https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to Anti-Immigrant en https://politicalresearch.org/2026/02/03/all-eyes-minneapolis-lessons-resisting-authoritarianism In this bonus episode, PRA researchers discuss the deadly ICE crackdown in Minneapolis and the powerful resistance we’ve seen on the streets. ICE continues to kidnap thousands with impunity, and the brutal murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti show… Tue, 03 Feb 2026 09:27:25 EST Political Research Associates, Ben Lorber, Ethan Fauré, Steven Gardiner, Annie Wilkinson 0c093f81-a37f-478e-a4eb-a81e988ad657 https://politicalresearch.org/2026/01/20/belligerence-abroad-repression-home In this season 4 bonus episode, Koki talks to PRA Principal Research Advisor Steven Gardiner about the Trump administration’s early-January attack on Venezuela and escalating domestic confrontations around ICE enforcement, including the Minneapolis protests around the murder of Renee Good… Tue, 20 Jan 2026 12:00:00 EST Political Research Associates, Steven Gardiner b214e445-93b3-45cd-9365-5e901a467342 https://politicalresearch.org/2025/12/11/how-287g-expansion-fuels-mass-deportations In this episode of Inform Your Resistance, Koki reads “Florida Is the ‘Tip of the Spear:’ How 287(g) Expansion Fuels Mass Deportations” by Jessica Pishko, as part of our ongoing From the Archives series. From the Archives features those must read and, now, must listen to pieces from PRA’s more than 40 years of publishing. This article was published in the Fall 2025 issue of The Public Eye magazine. Thu, 11 Dec 2025 12:00:00 EST Political Research Associates 9c66985e-a084-47e3-9792-f1cde35fa3a7 https://politicalresearch.org/2025/10/10/afrikaner-refugees-and-white-nationalist-myth-wont-die The Trump administration has adopted draconian immigration policies limiting new arrivals and increasing deportations across the board in the U.S., with one notable exception: White Afrikaner refugees claiming to be victims of a “White genocide.” Fri, 10 Oct 2025 12:00:00 EDT Sophie Bjork-James d4ef221c-929e-400a-9ebf-fbf44d2495ee https://politicalresearch.org/2025/10/06/florida-tip-spear The proliferation of 287(g) agreements under Trump has expanded the deportation machine exponentially. There’s no better case study for what this future of anti-immigrant crusading looks like than the state of immigration & deportation in Ron DeSantis’ Florida. Mon, 06 Oct 2025 12:00:00 EDT Jessica Pishko 34eaa5e5-4750-4bab-b6f6-6751fe8a7f8a https://politicalresearch.org/2025/09/23/we-must-fight-everyone-immigrant-justice PRA Senior Research Analyst Ethan Fauré speaks with Silky Shah, author of Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition, to discuss how abolition is the key to a strategy for combating the Trump administration’s immigration agenda. Tue, 23 Sep 2025 12:00:00 EDT Ethan Fauré 497046c7-f1e6-4f73-acf0-699f683a19e9 https://religiondispatches.org/2025/08/12/latest-ice-recruitment-materials-include-overt-neo-nazi-reference-and-nazi-nazi-script It’s not the first time we and others at Religion Dispatches have had to point out that Trump’s Department of Homeland Security is firehosing the internet with white supremacist propaganda . And it will, unfortunately, not be the last. This… Tue, 12 Aug 2025 03:17:32 EDT Annika Brockschmidt, Thomas Lecaque 3c4e180f-35a9-4baa-8c9c-bf89264b7a54 https://religiondispatches.org/2025/07/18/terminally-online-trump-administration-uses-social-media-frame-its-anti-immigrant-agenda Black helicopters roll over the tarmac. From off screen we hear a voice with a generic Southern accent casually intone: “Here’s a Bible verse I think about sometimes, many times. It goes…” The images flashing on the screen settle on… Fri, 18 Jul 2025 05:44:46 EDT Annika Brockschmidt, Thomas Lecaque