| Jul 8, 2010 | Food / FarmingUnited Farm Workers members clearly have a sense of humor. Their “take our jobs” campaign invites and actually recruits the nation’s citizens and legal immigrants (including those who blame undocumented workers for America’s high unemployment...
| Jun 21, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyAs the immigration debate rages on, I’ve been thinking about my own relationship with immigration. Growing up, I always thought of America as a destination. A place where most people, regardless of where they lived, wanted to be. My parents are from Nigeria, and...
| May 14, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyArizona’s harsh new immigration law is creating blowback, Christine Ahn and Linda Burnham assert in a Foreign Policy In Focus column. A growing number of cities, including Boston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, have passed city council resolutions mandating...
| May 12, 2010 | Rights / DemocracySen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), the nation’s only Latino senator, is calling on the Major League Baseball Players Association to boycott baseball’s 2011 all-star game in Phoenix. “The Arizona law is offensive to Hispanics and all Americans because it...
| May 10, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyYou know a law is bad news when even the police don’t want to enforce it. Officer Martin Escobar, a 15-year veteran of the Tucson police force, has filed suit in federal court, seeking to be exempted from enforcing Arizona’s new immigration law. Escobar,...
