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Category: Illegal People
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By Gayatri Patnaik One of my sharpest memories as a girl was when an immigration officer came to our house in rural Finzel, Maryland when I was about nine years old. He showed up at our house unannounced and I still remember the stunned look on my mother’s face when she answered the door. I…
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“Deportation relief is a stopgap measure,” says David Bacon, author of THE RIGHT TO STAY HOME: How US Policy Drives Mexican Migration. “We need permanent solutions so that those receiving deferred status are not vulnerable.”
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We need an immigration policy that brings people together, instead of pitting workers against each other, as our current system does.
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A roundup of labor stories by David Bacon gives an overview of the issues facing immigrant workers in America.
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Violence has displaced the Triqui people from their homes in San Juan Copala to the sidewalks outside the governor’s palace in Oaxaca and across the border in the United States.
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David Bacon shares images of the public workers who find themselves facing weakened retirement systems and unfair blame in the wake of this week’s elections.
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Today's post is from David Bacon, author of Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants. For more articles and images, see http://dbacon.igc.org, and read more about Beacon's immigration titles at "Beyond SB1070" on Beacon.org. In San Francisco and Oakland, immigrants and community activists protested Arizona's SB 1070, which would require police and local…
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How NAFTA produced Mexican migration.
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David Bacon looks at a new proposal for immigration reform and calls for something better.
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Cesar Cota was the first in his family to attend college. “Now it’s hard to achieve my dream,” he says, “because the state put higher fees on us, and cut services and classes.”
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