Karina Moreno is a native of Monterrey, Mexico and an associate professor in the department of urban policy and planning at Hunter College of City University of New York (CUNY).
President Biden’s immigration reform proposal at least rhetorically acknowledges the pain inflicted by existing US policy. But it continues to paint immigrants as criminals, instead of workers responding to labor demands and looking for a better life. We should fight for something better.
Solidarity between Muslim and Latino communities is crucial to building the kind of movement that can defeat Trump.
Trump’s border wall is a distraction, another act in the long play of immigration enforcement theater.
This summer, the Department of Justice announced its intention to stop using private prisons. But the profit motive still drives immigrant detention.