The attacks on immigrants, international students and permanent residents in the United States are a grim reminder of the long history of deportations and border control as a strategy to punish political radicals, writes Malik Miah.
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More than 50,000 Cubans took to the streets in the southern city of Guant谩namo to reject United States President Donald Trump鈥檚 plan to use the Guant谩namo Bay Naval Base as a detention centre for deported migrants, reports Ben Radford.
The United States is continuing to muscle the governments of Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala to stop the flow of refugees across its border. Many migrants are fleeing the consequences of US political intervention and economic policy in the region. They choose to travel in 鈥渃aravans鈥 for safety. Immigration officers have gone on the offensive against the caravans, writes Tamara Pearson.
It is now abundantly clear that the Donald Trump administration鈥檚 鈥渮ero tolerance鈥 policy towards parents with children seeking asylum in the US involves separating children from their parents, keeping the children in the US and deporting the parents, writes Barry Sheppard in San Francisco.
More than 100,000 people took to the streets on June 30, in about 750 cities and towns in every state across the country, to protest the separation of immigrant children from their parents seeking asylum and denounce President Donald Trump鈥檚 鈥渮ero tolerance鈥 policy that made this cruel practice possible, writes Barry Sheppard from San Francisco.
鈥淪ay it loud, say it clear, refugees are welcome here鈥 is a chant that has been synonymous with the refugee rights movement in Australia since I became active some years ago.
That was a time when putting children in detention was, to some extent, something to hide 鈥 not a policy to win support from your voting base.
In response to huge public outcry against his policy of forcibly separating children from immigrant parents seeking asylum, United States President Donald Trump issued an executive order on July 20 to halt the separations.
A victory? Not so fast, writes Barry Sheppard from San Francisco.