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According to Alex Nowrasteh, an analyst at the right-libertarian Cato Institute, crime statistics from Texas show that immigrants there, both documented and undocumented, have lower conviction and ar…
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…
Recent Polls, DACA/TPS Fallout, MS-13 Solution, Border Deaths Polls show Americans are closer to Democrats than Donald Trump on immigration Americans want to help DREAMers, don’t want a wall, and don…
Here’s new research supporting our contention that most native-born people in the U.S. would benefit from the passage of the DREAM Act. How would it affect the DREAM Act fight in Congress now if the…
Immigrant rights march in Los Angeles, 2016. Photo: Molly Adams Immigrants aren't just economic factors; they're human beings -- in the case of the Dreamers, human beings who have been member…
Trump rants about Salvadoran gangs. Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images On January 9 the administration announced that it was terminating Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for some quarter million Salva…
Photo: David Bacon A Border Patrol agent shot an apparent border crosser dead on November 29 in the Tohono O’odham Native American Nation, which has had many problems with the Border Patrol in the p…
A House tax bill could push thousands of US graduate students out of careers in science and technology, weakening the US edge in those fields. Are Republicans hoping to replace them with immigrant sc…
What’s behind the recent rise in wages for undocumented workers? It could be immigrants’ rights activism. Graffiti on the Mexican side of the wall. Photo: Jonathan McIntosh/Flickr David L. Wilson, Ja…
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…
Victory for Immigrant Hunger Strikers: Lawsuit Challenges Slave Wages at Private Jail By Mike Ludwig, Truthout NWDC protest. Photo: Thomas Soerenes/The News Tribune/AP September 22, 2017 For three ye…
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…
Dirty Laundry: An Investigation By Annie Hylton, Dissent Summer 2017 Drying and ironing press at an industrial laundry facility (xtrekx / Shutterstock) It was before 6 a.m. on January 5, 2011 when Ma…
As expected, the Trump Administration announced on September 5 that it was rescinding the five-year-old Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, with a six-month delay before the cancel…
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…
By Sheila Bapat, Truthout August 13, 2017 Reina Gomez, 49, has been cleaning homes and caring for elderly people in South Florida since 2002. Her earnings as a domestic worker support her treatments…
Undocumented immigrants are easy targets for employers who want to rip their workers off. The situation seems to be getting worse under Trump—which doesn’t mean it wasn’t bad before.—TPOI editor Dair…
On May 23 the Trump administration unveiled a more detailed version of its budget proposal. The New York Times noted that in addition to increasing funding for the detention and deportation of undoc…
As of April 25 President Trump seems to have backed off from his threat to demand that the April government spending bill include funding for his border wall. But there’s still plenty of controversy…
