Reflects on how a century of immigration law created a crisis.
Posts Tagged: Undocumented Workers
In a purely practical way, the present deportation debate is simply the essence of demagoguery.
All the undocumented farm workers who harvest our food deserve a chance to live without fear of deportation.
Change won't come to America's broken immigration system from policymakers. It will come from organizers.
We need an audacious immigration proposal that puts people before politics, and that means a concrete, expedient pathway to citizenship for undocumented workers.
David Bacon's Illegal People illustrates how current immigration laws hurt citizens and legal immigrants as well as the undocumented immigrants whom the laws target.
Most undocumented workers come from a region heavily influenced by U.S. foreign policy. It's not a coincidence.