Immigrant Rights
Immigration reform and “criminal alien” injustice
August 19, 2013The Republican leadership in the House has been threatening to use parliamentary tricks to stop a reform bill even if it has majority support.
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Rep. Steve King’s idiot remarks are serious problem
July 26, 2013The comments of Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, which stereotype undocumented immigrants as drug smugglers, have embarrassed his own Republican Party, yet are part of a larger anti-immigrant, racist agenda.
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Immigration reform lifts up all workers, says civil rights leader
July 26, 2013WASHINGTON - A top civil rights leader has restated the value of comprehensive immigration reform to all U.S. workers, documented and undocumented.
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Unions descend on Capitol Hill for big immigration push
June 13, 2013WASHINGTON (PAI) - Backed by strong statements from AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and Service Employees President Mary Kay Henry, dozens of local union leaders from around the nation descended on Capitol Hill starting on June 12...
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Why undocumented immigrants keep coming
June 3, 2013On the night of May 1, 2013, a criminal gang attacked a group of impoverished Central American migrants, who were riding on the top of a freight train passing through Cosoalacaque, in Veracruz, Mexico.
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