By Kathy O’Leary, Pax Christi NJ and Jenny Garcia, Detention Watch Network June 19, 2023 Elizabeth, New Jersey – Local New Jersey groups gathered Saturday in front of the Elizabeth Detention Center (EDC) taking turns […]
By Abayomi Azikiwe June 20th of every year is commemorated as World Refugee Day, an acknowledgment of those who have fled their countries of birth to seek relief from dangerous conditions which are human in […]
By Chris Fry On February 25th, the New York Times published an article titled “Alone and Exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the U.S.” The article describes in gruesome detail how thousands of migrant […]
By Africans in Ukraine As the thousands of African students who fled Ukraine following the Russian invasion in February 2022, we are writing to you in a time of great need. We are calling on […]
By Fighting Words Staff In 1867, the most important figure in the anti-slavery movement in the U.S., Frederick Douglass, gave a speech in Boston about immigrant rights, specifically those people coming from China and Japan. […]
By Terri Kay December 10, 2022 – On International Human Rights Day, about 40 supporters of the Interfaith Campaign for Just Closures rallied at the Union County Courthouse in downtown Elizabeth, New Jersey, demanding the […]
By David Sole Police across Germany carried out raids against Nazis who reportedly were planning an armed overthrow of the government of that nation. Twenty-five ultra-rightists were arrested as 3,000 police officers searched 130 locations […]
By Abayomi Azikiwe Stewart Rhodes, the national leader of the far-right Oath Keepers, along with his Florida chapter chief, Kelly Meggs, were both convicted of seditious conspiracy on November 29 in connection with the attempted […]
By David Sole Since April it has been reported that Texas Governor Greg Abbott and his administration have deported over 7,000 migrants from southern Texas to New York City. Buses have been filled with migrant […]
By Terri Kay On Wednesday, October 27, a coalition of groups, who have been fighting the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE, policies of cruel, indefinite detention of immigrants/migrants, held a rally with over 30 […]
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