Migrants – Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!

Tensions rise as migrant caravans arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border

December 9, 2018 UNAC Editor Migrants, Refugees, Reparations

by Lisa Luinenburg, published on Socialist Action, December 5, 2018 As numbers of Central American migrants began to arrive at the U.S. border, support efforts were taking place in cities across the United States. In Minneapolis, hundreds of people demonstrated in frigid weather on Nov. 30 to express solidarity with the caravans. Other groups are working on sending supplies. Three[…]

As Immigration Fightback Grows, Trump Uses Children as Bargaining Chips

July 12, 2018 UNAC Editor Migrants, Refugees

The Caravan of refugees from violence and political repression in Central America arrives at the U.S. border near San Diego on April 30. The Caravan began in Guatemala a month earlier, and included over 1200 people at its peak. Trump denounced the Caravan in a number of tweets and speeches, and his administration vowed that Caravan members would be turned[…]

Women and Children Targeted in U.S. War on Migrants

June 1, 2018 UNAC Editor Migrants, The War at Home, US Borders, Women

Family members and neighbors in the Indigenous community of Claudia Patricia Gómez Gonzáles, dead in Texas, grieve in her home in Los Alonzo, near San Juan Ostuncalco, department of Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. by Chris Fry, originally published on Workers World Claudia Patricia Gomez Gonzales, an unarmed woman from Guatemala, was shot in the head and killed on May 23 by Customs[…]