dbf60c8e-bac5-4487-b1e3-f0f5319dc153 https://politicalresearch.org/2025/07/08/remigration-american-ethnic-cleansing Steven Gardiner explores how the Trump administration’s “Office of Remigration” is part of a larger White supremacist agenda. Tue, 08 Jul 2025 11:07:50 EDT Steven Gardiner 3b5e9077-3652-4856-907b-f3314dea16c4 https://religiondispatches.org/2025/06/06/musk-v-trump-no-matter-who-wins-american-people-lose It’s the uncoupling of the decade—bigger than Brangelina and messier than Kanye breaking up with everyone. Yes, you got that right, dear citizens of the disunited states: Elon Musk, the sentient vape pen in charge of Twitter (sorry, “X”) and… Fri, 06 Jun 2025 11:51:24 EDT Mary Rambaran-Olm b702746b-cec0-48c6-8ef7-253738161aba https://religiondispatches.org/2025/06/05/remigration-american-ethnic-cleansing The Trump administration has announced that, as part of its reorganization of the State Department (along with the now familiar gutting of important programs and firing of topic-area experts), it plans to create what it calls an “Office of Remigration.”… Thu, 05 Jun 2025 03:27:49 EDT Steven Gardiner 83acffc5-9852-4fc4-bffd-285ed4d98d05 https://religiondispatches.org/2025/05/08/habemus-papam-new-pope-selection-signals-churchs-concerns-about-spread-us-global White smoke emerged over the Sistine Chapel this afternoon, notifying the world that the College of Cardinals has elected a new pope. While many Catholics are still mourning Francis, among best beloved and most complicated popes in recent history, the… Thu, 08 May 2025 04:45:13 EDT Megan Goodwin 8c9bd9c4-3955-4690-a689-a7ae8d3700ca https://religiondispatches.org/2025/05/01/experts-agree-what-trump-doing-fascism An expanded version of article was originally published in German at “ Volksverpetzer ”, an independent, crowd-funded online magazine covering the far-right in Germany and abroad. While too many American leaders are content to quibble over definitional particularities, experts are… Thu, 01 May 2025 05:13:04 EDT Annika Brockschmidt aa8ebbd0-93e4-4151-bd96-5fd7ef728872 https://religiondispatches.org/2025/04/25/what-roman-catholic-church-needs-wholesale-reset-not-new-pope The death of Pope Francis, after a very public diminishment, closes a signal chapter in Catholic history with absolutely no certainty about who or what comes next. Rather than reflexively corralling the cardinals into a Conclave to elect his successor… Fri, 25 Apr 2025 05:35:59 EDT Mary Hunt d76881e4-5f1e-4fc9-b458-2f9a16f927c8 https://religiondispatches.org/2025/04/09/amber-ruffin-wasnt-cancelled-whca-just-because-shes-queer-black-woman-who-rejects-both Comedian Amber Ruffin was literally cancelled from hosting the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner recently after the president’s team caught wind of the fact that she might be mean to the Trembling Tyrant rather than participate in toothless both-sidesing… Wed, 09 Apr 2025 05:06:24 EDT Mary Rambaran-Olm b83c5171-66cf-4c68-a4b3-2d40a0dcfa60 https://religiondispatches.org/2025/04/03/defense-secretary-hegseths-new-kafir-tattoo-perfect-encapsulation-trumpish-foreign Just when you thought you’d talked enough about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ’s tattoos for one lifetime, this week Hegseth revealed a new one : a tattoo on his left bicep of the Arabic word “kafir,” which is usually… Thu, 03 Apr 2025 03:37:55 EDT Annika Brockschmidt, Thomas Lecaque bfce9a43-9be7-40b8-8b53-3af1c10ae92b https://religiondispatches.org/2025/03/24/what-mahmoud-khalils-detention-says-about-white-christian-nationalism-and-politics Mahmoud Khalil’s harrowing and unlawful detention on March 8th captured widespread attention after plain-clothes ICE agents handcuffed and forced the permanent resident and recent graduate of Columbia University into an