North American immigrant issues
US Justice Department rulings target immigrants’ legal rights
By Tom Eley, January 15, 2009
Attorney General Michael Mukasey has issued a ruling declaring that immigrants have no constitutional right to a defense attorney in deportation proceedings. The Justice Department also unveiled a new...
New York City cops arrest immigrant day laborers
By Luis Arce and Bill Van Auken, October 29, 2008
The arrests last week of immigrants workers seeking casual labor has sent a chilling warning throughout Jackson Heights, a heavily immigrant neighborhood in Queens.
More than 300 workers arrested in immigration raid on South Carolina plant
By Hiram Lee, October 10, 2008
Federal agents stormed the Columbia Farms poultry plant in Greenville, South Carolina on Tuesday, arresting at least 330 immigrant workers.
