criminalization

November 28, 2022
Giada Ferrucci and Pedro Cabezas

In Guatemala and Honduras, regional anti-mining networks have become key players in struggles to combat extractivism and the criminalization of activists.

April 25, 2017
Aviva Chomsky

How Trump's policies on deportations build off - and diverge from - his predecessors.

March 23, 2017
Heather Vrana

A protest by abused adolescents at a homeless shelter in Guatemala led to a massive fire that killed 40 minors. The Guatemalan state is responsible.

February 17, 2017
César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández

Beyond pronouncements of “sanctuary,” cities and states can protect the immigrant community by guaranteeing legal representation to all—no matter their immigration status. 

October 26, 2016

The number of migrants in detention has risen exponentially in the past two decades, under both Republican and Democratic administrations.

June 14, 2011
On June 9, Alabama governor Robert Bentley signed into law what many see as the harshest anti-immigrant bill passed thus far by any U.S. state. H.B. (House Bill) 56, also known as the “Beason-Hammon Alabama Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act,” exceeds Arizona’s infamous S.B. 1070 in its ambition. Failing federal intervention to block it, the bulk of the law is scheduled to go into effect on September 1.
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