Undocumented Workers

Study: Undocumented Workers Have 'Negligible Impact' On Wages

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 04.12.2012

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Hear that? That's the sound of holes being poked in one of the most common arguments for pushing undocumented workers out of America. Undocumented ...

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Fernando Dominguez Died In Administrative Limbo In Detention

Fernando Romero | Posted 05.16.2012

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Fernando Romero

According to reports, Mr. Dominguez is the sixth person to die in immigration custody in the 2012 fiscal year. I feel that is one too many.

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Undocumented Immigrant Wins Lottery Ticket Lawsuit

Posted 03.09.2012

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Almost two years after he bought a winning lottery ticket and gave it to his boss to cash for fear of being exposed as an undocumented immigrant, Jose...

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WATCH: An App To Help Undocumented Immigrants

Posted 03.08.2012

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In the state that signed into law the country's most controversial and stringent immigration measure, SB-1070 in 2010, a new smartphone app is under w...

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Winning Lottery Ticket Stolen From Undocumented Immigrant

Posted 03.07.2012

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An unusual trial opened this week at Judge Goerge F. Nunn’s courtroom in the Houston County Superior Court in Warner Robins, Georgia. A man sued ...

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Immigration Reform and Unionization; Dining Hall Workers Seek Justice For All Workers

Fernando Romero | Posted 04.25.2012

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Fernando Romero

The struggles of the dining hall workers at Pomona College speak to something bigger than unionization: immigration and unionizing inhabit the same realm, both in terms of class struggles and the recognition by employers of worker's rights.

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Oscar Nominee Shares His Killer Guacamole Recipe

AP | Posted 02.23.2012

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MEXICO CITY -- One of Mexican actor Demian Bichir's best performances during an interview with The Associated Press was describing how he makes guacam...

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Oscar Nominee On Leaving Mexico For U.S. Acting Career

The Huffington Post/AP | By KATHERINE CORCORAN | Posted 02.24.2012

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MEXICO CITY -- Demian Bichir learned an important lesson when he left his native Mexico to launch a U.S. acting career and ended up working in a Mex...

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Alabama Immigration Crackdown Costs State Up To $11 Billion

Reuters | Posted 04.02.2012

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By Verna Gates BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Feb 1 (Reuters) - Alabama's crackdown on illegal immigrants, widely seen as the toughest in the United...

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New Mexico Immigrant License Access Data Points To Fraud

AP | By BARRY MASSEY | Posted 03.26.2012

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SANTA FE, N.M. -- An Associated Press investigation has found that addresses of dozens of the same businesses and homes across New Mexico were used ov...

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Tough Immigration Laws: Tough on Children

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 03.21.2012

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Marian Wright Edelman

Alabama has passed the toughest immigration enforcement law in the country. Now children born in the U.S.A., American citizens, are living in fear. Some children are afraid to go to school.

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Georgia's Anti-Capitalist Immigration Law

Alex Nowrasteh | Posted 02.29.2012

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Alex Nowrasteh

Georgia is wise in not applying E-Verify to businesses with fewer than 10 employees, but the smartest policy is avoiding invasive workplace regulations like E-Verify altogether. A flood of new regulations from Washington is a major reason why the economy is so rotten. Adding E-Verify on top of that will only hurt Georgia's recovery.

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Elise Foley

Rick Santorum Makes Controversial Claim About Undocumented Immigrants

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 12.09.2011

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GOP Presidential candidate Rick Santorum, a former senator from Pennsylvania, took a hard line on unauthorized immigration during a Wednesday campaign...

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Sam Stein

Bachmann: Deport All The Undocumented

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.05.2011

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Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) insisted on Saturday night that as president she would see to it that every undocumented immigrant in the country be d...

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Kathleen Miles

PHOTOS: 17 Arrested Protesting Firing Of Undocumented Immigrants

HuffingtonPost.com | Kathleen Miles | Posted 12.25.2011

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Story has been updated to reflect the latest arrest numbers. Pomona College dining hall workers and their supporters conducted a sit-in Friday to p...

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10 Startling Statistics About Alabama's Immigration Law

Posted 11.15.2011

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Alabama stands to lose hundreds of millions of dollars from the state's anti-immigration law, a new report finds. Alabama's economy would shrink b...

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After Tough Alabama Law, Few Americans Taking Immigrants Work

AP | By JAY REEVES and ALICIA A. CALDWELL | Posted 12.21.2011

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ONEONTA, Ala. -- Potato farmer Keith Smith saw most of his immigrant workers leave after Alabama's tough immigration law took effect, so he hired Amer...

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Jon Ward

Election 2012: Mitt Romney Booby Traps Rick Perry's Jobs Record

HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 12.18.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Hours before Tuesday’s Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s campaign threw another i...

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As Immigration Law Takes Effect Ala. Workers Flee State

AP | By PHILLIP RAWLS | Posted 12.06.2011

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Alabama's strict new immigration law may be backfiring. Intended to force illegal workers out of jobs, it is also driving away man...

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New Alabama Law Targeting Undocumented Immigrants Brings Farmers, Lawmakers To The Table

Posted 11.19.2011

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Farmers and Alabama lawmakers are seeking common ground over an apparent labor shortage, one agriculture officials blame on a new law that targets u...

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Elise Foley

Republican E-Verify Bill Faces Growing Internal Opposition

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 11.15.2011

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WASHINGTON -- A House Republican bill that would require businesses to screen for undocumented immigrants is facing a growing bloc of opposition -- ev...

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Dave Jamieson

AFL-CIO Goes To Bat For Undocumented Workers

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 11.08.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The country’s largest trade union came out in defense of undocumented workers on Thursday, criticizing a recent ruling by the federal ...

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Undocumented Labor Is the Dairyland's Bread and Butter

Erich Straub | Posted 10.29.2011

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Erich Straub

Rural America simply does not have the native-born workforce it needs to produce America's food. With no visas available and a shortage of local labor, the result is an industry that has become deeply dependent on undocumented workers.

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Yolanda Gonzalez Gomez

Gen. Zapata's Grandson, An Undocumented Busboy In Texas

HuffingtonPost.com | Yolanda Gonzalez Gomez | Posted 10.11.2011

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DALLAS, Texas - Gen. Emiliano Zapata, the legendary military commander of the Mexican Revolution, is still revered to this day for the ideals and pri...

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ReThink Interview: Chris Weitz, Director of A Better Life

Jonathan Kim | Posted 09.01.2011

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Jonathan Kim

If you had just directed a movie that went on to gross over $700 million worldwide, what would you direct next? Director Chris Weitz chose to make a small movie from a screenplay that had been languishing for over 20 years.

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