Getting Tough on Exploitation
Amy Traub : U.S. Economy
Vigorously enforcing labor law and stopping the crackdown on the nation's undocumented immigrants can boost the American economy.
Immigration to the US
2009
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Legislation Watch: A Nation of Immigrants
Greg Kaufmann
For the first time, family reunification for same-sex binational couples is being included in broader immigration reform.
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ICE Program Under Fire
Jessica Weisberg : Office of Homeland Security
287(g), the Department of Homeland Security program that empowers local police, like notorious Sheriff Joe Arpaio, to detain undocumented immigrants, is under scrutiny.
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Secret Courts Exploit Immigrants
Jacqueline Stevens : Migration & Immigration
You don't need to go to Iran or North Korea to find secret courts. Try attending a US immigration hearing.
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Rights, Not Raids
Bill Ong Hing & David Bacon : Migration & Immigration
Clearer rights for immigrants and jobs for workers hard-hit by the recession will go a long way to reduce competition and fear.
2008
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Railroading Immigrants
Massive workplace raids are part of a pressure campaign for guest-worker programs.
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Radio Nation With Laura Flanders
The Nation's Bob Moser, John Nichols and Roberto Lovato discuss what progressive economic and immigration policy should be.
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Thin ICE
In its zeal, the federal immigration agency has been deporting US citizens.
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Juan Crow in Georgia
Immigrant Latinos live under a matrix of oppressive laws, customs and institutions.
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Gimme Shelter
Immigrants facing deportation find shelter with the religious New Sanctuary Movement.
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Divided States
Peter Schrag : Native Americans
A patchwork of local laws reflects the complicated, contradictory national debate over immigration policy.
2007
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Showdown at the DMV
: New York
The debate in New York State over driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants became a proxy for the unsettled issue of immigration reform.
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Fukú Americanus
Junot Díaz's masterful new novel maps the ambiguities in the modern immigrant experience in America.
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Unseen Victims of California Fires
Undocumented immigrants who have survived for years living along San Diego's hillsides and canyons now find themselves left out of relief efforts in the Southern California fires.
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Guest Workers in a Strange Land
Would a vastly expanded guest worker program benefit illegal immigrants? Just ask a guest worker.
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Bush's Immigration Clampdown Crimped
David Bacon : Labor & Immigration
A federal judge in San Francisco has put on hold new Homeland Security regulations designed to crack down on illegal immigrants in the workplace.
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What America Owes its 'Illegals'
The punitive rage directed at illegal immigrants grows out of a larger blindness to the manual labor that makes our lives possible.
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