Thin ICE
Jacqueline Stevens
In its zeal, the federal immigration agency has been deporting US citizens.
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Juan Crow in Georgia
Roberto Lovato
Immigrant Latinos live under a matrix of oppressive laws, customs and institutions.
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Gimme Shelter
Sasha Abramsky : Religion
Immigrants facing deportation find shelter with the religious New Sanctuary Movement.
2007
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Divided States
Peter Schrag : Native Americans
A patchwork of local laws reflects the complicated, contradictory national debate over immigration policy.
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Showdown at the DMV
: New York
The debate in New York State over driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants became a proxy for the unsettled issue of immigration reform.
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Fukú Americanus
Junot Díaz's masterful new novel maps the ambiguities in the modern immigrant experience in America.
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Unseen Victims of California Fires
Undocumented immigrants who have survived for years living along San Diego's hillsides and canyons now find themselves left out of relief efforts in the Southern California fires.
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Guest Workers in a Strange Land
Would a vastly expanded guest worker program benefit illegal immigrants? Just ask a guest worker.
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Bush's Immigration Clampdown Crimped
David Bacon : Labor & Immigration
A federal judge in San Francisco has put on hold new Homeland Security regulations designed to crack down on illegal immigrants in the workplace.
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What America Owes its 'Illegals'
The punitive rage directed at illegal immigrants grows out of a larger blindness to the manual labor that makes our lives possible.
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Raw Deal on Immigration
The Senate's "grand bargain" on immigration may be the best deal to be done in the present political climate, but it's still not good enough.
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Immigrants Push Western Union to Share the Wealth
Outraged at the 17 percent fees they are charged on money they wire home, immigrant workers are pressuring Western Union to reinvest the profits.
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MacArthur Park
Advocates pushing for reform and immigrants clamoring for justice in the streets will not forget the recent violence in Los Angeles.
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As California Goes...
What can the nation learn from the Golden State's struggles to deal with its immigrant population?
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Lockdown in Greeley
A recent police raid on a small-city factory showcases the Bush Administration's frightening war on illegal immigration.
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Workers, Not Guests
David Bacon : Labor Organizing & Activism
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is using immigration control measures to retaliate against undocumented workers who stand up for their rights.
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Heck-of -a-Job Myers?
Rick Perlstein : Labor Organizing & Activism
The ICE chief's comments about immigration and unions raise troubling questions. Congress should seek answers.
2006
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Immigrants Regroup
This year will be remembered both for massive immigrants rights marches and for the Al Qaedization of immigrants.
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The Minutemen Hit the Wall
Marc Cooper : Legislative Campaigns & Elections
As Democratic Congressional candidates in Arizona embrace comprehensive immigration reform, conservative Republicans are no longer winning on their "militarize the border" message.
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Ground Zero for Immigration
A recent rally at the World Trade Center site displayed anti-immigration activists' latest tactics: distorting the truth and exploiting national security concerns.
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From the Streets to the Polls
Paloma Esquivel : Campaigns & Elections
Young, US-born Hispanics who took to the streets to push for immigrant rights are hoping to become a potent political force in the midterm elections and beyond.
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The Hard Edge of Hatred
Chip Berlet : Racism & Discrimination
American white supremacist groups have a long and ugly history of using anxieties over immigration as a recruitment tool. It's happening again, with a vengeance.
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Nightly Nativism
Daphne Eviatar : Media Analysis
CNN pundit Lou Dobbs has made himself a "specialist" in channeling nativist, nationalist and even white supremacist rhetoric.
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Locked and Loaded
Susy Buchanan & David Holthouse : Conservatives & The American Right
The Minutemen have been transformed from an extremist "citizen border patrol" to part of the neocon establishment. Has their leader sold out, or bought in?
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Same Old Song
Daniel Tichenor : Racism & Discrimination
American history is marked by waves of immigrants--from Germans in the eighteenth century to Mexicans in the twenty-first--and by nativist backlashes against them.
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White Heat
Bob Moser : Migration & Immigration
Welcome to Nashville, Tennessee, the unlikely symbol of the biggest American immigrant resettlement since the Industrial Revolution. It's also the white-hot nexus of the new American nativism.
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The New Nativism
The nation must address the working-class anxieties underlying the anti-Hispanic sentiments now rising in Middle America--and Congress must pass an enlightened immigration bill that is both sensible and humane.
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What They're Marching For
Saurav Sarkar : Labor & Immigration
With or without a comprehensive immigration bill, a working-class immigrant Latino movement is emerging--allied with progressive groups--that could reverse a tide of xenophobia and make significant gains.
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A Shared Vision
Salim Muwakkil : Labor & Immigration
The vitality of the new Latino-led immigration movement could provide the spark to jolt the civil rights movement out of its complacency and create a shared notion of an imagined future.
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A Bronx Tale
Michelle García : Labor & Immigration
Grassroots activists tap into the momentum of the immigrant rights movement to bring blacks and Latinos together on shared concerns.
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Voices of a New Movimiento
Roberto Lovato : Labor & Immigration
As they push for immigrants rights legislation--and brace for the inevitable backlash--a diverse array of emerging leaders have their eyes on a larger prize.
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Mexico's Exodus: Blip on the Radar?
Declining birthrates in Mexico give the lie to American fears of an influx of immigrants. As birthrates plummet around the world, America's real problem may be a shortage, not a surfeit, of guest workers.
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What Bush Got Right
Robert Scheer : George W. Bush
Bush has taken a sensible stance on immigration, but his plummeting credibility will prevent people from embracing his proposals.
2005
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Beyond Braceros
David Bacon : Labor & Immigration
In a misguided GOP reform effort, Congress is ready to pass measures that would militarize border controls, violate workers' rights and give corporations a new bracero program. Immigrant rights groups, unions, civil rights organizations and working families push for something better.
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Twelve Die on the US Border
A dozen deaths in three days marks the onset of the season of death along the US-Mexican border.
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High Noon on the Border
Immigration reform has a real chance of passing, and the nativist right is furious.
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The Missing Patriot Debate
The case for a human rights-based opposition to the Patriot Act.
2004
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Kerik's 'Nannygate' Was the Least of It
Robert Scheer : Office of Homeland Security
NYC's media have been looking into allegations of far more consequential transgressions.
2003
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Samaritans in the Desert
Defying US policy, they save the lives of illegal migrants, a cup of water at a time.
2002
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National Security and Immigrant Rights
Donald Kerwin : Increased Security After 9/11
Recent post-9/11 immigration changes threaten to cause great suffering while yielding few security benefits.
2001
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Unfriendly Skies
Bruce Shapiro : Civil Rights & Liberties
A routine day of air travel turns into an ethnic-profiling nightmare.
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Labor Fights for Immigrants
The stage is set for a showdown over the fate of undocumented workers.
This week: Christian Parenti on the Chinese middle class and the impact of the Olympics. Plus: Esther Kaplan and Eric Foner on the Democratic Party's unexpected struggle for the blue collar vote. (13mb mp3)
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