Headlines
  • At least five ballistic missile launches from Iran have been detected by the Israelis since midnight.
  • Mehrabad Airport in Tehran is hit by strikes
  • The Prince Sultan Air Base was the target of a ballistic missile that Saudi Arabia's military intercepted and destroyed, according to the country's defense ministry.
  • Heavy gunfire on Friday injured three peacekeepers from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon inside their base in southwest Lebanon.
  • To put an end to the bloodshed, UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged serious diplomatic negotiations..
  • In a social media post, President Trump said that "no deal" other than "unconditional surrender" will be with Iran.
  • Iran reportedly receives intelligence from Russia on US targets.

Tag: Trump’s Immigration Policies

February 16, 2020

Our Detention System is Bankrupting Immigrants

ACCORDING TO THE Migration Policy Institute, profit is one of the driving forces behind the increasingly punitive immigration policies lobbied for by the detention industry. SB 1070, for example, known colloquially as the “Show Me Your Papers Law,” was drafted in part in 2010 at a private event held in Washington, D.C., by the conservative nonprofit American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, prior to its introduction in the Arizona Legislature

July 16, 2019

UNHCR Expressed its Concerns About...

UNHCR had issued a call to all governments in the region to get together urgently to develop and implement a coordinated regional response to the growing numbers of people leaving Central America

April 12, 2019

On Ellis Island, a Wall Honors...

A wall on New York’s Ellis Island that honors immigrants is almost at full capacity. To date, 770 panels are engraved with the names of almost 800,000 immigrants — including arrivals who never disembarked at Ellis Island

April 8, 2019

Love In The Time Of Travel...

American Brian Swank and his Iranian fiance, Mehraneh, say they can’t wait to start a life together.Their courtship began when they met and fell in love four years ago, when Mehraneh was working on her PhD in landscape architecture at a campus of The State University of New York where Brian was studying, too

December 19, 2018

Immigration 2018: National Emergency or Manufactured...

Leaked audio of wailing migrant children, separated from their parents; President Trump’s deployment of National Guard and active-duty troops for what he called “a national emergency”; and images of families fleeing spreading tear gas fumes at the U.S.-Mexico border will be remembered as the most evocative displays of Trump’s immigration policies of 2018

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