#immgrants

[startedreadingthisbooktoday]

‘The biggest burden facing people of colour in this country is that society deems is bad immigrants - job stealers, benifit scrounges, girlfriend theives, refugees- until we cross over in their consciousness, through popular culture, winning races, baking good cakes, being conscientious doctors, to become good immigrants.

And we are so tired of that burden’

[oh-tea-with-the-queen]

Here I am in my room daydreaming about things that sound beyond achievable, criticizing decisions made and hoping for a chance to prove myself. Feeling like a prisoner, who is constrained by the limitations, which society forces upon me. Funny how everything changes when you are labeled as a Muslim immigrant. Funny.

Funny - by Reham

[micdotcom]

How Democrats can use the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act against Trump

The key to stopping Trump’s immigration decision may be the law that encouraged America's diversity in the first place: The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965.

The act, also known as the Immigration and Naturalization Act or the Hart-Celler Act, is the foundation of our current legal immigration system.

Overriding past quota systems that heavily favored Europeans, the act declared that "no person shall receive any preference or priority or be discriminated against in the issuance of an immigrant visa because of the person's race, sex, nationality, place of birth or place of residence." Read more

[democracyatwrk]

Richard Wolff: CAPITALISM is the problem, not IMMIGRANTS.

Published on Mar 9, 2017

Richard Wolff ,professor of economics, explains how the tactic that trump uses is nothing new. Blaming outsiders is a tactic that was always deployed in economic downturns. March 2017.

[tearsofrefugees]

The Great Migration Rift: abandon values or risk collapse

The EU and its countries are sleepwalking into a make a break moment for a common approach to migration policies, as right-wingers are stron

[horrorbulletin]

Short Film: Sea Devil (2014)

Directed by Dean C. Marcial, Brett Potter Written by Dean C. Marcial, Brett Potter Stars Moise Brutus, Antoni Corone, Taylor Rouviere Run Time: 9:12 Watch it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r16eyp4PFUg What Happens We are told that in the morning of June 22, 2012, an unmanned fishing boat was found in Miami; the crew never was.  We flash back to the boat picking up two Cuban immigrants;…

Short Film: Sea Devil (2014)

[tearsofrefugees]

Security of UK borders at risk due to passport e-gates chaos, inspector finds

[tearsofrefugees]

En banc Ninth Circuit guts California ban on for-profit detention facilities

The 11-judge en banc panel affirmed a three-judge panel's ruling, which said the state's ban on private detention facilities would force the feds to dramatically change its business of handling immigrants.