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By the time Juan Ramirez was discovered on Aug. 27, 2008, the damage had already been done. Ramirez, 42, an immigrant living without a known address o...
Seth Freed Wessler | Posted 10.26.2009 | New York
Immigrations agents at Rikers regularly deceive people they suspect of not being citizens and rope them into the deportation system by violating their legal and human rights.
Jim Wallis | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
Church leaders who have been personally and privately supportive of immigrants and their struggles have now publicly declared that it is morally wrong to keep families apart.
Isabel Macdonald | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
Sheriff Joe Arpaio is a defiant, racial-profiling desperado with renewed authority to abuse his inmates. The scary part? The voting public approves.
Hector E. Sanchez | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics
Boycotting the census is not the right way to put pressure on the administration. Calling for a census boycott would only be a severe setback, hardly a way to advance the Latino agenda.
Mary Ann West | Posted 10.02.2009 | World
The deaths of unauthorized migrants have been a predictable and inhumane outcome of border security policies on the U.S.-Mexico border over the last fifteen years.
Stewart Nusbaumer | Posted 10.04.2009 | New York
What we do not see, do not hear about, never even think about, are the families of Mexican immigrant men left behind in Mexico.
Venkat Srinivasan | Posted 10.02.2009 | New York
While the economy dominates all issues, African immigrants continue to hope that immigration reform does not fade into oblivion either.
Leighton Woodhouse | Posted 10.01.2009 | Politics
The forced downsizing of American Apparel is more than a tragedy. It is a canary in the coalmine for how the most vulnerable populations in this country will fare under the Obama administration.
Jim Wallis | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics
With an issue like health, the faith community has a unique and important role to play -- to define and raise the moral issues beneath the policy debate.
Ali Noorani | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics
Claims that undocumented immigrants would benefit or even participate in a reformed health insurance system are false. Medicare and Medicaid already do a good job of excluding ineligible immigrants.
washingtonpost.com | Spencer S. Hsu | Posted 09.15.2009 | World
As Congress's debate over health-care legislation lumbers toward a defining test for the Obama presidency, partisans on both sides of another issue --...
Rinku Sen | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
We must reclaim the debate and change our language. We need to challenge the criminalization of undocumented workers by labeling them "illegal." We need to stand up for full inclusion of immigrants.
Angela Heimburger | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
The workers who clean houses, cook meals, and provide care for children and the elderly are often on call around the clock, paid a pittance for their services and protected far too little by labor laws.
Karl Frisch | Posted 10.17.2009 | Media
If Dobbs won't end his association with FAIR, which the Southern Policy Law Center has designated as a hate group, CNN should do the right thing and end its association with Dobbs.
Matthew-Lee Erlbach | Posted 09.24.2009 | World
"Many people think that migrants just easily appear at the U.S. border," said Camissa. "But the tough journey begins at the Mexico-Guatemala border."
William Fisher | Posted 09.18.2009 | Media
Rush Limbaugh. Glenn Beck. Bill O'Reilly. Sean Hannity. Lou Dobbs: our five horsemen found their Holy Grail: A new cottage industry called immigration.
The Media Consortium | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics
Right-Wing pundits are polluting constructive dialogue about health care reform, many times citing immigration as mark against it.
Anis Shivani | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics
The Schumer mandate for the undocumented to register within a short period of time, or else be permanently barred from becoming U.S. residents, is a prime example of the law run amok.
Irasema Garza | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics
Women immigrants are facing impossible choices daily: put up with abuse, or sacrifice their only life line to economic security for themselves and their families.
Pablo Manriquez | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics
However it's fed to the media, what Democrats see in comprehensive immigration reform is 12 million potential votes. Unless Republicans prefer losing elections, they should stand with Obama on immigration reform.
Deepak Bhargava | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics
Americans don't understand is that our system is so broken that there is virtually no legal way for immigrants to come to our country.
Tess Thatcher | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics
The federal government knows closing the border is an inoperable idea. The focus should be on education and vaccine development, and above all avoidance of scapegoating.
Crossover Dreams | Posted 05.14.2009 | Politics
By David Bacon Oakland, CA -- In a little less than a month, hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions, of people will fill the streets in city af...
Crossover Dreams | Posted 05.13.2009 | Politics
Although Julio Mora is a U.S. citizen and his dad has a green card, they were arrested in Phoenix, Arizona, on suspicion of being undocumented aliens. The case is commonplace.
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Medill News Service | Sean Cooley | Posted 11.05.2009 | Chicago