https://znetwork.org/category/topic/culture-race/immigration/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Mon, 08 Dec 2025 17:34:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/category/topic/culture-race/immigration/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/you-know-how-to-whistle-dont-you/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/you-know-how-to-whistle-dont-you/#respond Mon, 08 Dec 2025 17:34:46 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292133 Across the country, whistles are becoming an effective tool for nonviolent, community-based deterrence and protection against the masked thugs known as ICE. The whistle sound gives a quick, immediate warning for people vulnerable to abduction. It also alerts nearby residents or allies to come out, record, and provide moral/legal support. Whistles are cheap and easy to distribute, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/you-know-how-to-whistle-dont-you/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ice-raids-turn-schools-into-battlegrounds-to-defend-students/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ice-raids-turn-schools-into-battlegrounds-to-defend-students/#respond Sat, 06 Dec 2025 17:19:39 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292086 Educator Carolyn Brown was meeting with school counselors when she got the call: ICE agents were out front. By the time she got out of the building, ICE had abducted a woman and her 17-year-old daughter, an American citizen. Brown, a coordinator of the International Baccalaureate program at Thomas Kelly College Prep, is also part [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ice-raids-turn-schools-into-battlegrounds-to-defend-students/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-employers-and-labor-groups-are-trying-to-protect-workers-from-ice/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-employers-and-labor-groups-are-trying-to-protect-workers-from-ice/#respond Tue, 02 Dec 2025 17:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291885 A lot of undocumented immigrants — and their employers — remember when the siege began. Federal immigration agents equipped with tactical gear and rifles descended on downtown Los Angeles in armored trucks on June 6, arresting dozens of workers at an apparel factory. Within hours, another group of agents raided a Home Depot a few miles away, arresting [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-employers-and-labor-groups-are-trying-to-protect-workers-from-ice/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/40-of-younger-american-women-want-to-permanently-leave-the-country/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/40-of-younger-american-women-want-to-permanently-leave-the-country/#respond Sat, 15 Nov 2025 13:53:11 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291285 Forty percent of American women and girls age 15 to 45 say they want to permanently move to another country — an opinion shared by just 19 percent of boys and men that age. And being married and having children doesn’t make a huge difference in that desire, even though it has in the past.  [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/40-of-younger-american-women-want-to-permanently-leave-the-country/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-false-stability-of-the-right-in-italy/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-false-stability-of-the-right-in-italy/#respond Fri, 14 Nov 2025 17:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291273 Across Europe, “far-right” parties are gaining power and steering the political climate. On the road to the European Union, parties once grounded in social-democratic and democratic ideals have lost their unifying role. Wars, militarism, and capitalist expansion around the world have deepened destruction and economic hardship, triggering migration and displacement. Right-wing parties, warning that “European [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-false-stability-of-the-right-in-italy/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/this-labor-leader-is-still-organizing-after-ice-detention-but-from-mexico/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/this-labor-leader-is-still-organizing-after-ice-detention-but-from-mexico/#respond Fri, 14 Nov 2025 14:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291269 Alfredo Juarez Zeferino, known as Lelo, is a Mexican farmworker and co-founder of Familias Unidas por la Justicia, an independent farmworker union in Burlington, Wash. Harsh living and working conditions led Lelo to begin organizing at age 13, and since then he has led several successful campaigns on labor, rent, and migration rights. After ICE arrested [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/this-labor-leader-is-still-organizing-after-ice-detention-but-from-mexico/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-return-of-the-turk-identity-memory-and-the-politics-of-fear-in-montenegro/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-return-of-the-turk-identity-memory-and-the-politics-of-fear-in-montenegro/#respond Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:53:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291145 In late October 2025, in the Zabjelo district of Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro, a serious stabbing incident triggered a wave of public unrest. A Montenegrin man was wounded after an altercation involving foreign nationals, initially reported to include Turkish and Azerbaijani citizens. Authorities later detained dozens of Turkish- and Azerbaijani-nationals and suspended the visa-free [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-return-of-the-turk-identity-memory-and-the-politics-of-fear-in-montenegro/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-trumps-immigration-dragnet-harms-all-u-s-workers/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-trumps-immigration-dragnet-harms-all-u-s-workers/#respond Tue, 11 Nov 2025 17:01:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291118 Edwin Sanchez had the seniority he needed to bid for a higher-paying position in the control room at the oil refinery in Texas City, Texas, where he’d worked for more than 15 years. But Sanchez, lighthearted and sociable, seemed to prefer the company of his close-knit, 30-person unit responsible for a range of duties inside [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-trumps-immigration-dragnet-harms-all-u-s-workers/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/displacement-governance-and-the-illusion-of-integration-a-review/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/displacement-governance-and-the-illusion-of-integration-a-review/#respond Sun, 02 Nov 2025 17:01:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1290745 Displacement Governance and the Illusion of Integration offers an inspiring and insightful contribution to contemporary issues of migration, marginalization and integration. By thoroughly examining a series of timely theoretical issues such as vulnerability, deprivation, and the dominant narrative regarding the integration of migrant newcomers in contemporary urban environments, Shearer Demir’s approach succeeds in both highlighting [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/displacement-governance-and-the-illusion-of-integration-a-review/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/an-eviction-moratorium-against-ice/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/an-eviction-moratorium-against-ice/#respond Fri, 31 Oct 2025 20:25:26 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1290688 Across the country, cities and states have been grappling with how to resist the Donald Trump administration’s escalating and increasingly violent mass deportation raids. Some have moved to ban masks and bar local law enforcement from helping federal agents. Others have hinted at prosecution for federal agents who violate the law and looked to bar them from entering certain types of locations. In California, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/an-eviction-moratorium-against-ice/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/2-illinois-national-guard-members-speak-out-i-wont-turn-against-my-neighbors/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/2-illinois-national-guard-members-speak-out-i-wont-turn-against-my-neighbors/#respond Thu, 30 Oct 2025 15:58:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1290649 Chicago — Two Illinois National Guard members told CBS News they would refuse to obey federal orders to deploy in Chicago as part of President Trump’s controversial immigration enforcement mission — a rare act of open defiance from within the military ranks. “It’s disheartening to be forced to go against your community members and your neighbors,” said Staff [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/2-illinois-national-guard-members-speak-out-i-wont-turn-against-my-neighbors/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/rage-against-the-ice-machine/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/rage-against-the-ice-machine/#respond Thu, 30 Oct 2025 15:55:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1290626 Trump’s ICE forces are facing militant and organized opposition everywhere they turn. A New York City woman wearing a navy blue polka-dot dress has gone viral for her defiant resistance to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during a raid in lower Manhattan on October 21, 2025. Appearing as though she was on her way from work—the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/rage-against-the-ice-machine/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trump-is-bad-at-running-the-country/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trump-is-bad-at-running-the-country/#respond Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1290560 I first heard the expression “strategic incompetence” in El Salvador in December 1993. Along with my partner and two friends, I’d been recruited to do some electoral training there. We were working with the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, or FMLN, a coalition of leftist parties that had led a long-running guerrilla war against a [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trump-is-bad-at-running-the-country/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-siege-of-chicago-war-within-and-the-citys-defiant-fight-against-tyranny/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-siege-of-chicago-war-within-and-the-citys-defiant-fight-against-tyranny/#respond Mon, 27 Oct 2025 15:14:52 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1290512 Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Among the most beautiful cities in world, my hometown Chicago has been defiled, violated, and ravaged by Trump’s paramilitary shock troops under the pretext of immigration enforcement. Though confronted by an anti-immigration army, neighborhoods throughout Chicagoland have mobilized in experimental and collective ways to push back against the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-siege-of-chicago-war-within-and-the-citys-defiant-fight-against-tyranny/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/palestinian-rights-and-free-speech-rights-are-closely-linked/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/palestinian-rights-and-free-speech-rights-are-closely-linked/#respond Mon, 27 Oct 2025 14:38:22 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1290498 This spring, in association