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From Tacoma to Texas, Hunger Strikers Challenge Migrant Jails
A hunger strike at a private GEO Group migrant jail in Tacoma, Washington, has spread to another in Texas.
How Dede Adnahom Didn’t Get Deported
Giday “Dede” Adnahom was granted permanent US residency after forming a group called Who You Callin' Illegal, which analyzed the intersections between incarceration and immigration.
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“They Call Us Illegal”: Fast-Food Workers Face Silent Raids
Is it a crime to work? Or is it a crime to pay workers less than S8.50 an hour for grueling work and short their wages or fire them …
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Some People Wake Up Like This
Immigration and Customs Enforcement's intimidation of immigrants in this country reveals the pain and embarrassment they face every day.
Immigration Enforcement or Folly: Are We Deporting the Worst of the Worst?
While the Obama campaign touts prosecutorial discretion as a successful way of dealing with immigration, many critics believe otherwise.
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In Oakland, Mercado Chain Workers Protest Alleged Sexual Harassment, Firings
Laura Robledo lost her job when she complained she'd been sexually harassed by a coworker.
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Let’s Stop Making Migration a Crime
Guest worker programs have been called “close to slavery.”
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Reluctant Migration: The Vicious Cycle of Debt, Deportation and Flawed Policy That Drives Central Americans Over the Border Again and Again
No two deportations are alike, but what every deportation shares is hardship.
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Immigrant Rights Freedom Riders Head to Democratic National Convention
SB90, passed in Colorado in 2006, might be long forgotten, but immigrants in the state continue to deal with its risks daily.
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“Voluntary” Work Program Run in Private Detention Centers Pays Detained Immigrants $1 a Day
In private prisons around the country, immigrants languishing in detention centers are being put to work by profit-making companies like the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) for far below …