Immigrants

Workers Assembly launches May Day organizing in New York City

A powerful New York City Workers Assembly was held March 19 to plan for May Day. Speakers included workers involved…

March 21, 2022

U.S. rejects Haitians fleeing utter misery

There are two streams of Haitian refugees fleeing the utter devastation of their country, inflamed by the feckless, decades-long U.S.…

October 15, 2021

Monthly vigil: Demand human rights at Tacoma immigration prison!

Since the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Wash., opened in 2004, detainees and their families, civil rights activists and the…

June 11, 2021

Deportations, racism vs. “humane” democracy

Jorge Ramos, the nightly news co-anchor on Spanish-language TV station Univisión who was thrown out of Donald Trump’s press conference…

September 3, 2015

Immigrants defend right to drive in Pennsylvania

During a public hearing on March 20 on the reform of the driving-license law for undocumented people in Pennsylvania, people…

March 26, 2015

Immigrants demand a fair Kansas policy

Kansas City, Kan. — More than 700 people and 36 organizations traveled from across the country to Kansas City on June…

July 2, 2013

Immigrant groups respond to new proposals

Despite the hullabaloo about the recent announcement of the possibility of bipartisan legislation to pass so-called “comprehensive immigration reform,” the…

February 6, 2013

Anti-Latino/a laws ignite the South

In its original format, Alabama’s Beason-Hammon Act, HB 56, granted school resource officers the right to badger fifth graders on…

October 12, 2012

Immigrant youth are targets of new racist edict in Arizona

Tucson, Ariz. — Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer issued Executive Order 2012-06 on Aug. 15, denying all state and local public benefits…

September 2, 2012

‘Undocubus’ heads for North Carolina protests

Demanding immigrant rights, undocumented immigrants on a bus tour traveling through Southern states will join the protests around the Democratic…

August 29, 2012