for allegedly belonging to the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, by[…]

Palestinian Political Prisoner Mahmoud Khalil Releases Statement From Louisiana ICE Detention Center

March 19, 2025 UNAC Editor Action!!, Democracy and Consent, Immigrants, Palestine, Political Prisoners, Resistance

by Mahmoud Khalil, published on ScheerPost, March 19, 2024 Mahmoud Khalil, a green card holder with permanent residency, has released his first public statement since his arrest on March 8. He was taken into custody by plainclothes Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officers in the lobby of his Columbia University apartment complex due to his alleged connection to Hamas. His[…]

The Struggle for Immigrant Rights in the Face of Trump: ‘Respect our Existence or Expect our Resistance’

March 16, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Action!!, Democracy and Consent, Immigrants, Racism, Resistance, US Government Action, US Politics, War on the Poor

by Cristóbal Cavazos, published on Socialist Action, March 8, 2024 The unbelievable struggle that the Trump administration’s attack on undocumented immigrants workers has stoked, particularly among Mexican and Central American workers, some with close to the 30 years in the United States, has been as revolutionary as it has been necessary. It could be summed up in one phrase: Respect our Existence[…]

US Sends Dozens of Venezuelan Migrants to Guantánamo as Relatives Plead Innocence

February 28, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Human Rights, Immigrants, Indigenous peoples, Migrants and Refugees, Prisons and Prisoners

by Ricardo Vaz, published on Venezuelanalysis, February 15, 2025 Caracas, February 15, 2025 (venezuelanalysis.com) – The United States government has sent more than 100 Venezuelans to a US naval base with a history of human rights abuses in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. According to reports, the transfers began earlier this month as part of the Donald Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants.[…]

Venezuelan President Criticized for Not Being a Proper Dictator

February 17, 2025 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, Democracy and Consent, Immigrants, Imperial Lies and Liars, Latin America, Rights of Opressed Peoples, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, U.S. Aggression, US Hypocrisy, Venezuela, War on the Poor

by Roger D. Harris, published on Internationalist 360°, February 2, 2025 Hot off the newswires are shocking tales of democratic elections in Venezuela, grassroots organizations forming food cooperatives, and repatriation of migrants. What will one of the media establishment’s most demonized “authoritarian regimes” do next? Bloomberg approvingly quotes an opposition-supporting Venezuelan living in Chile that Venezuela’s scheduling of parliamentary and[…]