Immigration Rights

Northern California Occupy Movement Broadens Base, Tactics

Shepherd Bliss | Posted 03.12.2012

Shepherd Bliss

Just as Sonoma County is a leader in wine production throughout the nation, this semi-rural California region is proactive with regards to questions being asked by Occupy organizers around and beyond the United States.

Queer, Undocumented and Unafraid

Julio Salgado | Posted 12.13.2011

Julio Salgado

There have been sit-ins, hunger strikes and calls to stop the deportations of undocumented students who have been in this country most of their lives. Oddly enough, a lot of the young people at the forefront of this movement also happen to be gay.

Baby Baiting

Robin Templeton | Posted 05.25.2011

Robin Templeton

The anti-immigrant right is capitalizing on a concept with old nativist roots that is lending new potency to the assault on Latino immigrants, demonizing babies as the weapon of choice for armies of "illegals."

Lindsey Graham Gay? Conservative Group ALIPAC Demands Senator 'Admit Homosexuality'

Posted 05.25.2011

William Gheen, head of the conservative, anti-"amnesty," anti-illegal immigration group Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC), spoke at a Green...

The Zero-Sum Argument that Pits African Americans Against Undocumented Workers is a False Premise

Sam Fulwood | Posted 05.25.2011

Sam Fulwood

At the heart of this specious challenge to fairness for all U.S. workers is the idea that blacks resent undocumented Latino immigrants for taking away jobs that would rightfully belong to them.