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“This is a case about whether or not we have a First Amendment right to criticize Israel for engaging in a genocide in Gaza.”
With immigrants’ rights to free speech are under attack, the New York Times and Wall Street Journal chose to sideline the voices of their advocates.
News media could help explain immigration by grappling with the role of conditions the US has largely created in the places people are driven from.
The Murdoch news empire expresses its devotion to a Mafia-like government that is using an unaccountable police force to arrest politicians of a rival political party.
There’s an important legal development in the case of student activist Mahmoud Khalil, held without warrant since March for voicing support for Palestinian lives.
Trump’s defiance of the courts is a declaration that the United States will no longer operate as a constitutional republic.
“They’re taking far more sweeping, categorical actions toward people with fewer protections under current law, and it’s harder to talk about those.”
What can thinking, feeling human beings do now to protect fellow humans who are immigrants in this country?
The Murdoch press’s celebration of the misery visited upon Mahmoud Khalil hearkens back to the “War on Terror.”
From Chinese exclusion to Japanese internment to Operation Wetback, media of all kinds have repeatedly sensationalized the immigrant “other,” constructing an all-encompassing threat to native-born US labor and culture that can always be neutralized through a targeted act of mass displacement or incarceration–with catastrophic consequences for millions of human lives.
We found no Washington Post articles since the start of the year with headlines directly addressing the negative economic impact of Trump’s proposed mass deportation policy.
“Making conditions for people in the US better…is going to be an important part of our strategy to make the case for immigration.”
Tren de Aragua hype fuels a general persecution of migrants by implying that migrant shelters are gang hotbeds.
Immigration itself is now not a human rights story, or even an economic one, but yet another story about “their” crimes and “our” safety.
“Journalism is absolutely critical for democracy, and we have to remember that moving forward.”
This is the time of year when we take a listen back to some of the conversations from the past year that have helped us clarify the events that bombard us.
In Panama’s Darien Gap, a constant stream of mainstream dispatches conveys the terrific plight of migrants—but simultaneously excises the US role in the whole sinister arrangement.
If we’re to believe the chest-thumping, high on Trump’s agenda will be the enforced criminalization of immigration.
“You would expect journalists in a democratic society to take as the central story here that targeting of these minority groups.”
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews used his post-election appearance on Morning Joe to demonstrate just how unhelpful political commentary can be.
