Immigrants &mdash; Fight Back! News https://fightbacknews.org/tag:Immigrants News and Views from the People's Struggle Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:53:23 +0000 https://i.snap.as/RZCOEKyz.png Immigrants &mdash; Fight Back! News https://fightbacknews.org/tag:Immigrants Pitt grad student organizers condemn changes to ICE Student Exchange and Visitor Program rules https://fightbacknews.org/pitt-grad-student-organizers-condemn-changes-ice-student-exchange-and-visitor-program-ru-0?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[Pittsburgh, PA - Members of the Graduate Student Organizing Committee at the University of Pittsburgh (GSOC-USW) issued a statement, July 8, expressing solidarity with international students and denouncing the Trump administration’s recent modifications of existing ICE Student Exchange and Visitor Program (SEVP) rules. !--more-- Under the rule change, students in the United States on F-1 visas must take at least one in-person class or face deportation. This comes at a time when many universities, including the University of Pittsburgh, are still weighing their options for online instruction in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis. “This is yet another targeted attack on immigrants disguised as a premature return to ‘business as usual,’” the statement reads. “The modified policy not only forces international students to choose between our safety and academic careers, but also makes it especially dangerous for us to join the call to cancel in-person teaching.” The group commended the Pitt administration’s call to reverse the decision but stated university leaders needed to do more. “We ask that Pitt immediately halt its expensive legal campaigns designed to deny us our right to form a union, and instead divert those millions of dollars to take legal action, which must include retaining immigration attorneys to serve students and faculty,” the statement reads. “As a union, we are committed to fighting for the rights of all people to study, teach and conduct research without having to compromise their health, safety or visa status. We will not sit idly by while more workers become collateral damage due to the U.S. government’s abdication of its duties. Similarly, we will continue to hold the Pitt administration accountable to make sure it protects the safety and wellbeing of our community when making decisions about the upcoming academic year,” according to the statement. Graduate students at the University of Pittsburgh filed for an election to join the USW in 2017. Last fall, a Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board hearing examiner found that the university administration committed “coercive acts” that undermined the integrity of that election, held in April 2019, and ordered a new one. The Pitt administration appealed the decision, and this process is still underway. #PittsburghPA #StudentMovement #ICE #PeoplesStruggles #Immigrants #StudentRights #VisitorPrograms div id="sharingbuttons.io"/div]]> Pittsburgh, PA – Members of the Graduate Student Organizing Committee at the University of Pittsburgh (GSOC-USW) issued a statement, July 8, expressing solidarity with international students and denouncing the Trump administration’s recent modifications of existing ICE Student Exchange and Visitor Program (SEVP) rules.

Under the rule change, students in the United States on F-1 visas must take at least one in-person class or face deportation. This comes at a time when many universities, including the University of Pittsburgh, are still weighing their options for online instruction in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis.

“This is yet another targeted attack on immigrants disguised as a premature return to ‘business as usual,’” the statement reads. “The modified policy not only forces international students to choose between our safety and academic careers, but also makes it especially dangerous for us to join the call to cancel in-person teaching.”

The group commended the Pitt administration’s call to reverse the decision but stated university leaders needed to do more.

“We ask that Pitt immediately halt its expensive legal campaigns designed to deny us our right to form a union, and instead divert those millions of dollars to take legal action, which must include retaining immigration attorneys to serve students and faculty,” the statement reads.

“As a union, we are committed to fighting for the rights of all people to study, teach and conduct research without having to compromise their health, safety or visa status. We will not sit idly by while more workers become collateral damage due to the U.S. government’s abdication of its duties. Similarly, we will continue to hold the Pitt administration accountable to make sure it protects the safety and wellbeing of our community when making decisions about the upcoming academic year,” according to the statement.

Graduate students at the University of Pittsburgh filed for an election to join the USW in 2017. Last fall, a Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board hearing examiner found that the university administration committed “coercive acts” that undermined the integrity of that election, held in April 2019, and ordered a new one. The Pitt administration appealed the decision, and this process is still underway.

