Immigration

June 29, 2007 - For the over 10,000 people across the country who have come to the U.S. Social Forum now underway in Atlanta -- the largest U.S. gathering of social change activists in decades -- the event is a chance to build community, share ideas, to feel like they are part of a larger movement.

May 29, 2007 - The Senate is set to resume debate this week on a new "compromise" immigration bill (S.1348). This is a complicated bill and it's hard to find objective info.

April 23, 2007 - With Congress and the White House deadlocked on immigration, state legislatures have filled the void with a flurry of bills, making it one of the hottest state issues in 2007.

April 20, 2007 - On April 9, the tied and beaten body of Santiago Rafael Cruz -- a leader of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee -- was found dead in the union's Mexico-based office in Monterrey. Few leads have turned up, but FLOC President Baldamar Velasquez is convinced Cruz's torture and murder were "a pure political attack" to intimidate workers.

April 18, 2007 - Migrant farmworkers are responsible for putting food on most of our tables, but they remain among our country's most vulnerable groups. Farm laborers endure low pay and dangerous job conditions, while serving as an easy target in times of anti-immigrant backlash.

January 4, 2007 - As if New Orleans didn't have enough problems to contend with, deadly violence is on the rise in the city, which has long suffered from a high crime rate.

January 3, 2007 - A national civil rights group worries that a recent New York Times story about New Orleans' post-Katrina baby boom among Latinos-and the stress it's placing on the city's storm-devastated health care system-promotes prejudice against the people doing reconstruction's dirty work.