Getting married for the papers

By Lauren Timmerman, Latina Voices The first restaurant I worked in had fit every stereotype I had believed about the Latina community. Every person in the kitchen was undocumented and worked […]

*These human stories clarify so many of the falsehoods and spotlight the needs in the immigration debate. VL By Amy Braunschweiger, New America Media NASHVILLE, Tenn. — For years Claudia lived […]

*How toxic is Tom Tancredo to the Colorado GOP? His anti-immigration rants are so bad that some  high-level Colorado GOPers have asked him privately to drop out of the gubernatorial […]

*A good idea is spreading. They’ve tried these laundry/welcome centers in NYC with some success. Now they’re doing it in Charlotte. VL By Mark Price, Charlotte Observer The Charlotte City […]

*The immigration debate drones on. Of course Boehner would say that acting on immigration is not about politics. What’s noteworthy is that some politicians still think that platitudes about “what’s […]

*As people flee Honduras the sad thing is that few survive the trek across Mexico into the U.S. The tragedy is that it isn’t news. Few reports, like this independent […]

*Key here is the fact that the Administration had to rule on this matter again, that it had to clarify something that should have been settled.  It seems some people, […]

*It’s hard to resist the headline, but the story makes a good case of viewing Garcia Marquez’s work and personal story in the light of global immigration, and immigration in […]

*Since 2012 the U.S. Supreme Court has side-stepped the issue of harboring undocumented immigrants. That year SCOTUS struck down parts of Arizona’s sb1070, and that’s as far as it’s gone […]

*Read this. The respect Bourdain has for Mexico, its cuisine, its culture, and people is palpable. His defense of immigrants is very cool as well. Granted, the piece includes a […]