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Iker Suarez
Mass Deportation as Ethnic Cleansing: on the Ongoing War
12 Feb 2025
The United States is a colonial empire, repressing and exploiting colonized peoples domestically and internationally. Mass deportations are a function of ethnic cleansing and a continuation of U.S.…
Janvieve Williams Comrie
Capitalist Greed and Imperialist Policies Fuel New York's Migrant Housing Crisis
09 Aug 2023
The migrant crisis in New York City is a multifaceted issue, rooted in a complex interplay of domestic and international politics and policies.
Kim Ives
Is the promise of 30,000 visas a Trojan horse?
18 Jan 2023
Washington's announcement that 30,000 new visas would be made available to Haitians raised more questions than it answered.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Asylum, Migration and U.S. Foreign Policy
21 Sep 2022
Immigration rules are often determined by U.S. foreign policy. Citizens of nations under U.S. attack, such as Venezuela, are made eligible for asylum. Haitians suffer under U.S. dictates but are…
Daniel Melo
The Capitalist Imperative Driving Cruel and Bipartisan US Migration Policies
16 Feb 2022
Capitalism's need for labor is the determining factor in immigration policy. Its contradictions create a system that is consistently inhumane.
A.C. Thompson
“Dirtbag,” “Savages,” “Subhuman”: A Border Agent’s Hateful Career and the Crime That Finally Ended It
28 Aug 2019
The agent joked about how tasty Guatemalan migrants can be if they are properly “fried” through the use of Tasers.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The Migrant Caravan and U.S. Policy
24 Oct 2018
Washington blames “socialism” when Venezuelans flee their country’s US-created economic crisis, but defame Honduran refugees fleeing the misery created by the US in that country.