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Coalition of Community Organizations, Union Members, Faith Leaders, Immigrant Advocates to March, Rally in New Orleans Demanding End to Brutal Ice Raids

June 30, 2025

March and Lafayette Square rally culminates multi-day Justice Journey where SEIU members traveled through historic civil rights sites to Louisiana, protested at detention centers NEW ORLEANS, LA – SEIU service and care workers joined by over a dozen local and national partner organizations, faith leaders, and local allies will lead a mass march and rally in […]

New Orleans Activists Rally Against ICE, Citing Assault on Immigrant Communities and Palestine Solidarity Efforts

May 15, 2025

A coalition of local activist groups is escalating its weekly demonstrations outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Field Office in downtown New Orleans, protesting what they describe as the agency’s role in human rights abuses and political repression both locally and abroad. The rallies, organized by the Nola 4 Palestine coalition, will continue […]

UPDATE: TULANE RESPONDS; Tulane University Threatens Suspension, Expulsion for Students Protesting ICE Off Campus

April 29, 2025

UPDATE: As of 12:00pm April 30, 2025, Big Easy Magazine received the following statement from Tulane University: “Federal laws governing student privacy prohibit us from commenting on any individual student conduct proceedings. We fundamentally respect the right of students to protest. The university’s Code of Conduct does not prohibit protest activity. It does address matters […]

Expiration of Title 42 Brings New Problems for Migrants

May 10, 2023

Many thousands of Immigration reform numerous countries around the world have been gathering at the U.S. border patiently waiting for the end of the U.S. government's Title 42 policy which expires at midnight, Thursday May 11.  A then little-known 1944-era rule under the Public Health Service Act, Title 42 was put into play during the […]

Shocking Report Finds Only 1% of Detained Immigrant Cases in LA Result in a Court-Ordered Release

May 25, 2021

Although Louisiana, the incarceration capital of the world, has made some progress in recent years in regard to criminal justice reform, the state has also taken some notable huge steps backward with a massive expansion of immigrant detention.  Through the last decade, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) contracted with local officials, as well as for-profit […]

Key Issues for a Highly Coveted Demographic this Election: The Latino Community

October 12, 2020

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden recently made a comment about Latinos, in which he stated Latino voters are “an incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes about different things.” Out of the many countries that constitute Latin America, 8 nationalities have the highest populations inside the U.S.: Mexican, Puerto Rican, Salvadoran, Cuban, Dominican, Guatemalan, Colombian […]

An Immigrant’s Tale In Trump Land

September 8, 2020

  I was 24 when I came to this country. I came following love; the love that today has given me a perfect little boy that I get to call my son. I came hoping to belong in a new family, a new community, and make new friends. It was 2015, and while I sat […]

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