immigration
Meet the Malaysian Neo-Nazis Fighting for a Pure Malay Race
They realize that Nazis generally don't like Asian people, but apparently that doesn't matter. I was told that the most popular Malay power band is an act named Boot Axe, so I got in touch with band member Mr. Slay to find out why exactly a group of...
Good News! You Can’t Be Automatically Deported for Sharing Three Joints
Well, here’s bit of good news from the Supreme Court, a group not generally considered friendly to criminal defendants or recreational drug users: you cannot, it turns out, be automatically deported for the kindhearted but nonetheless illegal act of...
Public Transport Racists are Derailing Australia’s Racism Debate
In Australia, when the assaults against Indian students happened a few years ago, the government’s response was to remind everyone of their economic importance.
Kat Stacks Is a Real American Hero, Bitch
A former prostitute turned loudmouth rap groupie seems like an unlikely poster child for the immigration movement in the US. But not only has Kat Stacks become a symbol for undocumented immigrants who came to the country as children, her story is so...
White People are Stealing Australian Jobs
The government is flooding the country with economic refugees from Europe, and Aussie battlers are losing out.
A Weekend in the Desert with No More Deaths
“The nature of the border itself makes it a strange place, causing confusion, dissimulation. No one really knows the truth of what really goes on there, we can only reconstruct it based on what we find,” volunteer Geoff Boyce told me.
Filibustin' with Willie D - A DREAM Act Deferred
Immigration in the US is a complicated problem, but I've got a plan.
Silent Asylum
I visited an Immigrant Removal Center to meet Jerry, a man who fled his home in dangerous Zimbabwe for England, only to get locked up in a UK detention center for four years.
You Can't Go Home Again
Mostafa Alshawi fled from Iraq to Sweden with his family when he was three. 20 years later he returned to his home country. He's a proud member of the Shia Islamic clan of the fishermen in Iraq, and in Sweden he is enrolled in the Police Academy.
Leaving Iraq
For years there has been a steady stream of people leaving Iraq. Our Iraqi buddy Isam Kalka tells us people make a pit stop in Jordan or Syria because it's close and the countries have a history with Iraq, but after that most people travel on elsewhere.
China World - A Bootlegger Speaks
I am 21 years old and just graduated from university. I was born and raised in a small city in Hunan with around 40,000 people. Now I am living in Shenzhen, a modern city in southern China, not so far from Hong Kong.
Cambodian Returnee Gangsters
In 2002, Cambodia and the US had a meeting and Cambodia agreed to take back its refugees. Cambodian refugees who were released from prison that year had a choice: They could return to Cambodia or try to receive immigrant status from the US.