Tag Archive for migration

NicaNotes: The Journey North

By John Perry John Perry is based in Masaya, Nicaragua, and writes for the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, London Review of Books, FAIR and other outlets. In the photo his mother shows me, Alejandro is with a group of friends: seven Nicaraguan men and women, one with a 14-year-old daughter. There’s no apprehension in the…

Act Now to End Operation Streamline and the Criminalization of Migrants

by Chuck Kaufman, National Co-Coordinator, Alliance for Global Justice   Operation Streamline is the “best kept secret” of federal immigration policy according to Tucson, AZ attorney and immigrant rights activist Isabel Garcia. In the early morning of Oct. 11, twelve activists, including me, chained themselves around the front tires of two Border Patrol buses which…