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We take a look at the forces behind the anti-immigrant movement with journalist Max Blumenthal of The Nation. Blumenthal says the ideas for the movement "did not come from a vacuum and they're not necessarily a rational response to a crisis. They come from the white nationalist movement, a movement that seeks to maintain what they consider the white character of then United States."...

Hundreds of thousands of immigrants took to the streets on Tuesday in protests in dozens of cities across the country. Calls focused on demanding a path to citizenship for undocumented workers, ending immigrant raids and deportations and rejecting anti-immigrant legislation. We speak with organizers of the day's two largest protests: Los Angeles and Chicago....

LOS ANGELES, May 1, 2007 – An otherwise peaceful day of demonstrations throughout the city ended violently when the LAPD attacked the May Day march and rally in MacArthur Park today. A large rally numbering in the tens of 1,000s was driven from the park and the streets around the park. Families with young children were forced to flee as the police fired hundreds of rounds of rubber bullets and tear gas into the crowd. There are reports of many injuries, including journalists with a TV news cr...

Hundreds of thousands of immigrant workers and their supporters took part in marches and protests in Los Angeles, New York, Phoenix, Chicago, Denver, Detroit and other major cities across the United States on May 1 to protest the growing number of raids and deportations and to press for basic democratic rights. The actions included demonstrations, consumer boycotts and school walkouts....

There are some scattered reports coming in about police opening fire with rubber bullets at the MacArthur Park endpoint of a very large march supporting amnesty for undocumented immigrants. A TV news station gave an estimate of 150,000, so you could set that as a conservative estimate. More complete newswire stories should be submitted in a few hours, so I'll just link to the front page of their site. http://la.indymedia.org/...

Everybody knows that America is a land of immigrants. And that the Statue of Liberty stands in New York harbor holding a torch to light the way for the tired, the poor and the “huddled masses yearning to be free.”...

The following is a statement from the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, on the occasion of the May 1st demonstrations for immigrant rights...

The Alliance for Just and Lasting Peace in the Philippines (AJLPP) extends its warmest greetings of solidarity and snappy salute to all workers and migrants in the United States on the International Workers’ Day, May 1. We are extremely happy that after more than 60 years, we have been able to reclaim and make May 1st, truly an international workers’ day in the United States. This, in itself, is a great victory for the workers’ movement in the United States. But now, the situation has cha...

We are calling A national day of multi-ethnic unity with youth, labor, peace and justice communities in solidarity with immigrant workers and building new immigrant rights & civil rights movement!...

On April 26, 2007 members of United Voices for United Families, who work out of Our Lady of Guadalupe Mission Church in Chicago, Illinois, traveled to Washington DC to the office of one of the most ant-immigrant Congressman in the United States of America, Congressman Tom Tancredo....