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Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Asylum, Migration and U.S. Foreign Policy
21 Sep 2022
Immigration rules are often determined by U.S. foreign policy. Citizens of nations under U.S. attack, such as Venezuela, are made eligible for asylum. Haitians suffer under U.S. dictates but are…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
National Day Laborers Organizing Network at the People's Summit
03 Jun 2022
Gonzalo Mercado is Director of Transnational Programs at the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) which is among the convening organizations for the People's Summit for Democracy, which…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Undocumented Immigrants Face a Multitude of Challenges
08 Apr 2022
Aly Wane is a policy consultant with the UndocuBlack Network, which advocates on behalf of the undocumented from the African diaspora. Undocumented Black people are rarely part of discussions about…
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.
A.C. Thompson
“Dirtbag,” “Savages,” “Subhuman”: A Border Agent’s Hateful Career and the Crime That Finally Ended It
28 Aug 2019
The agent joked about how tasty Guatemalan migrants can be if they are properly “fried” through the use of Tasers.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The Migrant Caravan and U.S. Policy
24 Oct 2018
Washington blames “socialism” when Venezuelans flee their country’s US-created economic crisis, but defame Honduran refugees fleeing the misery created by the US in that country.