Immigrants

Millions tell Trump, Musk: ‘Hands off!’

April 10, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Action!!, Capitalism, Imperialism, Peoples' Movements, Resistance, The War at Home, War on the Poor

By Martha Grevatt, posted on Workers World, April 7, 2025 Nearly everyone in the U.S. has been negatively affected by the Trump/Musk team’s cuts to federal jobs, veterans’ care, schools, libraries, science programs, Medicaid, the Women, Infants and Children program, heating aid, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and more. There are looming threats to Social Security and disability benefits. The[…]

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’s First Amendment Case Against the Trump Administration Heard in Court

March 30, 2025 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Free Speech, Genocide, Lawfare, Palestine, Protest, US Government Action, US Hypocrisy

by Avery Wang and Benjamin Leynse, published by the Cornell Daily Sun, March 26, 2025 SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The legal fight of Momodou Taal, a pro-Palestinian activist and international graduate student, began in court on Tuesday as a federal judge heard the first arguments of Taal’s lawsuit against the Trump administration. At the heart of the hearing was Taal’s possible[…]

Trump’s First 7 Days: The Framework for Presidential Dictatorship

February 12, 2025 UNAC Editor Fascism, Immigrants, Imperialism, Militarized Police, The War at Home, US Government Action

by the Socialist Equality Party, published on Defend Democracy Press, January 27, 2025 I don’t know anything about this organization, but the article makes many good points about the Trump administration. [jb] In the week since he took office, Donald Trump has wielded the power of the presidency to do what no president before him has ever attempted: overturn the[…]

The Fightback Road to Counter Trump 2.0’s Shock and Awe, America First and White Supremacy

February 2, 2025 UNAC Editor Action!!, Democracy and Consent, Fascism, Racism, Resistance, Rights of Opressed Peoples, The War at Home

by Malik Miah and Barry Sheppard, published on Socialist Action, January 26, 2025 Donald J. Trump was sworn in for his second term as president at 12 Noon, January 20, in the Capital building in Washington, D.C. that was violently assaulted by his far-right supporters four years earlier, in an attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election when he lost[…]

Biden Calls on Trump to “Join” Him In A War Against Immigrants and Asylum

June 18, 2024 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Immigrants, Immigration, Poverty, Racism, The War at Home, US Hypocrisy, US Politics

by Cristobal Cavazos, published on Socialist Action, June 16, 2024 The June 4th announcement by President Joseph Biden that the right to asylum was all but over is a reactionary move by a reactionary administration. Ironically, 85 years ago to the day, the racist 1924 US Johnson-Reed Immigration Act, under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, tragically refused asylum to close to[…]

Tampa: 2000 Immigrants Rally Against DeSantis

June 5, 2023 UNAC Editor Immigrants, US Government Action, US Hypocrisy

by Alvaro Montealegre, published on Fightback News, June 5, 2023 Tampa, FL – Some 2000 people gathered at the corner of Dale Mabry Highway and Columbus Drive in Tampa, Thursday, June 1, under the slogan “A Day Without Immigrants” to protest Senate bill 1718, which was promoted by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. The new law seeks to increase repression and[…]

For African/Black Working Class and Colonized Peoples, Midterm Elections in the U.S. Offer No Relief from War Repression and Capitalist Misery

November 11, 2022 UNAC Editor Austerity, Capitalism, Democracy and Consent, Labor, Racism, War on the Poor, White Supremacy

by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, November 9, 2022 The 50-year old neo-liberal agenda explains why political choices in this country provide little change that benefits the masses of people. The recent midterm election results will not bring about an improvement in the lives of the Black working class. The agenda was set with the Lewis Powell Memorandum[…]

US LABOR DAY: Central American Migrants & US Labor History

September 4, 2022 UNAC Editor Labor Struggles, Migrants and Refugees, Organizing

by Elizabeth Oglesby, published on Consortium News, September 3, 2022 Tech workers, warehouse employees and baristas have notched many victories in recent months at major U.S. companies long deemed long shots for unions, including Apple, Amazon and Starbucks. To me, these recent union wins recall another pivotal period in the U.S. labor movement several decades ago. But that one was[…]

Despite Outcry, U.S. and Dominican Governments Continue the Brutal Deportation of Haitians

February 9, 2022 UNAC Editor Haiti, Immigrants, Immigration

by Marty Goodman, published in Haïti Liberté, February 3, 2022 n September, there was worldwide revulsion over photos of mounted U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents in Texas apparently whipping Haitian migrants. The images were reminiscent of slavery. But that did not slow down President Biden’s racist plans for the mass deportation of Haitians. As of this writing in[…]