Immigration Reform 2008 News Archives

2008 Headlines:

• 01/15/10 - Are Anti-Immigration Groups Hijacking the Environmental Movement?
• 10/21/09 - Department of Homeland Security Expands Controversial 287(g) Program Empowering Local Police to Enforce Immigration Laws
• 08/25/09 - The Dark Side of Dairies: A Broken System Leaves Immigrant Workers Invisible - and in Danger
• 06/09/09 - Unions Embrace Street Corner Solidarity
• 05/15/09 - Film: "Under the Cloak of Darkness" Shows Life for Vermont's Migrant Mexican Farm Worker Population
• 04/16/09 - Agent Orange Replay? Critics Blast US Border Patrol's Herbicide Strategy
• 03/02/09 - Activists Protest Immigration Raids in Phoenix
• 02/09/09 - Obama's Immigration Conundrum
• 06/28/08 - Green Party Presidential Candidate Cynthia McKinney on Mexican Oil Privatization, Fair Trade & Immigration
• 06/20/08 - Obama and Latino Voters: Brownout in Black Camelot
• 06/10/08 - A Local Immigration Crackdown
• 06/03/08 - To Create a Truly Sustainable Food System, We'll Have to Confront the Farm-Labor Crisis
• 06/02/08 - Bush Administration Steps Up Immigration Raids
• 05/20/08 - Immigration Agency Plans New Family Detention Centers
• 05/19/08 - Silence Broken: Hurricane Evacuation -- For Citizens Only?
• 05/19/08 - A New Round of Raids As The Economy Sours
• 05/13/08 - Crises At Home
• 05/08/08 - Is Immigration Off the Table in Election 2008?
• 05/07/08 - 66 Deaths in Immigrant Prisons Signal Need to Shut Down ICE
• 05/06/08 - Few Details on Immigrants Who Died in Custody
• 05/01/08 - So-Called Free Trade Equals Forced Immigration: Support the 'Right Not to Emigrate'
• 04/29/08 - Bush Administration Cracking Down on Undocumented Farmworkers
• 04/29/08 - Pinch of Racism
• 04/26/08 - As Enlistment Rates Fall, Military Recruiters Target Undocumented Immigrants
• 04/22/08 - Scientists Fear Border Fence Will Harm Animals, Plants
• 04/14/08 - L.A. Mayor Chides ICE For Workplace Immigration Raids
• 04/11/08 - Video: A Reverse Picture of Immigration
• 04/10/08 - San Francisco Reaches Out to Immigrants
• 04/01/08 - Juan's Story: Undocumented but Not Un-American
• 03/29/08 - State Illegal Immigrant Hiring Law Won't Work
• 03/27/08 - Immigration Policy in the States- Mid-session Developments
• 03/14/08 - Black and Brown Together
• 03/14/08 - Berkeley City Council Opposes U.S.-Mexico Border Wall
• 03/11/08 - Protesters Against the Texas-Mexico Border Fence
• 02/28/08 - States Criminalizing Immigrant Workers through State "Identity Theft" Legislation
• 02/15/08 - Progressive States Network on State Immigration Policies & Politics in 2008
• 01/10/08 - Caminos: Mexico-U.S. Migration-Causes and Concerns
• 12/29/08 - Immigrant Workers: Living Under the Trees
• 12/18/08 - Obama Should Tear Down The Walls
• 11/19/08 - Obama's Latino Vote Mandate
• 11/14/08 - After Jail, Agriprocessors Workers Face a Difficult Journey
• 10/30/08 - Message to the President-Elect: Stop the Raids on Immigrant Workers and Farm Workers in the First 100 Days
• 10/21/08 - Immigration Raids vs. Enforcing Labor Rights
• 10/08/08 - Railroading Immigrants
• 09/23/08 - Promoting Wage Enforcement Laws as an Alternative to Anti-Immigrant Proposals
• 09/12/08 - Kosher Giant Turns to Supreme Court in Fight With Immigrants
• 09/09/08 - The Anti-Immigrant Movement That Failed: Positive Integration Policies by States Still Far Outweigh Punitive Policies Aimed at New Immigrants
• 09/04/08 - Dark Meat
• 09/04/08 - Florida Tomato Agribusiness Giants Plead Guilty to Enslaving Mexican & Guatemalan Immigrant Workers
• 08/30/08 - U.S. Farmers See How Their Farm Worker Employees Live Back in Mexico
• 08/17/08 - This Year Homeland Security Has Deported 90,000 Children Under the Age of 17 to Mexico Without a Parent or Caregiver
• 08/13/08 - Food Crisis in Mexico: A US Policy Disaster That Bodes Increased Immigration
• 07/18/08 - When An Immigrant Mom Gets Arrested
• 07/17/08 - The Right to Stay Home
• 07/15/08 - More Seek Asylum on U.S.-Mexico Border
• 07/11/08 - Death in the Field
• 07/02/08 - Dozens of Minutemen Confront Day-Laborers Gathered For Work in Aurora, CO
• 12/26/07 - Impoverished Mexicans Face NAFTA-Powered Onslaught of U.S. Subsidized & Genetically Engineered Corn
• 12/21/07 - Costs of Anti-Immigrant Legislation
• 12/19/07 - International Migrants Day - Dec. 18 - Time To Make Rights A Reality
• 12/05/07 - Democracy Now Challenges CNN's Lou Dobbs on Immigration Issues
• 10/22/07 - Outsourcing Government
• 10/11/07 - Judge Suspends Key Bush Effort In Immigration
• 10/07/07 - U.S. Lets In More Immigrants for Farms
• 06/13/07 - Immigrants: What 'These People' Contribute Remains America' s Saving Grace
• 06/12/07 - What Do Subsidized Corn, A Militarized Border, and Finance Reform Have To Do With It?
• 06/06/07 - M.I.A. from the Immigration Debate, Creating Economic Opportunity in Mexico
• 05/27/07 - Attention Immigrants: Thanks for Your Hard Work. Now Leave
• 05/03/07 - Hundreds of Thousands March for Immigrant Rights Across the USA
• 12/26/06 - Massive Migration Sweep at Meatpacking Plants Creates Havoc for Workers' Families
• 03/31/06 - Organizers See "New Civil Rights Movement" in Immigration Protests
• 03/28/06 - 500,000 to 2 Million Take to the Streets of L.A. To Demonstrate Against Anti-Immigrant Bill
• 08/14/09 - The Crisis: Can Labor Get Out of This Mess?
• 05/13/09 - A Year Later, Controversial Immigration Raid in Iowa Still Marks a Flashpoint