It is not too late for the United Kingdom to learn from other EU member-states that with stricter labor market rules and better job training, there is nothing to fear from immigration.
Immigration
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Trump’s America: Poor Immigrants Need Not Apply
A proposed Department of Homeland Security rule would make it more difficult for indigent people to obtain green cards.
Posted inWorking in America
An Immigrant Woman Takes Charge of the United Farm Workers
Change—and perhaps a new day in the fields—comes to Cesar Chavez’s legendary union.
Posted inWorking in America
An Immigrant Woman Takes Charge of the United Farm Workers
Change—and perhaps a new day in the fields—comes to Cesar Chavez’s legendary union.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Sweden Shows No Country Is Immune to Far-Right, Anti-Immigrant Backlash
Economic insecurity and an influx of migrants have pushed Swedish politics to the right.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Packing in the Migrant Kids, Even When Beds Are Running Short
Trump’s shelters for migrant children veer dangerously close to capacity.
Posted inWorking in America
The Big Business of Exploiting Au Pairs
A State Department program that oversees the nation’s au pair programs isn’t doing much overseeing at all.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Law Professors Denounce Sessions’s Push for Case Quotas for Immigration Judges
In a letter sent to Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday, more than 120 law professors denounced the Justice Department’s new performance metrics for immigration judges as a danger to due process and an infringement on judicial independence. Administrative and immigration law professors from at least 30 states warned that, while the current backlog of […]
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
A Good Formula for Losing the 2018 Election
The “Abolish ICE” slogan hands Republicans an opportunity on an issue where they ought to be entirely on the defensive.
Posted inWorking in America
What Was the Life of This Guest Worker Worth?
While Washington state agencies reduce farmworker pay and find employers faultless for a death in the fields, Trump and congressional Republicans back proposals to turn farmworking into permanent indentured servitude.
