December 15, 2021 By Cristina Rodriguez, Fall 2021 Intern Immigrant advocacy remains a continuous effort to promote humane immigration policy and the welfare of immigrants residing in the United States. Among these efforts often arises a particular rhetoric which serves to answer the question: Why should we advocate for the immigrant community? This question creates […]
Racist violence against has marred American society since the colonial period, beginning with the treatment of Native Americans and then African-Americans. The violence directed against minority groups by both law enforcement and private citizens has included beatings, lynchings, and, today, shootings of unarmed black people by police officers and in some cases private citizens. In […]
Immigration has played a critical role in the national consciousness since our nation’s founding. For just as long, immigration has been a contentious issue which political developments such as the forced separation of migrant families and calls for a Southern border wall have only amplified. Recently, the deportations of long settled undocumented migrants and “Dreamers” […]
Freedom of expression has been a central value in American society since our nation’s founding. For just as long, Americans have debated about what free speech means and under what circumstances it might legitimately be constrained. Most people agree both that it is important to permit broad freedom of expression and also that in some […]
American society is riven by deep economic and social divisions, including poverty rates and inequities in the distribution of wealth and income that are among the highest of any developed nation. As of late 2017, the richest one percent of Americans owned 40 percent of the nation’s wealth, the highest figure in over a half […]