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Today is International Refugee Day. Under United States law, a refugee is someone who is located outside of the United States and is of special humanitarian concern to the country. U.S. law states that refugees must demonstrate that they were persecuted or fear persecution due to race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group. Refugees wishing …

International students who overstay their visa may be barred from entering the United States. The change in U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services policy was posted earlier this month, and will go into effect on August 9. The change in policy for F, J, and M visa holders, as well as their spouses and children, follows an executive order from President …

The support of Bloomington’s growing Latino population has soared with the hard work of Lillian Casillas. Her work for the past sixteen years with El Centro Comunal Latino and the AMIGOS Club has been transformative for Latino families integrating into the Bloomington community. Lillian’s personal experiences allow her to bring both a warm lightheartedness and a grounding understanding to her …

The Federal government is scheduled to reopen tomorrow, after the Senate moved forward on a spending bill earlier today. At the heart of the shutdown is an ongoing debate over immigration, specifically the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals policy, or DACA, which was implemented by President Obama in 2010. Undocu-Hoosiers Bloomington is a student-lead organization advocating on behalf of undocumented …

This week we speak with Naomi Paik about her 2016 book, Rightlessness. Her work addresses the most pressing contemporary issues, drawing together the brutal state of exception imposed on Haitian and Muslim prisoners in Guantanamo with the historical experience of Japanese internment camps and the current anti-immigrant drive. She focuses on the spaces – whether prisons, concentration camps, or immigrant …

Our opening song is “Lagi” by Aziza Brahim, and she provides all the music for the program. Lagi is Arabic and means Refugee–the song’s opening line is “Ever since I arrived in this world I have lived as a refugee.” In our show today with Sara Farris we’ll ask, what’s behind the right-wing demand for women’s rights in the context …

In the second episode of our series on the mass escape from the Woomera refugee detention center in Australia, Aren Aizura parses out the stakes of the protest camp, its participants, and the escalation to the breakout.  From there, Aren moves to the escape itself, the emotional meeting between refugees and outside supporters, and the complicated choices they each faced …

Protesters disrupted a State of the Campus speech yesterday by Indiana University Provost Lauren Robel; The City of Bloomington has run into a potential roadblock in its plans to buy a strip club on South Walnut Street; The Bloomington Redevelopment Commission approved amending  the city’s consulting contract with urban design firm Anderson Bohlander to design infrastructure in the Trades District; Bloomington Mayor …

In 2002, imprisoned refugees inside Australia’s Woomera immigration prison coordinated with 2500 outside supporters who had pitched camp outside the facility.  Their coordination allowed them to stage a mass breakout.  This is the first of three episodes dedicated to telling this story, from an interview with a participant in the solidarity camp. It’s a vital reminder than in an age …

Locutores Luis Hernandez, Luis Fuentes y Carlos Bakota tuvieron su primer programa de Hola Bloomington Politico. Nos cuentan sobre los Latinos y las batallas que están viviendo. Hablaron sobre como preparar un plan de emergencia por si acaso son detenidos y que deben hacer si son arrestado por inmigración. También compartan con nosotros las organizaciones que están aquí para ayudar …