#PittsburghPA #StudentMovement #ICE #PeoplesStruggles #Immigrants #StudentRights #VisitorPrograms

]]> https://fightbacknews.org/pitt-grad-student-organizers-condemn-changes-ice-student-exchange-and-visitor-program-ru-0 Fri, 10 Jul 2020 15:50:23 +0000 Pitt grad student organizers condemn changes to ICE Student Exchange and Visitor Program rules https://fightbacknews.org/pitt-grad-student-organizers-condemn-changes-ice-student-exchange-and-visitor-program-rule?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[Pittsburgh, PA - Members of the Graduate Student Organizing Committee at the University of Pittsburgh (GSOC-USW) issued a statement, July 8, expressing solidarity with international students and denouncing the Trump administration’s recent modifications of existing ICE Student Exchange and Visitor Program (SEVP) rules. !--more-- Under the rule change, students in the United States on F-1 visas must take at least one in-person class or face deportation. This comes at a time when many universities, including the University of Pittsburgh, are still weighing their options for online instruction in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis. “This is yet another targeted attack on immigrants disguised as a premature return to ‘business as usual,’” the statement reads. “The modified policy not only forces international students to choose between our safety and academic careers, but also makes it especially dangerous for us to join the call to cancel in-person teaching.” The group commended the Pitt administration’s call to reverse the decision but stated university leaders needed to do more. “We ask that Pitt immediately halt its expensive legal campaigns designed to deny us our right to form a union, and instead divert those millions of dollars to take legal action, which must include retaining immigration attorneys to serve students and faculty,” the statement reads. “As a union, we are committed to fighting for the rights of all people to study, teach and conduct research without having to compromise their health, safety or visa status. We will not sit idly by while more workers become collateral damage due to the U.S. government’s abdication of its duties. Similarly, we will continue to hold the Pitt administration accountable to make sure it protects the safety and wellbeing of our community when making decisions about the upcoming academic year,” according to the statement. Graduate students at the University of Pittsburgh filed for an election to join the USW in 2017. Last fall, a Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board hearing examiner found that the university administration committed “coercive acts” that undermined the integrity of that election, held in April 2019, and ordered a new one. The Pitt administration appealed the decision, and this process is still underway. #PittsburghPA #StudentMovement #ICE #PeoplesStruggles #Immigrants #StudentRights #VisitorPrograms div id="sharingbuttons.io"/div]]> Pittsburgh, PA – Members of the Graduate Student Organizing Committee at the University of Pittsburgh (GSOC-USW) issued a statement, July 8, expressing solidarity with international students and denouncing the Trump administration’s recent modifications of existing ICE Student Exchange and Visitor Program (SEVP) rules.

Under the rule change, students in the United States on F-1 visas must take at least one in-person class or face deportation. This comes at a time when many universities, including the University of Pittsburgh, are still weighing their options for online instruction in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis.

“This is yet another targeted attack on immigrants disguised as a premature return to ‘business as usual,’” the statement reads. “The modified policy not only forces international students to choose between our safety and academic careers, but also makes it especially dangerous for us to join the call to cancel in-person teaching.”

The group commended the Pitt administration’s call to reverse the decision but stated university leaders needed to do more.

“We ask that Pitt immediately halt its expensive legal campaigns designed to deny us our right to form a union, and instead divert those millions of dollars to take legal action, which must include retaining immigration attorneys to serve students and faculty,” the statement reads.

“As a union, we are committed to fighting for the rights of all people to study, teach and conduct research without having to compromise their health, safety or visa status. We will not sit idly by while more workers become collateral damage due to the U.S. government’s abdication of its duties. Similarly, we will continue to hold the Pitt administration accountable to make sure it protects the safety and wellbeing of our community when making decisions about the upcoming academic year,” according to the statement.

Graduate students at the University of Pittsburgh filed for an election to join the USW in 2017. Last fall, a Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board hearing examiner found that the university administration committed “coercive acts” that undermined the integrity of that election, held in April 2019, and ordered a new one. The Pitt administration appealed the decision, and this process is still underway.

