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By Michele R. Marcucci, STAFF WRITER...

Since only earlier this afternoon, American mainstream networks have been reporting that there are hundreds of undocumented immigrants raided from six different meat packing plants that belong to a company named Swift, but the exact numbers of people raided were not given. The Feds say there was a one year long investigation operation on immigration violations, which included stolen or made up identification documents, such as social security numbers. The news is currently developing, but it ...

Latino and labor votes gave the Democratic Party their landslide victory in November's Congressional elections. But now, two conservative Democratic leaders are proposing an employer sanctions program that would target immigrants and alienate the party's new base. And, in an escalation of tactics, immigration authorities are raiding meatpacking plants today in several states. David Bacon is a NAM associate editor and author of "Communities Without Borders -- Images and Voices From the World o...

Homeland security authorities are increasingly locking up thousands of immigrants. It's good for the private detention center business, but hell on detainees and their families, writes Erica Schommer of the Amnesty International USA's Refugee Program steering committee (a DWN affiliate), and an immigration attorney in Texas....

In the midst of the raging immigration debate, there’s no better way to get a pulse on the issues than riding a tourist trolley across the invisible line to Mexico. Neelanjana Banerjee is an editor of Youth Outlook....

WASHINGTON — Fed up with government inaction on the hot-button issue of illegal immigration, a growing number of American towns are taking matters into their own hands adopting controversial and, some say, illegal and racist legislation....

The Fresno County Peace and Freedom Party has endorsed and adopted the statement on the rights of migrants issued by the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights in honor and observance of the United Nations’ International Migrants Day....

Islamic Community Net has identified many errors and omissions in the new "Homeland Security" US naturalization citizenship exam which is to be inflicted next year on those unfortunate foreigners who take the exam....

The Democratic Party's midterm victory has raised hopes that fair and comprehensive immigration reform could be instituted at last. But are Democrats up to the challenge, asks Deepak Bhargava, executive director of DC-based Center for Community Change. IMMIGRATION MATTERS regularly features the views of the nation's leading immigrant rights advocates....

Most in the United States know about the internment of Japanese Americans. But 22,000 more Japanese were interned in Canada as well. Writer Teena Apeles explores this dark chapter in North American history....