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Democrats Have Embraced the Terms of the Immigration Debate Set by Extremists

Oct 16, 2024 | truthout.org | Tina Vasquez

Democrats Have Embraced the Terms of the Immigration Debate Set by ExtremistsBoth parties have relegated undocumented communities to a life on the margins.
Cornell Students Shut Down Career Fair Featuring Weapons Manufacturers

Oct 16, 2024 | progressivehub.net | Tina Vasquez

If elected president, Harris will join a long line of Democrats all too willing to irreparably harm immigrant communities for political gain. By Tina Vásquez, PrismThe deeply partisan divide on immigration—one that frames Democrats as the party of open borders and Republicans as the nation’s hard line of defense against the invasion, swarm, influx, [insert your preferred racist language here] of migrants at the border—isn’t merely the creation of pundits and politicos.
New Labor Department Protections Empower H-2A Agricultural Workers to Organize

Jul 1, 2024 | truthout.org | Tina Vasquez

This story was originally published at Prism. Agriculture is rife with labor violations and abuse, but thanks to a new rule that went into effect June 28, the industry’s most vulnerable migrant H-2A workers now have better protections to organize against unfair treatment from American employers.
Migrant Workers Are Heroes In Death, But Villainized While Alive

Apr 4, 2024 | progressivehub.net | Tina Vasquez

The men who died in the Baltimore bridge collapse join hundreds of other migrant workers who’ve died toiling in dangerous conditions on U.S. job sites. by Tina Vásquez, PrismBeing an immigrant in the U.S. is a deadly job. Americans were reminded of this when six immigrant workers were plunged into the cold waters of Baltimore’s Patapsco River after a 984-foot cargo ship hit the Francis Scott Key Bridge, causing its collapse in the early morning hours of March 26.
Rep. Scholten won’t acknowledge the harm from the Biden Administration’s immigration policies nor the possibility that Biden might not allow undocumented people to apply for asylum

Mar 13, 2024 | griid.org | Tina Vasquez |Jeff Smith

In Rep. Hillary Scholten’s most recent weekly newsletter, the Congresswoman states:As many of you know, I took a trip down to the southern border recently to see the situation on the ground. We have a crisis at the border – it’s a humanitarian crisis, an economic crisis, and a national security crisis, and it demands immediate, bipartisan action. I sat down with WZZM 13 to talk about what I learned and how I’m working toward bipartisan, comprehensive immigration reform.
Family Separations and Other Anti-Migrant Horrors Haven’t Stopped Under Biden

Mar 2, 2024 | truthout.org | Tina Vasquez

This story was originally published by Prism. President Joe Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump are in Texas today touring different sectors of the Southern border, a spectacle that encapsulates how central immigration is to each of their reelection campaigns. It is Biden’s approach to immigration in recent months, however, that has been a source of controversy on both sides of the aisle.
As a Palestinian Mother, Here’s How I Talk to My Kids About the Genocide in Gaza

Nov 24, 2023 | truthout.org | Tina Vasquez

The genocide Israel is currently carrying out against Palestinians in Gaza correlates almost exactly with the 75th anniversary of the Nakba, the mass displacement and dispossession of Palestinians triggered by the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. Israel’s current war on Gaza is part of a much larger continuum of violence against Palestinians — a history Mariam has taught her children.
US media is evading its responsibility to acknowledge the Gaza genocide

Nov 3, 2023 | sourcenm.com | Lara Witt |Tina Vasquez

by Lara Witt, Prism, Source New Mexico November 3, 2023 The images that have emerged from Gaza over the last several weeks are not ones we can easily forget: a once vibrant city reduced to rubble by Israeli occupation forces. A Ministry of Health press conference held in the aftermath of a massacre, where the bodies of murdered Palestinians are piled up around the podium.
US Media Is Evading Its Responsibility to Acknowledge the Gaza Genocide

Oct 29, 2023 | znetwork.org | Lara Witt |Tina Vasquez

The images that have emerged from Gaza over the last several weeks are not ones we can easily forget: a once vibrant city reduced to rubble by Israeli occupation forces. A Ministry of Health press conference held in the aftermath of a massacre, where the bodies of murdered Palestinians are piled up around the podium. Young children, visibly in shock, covered in the blood of their families and debris from their homes that no longer exist.
‘There is no American dream’: The Mexican chef who went from child laborer to haute cuisine

Aug 25, 2023 | news.yahoo.com | Tina Vasquez

The Mexican chef Eduardo “Lalo” García Guzmán migrated to the US with his family from rural Guanajuato, Mexico, when he was a small child. Instead of attending school, he spent most days working with his family picking fruits and vegetables from Florida to Michigan. It was dangerous work, but García looks back fondly at his early experiences as a child farm worker.