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Biden-Harris and Immigration: Can Justice Be Achieved?

May 20, 2021 Sunny Robinson

by Sunny Robinson During his campaign, Biden promised substantive change in immigration policy and meaningful renewed aid for the Central American countries of Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala, from which a large percentage of current migrants are coming –assistance that they say would address the […]

Tigrayans and supporters rallied in downtown Boston April 7 calling for peace, an end to starvation and rape as tactics of war, and calling for US actions to stop the war. Paul Shannon photo

Tigray Urgently Needs Peace

April 12, 2021 Sunny Robinson

by Sunny Robinson Concerned people in the U.S. should be gravely concerned about the humanitarian disaster and the wide spread hunger and starvation in Tigray Province, Ethiopia. In the strongest possible terms and with the greatest sense of urgency, the U.S. should use its voice […]

Progressive Immigration: It’s Up to Us!

February 2, 2021 Sunny Robinson

by Sunny Robinson Immigrant families and their allies have many reasons to be hopeful that the Biden administration’s immigration policies will be more humane and just than those of his predecessors. In his first day in office, the new president signed executive orders that, among […]

A doctor warns those in the refugee camp in Matamoros, Mexico, about the dangers of Covid-19 on March 18, 2020. Photo by Ivan Flores for Foreign Policy.

Cruel Policies Will Only Worsen with Another Four Years

October 8, 2020 Sunny Robinson

by Sunny Robinson The election of Donald Trump for a second term would be a continued unmitigated disaster for migrants attempting to enter the United States. We are likely to see cruel policies get much worse, total disregard for those forced to flee from violence […]

Supreme Court Allows Dreamers to Stay in US – For Now

July 8, 2020 Sunny Robinson

Part IV of the series Voices from the Border: A Cry for Justice by Sunny Robinson In a significant victory for immigrants, the US Supreme Court on June 19th released a 6-3 decision that, for the moment, preserves DACA (Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals.) While […]

Protest march outside School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia, where Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are trained. Photo by Sunny Robinson, November 2019.

What must we do to make immigration just and humane?

April 8, 2020 Sunny Robinson

The following article is the third and last in “Voices from the Border”. (Read Part 1 and Part 2) by Sunny Robinson Addressing this question has become more urgent than ever, with the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic and the closure of the southern and northern […]

A Cry for Justice

February 12, 2020 Sunny Robinson

by Sunny Robinson

Nearly all the immigration policies the Trump administration has put in place are not only inhumane, but also violations of the United States’ own asylum laws and international protocols on asylum to which the U.S. is a signatory. What then are those policies? And what do we do about them? US policy says that any “alien” who is physically present in the US, whatever their status, may apply for asylum. The UN defines a refugee as a person who is unable or unwilling to return to his or her country due to past persecution or a well-founded fear of being persecuted in the future due to race, religion, nationality, social group or political opinion.

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