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ICE detention

As the country charts a new course on immigration, New York remains a beacon of hope.

Council members are working on an agenda that includes labor organizing, public transportation and giving legal immigrants the right to vote in municipal elections.

As change nips at the edges of the Bronx, the borough’s iconic auto-glass workers continue their daily street-dance.

We Belong Together launch

Two-thirds of immigrants to America are women and children. But current immigration policy and past reform proposals are, as the author calls it, "sexclusionary."

All the rhetoric surrounding immigration reform tends to obscure some basic facts.

US-Mexico border

With huge profits at stake, CCA and the Geo Group are pushing discreetly for enforcement-heavy immigration reform.

Labor protest

Immigration reform can be labor’s game-changer.

Immigration reform protest

Will Obama’s new immigration reform agenda lead to real changes for the millions of immigrants living in legal limbo?

What can we expect from comprehensive immigration reform? In this Nation Conversation, Aura Bogado breaks down the range of possibilities for America's undocumented.

immigration raid

Rejecting proposals to tighten borders, a network of grassroots groups calls for reform based on “human, labor and civil rights for all.”

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On May 20th Arizona Diamondbacks owner Ken Kendrick will a private fundraiser inside his owners box at Chase Field for SB 1070 supporter State Senator Jonathan Paton. While Kendrick publicly distances himself from the bill, he is using the team's stadium as a fundraising center for politicians who support the immigration law. Until this practice ends, the team should be boycotted.

May 10, 2010

Arizona Diamondbacks owner Ken Kendrick says, through his PR people, that he opposes Arizona's anti-immigration legislation. Can't truss it.

May 3, 2010

Vendetta or not, Republican ad sings the end-times tune. 

May 2, 2010

After several weeks of silence, Major League baseball players, and their union, are starting to speak out against Arizona's anti-immigrant SB 1070.

May 1, 2010

Raul Grijalva leads the fight against his state's new anti-immigrant law.

April 28, 2010

A desperate Governor signs radical anti-immigrant legislation, as an equally desperate McCain cheers her on.

April 23, 2010

 Economics and morality set aside, the politics are good, too.

March 8, 2010