public schools
Boston Superintendent Departs after Sharing Student Data with Customs
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Boston Public Schools Superintendent Tommy Chang is leaving his post two years early after multiple scandals including a lawsuit over a deported student.
deportation
Mass Deportation Has Civil Rights Groups Mobilized across the Country
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The Trump administration has elected to end Temporary Protected Status for Hondurans living in the US. This decision will eject over 57,000 people from the country and cost the economy billions of dollars. Civil rights groups of different stripes are fighting the decision and calling on the administration to change its mind.
Supreme Court decisions
A SCOTUS Win on Immigration—Or Is It?
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Is Justice Gorsuch’s recent swing vote to the left a cause for celebration?
immigrant rights
SAFE Cities Network Boosts Legal Aid for Immigrants Facing Deportation
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Efforts to protect immigrants from deportation are bolstered by the Vera Institute for Justice SAFE Cities Network, providing 11 communities with matching funds for public defenders.
immigrant rights
Across Canada and U.S., Migrant Farm Workers are Increasingly at Risk
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In Canada, a seasonal worker program to address labor shortages leaves workers vulnerable to exploitation and deportation, and in Florida, a workers’ compensation law has allowed insurers to turn immigrant workers in to the state.
American Civil Liberties Union
Deportation of Iraqi Christians and Kurds May Rest on Which Court Has Jurisdiction
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The recent arrest of Iraqi Christians and Kurds for deportation sparks outcry from those concerned about their persecution in their home countries. At issue is whether this is an issue for immigration courts or the federal court.
Department of Homeland Security
Tom Cat Bakery’s Immigrant Workers Show Resistance in Front of Trump Tower
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In a wildly courageous act of integrity, immigrant workers at the popular Tom Cat Bakery in Queens showed up with a crowd of supporters in front of Trump Tower on Saturday to protest the president’s immigration policies.
Department of Homeland Security
Homeland Security Announces New Policies on Immigration Enforcement
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has released a series of memos and fact sheets detailing how the federal government plans to implement President Trump’s executive orders on immigration and border security.
Policy & Government
U.S. Resistance to Targeting of Immigrants Becomes a Self-Organized System
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It is time to change the way we think about organizations. Organizations are living systems. All living systems have the capacity to self-organize, to sustain themselves and move toward greater complexity and order as needed. They can respond intelligently to the need for change. They organize (and then reorganize) themselves into adaptive patterns and structures without any externally imposed plan or direction. —Meg Wheatley, The Irresistible Future of Organizing
Amid a wave of ICE detentions across the country, reports of new draft guidelines that would significantly increase the detention and deportations of immigrants lacking legal status, and a promise from President Trump that he will release a new executive order to “comprehensively protect our country” against undocumented immigrants, refugees, and travelers, localities, schools, and other entities are progressing with their own efforts at protecting refugees to the greatest extent possible.
Department of Homeland Security
Obama Administration to Ease the Way for Central American Asylum Seekers
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The plan expands the number of refugees from El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala who may legally enter the United States. It involves a series of measures designed to ensure the safety of those seeking asylum.