Meatpacking at a unionized facility was at one time a ticket to a middle-class life. Today, thanks to absurdly lax enforcement of immigration laws, the same type of work buys a peasant's existence.
Marisa Treviño | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics
Homeland Security is determined to construct as much fencing as they can along the US/Mexico border while the Bush is in office. But they're being stymied by strong resistance from local residents.
Geraldo Rivera | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics
In an effort not seen since the panic unleashed by the Great Depression, federal law enforcement has been targeting technically illegal workers who have been long tolerated in their industries.
New York Times | JULIA PRESTON | Posted 05.24.2008 | Politics
In temporary courtrooms at a fairgrounds here, 270 illegal immigrants were sentenced this week to five months in prison for working at a meatpacking p...
Marisa Treviño | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics
ICE raids are traumatizing children and yet the stories barely make Page 1 of the newspapers. Why? Is it because they are the children of undocumented parents?
Dave Hollander | Posted 05.13.2008 | Politics
The game belongs to no nation. It is its own sovereign state, a pure meritocracy -- a place where anybody, with hard work and ability, can come and rise to the highest echelons.
Shira Levine | Posted 05.01.2008 | Entertainment
Paraiso Travel doesn't glorify the anguish illegal immigrants experience with a happy ending or a triumphant win.
August J. Pollak | Posted 04.28.2008 | Living
Focusing on what really matters in the health care debate.
adreamdeferred.org/ | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Every year, dedicated high-school students are denied the chance to attend college, based solely on their undocumented status. This website is a place...
Mallika Dutt | Posted 03.25.2008 | Politics
Last month, a non-profit that I head, released a videogame called I Can End Deportation. The attacks from the Right began almost immediately.
Mario Solis-Marich | Posted 03.25.2008 | Politics
The voter surge has also been enabled by a Latino wave that has been largely attributable to both Clinton's focus on this community and a backlash against Republican immigrant- bashing.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.28.2008 | Politics
Earth-shaking news for people who follow the news about newspapers run by crazy religious zealots. The Washington Times, now under the editorial cont...
Peggy Levitt | Posted 02.14.2008 | Politics
It costs a lot of money and time to raid factories. Why not use those same dollars to make health care more accessible and housing more affordable?
Katie Halper | Posted 02.08.2008 | Politics
I am going to miss watching Mitt preach religious tolerance (for Mormons only) and practice intolerance towards atheists, Muslims, gay people, and immigrants.
John O'Bryan | Posted 01.24.2008 | Media
Just because Lou Dobbs spends night after night fighting to criminalize people who cross the desert to pick your tomatoes, some loony leftwingers have accused him of harboring white supremacist sentiments.
Eliseo Medina and Gerry Hudson | Posted 01.20.2008 | Politics
Martin Luther King's dream is no less than the American dream, a dream that lives on and impels us to constantly ask ourselves the question: does freedom ring in America today?
Roberto Lovato | Posted 01.09.2008 | Politics
The Arizona senator is one of the few who could erect a Latino barrier to the Democrat's wave of inevitability.
AP | ANABELLE GARAY | Posted 01.04.2008 | Media
When editorial writers at The Dallas Morning News chose the illegal immigrant as the newspaper's Texan of the Year, they expected some criticism. But ...
Peter Miller | Posted 01.02.2008 | Politics
Wake up and smell the tamales! Our lives are hugely improved by the presence of immigrants, whatever their legal status.
Henry Blodget | Posted 12.21.2007 | Business
It's time companies like Fresh Direct stopped getting blamed for the fact that citizens of other countries want to do jobs that people who were born here don't.
Linda Seger | Posted 12.13.2007 | Politics
We need to decide to what extent we believe that there are basic human rights. This means struggling with whether we should provide education, health care, and rights to those who are not citizens.
236.com | Posted 12.07.2007 | Politics
After last week's heated exchange between Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani at the CNN/YouTube debate over providing sanctuary to illegal aliens, Romney h...
Roberto Lovato | Posted 12.05.2007 | Politics
NPR's questioning of the Democratic candidates around immigration indicates they are willing to use public airwaves to provide broader forum for formerly fringe ideas.
Tram Nguyen | Posted 12.05.2007 | Politics
The civil liberties debate isn't only about the right to privacy and dissent and other good things citizens enjoy, but the integrity of the Constitution and the human rights of all persons under its jurisdiction.
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Robyn Blumner | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics