An interview with Immigration Law Professor Laila Hlass
Immigration
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Counties Cancel ICE Detention Contracts
But advocates want detainees freed, not sent to for-profit jails
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Someday, Republicans May Reject Trump’s White Nationalism — But Not Yet
Trump has accelerated Republicans’ shift to increasingly far-right anti-immigration positions. They may disavow that nativism someday, but only when it will be convenient.
Posted inWorking in America
Farm Work Can Be a Skilled and Permanent Job
A Salinas grower and the union bet that a new contract will become an alternative to employing guest workers.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Jeff Sessions Does Not Understand Domestic Violence
As the Trump administration half-heartedly attempts to clean up the mess that its family separation policy created, another regressive policy that alters who can seek asylum in the United States is now in effect. Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a directive in mid-June that severely restricts the ability of asylum seekers to gain entry into […]
Posted inWorking in America
Immigrants and Unions Make America Great
And they’re fighting back against Trump’s onslaught
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
District Families’ Rally Posters Speak Many Messages
At Washington’s Families Belong Together March, the words that people said, wrote, and held up expanded the march’s original slogan to incorporate a diversity of causes.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Denying the Child Tax Credit to Undocumented Children
A little-noticed provision in the Republican tax reform will strip billions in tax benefits from an estimated one million mostly low-income undocumented children residing in the United States.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Trump’s Dominance Display: Traumatizing Children
Sure, the tearing of brown toddlers from their brown mothers gives the Trump base warm-and-fuzzies. But it’s also a message to the rest of us.
