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Proposed overhaul of immigration laws would finally reunite families divided by deportation

Proposed overhaul of immigration laws would finally reunite families divided by deportation

Posted by | Mar 27, 2021 |

By Robert McKee Irwin, Deputy Director, Global Migration Center, University of California, Davis Hundreds of thousands of immigrant families have been separated by deportation from the United States, in many cases with a parent on one side of the border and children on the other, according to estimates by the Urban Policy Institute and Migration Policy Institute. Reunification is a priority in President Joe Biden’s proposed immigration overhaul and in bills that both the House and Senate will debate in coming weeks. Both bills have provisions to preserve “family unity.” These include giving immigration judges increased discretion in deportation...

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Expansion of facial surveillance at airports seen as a growing threat to civil liberties

Expansion of facial surveillance at airports seen as a growing threat to civil liberties

Posted by | Mar 26, 2021 |

Over the last couple years, it has become increasingly clear that facial recognition technology doesn’t work well, and would be a civil liberties and privacy nightmare even if it did. But that has not stopped the Trump administration from moving forward with its dangerous plans to expand the technology’s use at U.S. airports and other ports of entry. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has proposed a new rule that would massively expand the use of face surveillance at the border, further entrenching a dystopian surveillance infrastructure that threatens our rights to privacy and anonymity, and disproportionately harms people...

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For the love of the gun: An irrational American ideology that sees White men as cowboys

For the love of the gun: An irrational American ideology that sees White men as cowboys

Posted by | Mar 24, 2021 |

Ten more people in Boulder, Colorado, died on March 22, shot by a man with a gun, just days after we lost 8 others in Atlanta, Georgia, shot by a man with a gun. In 2017, after the murder of 58 people in Las Vegas, political personality Bill O’Reilly said that such mass casualties were “the price of freedom.” But his is a very recent interpretation of guns and their meaning in America. The Second Amendment to the Constitution is one simple sentence: “A well regulated militia, being necessary for the security of a free state, the right of...

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Seeking Justice: History shows that civility is an ineffective tool to end racism

Seeking Justice: History shows that civility is an ineffective tool to end racism

Posted by | Mar 23, 2021 |

During his inauguration address on Jan. 21, 2021, Joe Biden pledged to end the country’s “uncivil war,” which had been raging during the four years of Trump’s presidency. Especially when it came to race, the theme of Biden’s winning campaign, “Redeem the Soul of the Nation,” as well as his appeal to many White voters, was that he could bring a sense of decency, unity, politeness, and reconciliation — in other words, civility — to a nation that was deeply polarized. Biden claimed he was motivated to run for president in the first place after being horrified by the...

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Leaving despair behind: Why holding on to hope is hard even with the end of the pandemic in sight

Leaving despair behind: Why holding on to hope is hard even with the end of the pandemic in sight

Posted by | Mar 23, 2021 |

By Rachel Hadas, Professor of English, Rutgers University – Newark As we begin to glimpse what might be the beginning of the end of the pandemic, what does hope mean? It’s hard not to sense the presence of hope, but how do we think of it? Hope is fragile but tough, fugitive but tenacious, even adhesive. It sticks: Hope “stayed behind/in her impregnable home beneath the lip/of the jar,” wrote the ancient Greek poet Hesiod in his poem “Works and Days.” While the evils released from the jar by Pandora fly out into the world, hope remains. Written in...

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A Privilege of Silence: White men have not done enough to call out the toxic perpetrators who are White men

A Privilege of Silence: White men have not done enough to call out the toxic perpetrators who are White men

Posted by | Mar 20, 2021

America has a white male problem. If you’re living here and you’re not a white male, I likely don’t have to do much to convince you of that fact. You’ve been an eyewitness. You’ve had a front row seat to the horrors. You’ve likely been on the receiving end of the misogyny, carried the brunt of the bigotry, and sustained the bruises of the brutality. We’ve all seen the mass shootings, read the assault statistics, and inventoried the hate crimes and they speak for themselves. The pattern is undeniable, the repetition is clear. We know that the violence of...

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