Jarvis Tyner

Groups file suit demanding legal representation for child deportees

July 9, 2014 By Special to People’s World

Each year, the government initiates immigration court proceedings against thousands of children, some of whom have lived in the U.S. for years.

Immigration activists arrested at civil rights meet

April 11, 2014 By Evlynn Wier

The protest, organized by United We Dream, was to "protect Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of civil rights for all, including the immigrant community."

Ohio, the other border

April 8, 2014 By Maribel Hastings

Every Tuesday night in Painesville, Ohio, immigrants with a common denominator meet at a converted church: they are protagonists or collateral damage in the government's deportation machine.

Immigrants strap themselves to wheels of deportation buses

October 14, 2013 By Joe Bernick

The peaceful blockade succeeded in halting the day's proceedings where detainees were to have been hauled before a judge and sentenced as a group.

House Republicans quit bipartisan immigration group

September 24, 2013 By Emile Schepers

A blow was dealt against a possible bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform bill in the House of Representatives when two more Republican members withdrew. However, immigrant rights activists vow that they will not be deterred.