Immigrants

Labor mounts drive to count every Latino

October 5, 2009 By John Wojcik

The labor movement is adding careful counting of every single Spanish speaking person in the United States to the long list of things it already does above and beyond its traditional role of representing workers on...

Immigrant deaths on Arizona border rise

September 1, 2009 By Joe Bernick

With five weeks left in the fiscal year the number of human remains recovered on the Arizona-Sonora border since October 1, 2008 has reached 183 already surpassing last year's death toll.

Immigrant workers demand back wages from NBC Contractors

August 28, 2009 By Marilyn Bechtel

HAYWARD, Calif. - "When I heard about NBC Contractors denying workers their rights and the pay they deserve, I thought about my father, and the struggles he went through when he emigrated from China 25 years...

Study uncovers racist roots in anti-immigrant groups

February 4, 2009

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in a report released Feb. 3 charges that three Washington D.C. organizations have racist roots and that they were the most responsible for blocking comprehensive immigration reform in 2007. All...

Namesake challenges melting pot myths

June 1, 2007 By Tim Hollander And Curly Cohen

The director of “The Namesake,” Mira Nair, seems to be making a deliberately foreign film in America. The film is based on the 2004 novel of the same title by Jhumpa Lahiri.