#PittsburghPA #StudentMovement #ICE #PeoplesStruggles #Immigrants #StudentRights #VisitorPrograms

]]> https://fightbacknews.org/pitt-grad-student-organizers-condemn-changes-ice-student-exchange-and-visitor-program-rule Fri, 10 Jul 2020 15:49:31 +0000 Tucson protests Trumps border wall threat https://fightbacknews.org/tucson-protests-trumps-border-wall-threat?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[Enter a descriptive sentence about the photo here. Tucson, AZ - Around 40 people chanting “No wall, never,” joined a protest here January 10 in response to President Trump’s bid to finance his racist border wall. Protesters’ signs reading “Refugees welcome here!” drew many honks of solidarity from traffic in front the federal building. !--more-- Plans continue to build mobilization against the deployment of thousands of troops to the Mexico border and the threat of a border wall. The Tucson protest was organized in response to a call from by the Legalization for All Network for national actions. #TucsonAZ #PeoplesStruggles #Immigrants #Arizona #Antiracism #Antifascism #DonaldTrump #wall div id="sharingbuttons.io"/div]]> Enter a descriptive sentence about the photo here.

Tucson, AZ – Around 40 people chanting “No wall, never,” joined a protest here January 10 in response to President Trump’s bid to finance his racist border wall. Protesters’ signs reading “Refugees welcome here!” drew many honks of solidarity from traffic in front the federal building.

Plans continue to build mobilization against the deployment of thousands of troops to the Mexico border and the threat of a border wall. The Tucson protest was organized in response to a call from by the Legalization for All Network for national actions.

#TucsonAZ #PeoplesStruggles #Immigrants #Arizona #Antiracism #Antifascism #DonaldTrump #wall

]]> https://fightbacknews.org/tucson-protests-trumps-border-wall-threat Fri, 11 Jan 2019 02:32:14 +0000 Milwaukee's immigrant community demands DACA legislation relief https://fightbacknews.org/milwaukees-immigrant-community-demands-daca-legislation-relief?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[Milwaukee, WI – Immigrants and community members gathered March 5 on Milwaukee’s south side, where the Young Peoples Resistance Committee (YPRC) led a rally, demanding that President Trump and the Republican-dominated Congress introduce legislation to protect Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients. !--more-- March 5 marks the date that President Trump promised a DACA legislation piece would be introduced. There is still no sign that Congress is working on passing a DACA replacement legislation. Gerardo, a YPRC member stated, “We demand that Trump and Congress pass immigration legislation. We demand that the president and politicians stop using our families as pawns for their political gains. The fight will continue because our families can no longer wait for relief.” YPRC will continue to organize and fight for immigrants in Milwaukee. YPRC demands for legalization for all, which would be the only policy that would leave no immigrant with an undocumented status. #MilwaukeeWI #Immigrants #DACA #Trump div id="sharingbuttons.io"/div]]> Milwaukee, WI – Immigrants and community members gathered March 5 on Milwaukee’s south side, where the Young Peoples Resistance Committee (YPRC) led a rally, demanding that President Trump and the Republican-dominated Congress introduce legislation to protect Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients.

March 5 marks the date that President Trump promised a DACA legislation piece would be introduced. There is still no sign that Congress is working on passing a DACA replacement legislation. Gerardo, a YPRC member stated, “We demand that Trump and Congress pass immigration legislation. We demand that the president and politicians stop using our families as pawns for their political gains. The fight will continue because our families can no longer wait for relief.”

YPRC will continue to organize and fight for immigrants in Milwaukee. YPRC demands for legalization for all, which would be the only policy that would leave no immigrant with an undocumented status.

#MilwaukeeWI #Immigrants #DACA #Trump

]]> https://fightbacknews.org/milwaukees-immigrant-community-demands-daca-legislation-relief Wed, 07 Mar 2018 21:33:14 +0000 Communist and workers parties oppose imperialism, stand with refugees and immigrants https://fightbacknews.org/communist-and-workers-parties-oppose-imperialism-stand-refugees-and-immigrants?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[Fight Back News Service is circulating the following joint statement from communist and workers parties. Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) is among the signers. JOINT STATEMENT OF COMMUNIST AND WORKERS PARTIES !--more-- We must confront the exploitative system, which gives rises to wars, refugees, immigration and poverty. Solidarity now with the refugees and immigrants! We, the communist and workers parties that sign this text: We denounce the imperialist aggressiveness, the interventions and wars, the USA, NATO and the EU and their "allies", like Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The criminal activity of these powers has caused millions of people to become refugees and immigrants. All the bourgeois governments which have been participating all these years with armies, providing every kind of assistance and reproducing all the pretexts used to justify the unleashing of these imperialist interventions also bear serious responsibilities. We denounce the EU and the bourgeois governments that follow a line of police-military repression of the refugees, who are trying to escape war, destitution and the human trafficking networks. WE CALL for the reinforcement of class unity and popular solidarity with the peoples that are the victims of imperialist interventions and capitalist exploitation. WE CALL on the peoples to intensify the struggle against the causes that uproot millions of people from their homes and at the same time to stand shoulder to shoulder with the immigrants and refugees, who are experiencing difficult inhuman conditions. The peoples must demand that their governments take the necessary measures to receive and shelter the immigrants and refugees in a decent way, and also must demand the abolition of the repressive mechanisms of the EU including the Dublin III Regulations. The Communist and Workers Parties fight against the attempts of the bourgeois class and the bourgeois governments to utilize the immigration-refugee problem as a means to abolish labor rights and to intensify the exploitation of refugees and immigrants, of the working class as a whole, in the destination countries. In the interests of the workers we must unite our strength and intensify the struggle against the USA, NATO, EU, the imperialist interventions and wars, against every attempt by the imperialists to manipulate the peoples. We must organize and come into conflict with the exploitative system that gives rise to wars, refugees, immigration and poverty. So that the conditions can be created that will allow the refugees and immigrants to return to their homelands, with the peoples in charge of their own destiny. 1\. Communist Party of Albania 2\. PADS 3\. Communist Party of Australia 4\. Party of Labour of Austria 5\. Communist Party of Bangladesh 6\. Communist PArty of Britain 7\. Communist Party of the Workers of Belarus 8\. Union of Communists in Bulgaria 9\. Communist Party of Canada 10\. AKEL 11\. Communist Party in Denmark 12\. Communist Party of Denmark 13\. Communist Party of Finland 14\. German Communist Party 15\. Unified Communist Party of Georgia 16\. Communist Party of Greece 17\. People’s Progressive Party of Guyana 18\. Tudeh Party of Iran 19\. Communist Party of Ireland 20\. Workers’ Party of Ireland 21\. Communist Party, Italy 22\. Communist Party of Malta 23\. Communist Party of Mexico 24\. Popular Socialist Party of Mexico 25\. Communist Party of Norway 26\. Communist Party of Pakistan 27\. Palestinian Communist Party 28\. Palestinian Peoples' Party 29\. Philippines Communist Party \[PKP-1930\] 30\. Russian Communist Workers Party 31\. Communist Party of the Soviet Union 32\. Communist Party of the Russian Federation 33\. New Communist Party of Yugoslavia 34\. Party of the Communists of Serbia 35\. Communist Party of Slovakia 36\. Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain 37\. Communist Party of Sweden 38\. Syrian Communist Party 39\. Communist Party of Tadjikistan 40\. Communist Party, Turkey 41\. Communist Party of Ukraine 42\. Union of Communists of Ukraine 43\. Freedom Road Socialist Organization \[USA\] 44\. Party of Communists USA #UnitedStates #Imperialism #FreedomRoadSocialistOrganization #Immigrants #Socialism #refugees div id="sharingbuttons.io"/div]]> Fight Back News Service is circulating the following joint statement from communist and workers parties. Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) is among the signers. JOINT STATEMENT OF COMMUNIST AND WORKERS PARTIES

We must confront the exploitative system, which gives rises to wars, refugees, immigration and poverty. Solidarity now with the refugees and immigrants!

We, the communist and workers parties that sign this text:

We denounce the imperialist aggressiveness, the interventions and wars, the USA, NATO and the EU and their “allies”, like Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The criminal activity of these powers has caused millions of people to become refugees and immigrants.

