From the New York Times (h/t to lambert of Corrente)
Of course, the bloggers can work elsewhere, and they profess a love of the nonstop action and perhaps the chance to create a global media outlet without a major up-front investment. At the same time, some are starting to wonder if something has gone very wrong. [...]
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[The is first part of the a two part series]
In a massive, coordinated effort, more than 100 agents from the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) descended on AgriProcessors Inc., the largest kosher meatpacking plant in the country, in Postville, Iowa. The raid is considered to be one of the largest government dragnets against [...]
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In this country, policies concerning immigration continually confront politicians to make difficult decisions. In a democracy, every public policy requires some accommodations from what experts might conceive as a technocratic ideal to adapt to political pressures. There is no reason to expect that policy toward who is allowed to work in a country would be [...]
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What you know about Cinco de May is only half the story. It is also known as the great mayonnaise mess.
Most people don’t know that back in 1912, Hellmann’s mayonnaise was manufactured in England. In fact, the Titanic was carrying 12,000 jars of the condiment scheduled for delivery in Vera Cruz, México, which was [...]
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May Day, better known as International Workers’ Day, has approached us once again. May Day began in America at the time we once were working more than 8 hour shifts and employers did not care for the safety of their workers. That was then, now, many associate May Day as an immigrant event. Yet, [...]
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This is the blog of Edmundo "XicanoPwr" Rocha, a social worker, an activist, freelance writer and founder and editor of The Sanctuary. My interests include: immigration reform, critical race theory and it's interaction with equality/inequality and freedom/oppression as they relate to the experiences of people of color in the Americas.
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