Interviewed for Hulu Documentary
I was pleased to be interviewed for the ABC News / Hulu Original documentary “The Murders Before the Marathon.” The documentary is …
The US government is deploying robot dogs to the Mexico border. Seriously?
As if the border isn’t surveilled and militarized enough, the Department of Homeland Security wants to go full Black Mirror. I wrote …
Men on horses chasing Black asylum seekers? Sadly, America has seen it before
Horrified by the images of Haitian asylum seekers being met violently by men on horses? I know I was. I wrote this …
How the War on Terror Created the “Muslim American”
This is the first of two pieces I wrote for the twentieth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. This piece, from The Nation, …
I gave a TEDx talk!
I was honored to be asked by TEDxCUNY to deliver a lecture. Originally, I was supposed to give this talk last spring, …
The Biden administration has ended use of the phrase “illegal alien.” It’s about time
The language we use to discuss immigration is dehumanizing: ‘catch and release’, ‘migrant caravans’, swarms – anything, in other words, but people. …
ICE reached a new low: using utility bills to hunt undocumented immigrants
Did you know that our government has effectively been forcing people to choose between heat in their apartment and the risk of …
Biden is locking up migrant children. Will the world still care with Trump gone?
The Biden Administration re-opened a Trump-era detention site for migrant children. Rather than seeking out new and better solutions–alternatives that depend on …
With Trump voted out, can I finally feel at home in America again?
The election is over, and every immigrant, refugee, asylum seeker, and human being can now breathe a sigh of a relief. I …
Re-electing Trump won’t bring you safety
I wrote this essay, prompted by Donald Trump’s photo-op visit to Kenosha, Wisconsin, for The Guardian. Here’s part of the essay: It …