A heartwarming victory is only marred by the situation itself: one of the wealthiest counties in the U.S.

"Mandatory E-Verify without comprehensive immigration reform will not end illegal immigration, free up jobs for unemployed Americans, or save the country money. In fact, studies of E-Verify predict the opposite."

A fascinating overview of the issues surrounding the expansion of immigrant detention in Essex County, New Jersey, & around the country....

The show at the Capitol yesterday sounds hysterical alright: everyone from the most ardent advocate of children's rights to the most extreme right-wing nativist! The only thing to which I can imagine comparing it is the endless array of comments at the end of the article....

Here come the states!

Another brilliant piece on the rising anti-immigrant states-rights extremists being accepted into the mainstream discourse of American politics just as they are being elected into the mainstream offices of American jurisprudence (however unprudently) leaves me wondering if the Ut …

I'm always afraid when the most liberal court in the country hands down a fascist decision like this: hopefully not a sign of things to come!

WBAI's Evening News had the best coverage, detailing the stories of the unscrupulous restauranteur who answered a plea for payment with a whack of a frying pan & the contractor who threw someone out of a moving vehicle after they had severely beaten them - all for asking when the …

Imagine if your employers felt that they could strike you upside the head with a frying pan when you asked to get paid or throw you out of a moving car after severely assaulting you - & get away with it! Would you believe in the need for better labor laws then?

A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the most controversial parts of Arizona's immigration law from taking effect, delivering a last-minute victory to opponents of the crackdown.

The more the press examines the premise behind Arizona's SB 1070 law, the more it looks to be one of those "emperor-has-no-clothes" stories.

A federal indictment unsealed Tuesday afternoon alleges dozens of Haitian nationals were the victims of human trafficking in 2008 when they were delivered to rural Alachua County and forced to work on area farms.

I have been reading a lot of stories lately about cities and towns in the state of Arizona being "ghost" towns and cities. There has been a lot of Hispanics that have left the state leaving schools, business and rental proprieties with a lot of opening.

There was a funny smell to the way Arizona's police-state immigration law was passed -- especially the way factions with ties to white supremacists whipped up the phantom menace of a wave of crime associated with illegal immigration, focusing on the still-unsolved murder of a bor …

Last week, following Mexican President Felipe Calderon's speech before Congress, many conservatives blasted Calderon for slamming Arizona's new immigration law and "meddling" in U.S. politics. "It's about us. It's about our citizenry," said Sen.

The new anti-immigrant Arizona law allows law enforcement officials to engage in a dragnet against people suspected of looking like undocumented immigrants. The law had to be amended because its original version was almost certainly unconstitutional.