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.
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