immigration reform

As Republicans resist, labor tackles comprehensive immigration reform

June 8, 2018 By Mark Gruenberg

While Republicans wheel and deal in secret with most of them trying to sabotage immigration reform, the labor movement is tackling the issue out in the open.

Immigrant communities brace for Trump

November 23, 2016 By David Bacon

“People here have to remember the power they’ve built on a local level and use it,” one immigrants’ rights activist says, “even in the face of a national defeat.”

“There is hope”: Asamblea Morena reaffirms its social movement roots

May 11, 2016 By Rossana Cambron

In its May 10 assembly in Seattle, Mexican left political movement Morena came together to form a plan for unity and solidarity with the immigrants' rights movement.

Paul Ryan promises the rightwing fringe he’ll block immigration reform

November 3, 2015 By Larry Rubin

Right wingers divert attention away from pro-billionaire policies that are the real cause of economic problems and inflame voters' fears.

Netroots Nation delegates discussed unions’ role in progressive causes

July 23, 2015 By Mark Gruenberg

Unionists at the confab included a large delegation from the CWA, a former top Unite Here activist, and AFL-CIO officials Liz Shuler and Tefere Gebre.