Immigration Policy

Fukú Americanus Fukú Americanus

Junot Díaz's masterful new novel maps the ambiguities in the modern immigrant experience in America.

Nov 8, 2007 / Books & the Arts / William Deresiewicz

A mobile home park in ruins after the 2007 Harris Fire in California.

People Burn Here People Burn Here

Immigrants are the invisible victims of the California wildfires.

Nov 1, 2007 / Editorial / Mike Davis

Unseen Victims of California Fires 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.

Oct 26, 2007 / Feature / Amanda Martinez

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

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