Right Wing Radio Hosts Blame Immigrants for Swine Flu

" Conservative radio hosts - Michael Savage, Neal Boortz, Glenn Beck - have blamed Mexican immigrants for spreading swine flu across the border. However, Rear Adm. Anne Schuchat, M.D., the interim deputy director...

Labor Movement Finds New Unity Behind Immigration Proposal

"While the business lobby supported comprehensive immigration overhauls in the past, much of that support has hinged on the expansion of temporary guest-worker programs that bring immigrants into the country for a finite number of years, but do not necessarily offer them...

Music to fight agains Mexican illegal immigration

The story of US borders patrol using all they can to fight against illegal immigration at the Mexican border is not new. But broadcasting Mexican songs on local radio for free to tell how dangerous it is to cross the border is really surprising. According to Carlos...

A reflection on last year's May Day Immigration Rallies

"It was the third annual nationwide protest on May 1, calling for changes in immigration laws and a reduction in police raids and arrests that have led to increased deportations. The turnout at rallies, in...

Indian return to Uganda

BY MRINALINI REDDY, MEDILL NEWS SERVICE A family friend Goswami Debarata, from Calcutta, has been a resident for about ten years and plans to go back in a few years. Debolina Choudhary had been married only a few...

Maids for sale on the Lebanese market

BY ELISE BARTHET, SCIENCES PO, SPECIAL TO THE MEDILL NEWS SERVICE We stopped the car at an anonymous-looking building just outside Beirut that nearly disappeared behind an enormous yellow billboard. A blue drawing covers half the space of the ad. It pictures an Asian woman...

False papers means not wanting to say you're illegal

 By Jack C. DoppeltMy parents were immigrants. I didn’t think of them that way, though I was embarrassingly aware that they were from the old country. By the time I was born, both of them were citizens, and...

Lost in translation: children interpret for immigrant parents

BY KIRA LERNER [this story was written originally for a course, Enterprise Reporting in Diverse Communities, at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism] Gustavo Montes, a 13-year-old Edgewater resident, plays a crucial role in his parents’ lives. Not only is...

A mission shared, a flock divided

"Detentions at McHenry County Correctional Facility"Over half of the inmates at the McHenry County Correctional Facility, in Woodstock, are immigrant detainees. Jail officials, activists and clergy are working together to meet their spiritual needs as they are locked away...

It's Time to Stop Celebrating Cinco De Mayo!

Launched in 2006 as a somewhat-cheesy tongue-in-cheek merchandising gimmick (i.e., "Use mustard instead of mayonnaise"), the CINCO DE MUSTARD campaign has gotten "legs" and deserves serious consideration from Americans -- especially owners of restaurants, bars and other...

Nuevo New Orleans: Latino Immigrants Remake the Crescent City

BY PETER HOLDERNESS[the story was originally published in March 2008 for Immigration Here & There, a Medill School of Journalism project - to the photo essay, "Portraits of Atletico, Louisiana"]Fernando Saucedo crossed the U.S.-Mexico border on July 4, 2005, headed for...

“Rape Trees” Frame Arizona-Mexico Border: Grim Reminders o...

A recent report from the Cronkite News Service, a student-run news service of Arizona State University, shed the national spotlight on a new immigration problem plaguing the desert border towns of Arizona: so...

Foreign workers in Alta. face uncertain fate

Barry Artiste Op/Ed Though I have always voiced on Now Public "Immediately stopping Immigration to Canada" during our worst economic times since the Dirty Thirties, You do not discard and deport those workers who immigrated here on good faith, who were law abiding, worked and...

Cops traumatize trafficked women

" To the editor: Re: "Human trafficking thrives under radar," Feb. 13. The recent attention around 2010 Olympic Games trafficking issues ignores the fact that Canada has a long and illustrious history in human...

Arizona rancher sued by Illegals

And I thought Illegals got treeted too well in Canada?  This is crazy.  This guy is doing the job the border patrol seems incapable of and HE gets sued?   " 16 Illegal Immigrants Suing Arizona...

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