Immigration Policy

A Migrant Summit A Migrant Summit

Immigration reform may have crashed in Washington, but a very different discussion of the same issues continues below the border.

Jul 13, 2007 / Feature / Roberto Lovato

Zyklon B on the US Border Zyklon B on the US Border

A grim history lesson of what happened in the 1920s when fears of alien infection inflamed American eugenicists.

Jun 21, 2007 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

A New Green Card Deal A New Green Card Deal

History is full of examples showing that policies designed to exclude immigrants are doomed to fail.

Jun 21, 2007 / Mae Ngai

High-Tech Hysteria High-Tech Hysteria

Alarmist predictions of a talent shortage of high-tech workers are driving the race to the bottom.

Jun 15, 2007 / Feature / Elizabeth Schuster and Michelle Chandra

What America Owes its ‘Illegals’ 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.

Jun 12, 2007 / Barbara Ehrenreich

In Praise of Immigrant Students In Praise of Immigrant Students

The educational odysseys of Hunter College's foreign-born graduates disprove the lies spread by anti-immigrant politicians.

Jun 11, 2007 / Feature / Ellen Chesler

Coming to America Coming to America

The US guest-worker program has locked thousands in a modern-day form of indentured servitude.

Jun 7, 2007 / Feature / Felicia Mello

Exodus Exodus

Iraq has prompted the fastest-growing refugee crisis in the world, and it's threatening to destabilize the entire region.

May 24, 2007 / Feature / Stephen Glain

Raw Deal on Immigration 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.

May 24, 2007 / The Editors

Immigrants Push Western Union to Share the Wealth 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.

May 11, 2007 / Feature / Gabriel Thompson

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