In recent years, Haitians fleeing natural disasters, political instability and poverty have found new places to settle: Brazil, Chile, and increasingly Mexican border towns. While the United States recently extended Temporary Protective Status to 100,000 residents, that does not provide legal entry for Haitians not already in the United States. We will talk with journalists about the context and history of why people leave Haiti, growing migrant communities on the border in Mexico, as well as the pressing issues facing diaspora communities throughout the U.S.

When: 6.24.21/ 5:30 PT/ 7:30 CT/ 8:30 ET
Where: Via Zoom — Register here

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“Do not come” and a Dem divide on immigration; “Chinatown Pretty”; tasering an asylum seeking kid

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A sheriff’s deputy tasered the 16-year-old asylum seeker after shelter officials in Bexar County, Tx., called for backup. While extreme, the law enforcement response is not unique. In the last six years, shelters run by the Office of Refugee Resettlement have released at least 84…

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The lone Central American immigrant in Congress is wary of the Biden administration’s efforts to support the region, reports the Los Angeles Times. The fascinating portrait of California’s Norma Torres (D-Pomona) chronicles her story from fleeing Guatemala as a child to her current powerful and often provocative position on the subcommittee that decides how foreign aid flows. “We must stand…

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Last fall, a green bean facility in Wisconsin was the site of one of the deadliest coronavirus outbreaks in the food processing industry, reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Maria Perez found that officials at Seneca Foods, which owns the facility, “failed to take critical precautions to protect the employees.” Perez traces the path of the workers, many of whom stayed at…

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Two years ago NBC reporters in San Diego uncovered records of the U.S. government tracking journalists, lawyers and activists thought to be connected to the 2018 caravan. “New documents prove the operation went further — and raise questions about how many others were targeted,” Dara Lind writes in a ProPublica investigation. U.S. …

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Since 2018, “shadowy figures who traffic in disinformation and exploit social media to take advantage of migrants” have organized more than a dozens caravans, advertising on WhatsApp and Facebook, reports Rest of World. Over six months, Jeff Ernst followed two migrant caravans. “No one ever asked the organizers to identify themselves,” Ernst writes. “Migrants, worried about kidnapping or extortion, advise their…

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At the beginning of the pandemic, the meatpacking industry successfully lobbied the government to be considered “critical infrastructure” and their employees “essential” — but their largely immigrant workforce has been treated as anything but, reports The New York Review of Books. In an intimate and searing feature, Alice Driver shares the story of immigrants workers at Tyson plants in Arkansas who…

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“It’s increasingly hard for Chinese people to survive here,” Nianshuang Wang, a scientist whose research helped develop the Moderna vaccine, told Bloomberg Businessweek. Since the Justice Department’s China Initiative program targeting suspected “economic spies” began in 2018, some universities and research institutions have begun suspending and terminating Chinese professors and scientists for allegedly failing to disclose research or funding ties with…