Immigrants

Court strikes down anti-immigrant housing law in Texas

July 23, 2013 By Special to People’s World

Beginning in 2006, the city of Farmers Branch, Texas, passed a series of housing ordinances designed to prevent undocumented immigrants from being able to rent apartments or homes.

Senate immigration bill hailed

April 16, 2013 By Special to People’s World

Last week's unprecedented march on Washington D.C. to "Keep Families Together" through immigration reform has borne its first fruit, immigrant rights activists are saying.

Fast food workers walk out, seek living wages, union recognition

April 5, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg

Thousands of New York City fast food workers staged a second one-day walkout from their jobs.

The children cry out: “Don’t deport our parents!”

March 27, 2013 By John Bachtell

"I don't want my parents to be scared of being deported and being separated from me and my brothers. I want them to live in peace."

Immigration reform moving ahead in Texas

March 14, 2013

On March 8th, the newly-elected progressive congressman from Dallas/Fort Worth, Marc Veasey, hosted a forum with local political and community leaders to talk about immigration reform.