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Beginning today, the Dominican Republic is planning to deport more than 100,000 people to Haiti. These people were born in the Dominican Republic, and are being asked to leave on the basis that they are the descendants of undocumented migrant workers whose forbearers came into the country in the early 1900s to work in sugar plantations. They are almost all poor workers who never legalized their residency status.

Critics of the government say that this is an anti-black policy rooted in the desire to preserve a non-Black national identity, couched under the pretense of immigration policy change. Further, many of those deported will become stateless migrants, having no family or connections in Haiti, and would not be eligible for Haitian citizenship. Currently, the Dominican government (having come under considerable fire for it’s xenophobia and racist treatment of Haitians) is leveraging their military to pick up anyone who looks Haitian (read: dark-skinned/Black) and drop them off on the Haitian side of the border.

Not that racist, anti-immigrant policies are solely the purview of other countries.

Six women, new mothers who are undocumented immigrants not born in the United States, have filed a lawsuit against Texas Department of State Health Services alleging that the department has an undeclared policy preventing its employees from issuing birth certificates to their children because of their own documentation status. This, despite the fact that children born on American soil to undocumented immigrants are indeed legal U.S. citizens.

On the topic of violence against women and children, last week in Georgia, 23-year-old Kenlissia Jones was arrested and held without bond, facing a possible charge of “malice murder,” a crime punishable by the death penalty. Her “crime?” That she allegedly used misoprostol, a medication that induces uterine contractions and cervical dilation, to end her own pregnancy.

On the heels of cases like Purvi Patel’s and Bei Bei Shuai’s in Indiana, this case brings up some crucial questions about prosecuting women, thus far only women of color, for having a miscarriage, self-terminating their pregnancies, or in the case of Shuai, attempting suicide while pregnant.  The race of the women targeted by feticide legislation is noteworthy in light of a study conducted by National Advocates for Pregnant Women which found that low-income women and women of color are disproportionately arrested under feticide laws. Notably, Black women are significantly more likely to be reported to authorities by hospital staff under suspicion that they harmed their unborn children.

On Monday, the Texas Rangers were asked to perform an independent investigationinto the Craig Ranch pool party incident that occurred on June 5 in McKinney, Texas. Recorded by an onlooker, a video shows that the officer violently threw a black teenager to the ground, sat down on her and then drew his firearm on two young men in the area.

Greg Willis, the county DA stated, “I have full confidence in the good men and women of the McKinney Police Department and their ability to fully investigate this matter. At the same time, an independent investigation of this incident will add an important layer of transparency to the process.”