Speak Out Now General Newsletter: July 8, 2024
Download .pdf leaflet Billionaires, Not Migrants, are the Source of Our Problems Listening to the Presidential debate, you would think we are at war and the country is facing an invasion that is overwhelming the people of the Untied States. Although the Democrats and Republicans may use different language about immigration, their policies are overwhelmingly […]
Six Immigrant Bridge Workers – All Members of the Working Class
And as the deaths of these six immigrants remind us, the working class is international. We exist in every nation on earth, and because we don’t own profit producing property, we are forced to work for those who exploit our labor for profit. Despite all our differences, we have far more in common with working people born in other countries than we do with a boss who might have been born in the country we happen to live in. And once we realize that and begin to act on that fundamental fact, then we can begin to use our collective power.
“You’ve Kicked A Sleeping Giant” – A Day Without Immigrant Workers
As we move closer to the elections, we hear more and more racist rhetoric against immigrants, particularly coming from right-wing Republican figures like Donald Trump. He has referred to immigrants as “not human” and “animals” who are “poisoning the blood of our country.” This dehumanizing language is harmful to immigrants by encouraging violence towards them. […]
The Supreme Court Allows Texas to Police Migrants
The Supreme Court allowed Texas to police its border with Mexico, a power that was previously reserved for federal border agents.
U.S. politicians put the lives of immigrants at risk in Arizona
Arizona officials threatened to close vital migrant shelters and warned of a severe spike in homelessness if they cannot secure federal funding for migrant services. Despite the rise in immigrants being released by the U.S. Border Patrol into Pima County Arizona, with a record of 46,000 people released there in December of 2023, Pima County […]
No tenemos un problema de fronteras. Tenemos un problema de capitalismo!
La frontera entre Estados Unidos y México vuelve a estar en el centro de atención. En los últimos tiempos, los políticos de derecha han intensificado una campaña política, especialmente en la frontera de Texas. El gobernador de Texas, Greg Abbott, formó recientemente lo que denominó la Fuerza Táctica Fronteriza de Texas para impedir la entrada […]
We Don’t Have A Border Problem. We Have A Capitalism Problem!
The U.S.-Mexico border is once again in the spotlight. Over the recent period, right-wing politicians have escalated a political campaign, particularly on the Texas border. Texas Governor Greg Abbott recently formed what he called the Texas Tactical Border Force to stop refugees from coming into the U.S. This is after his forces strung deadly razor […]
Remembering Amadou Diallo
It was 25 years ago today, on February 4, 1999, that police officers in the Bronx, New York, shot a young man, killing him instantly. That young man was Amadou Diallo, a 22-year-old who had immigrated to the United States from Guinea only two years earlier. He was a devout Muslim who neither smoked nor […]
Against All Racism, Against All Divisions, the Unity of the Working Class
As the French government condemns protesters against the war in Gaza as “anti-Semites”, it is working with right-wing anti-Semites to pass a xenophobic immigration bill.
A World of Forced Migration Caused by the Capitalist System
Today, according to the United Nations, there are 110 million people in the world displaced from their homes. More than half of those people are internally displaced within their countries. The rest are refugees fleeing their home countries, or asylum seekers or people seeking other legal protections in other countries. This number only counts those […]
Cruel Barrier on the Rio Grande is Nothing New
Migrants travel long and difficult journeys in their desperate search for refuge from lives that have become impossible due to the current state of crisis in the world. They then face even more cruelty when they arrive at the Rio Grande. The descriptions of the Mexico/Texas border sound like a war zone. The banks on […]
France: Against the Criminal Policies of the European Union: Open the Borders!
September 18, 2023 editorial of Révolutionnaires, newspaper of the New Anticapitalist Party (NPA) in France. Translated from French. Since September 11, 11,000 migrants – men, women and children – have arrived on the Italian island of Lampedusa, whose reception capacity is already saturated. We have seen the actions of solidarity from the inhabitants in the […]
Media Ignores the Death of 700 Migrants
Last week, the news wouldn’t stop about the five super-wealthy passengers of the Titan — the underwater sea vessel built by a billionaire to travel down to the wreckage of the Titanic. It is now believed the Titan quickly imploded from the pressure of the deep waters, killing the five on board. Also last week, […]
Biden’s Border Policy – More Trump than Trump
The Trump-era border restrictions known as Title 42 expired on Thursday, May 18. These are the policies that, in the name of limiting the COVID pandemic, turned away asylum-seekers and forced thousands of people to wait in Mexico in dangerous situations. Trump’s border policies generated scandals and horror stories, from child separation, to mass imprisonment […]
Capitalism is Killing Migrants Crossing the Mediterranean Sea
The number of migrants, many coming from Sub-Sahara Africa, making the dangerous journey through the Mediterranean Sea is at a record high. People fleeing civil conflict, other violence, and poverty are seeking refuge in Europe. Last month, dozens of bodies identified as people from Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, and Pakistan have appeared along Libya’s coast, and a boat […]
Big Business Attacks Child Labor Laws
Reported violations of state and federal child labor laws are on the rise nationwide. From meatpacking plants to construction sites to food packaging and coffee harvesting, teenagers, mostly immigrants, are being exploited in violation of longstanding child labor laws. Now let’s be clear — this isn’t all that new. Businesses trying to hire the cheapest […]
Ciudad Juarez, Mexico – 40 Migrants Burned Alive
In Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, at least 40 migrants (as of this writing) hoping to enter the United States were burned alive in a deadly fire. Another 29 people were injured in the blaze. The migrants included people from all over Central and South America, from countries like Venezuela, Honduras, and Guatemala, all ravaged by economic […]
Eight Migrants Killed in a Boat Off the Coast of San Diego, California
The Biden administration, in spite of its promises, has maintained the same hostility to migrants as the Trump administration. Under the same emergency health law, invoked during the COVID crisis, border agents have the right to turn people away at the border who would otherwise have the right to seek asylum in the USA. One […]
Anti-Immigrant Bill in Texas: Peddling Hate to Divide Us
Texas politicians are promoting hatred against immigrants from China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia.
Biden’s Mexico-Canada Meeting — More Promises that Change Nothing
President Biden met with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico on January 9 and 10 in Mexico City, reportedly to discuss economic policies, climate change, and immigration. In reality, the U.S., Mexico, Canada summit was a bunch of headline-grabbing empty promises, including big pledges to bring down […]