Immigrant rights
: Alan Maass For two weeks in the fall of 2003, activists from across the country boarded buses in a demonstration for immigrant workers' rights.
January 27, 2012
Tucson schools are shutting down Mexican-American Studies classes after threats from state officials--but students are stepping up their protests.
January 26, 2012
A Bangladeshi immigrant is finally out of a New Jersey detention center and back with his family, thanks to an activist campaign.
January 19, 2012
In a case that highlights the twisted mentality of U.S. immigration policy, a Dallas teen was mistakenly deported to Colombia.
January 17, 2012
A pesar de los devastadores efectos de la racista ley anti-inmigrante de Alabama, los activistas muestran su determinación de organizar y resistir.
December 14, 2011
Despite the devastating effects of Alabama's racist anti-immigrant law, activists are showing their determination to organize and fight back.
November 29, 2011
I decided to emigrate to America out of fear for my own safety and not wanting to leave my daughter fatherless.
November 17, 2011
San Diego activists gathered on November 14 to protest that the threatened deportation of Omar Aguilar be halted.
November 16, 2011
: Danny Lucia Facing the threat of deportation, Ahmed Hossain found allies who rallied to his side--including Occupy Wall Street.
November 15, 2011
: Danny Lucia Ahmed Hossain is facing deportation because of a clerical error--but New Yorkers are rallying to stop this injustice.
October 31, 2011
: Silvia Giagnoni The same day a judge upheld most of a vicious anti-immigrant law in Alabama, the state was praised for its teaching of civil rights history.
October 11, 2011
: Danny Lucia Nineteen-year-old Nadia Habib and her mother Nazmin won a reprieve from deportation after New York City immigrant rights activists fought back.
October 5, 2011
: Rebekah Ward A federal judge has upheld some of the harshest provisions of Alabama's anti-immigrant law HB 56, sparking fear in immigrant communities.
October 4, 2011
: Maximilian Power Immigrant students in Georgia organized a "Graduation of Resistance" to protest the state's ban on the undocumented attending top state universities.
August 31, 2011
: Benjamin Silverman Hundreds of exploited foreign student workers walked off their jobs and began picketing a Hershey's packing plant.
August 30, 2011
: Orlando Sepúlveda Six undocumented youth were arrested for a sit-down protest in Chicago as part of a campaign against Barack Obama’s immigration policies.
August 24, 2011
In August 2006, three Socialist Worker contributors traveled the border from San Diego/Tijuana to El Paso/Ciudad Juarez and wrote about the trip.
August 5, 2011
In August 2006, three Socialist Worker contributors traveled the border from San Diego/Tijuana to El Paso/Ciudad Juarez and wrote about the trip.
July 29, 2011
In August 2006, three Socialist Worker contributors traveled the border from San Diego/Tijuana to El Paso/Ciudad Juarez and wrote about the trip.
July 22, 2011
Adrian Gonzalez's decision to play in the 2011 All-Star Game in Arizona is bad news for immigrant rights activists.
June 27, 2011
: Rebekah Ward As a result of Georgia's anti-immigrant HB 87, agricultural workers are leaving the state and crops are rotting in the fields.
June 23, 2011
Major League Baseball's annual Civil Rights Game was poised to be an exercise in Orwellian irony--until Carlos Santana spoke.
May 19, 2011
Legislation in Arizona that targeted teachers with "accented speech" is only one part of a long history of language-based discrimination.
May 19, 2011
May Day celebrations around the country marked the 125th anniversary of the fight for the eight-hour day--and the continuation of struggles today.
May 9, 2011
: Rebekah Ward The state of Georgia has stepped back in time, officially sanctioning racial profiling of immigrants with the passage of HB 87.
April 21, 2011
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