Railroading Immigrants
David Bacon : Law & Justice
Massive workplace raids are part of a pressure campaign for guest-worker programs.
Immigration to the US
2008
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Radio Nation With Laura Flanders
Radio Nation
The Nation's Bob Moser, John Nichols and Roberto Lovato discuss what progressive economic and immigration policy should be.
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Thin ICE
Jacqueline Stevens
In its zeal, the federal immigration agency has been deporting US citizens.
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Juan Crow in Georgia
Roberto Lovato
Immigrant Latinos live under a matrix of oppressive laws, customs and institutions.
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Gimme Shelter
Sasha Abramsky : Religion
Immigrants facing deportation find shelter with the religious New Sanctuary Movement.
2007
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Divided States
Peter Schrag : Native Americans
A patchwork of local laws reflects the complicated, contradictory national debate over immigration policy.
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Showdown at the DMV
: New York
The debate in New York State over driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants became a proxy for the unsettled issue of immigration reform.
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Fukú Americanus
Junot Díaz's masterful new novel maps the ambiguities in the modern immigrant experience in America.
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Unseen Victims of California Fires
Undocumented immigrants who have survived for years living along San Diego's hillsides and canyons now find themselves left out of relief efforts in the Southern California fires.
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Guest Workers in a Strange Land
Would a vastly expanded guest worker program benefit illegal immigrants? Just ask a guest worker.
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Bush's Immigration Clampdown Crimped
David Bacon : Labor & Immigration
A federal judge in San Francisco has put on hold new Homeland Security regulations designed to crack down on illegal immigrants in the workplace.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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MacArthur Park
Advocates pushing for reform and immigrants clamoring for justice in the streets will not forget the recent violence in Los Angeles.
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As California Goes...
What can the nation learn from the Golden State's struggles to deal with its immigrant population?
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Lockdown in Greeley
A recent police raid on a small-city factory showcases the Bush Administration's frightening war on illegal immigration.
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Workers, Not Guests
David Bacon : Labor Organizing & Activism
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is using immigration control measures to retaliate against undocumented workers who stand up for their rights.
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Heck-of -a-Job Myers?
Rick Perlstein : Labor Organizing & Activism
The ICE chief's comments about immigration and unions raise troubling questions. Congress should seek answers.
2006
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Immigrants Regroup
This year will be remembered both for massive immigrants rights marches and for the Al Qaedization of immigrants.
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The Minutemen Hit the Wall
Marc Cooper : Legislative Campaigns & Elections
As Democratic Congressional candidates in Arizona embrace comprehensive immigration reform, conservative Republicans are no longer winning on their "militarize the border" message.
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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.
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From the Streets to the Polls
Paloma Esquivel : Campaigns & Elections
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.
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The Hard Edge of Hatred
Chip Berlet : Racism & Discrimination
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.
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Nightly Nativism
Daphne Eviatar : Media Analysis
CNN pundit Lou Dobbs has made himself a "specialist" in channeling nativist, nationalist and even white supremacist rhetoric.
This week: Imagining a new new deal, with Howard Zinn, Frances Moore Lappe, Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Eric Schlosser and...FDR himself. Plus: Ennis Carter and Stephen Duncombe on the political propaganda legacy of the WPA. (13mb mp3)
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