On May 26, 1924, the doors of the United States closed to most immigrants as President Calvin Coolidge signed the Immigration Act of 1924. The law set the yearly quota for a nation's population to immigrate to the U.S. at 2% of its U.S. population...
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Outstanding Ian Urbina story on the exploitation of people held in immigrant detention centers. The immigration detention system serves as a nearly unpaid labor force thanks to the privatized prison.
It's not Obama's fault that we don't have immigration reform. That is the fault of the white supremacist Republican Party. There's really nothing Obama could have done to pass comprehensive.
In comments last night, dollared said this about the decline of unionized meatpacking: Allowing free immigration and mass union busting by illegal aliens. Never, ever, ever should have happened. 800,000-1M union jobs lost in meatpacking. Bill Clinton. Now I don't want to pick on dollared...
On February 15, 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt and the Japanese government signed the so-called "Gentlemen's Agreement" to stop the migration of Japanese to the United States. This came about after.
Texas Attorney General and likely next governor, Greg Abbott: Greg Abbott unveiled his latest policy proposal in Dallas yesterday, a border security proposal that Abbott called his "Securing Texans Plan.".
An examination of where Mexican-Americans live in the United States shows they still mostly live in Mexico, or at least what Mexico was before the United States unjustly stole it between 1846-48. When we talk about immigration, we too often forget that Mexicans (along with...
Perhaps the blackest mark on the Obama Administration has been the significantly harsher enforcement of American immigration law and the subsequent deportation of people, breaking up families. Twelve-year-old Jason Penate.
On January 1, 1892, Ellis Island opened to process the millions of immigrants entering New York. Although certainly not only entry point for immigrants, it was the primary location where.
Michelle Chen provides a useful overview of the intertwined environmental and humanitarian disaster of American policies toward the Mexican border. She covers several important issues. To excerpt from her introduction: The parts of the border that take the form of an actual, physical barrier are...
This is just terrible. The US Border Patrol will continue using lethal force against people throwing rocks, as well as people inside vehicles—ignoring a set of recommendations from an independent.
Regardless of what one thinks of the strategy of civil disobedience from immigration activists who risk deportation, actually deporting one of them is incredibly awful. Perez’s lawyer, David Bennion, explains.