Immigration Policy

Immigrants Regroup Immigrants Regroup

This year will be remembered both for massive immigrants rights marches and for the Al Qaedization of immigrants.

Oct 26, 2006 / Feature / Roberto Lovato

The Minutemen Hit the Wall The Minutemen Hit the Wall

As Democratic Congressional candidates in Arizona embrace comprehensive immigration reform, conservative Republicans are no longer winning on their "militarize the border" message.

Oct 5, 2006 / Feature / Marc Cooper

Ground Zero for Immigration 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.

Aug 19, 2006 / Feature / Ali Winston

From the Streets to the Polls From the Streets to the Polls

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.

Aug 15, 2006 / Feature / Paloma Esquivel

The Hard Edge of Hatred The Hard Edge of Hatred

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.

Aug 15, 2006 / Feature / Chip Berlet

Nightly Nativism Nightly Nativism

CNN pundit Lou Dobbs has made himself a "specialist" in channeling nativist, nationalist and even white supremacist rhetoric.

Aug 15, 2006 / Feature / Daphne Eviatar

Locked and Loaded Locked and Loaded

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?

Aug 15, 2006 / Feature / Susy Buchanan and David Holthouse

Same Old Song Same Old Song

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.

Aug 10, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Tichenor

White Heat White Heat

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 Americ...

Aug 10, 2006 / Feature / Bob Moser

The New Nativism 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 tha...

Aug 10, 2006 / The Editors

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