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The Supreme Court ruled last week to uphold a lower decision requiring North Dakota voters to bring proof of residential address to the polls.

Social Justice

How Native American Leaders Are Trying to Tackle Voter Suppression in North Dakota

Rights activists are urging communities of color to get creative about circumventing attempts to suppress their vote ahead of next month's decisive mid-term elections.

Massoud Hayoun

Two migrants lean against a rail next to the U.S.-Mexico border fence in Tijuana, Mexico, on August 10th, 2018.

Social Justice

How Trump’s Immigration Policies Are Provoking Insecurity at the U.S.-Mexico Border

The administration's mass deportations and refusal to take in escapees from disaster may be fueling organized crime in Tijuana and other border towns.

Massoud Hayoun

Children hold posters asking the federal government to renew Temporary Protected Status during a press conference about TPS for people from Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador at the office of the Haitian Women of Miami on November 6th, 2017, in Miami, Florida.

Social Justice

A Federal Judge Rules That Trump’s Immigrant Policy Was Racist, but Rights Advocates Remain Concerned for the Future

On the verge of a Kavanaugh confirmation, immigrant rights advocates doubt the courts will continue to uphold protections against what one judge this week called racist policymaking.

Massoud Hayoun

Social Justice

Inside California’s Ongoing Sanctuary State Battle

A court decision in favor of an Orange County city seeking to exempt itself from the California Values Act likely marks the escalation of a protracted legal standoff.

Massoud Hayoun

An immigrant family from Honduras boards transport to an Immigrant Respite Center near McAllen, Texas.

Social Justice

How Catholic Communities Are Crowdfunding Fairer Trials for Immigrants

With Jeff Sessions reportedly pressuring judges to deport immigrants, diocese across the country are gathering fee money for the legal representation that many undocumented people lack.

Massoud Hayoun

University of California–Berkeley students walk campus on April 17th, 2007, in Berkeley, California.

Education

At UC-Berkeley, a Plan to Welcome Underserved Students Provokes the Ire of One Asian-American Group

Other Asian-American advocacy organizations applaud attempts to secure access to education for communities of color.

Massoud Hayoun

Social Justice

Immigrant Rights Advocates May Sue the Trump Administration Over False Court Dates

The government is reportedly sending undocumented immigrants court summonses with false dates that rights defenders say are designed to skirt a recent Supreme Court ruling.

Massoud Hayoun

Social Justice

Immigration Court Judges Are Skeptical of Jeff Sessions’ Backlog-Busting Plan

A group of immigration judges is skeptical about the attorney general's promise to add more to their ranks—part of an apparent attempt to slash a growing backlog of cases.

Massoud Hayoun

A Uyghur woman sits on a bed outside on September 12th, 2016, in Turpan County, in the far western Xinjiang province of China.

Social Justice

How Much of the Blame Should the U.S. Take for China’s Uyghur Re-Education Camps?

China has used the U.S.'s Global War on Terror as a pretext to further repress the embattled Muslim minority.

Massoud Hayoun

Social Justice

Japanese Americans Are Fighting to Preserve the Site of the Tule Lake Wartime Internment

The battle to commemorate Japanese-American incarceration in northern California comes as Congress is set to deliberate whether to continue to fund such sites nationwide.

Massoud Hayoun