Welcome to Immigration News
This site will have frequent short updates, lots of links, and some longer analysis. If you like it, please subscribe. You can view my other blogs at maryturck.com-
Recent posts
- Minnesota Immigration News: Dinner Parties to Detainees June 17, 2019
- Shelters, Prisons, Concentration Camps: Where Does the United States Put Migrants? June 14, 2019
- ‘If we don’t stand up for children, then we don’t stand for much.’ June 12, 2019
- Crisis in the Hemisphere Is Driving Migration June 10, 2019
- U.S. Asylum Policy: Deporting to Danger and Death June 8, 2019
And in other blogs …
I also write about other political topics in my News Day blog and publish some of my poetry and other meanderings in Fragments.
Monthly Archives: April 2017
May Day protest plans and other immigration articles – April 28, 2017
May Day is coming on Monday, and this year’s protests will focus on immigration, as they have for several years. In Minneapolis and St. Paul, that means two marches – not coordinated, but not exactly opposing one another. The … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
New research on unauthorized immigrants and other immigration articles – April 27, 2017
The Pew Research Center just issued a new analysis of unauthorized immigrant population in the United States. Among its findings: The total number of unauthorized immigrants in the United States dropped to 11.0 million in 2015, the lowest number since … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Judge rules against Trump on sanctuary cities and other immigration articles – April 26, 2017
In a 49-page decision on April 25, U.S. District Judge William Orrick III issued a preliminary injunction against enforcement of President Donald Trump’s executive order penalizing sanctuary jurisdictions – section 9(a) of the executive order. The preliminary injunction applies … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
1 Comment
Sanctuary city attacks and resistance and other immigration articles – April 25, 2017
From News Day post: On April 21, the Department of Justice sent letters to nine jurisdictions “having laws that potentially violate 8 U.S.C. §1373:” — Sacramento, Chicago, New Orleans, New York City, Philadelphia, Las Vegas, Miami, Milwaukee, New York, and Chicago. … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
1 Comment
Latest attack on sanctuary cities meets major resistance
From the campaign onward, Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric also targeted sanctuary cities. Since his inauguration, his administration has made three moves against sanctuary cities: an executive order, a failed series of ICE reports, and now Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ attack on … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Holding health care hostage to border wall and other immigration articles – April 24, 2017
The border wall should be a non-issue by now, with immigration officials, Republicans on the border, and just about every person with any background information agreeing that it’s a stupid idea. Everybody, that is, except the president. With a government … Continue reading
Celebrate Jeanette Vizguerra and other immigration stories – April 21, 2017
Jeanette Vizguerra (Time, 4/20/17) An undocumented immigrant activist living in sanctuary is on the 2017 Time 100 list of “the most influential people in the world: the artists, icons, leaders, pioneers and titans who are shaping the future.” “Jeanette moved … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
1 Comment
