Immigrants
Immigrant deaths on Arizona border rise
September 1, 2009With five weeks left in the fiscal year the number of human remains recovered on the Arizona-Sonora border since October 1, 2008 has reached 183 already surpassing last year's death toll.
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Immigrant workers demand back wages from NBC Contractors
August 28, 2009HAYWARD, Calif. - "When I heard about NBC Contractors denying workers their rights and the pay they deserve, I thought about my father, and the struggles he went through when he emigrated from China 25 years...
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Study uncovers racist roots in anti-immigrant groups
February 4, 2009The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in a report released Feb. 3 charges that three Washington D.C. organizations have racist roots and that they were the most responsible for blocking comprehensive immigration reform in 2007. All...
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Namesake challenges melting pot myths
June 1, 2007The director of “The Namesake,” Mira Nair, seems to be making a deliberately foreign film in America. The film is based on the 2004 novel of the same title by Jhumpa Lahiri.
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