SAN DIEGO — A group of California artists wants Mexicans and Central Americans to have more than just a few cans of tuna and a jug of water for ...
Wayne Trujillo | Posted 12.29.2009 | Denver
The illegal immigration debate appears to be taking a sabbatical here in Colorado and much of the nation. The people at the debate's crux remain frozen in a legal purgatory.
Ruchika Tulshyan | Posted 12.17.2009 | New York
There are a growing number of severely depressed Hispanic adolescents in Queens who hide suicide attempts. In some traditional pockets, to talk about mental illness is considered shameful.
Brian Levin, J.D. | Posted 12.16.2009 | Politics
The United States Department of Justice announced a sweeping set of indictments levied by a federal grand jury connected to a racially motivated killing and alleged police corruption in Shenandoah, PA.
AP | IVAN MORENO | Posted 12.09.2009 | Denver
DENVER — Millions of undocumented people in the U.S. should be given a path to legal status after the country finds a way to stop illegal immigr...
Benedict Moran | Posted 12.02.2009 | New York
New York health officials say that a large number of undocumented immigrants fear going to city health centers and instead rely on an illegal network of doctors and traditional faith healers.
Benedict Moran | Posted 11.13.2009 | New York
Activists are afraid that low participation will further cut services in the borough. Queens is especially tricky due to its high number of undocumented workers scared of deportation.
Medill News Service | Sean Cooley | Posted 11.05.2009 | Chicago
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 12.02.2009 | 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 12.02.2009 | 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 12.02.2009 | 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 12.01.2009 | 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 11.29.2009 | 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 11.21.2009 | 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 11.15.2009 | 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.
AP | ELLIOT SPAGAT | Posted 12.30.2009 | Los Angeles