All the bourgeois governments which have been participating all these years with armies, providing every kind of assistance and reproducing all the pretexts used to justify the unleashing of these imperialist interventions also bear serious responsibilities.

We denounce the EU and the bourgeois governments that follow a line of police-military repression of the refugees, who are trying to escape war, destitution and the human trafficking networks.

WE CALL for the reinforcement of class unity and popular solidarity with the peoples that are the victims of imperialist interventions and capitalist exploitation.

WE CALL on the peoples to intensify the struggle against the causes that uproot millions of people from their homes and at the same time to stand shoulder to shoulder with the immigrants and refugees, who are experiencing difficult inhuman conditions. The peoples must demand that their governments take the necessary measures to receive and shelter the immigrants and refugees in a decent way, and also must demand the abolition of the repressive mechanisms of the EU including the Dublin III Regulations.

The Communist and Workers Parties fight against the attempts of the bourgeois class and the bourgeois governments to utilize the immigration-refugee problem as a means to abolish labor rights and to intensify the exploitation of refugees and immigrants, of the working class as a whole, in the destination countries.

In the interests of the workers we must unite our strength and intensify the struggle against the USA, NATO, EU, the imperialist interventions and wars, against every attempt by the imperialists to manipulate the peoples. We must organize and come into conflict with the exploitative system that gives rise to wars, refugees, immigration and poverty. So that the conditions can be created that will allow the refugees and immigrants to return to their homelands, with the peoples in charge of their own destiny.

1. Communist Party of Albania

2. PADS

3. Communist Party of Australia

4. Party of Labour of Austria

5. Communist Party of Bangladesh

6. Communist PArty of Britain

7. Communist Party of the Workers of Belarus

8. Union of Communists in Bulgaria

9. Communist Party of Canada

10. AKEL

11. Communist Party in Denmark

12. Communist Party of Denmark

13. Communist Party of Finland

14. German Communist Party

15. Unified Communist Party of Georgia

16. Communist Party of Greece

17. People’s Progressive Party of Guyana

18. Tudeh Party of Iran

19. Communist Party of Ireland

20. Workers’ Party of Ireland

21. Communist Party, Italy

22. Communist Party of Malta

23. Communist Party of Mexico

24. Popular Socialist Party of Mexico

25. Communist Party of Norway

26. Communist Party of Pakistan

27. Palestinian Communist Party

28. Palestinian Peoples' Party

29. Philippines Communist Party [PKP-1930]

30. Russian Communist Workers Party

31. Communist Party of the Soviet Union

32. Communist Party of the Russian Federation

33. New Communist Party of Yugoslavia

34. Party of the Communists of Serbia

35. Communist Party of Slovakia

36. Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain

37. Communist Party of Sweden

38. Syrian Communist Party

39. Communist Party of Tadjikistan

40. Communist Party, Turkey

41. Communist Party of Ukraine

42. Union of Communists of Ukraine

43. Freedom Road Socialist Organization [USA]

44. Party of Communists USA

#UnitedStates #Imperialism #FreedomRoadSocialistOrganization #Immigrants #Socialism #refugees

]]> https://fightbacknews.org/communist-and-workers-parties-oppose-imperialism-stand-refugees-and-immigrants Thu, 17 Mar 2016 22:54:18 +0000 Milwaukee mobilizes for May 1 immigrant rights protest https://fightbacknews.org/milwaukee-mobillizes-may-1-immigrant-rights-protest-3jp5?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[An image of the flyer for the rally Click the images below for PDF's of the flyers promoting the May 1 demonstration: in Milwaukee, WI Image of the flyer in Spanish #MilwaukeeWI #Milwaukee #News #Immigrants #May1 div id="sharingbuttons.io"/div]]> An image of the flyer for the rally

Click the images below for PDF's of the flyers promoting the May 1 demonstration: in Milwaukee, WI

Image of the flyer in Spanish

#MilwaukeeWI #Milwaukee #News #Immigrants #May1

]]> https://fightbacknews.org/milwaukee-mobillizes-may-1-immigrant-rights-protest-3jp5 Sun, 02 Aug 2009 03:45:03 +0000