Arturo Dominguez·Nov 5, 2018The Truth About Immigration: EconomicsMany armchair experts have been espousing a lot of misinformed rhetoric regarding migrants based on the divisive language used by our current President, Donald Trump. I’m here to clear the air with facts that some of them may not like. In this day and age, everyone seems to be an…Immigration7 min read
Arturo Dominguez·Nov 7, 2018The Truth About Immigration: CrimeImmigrants to the United States are considerably less likely than American-born citizens to commit crimes or to be incarcerated. This is a well-known fact. …Immigration6 min read
Arturo Dominguez·Nov 15, 2018The Truth About Immigration: AsylumA look at the facts about migrants seeking asylum in the United States, the legalities of doing so, and how the asylum process is supposed to work. Anti-immigrant rhetoric is currently running rampant online. Many bloggers and far-right outlets expose how little they know about immigration as they try to…Refugees7 min read
Arturo Dominguez·Nov 20, 2018The Truth About Immigration: WelfareWith all of Donald Trump’s hyperbole about migrants coming to the United States, it’s important to understand the truth that lies beneath the surface of his rhetoric. In this installment of “The Truth About Immigration,” we’ll be looking at the facts surrounding migrants and government assistance. Recently, you may have…Immigration6 min read
Arturo Dominguez·Dec 11, 2018The Truth About Immigration: PeopleModern-day migrations into North America are the result of geopolitical intervention by the United States in Latin America and the Caribbean. As corporate interests grew, so did America’s military presence; ensuring control of the region’s economies, industry, and agriculture. For over a century the United States has intervened in Latin…Immigration7 min read
Arturo DominguezinThe Antagonist Magazine·Jan 8, 2019The Latino Threat NarrativeDonald Trump announced that there is a crisis at our southern border (there isn’t) and has declared a state of emergency. A baseless declaration with the intent of stoking fear among those who wouldn’t know any better. Let’s not mince words here. This is white supremacy at work. There is…Politics4 min read
Arturo DominguezinBreakthrough·Oct 17, 2019The Profiteering of Migrant SufferingIn 2018, over $2.3 billion in federal contracts went to the private prison industry. The immigration and corrections policies under the Trump and Obama administrations resulted in a financial windfall for the biggest players in the prison industrial complex. According to a recent Public Citizen analysis, ten large contracting firms…Immigration4 min read
Arturo DominguezinThe Antagonist Magazine·Nov 8, 2019Migrant Children: An American CommodityAs we continue to learn about migrant children separated from their families being adopted by Americans, questions are being asked about how it’s allowed to happen. U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw allowed the Trump administration six-months to account for family separations dating back to July 2017. Now, the American Civil…Immigration5 min read
Arturo Dominguez·May 26, 2018Where Are The Children?Where Are The Children? Immigration Enforcement agents have lost track of nearly 1500 children in their custody. 1475 of them to be exact. Since January, ICE has taken in well over 7600 migrant children, of which more than 700 were separated from their parents. As the child of immigrants, immigration policy is something I’ve…Immigration4 min read
Arturo DominguezinThe Antagonist Magazine·Jul 27, 2020ICE Held Asylum-Seeking Children in Hotels, Who Was Watching Them?Hotels were used 186 times while 10,000 beds for children remained empty at government shelters Despite anti-trafficking laws and decades-old legal precedent, the Trump administration has been detaining migrant children as young as 1-year-old in hotels before deporting them, according to documents obtained by the Associated Press. …Immigration9 min read
Arturo DominguezinNew Politics Nation·Jan 29, 2020U.S. Supreme Court Allows Trump to Continue Targeting Migrants of ColorTrump’s “public charge” policy allows the administration to implement a rule denying legal permanent residency to certain immigrants who are deemed likely to need public assistance in the future. On Monday, the Supreme Court gave the go-ahead for one of Donald Trump’s more extreme immigration policies. In a 5–4 ruling…Immigration4 min read
Arturo DominguezinThe Antagonist Magazine·May 2, 2019Todays Immigration Issues Didn’t Start With TrumpWe would be having an intellectually dishonest conversation about immigration if we didn’t acknowledge that the current problems in the United States are a culmination of decades of policies by previous administrations that grew harsher as time went on; thus laying the groundwork for what the Trump administration is doing…Immigration6 min read
Arturo DominguezinThe Antagonist Magazine·Mar 7, 2019America’s Forgotten HumanityMichael Cohen, Venezuela, North Korea, El Chapo, and a fake crisis at the border are all part of the non-stop news cycle that continues to draw attention away from the humanitarian crisis created here in the United States by the Trump administration. The news cycle is such that there can…Immigration4 min read
Arturo DominguezinNew Politics Nation·Oct 27, 2018Stop Calling It An InvasionStop Calling It An Invasion It’s a pilgrimage. A migration born of human suffering and driven by the hands of our very own government. Unless of course, you want to keep doing the bidding of Donald Trump and his racist followers. This isn’t some kind of national emergency as Trump recently declared. A declaration leading…Refugees5 min read
Arturo Dominguez·Jul 3, 2019Why Repealing Section 1325 is CrucialSince the first Democratic debates, Americans have found themselves discussing the legalese of Title 8 U.S. Code § 1325. Many armchair scholars have been weighing in arguing for the need to criminalize people crossing the border. While others argue for the need to repeal the section altogether. …Immigration7 min read
Arturo Dominguez·May 18, 2018MS-13 Has Nothing To Do With ImmigrationMS-13 Has Nothing To Do With Immigration Let’s get something straight. No one is defending any MS-13 gang members. That’s some far right bullshit propaganda right there. MS-13 is a criminal problem. MS-13 is NOT an immigration problem. Gang activity from a group that was started in Los Angeles has NOTHING to do with immigration. AT ALL. …Racism3 min read
Arturo DominguezinThe Antagonist Magazine·Jun 14, 2019When is Enough Going to be Enough?Since Donald Trump took office we’ve heard about atrocity after atrocity concerning refugees seeking asylum at our southern border. Torture, oppression, death, family separations. When is enough going to be enough for the American people to stand up to this abhorrent abuse? I’ve written about what’s happening at the US/Mexico…Immigration8 min read