Understanding Federal-Local Divide in Immigration Enforcement
As immigration has grown politically contentious, some towns and cities have enacted sanctuary policies to limit local agencies’ cooperation with federal immigration enforcement efforts.
As immigration has grown politically contentious, some towns and cities have enacted sanctuary policies to limit local agencies’ cooperation with federal immigration enforcement efforts.
Poll: Spanish speakers in the U.S. are more likely to feel like they don’t have enough independent news sources.
The exhaustion voters are experiencing is causing citizens to disengage from politics.
“I didn’t inherit American democracy. I was made an accessory to it. I’ve watched my presence in this country debated, politicized, and dehumanized.”
“Being a first-generation American with my immigrant parents means voting is more than a personal choice; it is a way to represent my family that doesn’t have a voice at the ballot box.”
“ I watched political debates over immigration in the early 2000s shape how families like mine were treated. It made me pay attention.”
As a Latina, I’m frightened by how my community is being treated in times when democracy seems to be fading. When hard-working people live under constant threat, it’s hard to believe those promises were ever meant for us.
This July 4, I hesitated to put up the flag in front of my house over concerns of being labeled as a Trump supporter.
The Impact of Executive Edicts On Immigration – At War With Ourselves
The Berks County, Pennsylvania Commissioner talks about the aggressive moves coming from Washington, D.C., including immigration reform.
Historians have often excluded Black, Brown and Indigenous women from their narratives, thereby contributing to the erasure of the forms of solidarity and equity those women and their comrades practiced in their communities and traditions.
Same events, same streets, entirely different narratives. And, as it often does, the one that dominates will determine everything from future policy to how history remembers this moment.