Really, it can't happen fast enough. Deaths exceeded births among non-Hispanic white Americans for the first time in at least a century, according to new census data, a benchmark that heralds profound demographic change. The disparity was tiny — only about 12,000 — and was...
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Esther Cepeda defends Whole Foods disciplining two Spanish-speaking workers violating its English-only policy while on the job in a very special way. But say they were. What’s the problem? Not.
Arguments against immigration reform are usually pretty bad. Racism is at the heart of most, sometimes couched in dog whistles like "culture" or the Republican "they won't vote for us.
Building off my Chinese Exclusion Act post from the other day, here is a good example of pure, unadulterated anti-Chinese racism, from the New York Times, August 26, 1885. In short, they all look the same. Credit to the Times for making this stuff available,...
On May 6, 1882, President Chester Alan Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act. Although not often seen by the general public as part of our labor history, the Chinese Exclusion.
I am really skeptical of guestworker programs doing anything other than providing a structure to exploit vulnerable workers. The history of guestworker programs is basically terrible and the present isn't.
This is a pretty amazing story of the discovery of a mass grave of Irish laborers who died in the 1832 cholera epidemic. Basically, the Irish found whatever jobs they could when they arrived in the United States. A lot of this was in the...
Pramila Jayapal makes a compelling case for the inherent sexism of the debate on immigration with very real consequences for immigrant women. There are a lot of undocumented women working.
Luis Feliz and the immigration advocates trying to eliminate the word "illegal" from our discourse on immigration are absolutely right--the word demonizes human beings and is deeply hurtful and damaging..
The labor historian Cindy Hahamovitch on the already terrible agricultural guestworker program that agricultural interests want to deregulate even more in a new immigration bill. The guestworker program continued but in recent years abuses have gotten nastier. When growers demanded a bigger and less regulated...
Jeb Bush flip-flopping on immigration, now saying he doesn't support a path toward citizenship for undocumented Americans, is a sign that leading Republicans can be serious about winning the 2016.
Robert Stacy McCain, the man who defended the lynching of Emmett Till, has some really good advice for the Republican Party. Double down on white supremacy and reject those anti-capitalist.