Immigration Policy

Death on the Border Death on the Border

Now that a summerlong Homeland Security crackdown along the Arizona border is concluding, the results are in and they spell lethal failure.

Sep 30, 2004 / Marc Cooper

Be Our Guests Be Our Guests

Guest workers in the US are routinely punished for asserting their rights.

Sep 9, 2004 / Feature / David Bacon

Diversity and Its Discontents Diversity and Its Discontents

For most of his half-century-long career, Samuel Huntington, professor of government at Harvard, has made a point of telling the US ruling elite what it has most wanted to hear.

May 27, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Lazare

A Nation of WASPs? A Nation of WASPs?

A Nation of WASPs?

May 13, 2004 / Earl Shorris

Border Justice Border Justice

The call by George W. Bush for major reform of our failed immigration policy was undoubtedly made with election-year eyes fixed on the growing Latino vote.

Jan 15, 2004 / Marc Cooper

Fields of Poison Fields of Poison

While farmworkers are sickened by pesticides, industry writes the rules.

Dec 11, 2003 / Feature / Rebecca Clarren

Scapegoating Illegal Workers Won’t Seal the Borders Scapegoating Illegal Workers Won’t Seal the Borders

As long as firms are willing to hire them, immigrants will come.

Oct 28, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer

Let Freedom Roll Let Freedom Roll

Immigrants hit the road for civil rights.

Oct 9, 2003 / Feature / Julie Quiroz-Martínez

The Legacy of Guantánamo The Legacy of Guantánamo

The hard lessons of Guantánamo have yet to be learned, while many of the old mistakes are being repeated.

Jul 14, 2003 / Feature / Lizzy Ratner

A Rebuke to Ashcroft A Rebuke to Ashcroft

"We have to hold these people until we find out what is going on." According to a report issued June 2 by the Justice Department's own Inspector General, that's what Michael Ch...

Jun 12, 2003 / David Cole

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