Immigration

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  • Against the wall

    Homeland Security is using newfound power to wall off Tijuana from San Diego. Critics warn it will destroy protected lands and lead to the death of immigrants.
    By Eilene Zimmerman December 12, 2005

  • Gulf Coast slaves

    Halliburton and its subcontractors hired hundreds of undocumented Latino workers to clean up after Katrina -- only to mistreat them and throw them out without pay.
    By Roberto Lovato November 15, 2005

  • Rebuilding the Big Easy

    Latinos confront strained resources and tense race relations as they help clean up New Orleans and other hurricane-ravaged cities.
    By Roberto Lovato October 19, 2005

  • Right-wing GOP's alien views on immigration

    The battle over immigration reform continues on Capitol Hill.
    By Julia Scott May 13, 2005

  • The angry patriot

    Enraged by illegal immigration and traumatized by 9/11, Chris Simcox convinced hundreds of volunteers to join his Minuteman Project. Their goal: Seal the border and restore their American dream.
    By Christopher Ketcham May 11, 2005

  • Schwarzenegger's latest action heroes

    The California governor salutes the April deployment of border vigilantes in Arizona.
    By Page Rockwell April 29, 2005

  • The school of hard knocks

    A new generation of illegal immigrants is poised to graduate from U.S. colleges -- but they won't be eligible to get a job.
    By Julia Scott April 27, 2005

  • Vigilante posers

    Arizona's Minuteman Project rustles up some more publicity -- this time with a special kind of photo shoot for detainees.
    By Page Rockwell April 8, 2005

  • Banking on illegal labor

    Undocumented workers in the U.S. generate billions of dollars in payroll taxes each year -- and don't see a single benefit from it.
    By Julia Scott April 6, 2005

  • A right-wing run on the border

    Arizona's "Minuteman" group of border vigilantes is small potatoes, but has cooked up some big hype.
    By Page Rockwell April 5, 2005

  • Leaders chat, border vigilantes mobilize

    As Bush meets with Vicente Fox and Paul Martin, is the illegal-immigration issue about to boil over?
    By Julia Scott March 23, 2005

  • Funding the war, and the border war

    House Republicans are exploiting Iraq to play hardball on immigration reform.
    By Page Rockwell March 16, 2005

  • Right Hook

    Stop that gay-promoting SpongeBob! Fear CIA "mutineers" leaking secret neocon moves to Sy Hersh! Beware the coming Latino jihad! And more advice from the right wing as Bush retakes office.
    By Mark Follman January 21, 2005

  • Innocence lost in translation

    From the doctor's office to the courtroom, immigrants often rely on their bilingual children to interpret for them. Are these kids learning valuable life skills -- or shouldering too much family responsibility?
    By Cara Nissman August 4, 2004

  • Banished from the American dream

    The Kesbehs were a hardworking immigrant family with a successful business and deep roots in Houston. But after 9/11, the U.S. kicked them, along with thousands of other Arab and Muslim families, out of the country. Now, in a land the children barely know, they wonder why their life has been shattered.
    By Michelle Goldberg April 26, 2004

  • The no jobs president

    Don't believe the Bush administration's hand-wringing over its pathetic record on employment. The president's backers want a stagnant job market -- it keeps the help from getting uppity.
    By James K. Galbraith January 19, 2004

  • Right Hook

    Conservatives attack Paul O'Neill's "overblown" revelations about the Bush-Cheney war plan. Plus: Norquist hammers Bush for the huge budget deficit; Buchanan greets the president's immigration plan by calling for "Operation Wetback."
    By Mark Follman January 14, 2004

  • Dearly deported

    Just months after Zeferino Colunga Sr. lost his GI son in Iraq, the government arrested him and sent him back to Mexico.
    By Eric Boehlert December 11, 2003

  • From Baghdad to Brooklyn and back: A deportee's strange, sad tale

    All Iraq-born Anas wanted to do was raise his family in New York. But the U.S. kicked him out, and now he's a lost soul in a broken city.
    By Jen Banbury November 13, 2003

  • The INS runaround

    The immigration service's new registration plan is supposed to help fight terrorism. It's also locking people up without explanation.
    By Laura McClure January 23, 2003

  • Justice behind closed doors

    Some 600 immigrants have been deported after secret hearings since the 9/11 attacks. Now the policy appears headed for the Supreme Court.
    By Dave Lindorff September 26, 2002

  • Death in the desert

    Mexican migrants are dying at record rates as they try to cross treacherous desert into Arizona. Critics blame the U.S. government -- and they're preparing to sue.
    By James Reel July 15, 2002

  • God bless Big Brother

    Law enforcement officials are taking advantage of the war on terrorism to get everything they ever wanted.
    By Damien Cave and Katharine Mieszkowski September 22, 2001

  • The politics of protection

    Are women who flee domestic violence political refugees? The INS says they could be, but controversial new rules could come too late for the woman whose case inspired them.
    By Fiona Morgan January 9, 2001

  • Prodigal father

    For decades, Mexico has looked down on Mexican- Americans, but its new president is challenging the nation to look to them instead.
    By Richard Rodriguez December 7, 2000
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