Immigration Policy

Guest Workers in a Strange Land Guest Workers in a Strange Land

Would a vastly expanded guest worker program benefit illegal immigrants? Just ask a guest worker.

Oct 26, 2007 / Feature / Deepa Fernandes

Bush’s Immigration Clampdown Crimped Bush’s Immigration Clampdown Crimped

A federal judge in San Francisco has put on hold new Homeland Security regulations designed to crack down on illegal immigrants in the workplace.

Aug 22, 2007 / Feature / David Bacon

A Migrant Summit A Migrant Summit

Immigration reform may have crashed in Washington, but a very different discussion of the same issues continues below the border.

Jul 13, 2007 / Feature / Roberto Lovato

Zyklon B on the US Border Zyklon B on the US Border

A grim history lesson of what happened in the 1920s when fears of alien infection inflamed American eugenicists.

Jun 21, 2007 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn

A New Green Card Deal A New Green Card Deal

History is full of examples showing that policies designed to exclude immigrants are doomed to fail.

Jun 21, 2007 / Editorial / Mae Ngai

High-Tech Hysteria High-Tech Hysteria

Alarmist predictions of a talent shortage of high-tech workers are driving the race to the bottom.

Jun 15, 2007 / Feature / Elizabeth Schuster and Michelle Chandra

What America Owes its ‘Illegals’ 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.

Jun 12, 2007 / Editorial / Barbara Ehrenreich

In Praise of Immigrant Students In Praise of Immigrant Students

The educational odysseys of Hunter College's foreign-born graduates disprove the lies spread by anti-immigrant politicians.

Jun 11, 2007 / Feature / Ellen Chesler

Coming to America Coming to America

The US guest-worker program has locked thousands in a modern-day form of indentured servitude.

Jun 7, 2007 / Feature / Felicia Mello

Exodus Exodus

Iraq has prompted the fastest-growing refugee crisis in the world, and it's threatening to destabilize the entire region.

May 24, 2007 / Feature / Stephen Glain

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