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By David L. Wilson, MR Online February 7, 2018 https://mronline.org/2018/02/07/the-latest-nonsense-about-immigration-a-quick-guide/ We’ve seen and heard a lot about immigration in the past few weeks…
Liberal commentators have written favorably about the program in the past.... But E-Verify isn't really any better than Trump's "big beautiful wall." By David L. Wilson, Truthout Oc…
The AFL-CIO was one of the main supporters of employer sanctions back in 1986. It only took 13 years for the labor federation to learn its lesson: in February 2000 it officially called for the elimin…
By David L. Wilson, Truthout August 21, 2017 The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect at midnight on January 1, A Mexican response to NAFTA, January 2994 1994. That night, th…
For Democratic politicians and pundits this resistance to Trump might at first have seemed like a good thing, but Beinart’s article and the reaction to it suggest that liberals are starting to have s…
By David L. Wilson, MR Online March 2, 2017 The national sweeps by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in the second week of February drew a great deal of media attention. Some of the c…
Photo credit: Values & Capitalism . Marx wrote about immigrant workers nearly 150 years ago, and he was certainly not infallible, but a great deal of his analysis sounds remarkably contemporary.……
If we think of manufacturing as a source of good jobs now, it's only because working people made it that way -- angry, militant working people who united to fight the bosses and the politicians. …
By David L. Wilson, MRzine April 13, 2016 On April 24, 2013, some 1,134 people died in the collapse of the Rana Plaza complex outside Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. The building housed factories …
As investigative journalist Allan Nairn said on Democracy Now! in January: "Well, you know, if you go and burn down your neighbor's house, don't complain when, as they run from the flame…
By David L. Wilson, Monthly Review October 2015 Aviva Chomsky, Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal (Boston: Beacon Press, 2014), 256 pages, $16, paperback. Anyone who really wants to unders…
By David L. Wilson, Upside Down World October 16, 2015 Texas officials have now found a way to circumvent the long-established understanding that children born in the United States are automatical…
If immigration is a problem, it's because US policies have made it one. For someone like Bernie Sanders, there should be no difficulty finding a solution. By Jane Guskin and David L. Wilson, Trut…
