I remain amused and frustrated over the conversation about labor shortages at the same time that there are millions of people desperate to enter the United States. But is alleviating labor shortages i
None of this is even remotely surprising to me, but it is outrageous. Data broker LexisNexis Risk Solutions allegedly violated Illinois law by collecting and combining extensive personal information a
On February 26, 1885, the Alien Contract Labor Act, better known as the Foran Act, restricting contract laborers from entering the U.S., passed Congress, putting additional pressure to stop Chinese an
I root for strikes because they are the ultimate expression of working class power and are necessary if the working class is once again going to have access to political and economic power in this nat
Texas wins in the national case for cruelty. See, what happens if you are undocumented and need an abortion? Either way, the horrible people in Texas win and the regular people lose. Alanna Vagianos e
I’ve been happy to praise the Biden administration when it has deserved it. But it’s immigration policy truly is barely better than that of Donald Trump and Stephen Miller. What is happeni
Now this is a take I can get behind. Washingtonians love to complain about taxation without representation. But for me and my fellow noncitizens, it is a fact of political life that we submit to unque
For a century, the American labor movement, taken as a whole, was anti-immigrant, based in part on racism and based in part on the fear of new workers undermining whatever they had won. From Sam Gompe