Tina Vasquez

The Image America Shouldn’t Need

Because of my family’s experience and my professional work, I oppose the media circulation of the photo of Óscar and Valeria’s bodies in the Rio Grande: it is unnecessary, misguided, dehumanizing, and unwarranted. This family’s private, personal tragedy has become a footnote in a larger partisan fight over the president’s immigration policies.

Abolish ICE: Beyond a Slogan

The movement to abolish ICE has been dismissed as little more than the left’s “new rallying cry,” but there are existing and emerging models for what it looks like to chip away at ICE and put something else in its place: a community-based alternative to a violent immigration system.

The New ICE Age

Under Obama’s orders, ICE was encouraged not to deport essentially harmless people who were simply in the US without authorization. These are the people Trump has freed ICE to target.