Immigration

Janvieve Williams Comrie
Panama’s Outrage Over Deportations: A Reckoning with a Reality Long Ignored
12 Mar 2025
Trump administration interference in Panama has brought about a reckoning on migration and human rights throughout the region. These issues can no longer be ignored.
Nato Koury
Guantánamo Bay’s forgotten history of detaining Haitian migrants
19 Feb 2025
The threats by the Trump administration to detain migrants in Guantanamo Bay will not be the first time the United States has used the facility for migrant detention. Not too long ago,…
Pablo Meriguet
Trump announces Guantánamo Bay base expansion to detain up to 30,000 migrants
05 Feb 2025
The project has caused indignation in Cuba, which claims sovereignty over the Guantánamo Base, occupied more than 100 years ago by the US military.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Jessie Cox’s Book, “Sounds of Black Switzerland”
29 Jan 2025
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Jessie Cox. Cox is Assistant Professor of Music at Harvard University. His book is…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio January 24, 2025
24 Jan 2025
In this week’s segment, we will discuss Donald Trump’s efforts to end constitutionally protected birthright citizenship. But first, we will hear about Justin Trudeau, the prime minister of Canada who…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Donald Trump Attempts to End Birthright Citizenship
24 Jan 2025
Thomas Wolf, Director of Democracy Initiatives at the Brennan Center, joins us to discuss the implications of Trump’s executive order, which denies citizenship to children of undocumented people and…
Heba Gowayed
The Laken Riley Act exposes Democrats’ hypocrisy on immigration
22 Jan 2025
Though party leadership called it inhumane, 48 democratic members of Congress voted for the bill to deport immigrants accused, not convicted, of petty theft.
Socialist Movement of Workers of the Dominican Republic
We Condemn the Executions of Haitian Workers Within the Framework of the Official Racist and Xenophobic Policy
30 Oct 2024
Attacks by the fascist government and its supporters against Haitian people and those of Haitian Heritage in the Dominican Republic have become more and more brutal, resulting in the outright…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Haiti and Springfield, Ohio
18 Sep 2024
Haitians are unforgiven for waging a successful Black revolution. Racism follows wherever they go, even in a state like Ohio, which is in need of a labor force and a larger population. Of course,…
Jemima Pierre, BAR Editor and Contributor
Eating Pets or Devouring Sovereignty? Notes on Anti-Haitian Racism
18 Sep 2024
Calling Haitian migrants "pet eaters" is racist and dehumanizing. So is the continued attack on Haitian sovereignty by the US and its global allies.