with the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, three university branches of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) brought a lawsuit to stop the Trump administration’s policy of ideological deportations targeting noncitizen students and scholars engaged in pro-Palestinian advocacy. The defendants — [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/palestinian-rights-and-free-speech-rights-are-closely-linked/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ice-keeps-detaining-pregnant-immigrants-against-federal-policy/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ice-keeps-detaining-pregnant-immigrants-against-federal-policy/#respond Mon, 20 Oct 2025 16:27:36 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1290209 Cary López Alvarado, of Hawthorne, California,  was nine months pregnant when she was arrested by immigration officials alongside her husband, an immigrant from Guatemala. Alvarado was held overnight but was never sent to a detention facility: After taking her into custody, ICE learned she was a U.S. citizen.  Immediately after her release, she began to [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ice-keeps-detaining-pregnant-immigrants-against-federal-policy/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/first-they-came-for-the-immigrants/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/first-they-came-for-the-immigrants/#respond Tue, 14 Oct 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1289930 “Then they came for me . . .” I can only begin here, at the emotional knifepoint of the ongoing ICE news. ICE in Chicago! “More than 1,000 immigrants have been arrested since an immigration crackdown started last month in the Chicago area. The Trump administration has also vowed to deploy National Guard troops in its [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/first-they-came-for-the-immigrants/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ripped-from-home-the-ice-raid-that-exposed-a-north-countrys-divide/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ripped-from-home-the-ice-raid-that-exposed-a-north-countrys-divide/#comments Tue, 07 Oct 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1289632 I live in Rochester, New York, now. I’ve called this city home for the past 20 years. But I come from a place where the cows outnumber the people. Lowville, New York — my hometown in rural Lewis County — is nestled deep in the North Country, a region defined by dairy farms, long winters, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ripped-from-home-the-ice-raid-that-exposed-a-north-countrys-divide/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/necessary-illusions-flags-and-truth/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/necessary-illusions-flags-and-truth/#comments Mon, 06 Oct 2025 16:29:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1289596 Few people have stopped to ask why a mere flag can be the cause of so much anger. In my opinion the question is a good – and logical – place to begin. After all, a flag, if nothing else, is a symbol of unity; even if that is the primitive unity of the tribe [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/necessary-illusions-flags-and-truth/feed/ 4 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/just-get-rid-of-them/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/just-get-rid-of-them/#respond Thu, 25 Sep 2025 15:49:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1289011 The deportation crusade began in Seattle late in 1917. The country was at war, an unpopular war, and there was an unsettled timber strike in the woods of western Washington. The city was awash with migrant workers – most of them loggers, sheltering from the winter rains. The war time strike wave continued unabated; from [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/just-get-rid-of-them/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/she-survived-141-days-in-ice-custody-thanks-to-a-beautiful-sisterhood-now-shes-fighting-for-those-still-inside/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/she-survived-141-days-in-ice-custody-thanks-to-a-beautiful-sisterhood-now-shes-fighting-for-those-still-inside/#respond Mon, 22 Sep 2025 14:18:25 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1288867 On the evening of Feb. 11, 22-year-old Ward Sakeik sat on a plane from the U.S. Virgin Islands to Miami. She and her husband, Taahir Shaikh, were returning from their honeymoon, but he was sitting a few rows away. She didn’t look back at him — her handlers told her that even smiling at him [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/she-survived-141-days-in-ice-custody-thanks-to-a-beautiful-sisterhood-now-shes-fighting-for-those-still-inside/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/immigrant-defense-is-the-frontline-of-the-fight-for-democracy/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/immigrant-defense-is-the-frontline-of-the-fight-for-democracy/#comments Fri, 19 Sep 2025 16:42:06 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1288755 The fascist tide in the US has become a tsunami. On August 12, 2025, President Donald Trump sent the National Guard into Washington, DC, the nation’s capital, under the usual racist pretext of “law and order.” He had previously sent the US military into Los Angeles to support his horrendous ethnic cleansing campaign, aimed at [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/immigrant-defense-is-the-frontline-of-the-fight-for-democracy/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/colonize-then-deport-now/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/colonize-then-deport-now/#respond Mon, 15 Sep 2025 15:53:20 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1288586 