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.
Ed Struzik, Yale Environment 360. July 10, 2008. With sea ice melting, there is a rush to tap the abundant riches that lie beneath the permafrost and the ocean floor.
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).
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.
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.
yave begnet, Drum Major Institute AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. June 24, 2008. The U.S. is committing human rights abuses in the name of freedom and democracy.
Tom Barry, Americas Policy Program. June 23, 2008. ICE has created a multi-billion dollar industry for holding immigrants deemed "removable" by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Caroline Kim, Jenna Loyd, ColorLines. June 23, 2008. Border Patrol agents are checking the citizenship status of travelers passing through by bus and train every day in New York, deporting immigrants.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. May 22, 2008. The idea that the government isn't trying to enforce its immigration laws is hogwash -- the problem is that it's all it's doing.
Roberto Lovato, Of America AlterNet: Immigration. May 21, 2008. The black and latino communities face a common threat in the shooting of Sean Bell and the ICE raids against immigrants.
David Neiwert, Firedoglake AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. May 16, 2008. Workers bear the brunt of government enforcement while business owners get off scott-free.
Roberto Lovato, The Nation. May 15, 2008. Latinos' subordinate status in Georgia strongly resembles that of African-Americans who lived under Jim Crow.
Cristina Jimenez, Drum Major Institute. May 13, 2008. It really shouldn't matter what one's opinion about the larger immigration question is -- these are basic issues of human rights.
Roberto Lovato, Of America AlterNet: PEEK. May 9, 2008. Latinos in the south are living in an environment resembling the plight of African Americans living under Jim Crow.
Roberto Lovato, Of America AlterNet: PEEK. May 6, 2008. Between January 2004 and November 2007, 66 people died while in the custody of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency.