Mexican workers are still at the mercy of phony labor organizations and anti-union local police. Can Mexico’s progressive president Andrés Manuel López Obrador gain control?
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Posted inLaw and Justice
A Glimpse of the Makeshift Courts Stonewalling Asylum Seekers
Lawyers and advocates explain how the immigration courts, erected in tents at the border, are so unjust that evidence from asylum seekers does not even get seen.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Trump’s Asylum Cruelty on Trial
A case in Canadian federal court attacks the administration’s model for stopping the flow of migrants seeking assistance: a refugee law ‘loophole.’
Posted inWorking in America
How About Some NAFTA Rights for U.S. Workers?
The Trump administration’s efforts on behalf of Mexican labor belie an aggressive anti-worker project at home.
Posted inAmerica and the World
A Mexican Oligarch Is Undermining the New NAFTA
As the bill moves from the House to the Senate, a billionaire mine owner seeks to defeat an American miners’ strike by employing scabs—which the pending accord would outlaw.
Posted inPolitics
Democratic Candidates Field Softball Questions on Immigration
The Trump administration has intensified its assault on protections for immigrants and asylum seekers, but you wouldn’t know it from watching Thursday’s debate.
Posted inTAP
How Trump Became a Fake Champion of Mexican Labor Rights (Of All Things)
Today on TAP: The NAFTA deal hits a last-minute snag
Posted inWorking in America
‘Close to Slavery’ or Legalization? The Farmworkers’ Hard Choice
A bipartisan bill now in Congress would legalize undocumented agricultural workers—but also bring in wage-depressing foreign contract workers with no rights.
Posted inWorking in America
Killing NAFTA Softly
Despite continual rumors that a deal on the update to the North American trade agreement is imminent, House Democrats and Trump are far apart.
Posted inAmerica and the World
What Workers Need From the Revision of NAFTA
A successful trade agreement with Canada and Mexico depends on fair treatment for Mexican workers.