Robert Goldsborough, a Maryland lawmaker, rose one Friday early in 1826 to clinch what he fancied a good deal for his state. Goldsborough informed his fellow legislators that a private entity had “incurred an expense in a late deportation of 150 free people of color to the African settlement in Liberia.” Given that “twenty of [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/colonize-then-deport-now/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trump-administration-seeking-to-decimate-asylum-seekers-rights-at-un/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trump-administration-seeking-to-decimate-asylum-seekers-rights-at-un/#respond Sat, 13 Sep 2025 15:19:33 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1288508 The Trump administration is seeking sweeping changes to the rights of asylum seekers that experts say would “decimate” the global refugee system established after World War II, a new report finds. Reuters, citing internal documents from the State Department and an agency spokesperson, finds the administration is proposing a framework in which asylum seekers would [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trump-administration-seeking-to-decimate-asylum-seekers-rights-at-un/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/labour-is-paving-the-path-to-fascism/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/labour-is-paving-the-path-to-fascism/#respond Thu, 04 Sep 2025 15:58:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1288153 As Labour embraces anti-migrant rhetoric, Jeremy Corbyn argues that the government is demonising vulnerable people to distract from its domestic failures. I have visited Calais many times. On each occasion, I learn more about the meaning of human resilience. Having fled the horrors of war, environmental disaster and destitution, refugees in Calais have gone through [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/labour-is-paving-the-path-to-fascism/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/dismantling-europes-border-regime/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/dismantling-europes-border-regime/#respond Thu, 04 Sep 2025 15:48:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1288150 Between 2015 and 2016, around 2 million people managed to open up Europe’s borders, entering the continent and moving collectively and autonomously across European territory. During that period, people were able to avoid the high costs and risks arising from the illegalization of their movement. Yet that brief window of free movement soon closed, as [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/dismantling-europes-border-regime/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/in-southern-california-small-groups-of-activists-quietly-undermine-ice-operations/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/in-southern-california-small-groups-of-activists-quietly-undermine-ice-operations/#respond Tue, 02 Sep 2025 16:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1288058 Just before midnight on June 13, 2025, a small group of activists gathered quietly outside the Residence Inn by Marriott in Long Beach, California. A few blocks away, the scene was louder and more charged: demonstrators with megaphones chanted outside the Holiday Inn near the Long Beach airport, while police officers stood guard near the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/in-southern-california-small-groups-of-activists-quietly-undermine-ice-operations/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/lets-fund-real-public-safetynot-ice/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/lets-fund-real-public-safetynot-ice/#respond Sun, 31 Aug 2025 16:14:20 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287987 The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) posted a recruitment message on social media this summer saying, “America has been invaded by criminals and predators. We need YOU to get them out.” Setting aside the racist overtones of this messaging, even DHS itself says it’s not true. Border crossings have fallen to an all-time low — DHS’s own [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/lets-fund-real-public-safetynot-ice/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/can-we-protect-our-children-from-the-government/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/can-we-protect-our-children-from-the-government/#respond Wed, 27 Aug 2025 19:19:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287797 As summer winds down, kids all over the United States are starting the school year. In addition to the standard back-to-school trepidation, children of color are facing the unimaginable terror of being snatched by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. In Southern California, which has been an epicenter of ICE activity since early summer, federal [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/can-we-protect-our-children-from-the-government/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/aclu-statement-on-attempted-deportation-of-kilmar-abrego-garcia-to-uganda/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/aclu-statement-on-attempted-deportation-of-kilmar-abrego-garcia-to-uganda/#respond Mon, 25 Aug 2025 16:54:36 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287736 This morning, Kilmar Abrego Garcia was arrested at his ICE check-in appointment. The government intends to deport him to Uganda, a country with which Abrego Garcia has no association. Abrego Garcia is represented by lawyers at CASA, who hosted a vigil and rally in his support outside the location of the arrest. Earlier this year, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/aclu-statement-on-attempted-deportation-of-kilmar-abrego-garcia-to-uganda/feed/ 0