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Category: The Right to Stay Home
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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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The UUA and other religious organizations have reignited the Sanctuary Movement, an interfaith campaign that encourages congregations to open their doors and offer sanctuary to immigrants facing deportation…
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An indigenous community leader from Oaxaca reports on the struggle against economic policies that drive migration, in an excerpt from David Bacon’s The Right to Stay Home (now available in paperback).
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A new book,The Right to Stay Home: How US Policy Drives Mexican Migration by activist David Bacon, that brings a fresh perspective to the current immigration debate.
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The recent collapse of a building housing a sweatshop in Bangladesh highlights the human cost of cheap goods.
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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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