Tracking the politics of immigration reform and its intersection with human and civil rights
Sukaina Hussain, Central California Outreach Director of Council on American Islamic Relations By SUNITA SOHRABJI/EMS Contributing Editor Immigration advocates hailed the Supreme Court’s surprise 5-4 ruling affirming DACA June 18, but pushed for...
Available in Spanish and Chinese. Federal courts have temporarily blocked the public charge rule change from going into effect, but its chilling effects continue to reverberate. The number of immigrants who, fearing the consequences of the rule change,...
Trump administration fighting long-standing rules against forcing people back to troubled homelands The organization Save the Children estimates that perhaps as many as 85,000 children in Yemen have starved since war broke out in 2015. Photo courtesy of...
Despite news reports about a potential setback by SCOTUS, experts are optimistic about the chances of DACA recipients to remain in the U.S. in the long term. Among the lawyers representing almost 800,000 DACA recipients in front of the Supreme Court was...
California Congressman Ro Khanna, D-Fremont, attended a rally for worker rights in the U.S. Capitol building in July. Khanna, in a teleconference with ethnic media journalists on Tuesday, Nov. 12, said he supports efforts to reclassify “gig economy”...