In case you missed it: Ezra Klein makes a case today for increasing immigration as a way to attract highly skilled workers, lower prices and raise wages. He argues the economic arguments immigration critics point to, such as the need to protect jobs for Americans in bad economic More…
As more details emerge on workplace safety abuses in Michigan after the Enbridge oil spill, a new report by the Center for Progressive Reform argues the government’s disaster response plans put too little emphasis on worker safety.
Undocumented workers make up large proportions of the nation’s chefs, cooks and dishwashers, and as the Obama administration shifts much of its immigration enforcement efforts toward employers, enforcement against restaurants is on the rise, The New York Times reported today. But many in the restaurant industry feel the More…
This week, The Washington Independent is featuring a series of investigative stories on the rebuilding of New Orleans, five years after Hurricane Katrina. Find all of them here.
Jacinta Gonzalez, an organizer with the Congress of Day Laborers in New Orleans, tells a story about the abuse of workers More…
One of the major complaints against immigration — both legal and illegal — is that non-Americans take jobs that could be occupied by citizens during a time of high unemployment. But immigrants actually boost incomes and productivity over time, according to a paper released Monday by More…
Undocumented workers are working nearly 100 hours per week in unsafe conditions to clean up the Enbridge oil spill in Battle Creek, Mich., according to an investigation by our sister publication, The Michigan Messenger. The workers were bused in by a Texas company to clean up the spill, working 12- More…
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made a push for Hispanic voters Tuesday by arguing Republicans are to blame for the Senate’s inability to move forward with immigration reform efforts. “I don’t know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican, OK,” Reid said, according to the Las More…
Last week, Joshua Ray, the manager of the small town of Aztec, N.M., received text messages from a few friends and colleagues telling him to tune into a local talk radio program. He did, only to hear callers decrying Aztec for harboring undocumented aliens, turning a blind eye to illegal More…
No. But the idea is out there. Rep. Kenny Marchant (R-Texas) has proposed requiring Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to verify that everyone receiving a home loan backed by them is of legal status. On the site America Speaking Out, where House Republicans lets users submit and vote on More…
Media Matter catches Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas) on the House floor last night comparing the capture of undocumented aliens to that of exotic grasshoppers.
Now it seems to me that if we are so advanced with technology and manpower and competence that we can capture illegal grasshoppers from
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