"Sarah Towle joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her book "Crossing the Line: Finding America in the Borderlands" where she writes about how unwelcoming our government is to...
Valerie Lacarte, Ph.D., Aug. 2024 "The charge that immigrants are taking jobs from U.S.-born Black workers has made its way from conspiracy circles to the broader public conversation this election...
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Eric Asimov, New York Times, Aug. 27, 2024 (gift article) "Arjav Ezekiel rose through the restaurant ranks becoming a sommelier and opening Birdie’s in Austin, Texas. Few knew of his past...
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, the ACLU, the ACLU of Louisiana, Immigration Services & Legal Advocacy, National Immigration Project, Aug. 26. 2024 "A coalition of immigrants’ rights groups...
"State Department programs that bring foreign exchange students to the United States to work or attend school require urgent attention because students are being put at risk for abuse, according to a report from the federal Inspector General’s office. That’s because the State Department’s programs are poorly run, according to the report. It said some programs need to be restructured and another federal agency — the Labor Department — may need to take over other programs." - Associated Press, Mar. 19, 2012.
[NOTE: The report is redacted. I find the (b)(5) redactions infuriating. I encourage reporters to file a FOIA request for an unredacted version, and to pursue the request through the administrative and judicial appeals process; I doubt these redactions would survive judicial scrutiny. So much for 'transparency.']