unmarked vehicle. The events of that night have resonated deeply… Mon, 24 Mar 2025 06:01:23 EDT Allie Wong 05071193-6d19-4818-a238-2e67211aad29 https://religiondispatches.org/2025/02/06/trumps-eo-combat-antisemitism-wields-jewish-safety-weapon-crush-palestine-solidarity Last week, Trump released an executive order pledging to combat antisemitism by ordering a draconian crackdown on Palestine solidarity protests. That same day, reporters leaked a memo from an agency within Pete Hegseth ’s Department of Defense ordering personnel to… Thu, 06 Feb 2025 02:45:19 EST Ben Lorber e19ab202-78ae-4ee0-b56d-86d542630f0a https://religiondispatches.org/2024/12/20/hindu-nationalism-poses-threat-democracy-and-muslims-both-india-and-us While rising anti-Muslim violence and sentiment in India has been making global news since Hindu nationalist prime minister Narendra Modi’s first election in 2014, many don’t realize that such policies and attitudes also harm American Muslims. Like many other religious… Fri, 20 Dec 2024 01:46:21 EST Yasmine Flodin-Ali a3242a3a-8d21-42ea-a734-20c09667c433 https://politicalresearch.org/2024/12/13/rising-against-authoritarianism Cloee Cooper interviews Greisa Martínez Rosas, Executive Director of United We Dream, about her work in the immigrant justice space and our current political moment of rising authoritarianism and anti-immigrant policy and sentiment. Fri, 13 Dec 2024 01:06:58 EST Cloee Cooper 0931f612-6f22-4f4a-abb9-35f09aea0fdf https://religiondispatches.org/2024/12/12/trump-administrations-approach-immigration-inspired-bible-book-revelation Trump recently appointed Tom Homan as his ‘ border czar ,’ a first step toward implementing a scorched-earth immigration policy that includes large-scale detention of migrants and mass deportation (perhaps even for American citizens ). While his policies have been… Thu, 12 Dec 2024 12:01:27 EST Yii-Jan Lin 167d120f-d33f-4c90-b708-87febc950dd8 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/12/06/leading-constitutional-sheriffs-org-announces-full-support-trumps-mass-deportations In an expected move, the leading organization of the far-right “constitutional sheriffs” movement has endorsed the incoming Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda. In a press release this week, the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA) announced “its full support… Fri, 06 Dec 2024 12:55:51 EST Ethan Fauré ea3350e7-656f-48a2-8f32-4c7b8679132d https://religiondispatches.org/2024/12/02/authoritarians-must-break-your-will-resist-so-what-can-you-do-about-it There were many people, apparently, who voted for Trump who justified it with plain vanilla doubt. As in: they see the threats to imprison political opponents, to encourage police to run wild on “one really violent day,” and to imprison… Mon, 02 Dec 2024 12:01:37 EST Steven Gardiner 53c20301-e529-4dba-86bd-81077714ab3f https://politicalresearch.org/2024/11/14/authoritarian-blueprints-revealing-and-resisting-project-2025 In the lead-up to the 2024 general election, PRA hosted a multi-part political education and strategy series for our movement partners on Project 2025’s impacts on gender/reproductive justice and immigration; foreign policy and the administrative state; and racial justice, labor… Thu, 14 Nov 2024 12:00:00 EST Political Research Associates 431715b5-6a6a-4f51-85e5-798096fc79e6 https://politicalresearch.org/2024/11/07/us-imperialism-comes-home-roost-conversation-ramah-kudaimi We talk with Ramah Kudaimi about imperialism & state violence. From the global war on terror, to genocide in Palestine, we discuss how imperial power, capitalist interests, and far-right organizing work together to entrench systems of oppression. Thu, 07 Nov 2024 02:30:29 EST Political Research Associates 18815f16-7bd5-4e04-8cb8-56f047ebdefd