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  • Rights, Not Raids

    Bill Ong Hing & David Bacon | May 18, 2009 issue

    Whether hard or soft, these measures all enforce a provision of immigration law on the books since 1986--employer sanctions--which makes it illegal for an ...

  • Bush's Immigration Clampdown Crimped

    David Bacon | posted August 22, 2007 (web exclusive)

    Aug 22, 2007 ... No one can say for sure how many lacked immigration papers, ... the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Immigration Law Center, ...

  • Railroading Immigrants

    David Bacon | October 6, 2008 issue

    A new bureaucracy is growing rapidly, thanks to drastic changes in immigration law enforcement. In past decades, migrants were treated very differently when ...

  • Driving While Immigrant

    David Cole | May 12, 2003 issue

    Immigration law violations have been the pretext of choice. The Justice Department has invoked every immigration charge under the sun--including the failure ...

  • Immigration to the US

    Vigorously enforcing labor law and stopping the crackdown on the nation's ... In its zeal, the federal immigration agency has been deporting US citizens. ...

  • Germany's Cold Shoulder

    Alisa Roth | May 27, 2002 issue

    It is these contradictions that shaped the debate over Germany's first immigration law, which made it through Parliament this spring by one controversial ...

  • Justice Delayed

    David Cole | December 3, 2007 issue

    Jarndyce of immigration law, dates back so far that the initial charges were for communist affiliation. When it began, Ronald Reagan was President, ...

  • Legislation Watch: A Nation of Immigrants

    Greg Kaufmann | posted November 10, 2009 (web exclusive)

    Nov 10, 2009 ... Every day, Immigration Equality hears from partners who are separated, or facing separation, because of our discriminatory immigration laws ...

  • Operation Enduring Liberty

    David Cole | June 3, 2002 issue

    As shock has given way to a renewed appreciation for the rule of law, courts have stood ... seeking to entice local police into enforcing immigration law. ...

  • Understanding Ashcroft

    David Cole | May 6, 2002 issue

    And having learned how easy it is to use immigration law as a pretext for criminal law enforcement when you lack probable cause, the Justice Department is ...

  • Hold Ashcroft Accountable

    David Cole | October 5, 2009 issue

    Most were locked up using immigration law. But when the government suspected a US citizen, immigration law was no help. So the Ashcroft Justice Department ...

  • ICE Program Under Fire

    Jessica Weisberg | posted October 14, 2009 (web exclusive)

    Oct 14, 2009 ... Amy Traub: Vigorously enforcing labor law and stopping the crackdown on the ... through a program called 287(g) to enforce immigration law. ...

  • Getting Tough on Exploitation

    Amy Traub | posted November 17, 2009 (web exclusive)

    Nov 17, 2009 ... But Napolitano is absolutely right: reforming the nation's immigration laws to bring millions of people already participating in our economy ...

  • Raw Deal on Immigration

    The Editors | June 11, 2007 issue

    The Senate's grand bargain on immigration may be the best deal to be done ... Amy Traub: Vigorously enforcing labor law and stopping the crackdown on the ...

  • Official Secrets Law

    David Cole | November 20, 2000 issue

    By law, information may be classified only if its release would threaten ... Under current practice, immigration officials assert the authority to lock up ...

  • Supreme Court v. Unions

    David Bacon | May 20, 2002 issue

    William Gould IV, former chair of the National Labor Relations Board, points to a basic conflict between US labor law and US immigration law. ...

  • Divided States

    Peter Schrag | January 7, 2008 issue

    In the past year, we've become a nation of a thousand immigration laws and policies--a confusing mosaic of fear, anger and nativism, of generosity, ...

  • Heck-of -a-Job Myers?

    Rick Perlstein | posted January 3, 2007 (web exclusive)

    The Supreme Court has clearly established the right to join a union and collectively bargain, whatever one's immigration status. Existing law also specifies ...

  • Realistic Immigration

    Hilda Solis | February 6, 2006 issue

    Hilda Solis: Grant legal status to hard-working, tax-paying immigrants; give up the illusion that law enforcement alone will solve immigration problems. ...

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