Is Immigration Reform Dead Or Alive?
GRIT TV
Is there still hope for serious immigration reform under President Obama? Roberto Lovato, Mallika Dutt and others on where the movement stands.
2009
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Secret Courts Exploit Immigrants
Jacqueline Stevens : Immigration to the US
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 : Immigration to the US
Clearer rights for immigrants and jobs for workers hard-hit by the recession will go a long way to reduce competition and fear.
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The Least of These: Families Detained in US
Indiepix Films
A new film explores one of the most controversial aspects of American immigration policy: family detention.
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Iraq's Invisible Refugees
Ann Jones : Iraq
Hardship and haunting memories mark the lives of the 2 million Iraqis in exile.
2008
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Immigration Reform and Economic Justice
Center For Emerging Media : Economics
Nation writers Bob Moser and Roberto Lovato discuss how Democrats can best pursue economic reform and a better immigration policy.
2007
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Showdown at the DMV
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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Israel Turns its Back on Sudanese Refugees
Abandoning Israel's longstanding commitment to those fleeing persecution, the Olmert government is deporting refugees back to Sudan, where they may face torture and death.
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A Migrant Summit
Immigration reform may have crashed in Washington, but a very different discussion of the same issues continues below the border.
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Zyklon B on the US Border
Alexander Cockburn : Racism & Discrimination
A grim history lesson of what happened in the 1920s when fears of alien infection inflamed American eugenicists.
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A New Green Card Deal
Mae M. Ngai : Racism & Discrimination
History is full of examples showing that policies designed to exclude immigrants are doomed to fail.
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Exodus
Iraq has prompted the fastest-growing refugee crisis in the world, and it's threatening to destabilize the entire region.
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Raw Deal on Immigration
The Senate's "grand bargain" on immigration may be the best deal to be done in the present political climate, but it's still not good enough.
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The Iraqi Refugee Crisis
The war in Iraq has caused one of the most severe refugee crises in history, and no one seems to be paying attention.
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Veiled Intolerance
Richard Wolin : Islam & Muslims
A batch of new books describe how European governments have dealt with Muslim immigrants and citizens since 9/11.
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Workers, Not Guests
David Bacon : Immigration to the US
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is using immigration control measures to retaliate against undocumented workers who stand up for their rights.
2006
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White Heat
Bob Moser : Immigration to the US
Welcome to Nashville, Tennessee, the unlikely symbol of the biggest American immigrant resettlement since the Industrial Revolution. It's also the white-hot nexus of the new American nativism.
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