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Janine Jackson interviewed Detention Watch Network’s Silky Shah about the fire at the Ciudad Juárez detention center for the March 31, 2023, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. Janine Jackson: While it was a nightmare, the March 27 fire at a migrant detention center in Ciudad Juárez, that killed at […]
Do Black and brown people have a right to move freely in the world? The Ciudad Juárez fire and what it tells us about immigration policy.
Behind Ross Douthat’s birthrate obsession lurks something much more tied to right-wing nativism than he will ever openly admit.
“It’s very clear…that they’re viewing Title 42 as a border management tool, rather than a public health tool.”
There’s an unarticulated underpinning to elite media conversation that as a consumer, you don’t have anything called a “right.”
Ukrainians seeking refuge in the US found a strong advocate in the Washington Post editorial board–unlike their Haitian counterparts.
“We are able to welcome the Ukrainians in crisis with compassion… It should be provided to people no matter where they are from.”
Tax giveaways to non–Puerto Ricans mean money not going to Puerto Rico’s energy systems, schools, hospitals, housing.
“The US obviously has had a very clear role in destabilizing the region, which has in turn led to forced migration.”
Two media polls on immigration announced results that seemed almost willful efforts to portray the public as extremists.
We have some questions about the US government’s claim that this time, they’re really bringing stability and security to Central America.
Once respondents have been given specific information, they no longer represent the larger population they are supposed to represent,
In place of 2020’s concern over “shelved safeguards,” the Washington Post justifies a policy that two years ago was viewed as extreme.
Immigration coverage suffers from a version of the same inane both sides-ism that permeates so much of political coverage in general.
Right-wing figures get little pushback when they promote evidence-free, often absurd claims about incentives for unauthorized immigration.
“Processing people and allowing them to come into the country is the best public health policy.”
This week on CounterSpin: The impacts of climate disruption are not theoretical; they are happening. Those already worst off are facing the worst of it, and those who profit from it continue to profit. There are finer points, but that’s reality. And it’s fair to measure journalism not by its cleverness, or by demonstrated […]
News outlets are ignoring the fact that, while numbers of Nicaraguan migrants have risen, so have those from almost everywhere else.
“$100 billion could make things worse, if you’re giving it to a system that’s fundamentally corrupt, and that has never been fully returned to a democratic state since the 2009 coup.”
The notion of real change after Donald Trump is undermined by a close look at Biden’s actual immigration policy.
