On AlterNet: undocumented workers

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "undocumented workers"

Pilot Program for Deportations in Denver Leaves Many Families in Legal Limbo

Elena Shore, New America Media. December 16, 2011.

Once their deportation cases are closed, undocumented immigrants will continue to live here without legal status.

Audacious Innovators Take On Broken Immigration System -- Without Asking

Wendy Sefsaf, Immigration Impact. December 9, 2011.

While Freedom University offers undocumented students an education, a new company plans to purchase a boat where high-skilled workers may live and work off-shore.

Border Security After 9/11: Wasteful Policy Fueling New Drug Wars

Tom Barry, AlterNet. September 14, 2011.

The criminal justice system is overwhelmed, our prisons are crowded with immigrants, and the flagging "war on drugs" has been given new life at home and abroad.

DREAMers: How Equal Opportunity For Immigrant Minors Could Actually Help Our Economy

Kathly Mulady, Equal Voice . August 5, 2011.

Allowing immigrant minors the resources to pursue their dreams and achieve upward mobility would benefit not only them, but our economy as well.

Lou Dobbs, Immigrant-Basher, Uses Undocumented Workers on his Horse Farm

Isabel Macdonald, The Nation. October 7, 2010.

At his multi-million-dollar estates, the GOP hopeful and crusader against immigrants, employed undocumented workers to maintain his daughter's equestrian lifestyle.

Haitians in U.S. Need Protection From Deportation

Alanna Shaikh, UN Dispatch. January 15, 2010.

The U.S. has momentarily stopped deporting undocumented Haitians. But that protection needs to be formalized.

Dept of Homeland Security Expands Controversial Program Empowering Local Police

Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. October 19, 2009.

The 287(g) program gives local law enforcement authority to enforce federal immigration laws, which has led to accusations of racial profiling.

U.S. Immigration Policy Achieves the Opposite of What it Set Out to Do

Ruben Navarrette, Washington Post Writers Group. October 21, 2008.

Our approach to immigration cuts across-the-border family ties, making undocumented immigrants far more likely to remain in the United States.

Big Agriculture's Exploitation of Migrant Workers

Inside USA, Al Jazeera. August 25, 2008.

Inside USA reports.

Exploited: The Plight of the Undocumented Worker

Cristina Jimenez, Drum Major Institute. August 12, 2008.

To address the decline in working conditions caused by immigrant exploitation, we should not be deporting workers but enforcing workplace laws.

The Postville ICE Raid: An Enormous Abuse of Power

DELETED, Orcinus. July 30, 2008.

It's worth remembering that incipient police states target the most vulnerable members of society.

Handling Immigrants the Republican Way - Like Cattle

David Neiwert, Firedoglake. May 14, 2008.

The refusal of Republicans to treat immigrants humanely will cost America in more ways than one.

Six Undocumented Students Arrested for Protesting Georgia’s HB 87

Julianne Hing, December 31, 1969.