On AlterNet: immigrant rights
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "immigrant rights"
Marcelo Ballvé, New America Media. December 23, 2008.
Advocates for immigrant rights have begun weaving together coalitions to have their voices heard.
Staff, America's Voice AlterNet: PEEK. December 10, 2008.
Bush's Department of Labor announces last minute changes to guestworker program.
Marcelo Ballvé, New America Media. December 2, 2008.
Elected officials in Suffolk County have created a xenophobic climate that breeds hate crimes.
Annette Fuentes, New America Media. October 6, 2008.
But it's not only undocumented immigrants who might be affected.
Julianne Ong Hing, ColorLines. September 30, 2008.
The vigilante group's leader called immigrants a wonderful addition to the American fabric, as well as criminal terrorists.
Rachael Scarborough King, Dollars and Sense. September 24, 2008.
Activists have been scrambling to inform immigrants in the state about their rights.
Staff, Immigration Policy Center AlterNet: PEEK. September 12, 2008.
Some Republicans in Congress are doing this country a grave disservic, by perpetuating the lies about immigrant criminality,
Simone Landon, Labor Notes. September 9, 2008.
Employers are using immigration enforcement by ICE to hurt workers, both natives and migrants.
Michelle Chen, The Women's International Perspective. August 6, 2008.
Legal protections for immigrant survivors of domestic violence are growing more complex and in some ways, more precarious.
Julianne Ong Hing , Seth Wessler, deleted. July 29, 2008.
People who until recently were released awaiting a hearing are now detained in immigration prisons.
Cristina Jimenez, Drum Major Institute AlterNet: PEEK. July 28, 2008.
The DREAM Act is a small first step to a better and more effective immigration debate.
Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet AlterNet: Democracy and Elections. July 10, 2008.
The immigrants' rights movement announces an unprecedented effort to register new voters before the 2008 presidential election.
Roberto Lovato, Huffington Post AlterNet: PEEK. May 2, 2008.
Nationwide rallies highlight the failure of the war on immigrants.
RH Reality CheckFebruary 8, 2008.
What you need to know about the intersection of reproductive health, immigration and the law.
Aishia Glasford, RH Reality Check. February 7, 2008.
It's time to recognize that the rights of immigrants are "women's issues" that demand political attention and feminist activism.
Adam Howard, AlterNet AlterNet: Video. December 13, 2007.
While anti-immigrant forces are extremely vocal, most Americans want our next president to support immigrant rights and a path to citizenship.
Daniel Hernandez, AlterNet: PEEK. August 21, 2007.
Daniel Hernandez: Elvira Arellano, an undocumented immigrant, is arrested and deported in front of her 8-year-old U.S.-born son Saul.
Guest Blogger, AlterNet: PEEK. June 8, 2007.
Melissa McEwan: I'm deeply unhappy with the decision to leap-frog employment skills ahead of family relationships, with regard to the attributes given preference in legal immigration decisions
Elana Levin, AlterNet: PEEK. May 23, 2007.
No one seems to like the Senate immigration bill in its current form-- except President Bush and New York Times columnist David Brooks.
