Mark Ristaino, AlterNet AlterNet: World. August 10, 2009. Greg Brosnan and Jennifer Szymaszek examine the lasting effects an immigration raid in Postville, Iowa, had on two small villages in Guatemala.
Joseph Nevins, New America Media. June 22, 2009. Each year the U.S. government deports tens of thousands of non-citizens, to countries to which they often have tenuous ties.
Marcelo Ballve, Mother Jones. April 2, 2009. Undocumented workers were the economic lifeblood of small towns like Postville, Iowa -- until the immigration cops showed up.
Lynn Tramonte, Immigration Impact. March 13, 2009. Some members of Congress talk as if local police should stop worrying about criminals and spend their days checking people's immigration status.
Robert Verkaik, Independent UK. June 3, 2008. Zyad al-Saadon has lived in Britain for 35 years. Now, the British government want to deport him to Baghdad.
Domenico Maceri, New America Media. September 5, 2007. One tenth of the U.S. soldiers who have died in Iraq have been immigrants. But not all of their parents have qualified for green cards.
David Bacon, The American Prospect. January 3, 2007. Undocumented immigrants were recently arrested for securing jobs at meatpacking plants by using Social Security numbers that didn't belong to them. Their crime: paying for someone else's retirement.
Jacob Wheeler, Worldpress.org. December 19, 2006. What's the price of our inefficient, arguably racist deportation system? About seven times the amount it would cost to buy deportees a plane ticket home. And that's just the money.
