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JHISN Newsletter 01/11/2025

Posted on January 11, 2025 by - News, Newsletter

Our first article looks at the ongoing state-sanctioned deportation threats to immigrant families and communities. Even as our Mayor and Governor both talk about walking back our sanctuary policies and allowing more cooperation with ICE agents, hundreds of people rallied this past week in Albany demanding expanded legal protections for immigrant New Yorkers. Our second article spotlights Make the Road’s Deportation Defense Manual and practical guidance for community safety in 2025.  Read More

JHISN Newsletter 12/14/2024

Posted on December 14, 2024 by - News, Newsletter

JHISN will continue to fight for immigrant justice as the enemies of justice gather power and popular support. This week’s newsletter reports again on the draconian Operation Restore Roosevelt and its militarized presence in our neighborhood. We then look at how national immigrant advocacy organizations are stepping up in the face of the incoming administration’s anti-immigrant violence and scapegoating.  Read More

JHISN Newsletter 11/16/2024

Posted on November 16, 2024 by - News, Newsletter

Like many of you, we are caught in a nightmare interlude where our worst fears are not yet real but visible in a gathering storm. Trump and the MAGA movement’s capture of national power is a threat to so much—Constitutional protections, the power of truth, hard-won victories of anti-racism and feminism, Palestinian solidarity, economic justice, historical memory, our beloved communities. Read More

JHISN Newsletter 10/26/2024

Posted on October 26, 2024 by - News, Newsletter

As the US moves toward a national presidential election, with the straightjacket of a two-party system offering little hope for demilitarized immigration policies or the defunding of Israeli genocide of Palestinian refugees, our newsletter looks at the corruption poisoning city contracts for migrant shelter and services and the deployment of police, troopers, and political theater with the launch of ‘Operation Restore Roosevelt’. Read More

JHISN Newsletter 09/28/2024

Posted on September 28, 2024 by - News, Newsletter

We join the call for pro-immigrant popular education with an article that helps us more accurately perceive the ‘statistics’ on the number of undocumented immigrants in the US. Then we look at the Republican-fueled nightmare in Springfield, with an eye for how the threat of expanding fascism—targeting immigrants and other historically marginalized people—has arrived.   Read More

JHISN Newsletter 09/14/2024

Posted on September 14, 2024 by - News, Newsletter

This week we decided to pull together a longer article around what is happening with the influx of new migrants–an estimated 210,000–who have arrived in New York City since spring 2022. We realized that if we were not sure what was happening, maybe you, our readers, would value an update, too. Read More