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Editor’s Note: This is the second installment of a series on border solidarity by journalist and immigration activist David Bacon. This article…
On some warm nights, Fausto Limon’s children wake up and vomit from the smell. He puts his wife, two sons and daughter…
The Oaxacan Institute for Attention to Migrants, and its director Rufino Dominguez, called for a new era of respect for the rights…
This article was reported in partnership with The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute and the Puffin Foundation. Some names of the…
Oakland, California – When Occupy Seattle called its tent camp "Planton Seattle," camp organizers were laying a local claim to a set…
On September 5, Mexican President Felipe Calderon gave the fifth state of the nation speech since his (many say fraudulent) election in…
BERKELEY, CALIF.—When the current wave of mass firings of immigrant workers started three years ago, they were called “silent raids” in the…
Last week the Utah legislature passed three new laws that have been hailed in the media as a new, more reasonable, approach…
This is the fourth article of a series on border solidarity by journalist and immigration activist David Bacon. All articles in the…
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