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Common Cause Unites Women, LGBT and Immigrant Rights Leaders
Deportations continue at a record pace in Texas, which has more immigration detention beds than any other state.
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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 …
Ahead of World Cup, Labor Abuses Rampant for Migrants in Qatar
Abuses include nonpayment of wages, harsh and dangerous working and living conditions, and forced labor.
US History Repeats Itself With Guest Worker Programs
Stories of abuse by employers from veterans of the Bracero Program demonstrate what is wrong with current US immigration
French Students Protest to Support Undocumented Families
We marched for an hour and a half, taking up all lanes of a huge boulevard while hundreds of cops in riot gear followed behind, receiving occasional middle finger …
Immigration Reform Requires Dismantling NAFTA and Respecting Migrants’ Rights
David Bacon explains the essentials of immigration reform.
The Border Patrol’s Out-of-Control Growth
The United States has 60,000 border guards - more than double the size of Ecuador's army.
Immigration Reform Advocates Turn Up Heat on Congress to Act Before Year’s End
A coalition of advocates for immigration reform are pressuring congressional representatives to pass a reform bill.
Immigration “Bed Mandate” Requires 34,000 People Detained Each Day
Activist points to increasing privatization of detention centers as being behind mandatory detention rules in immigration reform bill.
Calls for Immigration Reform Ramp Up, but What Fuels Migration to US?
Peter Watt: Neoliberal economic policies like NAFTA drove Mexico into deeper poverty, fueling an exodus to the US.