Immigrant Women

Immigrants' Greatest Potential Ally - American Women

Elena Shore | Posted 05.17.2012

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Elena Shore

And with the Mexican American population booming -- through birth, not immigration - the new target of anti-immigrant and anti-Latino hysteria is now the pregnant mother.

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Laura Bassett

Conyers: GOP's Violence Against Women Act 'Is A Move Backwards'

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 05.08.2012

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Five minutes into a House Judiciary Committee mark-up of the GOP's Violence Against Women Act, Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) called the bill a "flat-out...

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Arizona's Anti-Immigrant Law Hits Women the Hardest

Arcelia Hurtado | Posted 05.25.2011

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Arcelia Hurtado

The vulnerable socio-economic status of Latina immigrant women makes them more prone to suffer workplace sexual harassment and violence. But they can never report it lest they be arrested.

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A Losing Proposition -- How Immigration Enforcement Hurts Women and Communities

Irasema Garza | Posted 05.25.2011

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Irasema Garza

A teenage immigrant girl wants to report a sexual assault by her employer but fears that local law enforcement will detain her, rather than prosecute the perpetrator.

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