Talking Sense About Immigration

Aviva Chomsky / TomDispatch Mar 14, 2018 While political realism demands that battles be fought for the rights of particular groups, it’s no less important to challenge the looming narrative of immigrant criminalization. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

How Bill Clinton and Barack Obama Laid the Groundwork for Trump’s Immigration Policies

By Aviva Chomsky / TomDispatch Apr 26, 2017 Here's some ugly history that both former presidents would prefer we not remember. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Is Donald Trump an Aberration?

By Aviva Chomsky / TomDispatch Sep 15, 2016 The policies Trump is advocating are the very policies initiated by Bill Clinton in the 1990s and -- from border militarization to mass deportations -- enthusiastically promoted by Barack Obama. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Will the Millennial Movement Rebuild the Ivory Tower or Be Crushed by It?

By Aviva Chomsky / TomDispatch May 23, 2016 College administrators tend to shine bright lights on the politics of student protesters that can be absorbed into the system's business model, while ignoring or downplaying students' more structural or economically challenging demands. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

How the Media Hide Undocumented Workers

By Aviva Chomsky / TomDispatch Feb 4, 2016 The Boston Globe presented its recent decision to contract out its delivery service as a clean, technical move to deliver newspapers at lower cost. But that deceptively simple task is in fact provided by some of society’s most exploited and marginalized workers, many of them immigrants and undocumented. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

The Real Story Behind the ‘Invasion’ of the Children

By Aviva Chomsky, TomDispatch Aug 25, 2014 Pitting the humanitarian imperative to help dislocated children against the plight of American communities places victimology in the service of party politics. Both Republicans and Democrats claim the moral high ground while conveniently avoiding the political economy of the problem they lament -- and have collaborated in creating. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )