Why Immigration Is a Feminist Issue Why Immigration Is a Feminist Issue
With draconian laws like Georgia’s HB 87 hitting women especially hard, women’s groups are taking up the fight for immigrants’ rights.
Dec 6, 2011 / Feature / Laura Flanders
The High Cost of Anti-Immigrant Laws The High Cost of Anti-Immigrant Laws
In Georgia, HB 87 is a “giant scarecrow” for immigrant labor, and the result has been hundreds of millions in lost crops.
Oct 12, 2011 / Feature / Greg Asbed and Sean Sellers
A New Kind of Southern Strategy A New Kind of Southern Strategy
The threat of Arizona-style laws has strengthened pro-immigrant coalitions in unlikely places.
Aug 10, 2011 / Feature / Susan Eaton
Illinois Passes Bill For Undocumented Youth, Makes An Even Dozen State-Level DREAM Acts Illinois Passes Bill For Undocumented Youth, Makes An Even Dozen State-Level DREAM Acts
Yesterday, Gov. Pat Quinn (D) signed the Illinois DREAM Act into law.
Aug 2, 2011 / StudentNation / Micah Uetricht
HALTing the DREAM HALTing the DREAM
Rarely do two bills on the same issue appear in Congress with such diametrically opposed names and policy goals as the DREAM and HALT Acts.
Aug 1, 2011 / StudentNation / Zachary Newkirk
The Trouble With Tomatoes: Slave Labor (and That Cardboard Taste) The Trouble With Tomatoes: Slave Labor (and That Cardboard Taste)
South Florida is a terrible place to grow tomatoes—or to work in the tomato fields.
Jul 27, 2011 / Jon Wiener
Driving While Immigrant Driving While Immigrant
As the Obama administration tries to salvage the Secure Communities program, governors and advocates alike are calling it what it is: racial profiling.
Jul 8, 2011 / Renée Feltz
Driving While Immigrant Driving While Immigrant
Salvador Licea shares his experience with the ICE Secure Communities Program.
Jul 8, 2011 / Stokely Baksh and Renée Feltz
Jose Antonio Vargas and the DREAM Act Jose Antonio Vargas and the DREAM Act
After a career of blending into the crowd, journalist Jose Antonio Vargas has come out of hiding about his legal status and has vowed to only cover immigration issues.
Jun 28, 2011 / The Rachel Maddow Show
For Undocumented Immigrants, Activism Can Invite a Deportation Threat For Undocumented Immigrants, Activism Can Invite a Deportation Threat
When undocumented immigrants like Jose Antonio Vargas "come out," it changes the debate over immigration—but at considerable personal risk.
Jun 28, 2011 / Courtney E. Martin