Immigration

Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
If grits ain’t groceries and Mona Lisa was a man, was Dr. Goebbels good?
18 Sep 2024
"If grits ain’t groceries and Mona Lisa was a man, was Dr. Goebbels good?" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Yaniv Kubovich , Bar Peleg
Israel Is Recruiting African Asylum Seekers for Life-threatening Gaza War Operations, Promising Permanent Legal Status
18 Sep 2024
Israeli security officials are offering the incentive of permanent residency status to asylum seekers who agree to participate in sometimes life-threatening military operations in Gaza. Sources say…
Janvieve Williams Comrie
Panama Escalates Measures in a Pre Existing Migration Crisis
17 Jul 2024
Panama is tightening its border policy to stop migrants from entering the country by making the conditions of migrating through the Darién Gap even more dangerous and inhumane.
Malcolm Harris
The World War on Asylum
17 Jul 2024
From Mexico to the Mediterranean, rich countries would rather see refugees die than recognize their legal asylum rights.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
The French Right are on the Rise and the Left are in Disarray
05 Jul 2024
Philippe Gendrault joins us to discuss the parliamentary elections in France, his home country, where the right wing is ascendant while left forces are very weak.
Peoples Dispatch
Biden Shuts Down US-Mexico Border
12 Jun 2024
Border shutdown will go into effect immediately, barring asylum seekers from entering the United States.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Non-Citizen Voting: A Non-Existent Problem
19 Apr 2024
We're joined by Andrew Garber, counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice, to discuss the mythology surrounding non-citizen voting.
Sharon Black
Deadly Bridge Collapse Exposes Capitalist Decay
10 Apr 2024
The deaths of the six Latino immigrant workers in the Baltimore bridge collapse encapsulates the injustice inherent in the U.S. capitalist system.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Racist Asylum and Immigration Policy in the U.S. and Canada
06 Mar 2024
Fears of an “invasion” at the border are nothing more than white supremacy being openly expressed. It could not be otherwise in a settler colony created by migration from Europe. To millions of…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Bipartisan Consensus for Punitive Immigration Policies Continues - Part 2
23 Feb 2024
Aly Wane of the Immigrant Justice Network discusses immigration in the second part of a two-part interview. Punitive immigration policies are bipartisan, with groups such as Haitians being targeted…