Melissa McEwan, Shakesville AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. July 17, 2008. After a decade long fight the Senate takes us one step farther from legalized discrimination.
Aswini Anburajan, Feet in 2 Worlds AlterNet: PEEK. July 14, 2008. The GOP's hard-line approach to immigration may be souring a key constituency on the Republican brand.
David Sullivan, American News Project AlterNet: Video. July 10, 2008. Immigration raids are making headlines across the country. Hear from the people they affect the most: families.
Ruben Navarrette, Washington Post Writers Group. July 9, 2008. Debates over language reflect the anxiety that some people feel about America's changing cultural landscape.
Tiffany Ten Eyck, Labor Notes. July 8, 2008. Labor's leaders understand that immigrant workers are valuable as allies, not competitors, but they haven't done enough to educate the rank-and-file.
Julio Godoy, IPS News. July 5, 2008. French PM Nicolas Sarkozy wants to use France's turn in the EU's rotating presdiency to "harmonize" European immigration policy.
César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, July 4, 2008. An ad that ran in several major publications blames immigrants for the effects of urban sprawl and a creaky mass transit system.
Brave New Films, Dream Activist AlterNet: Video. June 30, 2008. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrest undocumented female workers, but leave managers and company officials alone (of course).
Jordan Michael Smith, AlterNet. June 28, 2008. McCain was the anti-immigrant movement's least favorite candidate and now they face a hard choice: support him or sabotage their party.
Christina Jimenez, Drum Major Institute AlterNet: Immigration. June 27, 2008. A conservative think-tank's "assimilation index" employs some iffy methodology.
Maya Schenwar, TruthOut.org. June 27, 2008. Children who enter the US parentless may undergo a series of harsh trials before they ever reach the courtroom to seek asylum.
Alissa Thuotte, Dollars and Sense. June 26, 2008. Remittances decrease poverty in developing countries, but also makes them vulnerable to shifting political and economic winds abroad.
Kay Steiger, In These Times. June 24, 2008. The children of those arrested in flashy-but-ineffectual ICE raids -- many of whom are U.S. citizens -- suffer dire consequences.
