Immigration Reform
It is a blot on American history that we have maintained a system of slave labor, and now we're blaming the immigrants for that. We can have sane immigration policies. But we have to stop blaming the victim."
-Dennis Kucinich
Headlines
- 06/25/10 - United Farm Workers Encourage Americans To 'Take Our Jobs'
- 05/28/10 - Rage Against the Machine Lead Arizona Boycott
- 05/04/10 - Arizona's Immigration Law Spurs Copycat Legislation
- 04/29/10 - Stand Up for Human Rights, Boycott Arizona!
- 01/15/10 - Are Anti-Immigration Groups Hijacking the Environmental Movement?
- 10/21/09 - Department of Homeland Security Expands Controversial 287(g) Program Empowering Local Police to Enforce Immigration Laws
- 08/25/09 - The Dark Side of Dairies: A Broken System Leaves Immigrant Workers Invisible - and in Danger
- 08/14/09 - The Crisis: Can Labor Get Out of This Mess?
- 06/09/09 - Unions Embrace Street Corner Solidarity
- 05/15/09 - Film: "Under the Cloak of Darkness" Shows Life for Vermont's Migrant Mexican Farm Worker Population
- 05/13/09 - A Year Later, Controversial Immigration Raid in Iowa Still Marks a Flashpoint
- 04/16/09 - Agent Orange Replay? Critics Blast US Border Patrol's Herbicide Strategy
- 03/02/09 - Activists Protest Immigration Raids in Phoenix
- 02/09/09 - Obama's Immigration Conundrum
- 12/29/08 - Immigrant Workers: Living Under the Trees
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The GNA Platform
Press the politicians to support:
- Immigration reform, whereby the U.S.'s estimated seven million undocumented workers are able to obtain a path to legal status
- Progressive tax policies that create fairness for low-income communities and the middle class
- A repeal of the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy
- An increase in earned income tax credits for the poor
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U.N. Special Rapporteur Final Report
Here are the findings Jorge Bustamente Special Repporteur on the Rights of Migrants for the U.N. He writes he "has serious concerns about the situation of migrants in the country, especially in the context of specific aspects of deportation and detention policies.. to specific groups such as migrant workers in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, migrant farm workers, and migrants in detention facilities."
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Resources
Human Migration and Mobility In 2007
A slideshow by the American Friends Service Committee documenting the forward steps taken in 2007.
Unity Blueprint for Immigration Reform
This document, produced by the AFL-CIO, "provides specific legislative proposals for rational and humane transformation of the current immigration policy disaster in the United States."
This video takes a wry look at the current state of immigrant employment.
Featured Website
New America Media
Seeking to bring into national awareness all of the latest issues surrounding immigration and the people it's policies affect.
Featured Video
The Pinky Show - How to Solve Illegal Immigration -Two adorable anthropomorphic kitties lead the discussion on this excellent explication of the immigration debate.
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