On AlterNet: immigrant rights

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "immigrant rights"

Immigrant Rights Activists Battle Harsh Laws Across U.S.

Marcelo Ballve, New America Media. December 23, 2008.

Advocates for immigrant rights have begun weaving together coalitions to have their voices heard.

Bush Administration Makes Yet Another Ill-Conceived Midnight-Hour Policy Change

Staff, America's Voice AlterNet: PEEK. December 10, 2008.

Bush's Department of Labor announces last minute changes to guestworker program.

Who Is to Blame for Marcelo Lucero's Murder?

Marcelo Ballve, New America Media. December 2, 2008.

Elected officials in Suffolk County have created a xenophobic climate that breeds hate crimes.

Tuition Becomes Battleground in Immigration Fight

Annette Fuentes, New America Media. October 6, 2008.

But it's not only undocumented immigrants who might be affected.

Minutemen Leader Talks Like a Humanitarian

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.

ICE Creates Climate of Fear in Rhode Island

Rachael Scarborough King, Dollars and Sense. September 24, 2008.

Activists have been scrambling to inform immigrants in the state about their rights.

Congressional Event Perpetuates Myth of Immigrant Criminality

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,

Immigration Raid Breaks Up Organizing Drive at Iowa Meatpacking Plant

Simone Landon, Labor Notes. September 9, 2008.

Employers are using immigration enforcement by ICE to hurt workers, both natives and migrants.

Immigrant Survivors of Abuse Struggle Within a Changing System

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.

When An Immigrant Mom Gets Arrested

Julianne Ong Hing , Seth Wessler, deleted. July 29, 2008.

People who until recently were released awaiting a hearing are now detained in immigration prisons.

The U.S. Should Never Deny the Right to Education. So Why Are We?

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.

Coalition Plans to Register 500,000 Recent Immigrants to Vote

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.

Still They March

Roberto Lovato, Huffington Post AlterNet: PEEK. May 2, 2008.

Nationwide rallies highlight the failure of the war on immigrants.

Immigration and Reproductive Justice: The Basics

RH Reality CheckFebruary 8, 2008.

What you need to know about the intersection of reproductive health, immigration and the law.

Immigrants' Rights Are Women's Rights

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.

Hillary Clinton Faces Tough Questions on Immigration, Gets Booed for Her Responses [VIDEO]

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.

The Rosa Parks of the Immigration Movement

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.

Immigration Bill Deadâ€”For Now (And Why Iâ€™m Glad)

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

...your huddled masses yearning to maximize earnings during each two-year window

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.