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Daniel Melo
The Capitalist Imperative Driving Cruel and Bipartisan US Migration Policies
16 Feb 2022
Capitalism's need for labor is the determining factor in immigration policy. Its contradictions create a system that is consistently inhumane.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Blacks Don’t Blame Immigrants for the Boss’s Crimes
22 Aug 2019
Large proportions of African Americans registered strong opposition to building a wall on the southern border, keeping undocumented people in limbo, and mass deportations.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Abigail Andrews’s “Undocumented Politics”
21 Aug 2019
Migration can take radically different forms depending on the political dynamics in migrants’ hometowns and in the destinations where they end up.
Ken Morgan
Black Workers and Immigrants: Borrow a Page from Marx
15 Aug 2018
“Marx blamed the rulers of colonialism and those that exploited Irish workers for lower wages when they got to England, and not the exploited Irish worker.”
Salvador Rangel
“These Are Not Our Kids”: The Racial Capitalism of Caging Children at the Border
25 Jul 2018
“The Trump administration takes every opportunity to divert attention from the fact that there are a lot of people suffering in poverty in the richest country in the world.”
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Political Theater and the Immigration Crisis: A Two-Party Problem
04 Jul 2018
“No oppressed people or group in the US knows what it is like to be separated from their families, locked in cages, and murdered by the state more than Black Americans.”
Paul Street
None of Us Are Free if One of Us is Chained
20 Jun 2018
“If the federal government ‘caging children’ and ‘separating families’ doesn’t put you in the streets, what will?”