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While he railed against "illegals," undocumented immigrants tended to his estates and prize horses. A special Nation investigative report.

Ari Melber talks about The Nation's latest investigation of Lou Dobbs's relationship with undocumented immigrant workers on CNN's Joy Behar Show.

Undocumented workers are so thoroughly woven into the fabric of our economy that even two professional immigrant-bashers, Lou Dobbs and Meg Whitman, have found it difficult to avoid relying on their labor.

In the face of massive GOP opposition, what are some possible ways forward for politicians, voters and activists working for humane immigration reform?

A federal judge last week abruptly postponed ruling on whether it was proper for prosecutors seeking wiretap permission to conceal their use of top members of the Mara Salvatrucha gang as informants. Meanwhile, the recent shooting of a Guatemalan day laborer by an LAPD officer has reignited a controversy over police reform that is at the root of the current courtroom drama.

Women on the US-Mexico border seek alternatives to embattled abortion clinics.

Any semblance of serious deliberation on immigration in Washington has degenerated into a racially charged assault on the children of undocumented immigrants.

The number of deportations of undocumented immigrants under President Obama is 10 percent higher than it was under George W. Bush.

Nine reasons Democrats should embrace immigration reform this year.

Senator Lindsey Graham is the latest to join the assault on birthright citizenship, announcing that he may introduce a constitutional amendment banning automatic citizenship to the children of immigrants who "come here to drop a child." But his argument rests on a total fallacy.