US

New Mexico Child Care Workers Get State Investment

Mel Leonor Barclay / The 19th News Jan 27, 2023 Predominantly Latina child care workers in New Mexico get the state to Invest in their industry. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Labor

Migrant Workers Win Crucial Labor Protections

Tina Vásquez / Prism Report Jan 27, 2023 Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

Immigration

Will California’s Gov. Newsom End Food Assistance for Undocumented Immigrants?

Mark Kreidler / Capital & Main Jan 24, 2023 Gov. Newsom Punts on Addressing Food Insecurity for Some of California’s Most Vulnerable Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Labor

Treating Farmworkers on Their Terms

David Bacon / Capital & Main Dec 20, 2022 Some Indigenous immigrant farmworkers in California visit community clinics where they choose to access western or nontraditional medicine. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

News

Being a Farmworker Is a Health Risk

David Bacon / Capital & Main Dec 14, 2022 Field laborers have high rate of illness and injury—and less access to health care. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

World

Migrant Workers in Qatar Face Mass Wage Theft

Rejimon Kuttappan / Open Democracy Dec 9, 2022 The terminated employment and theft of wages and benefits that thousands of migrant workers in Qatar experienced as the virus spread constitute a tragedy. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Politics

The Dispossessed

John Washington and Anna-Catherine Brigida / Texas Observer Dec 8, 2022 The Biden administration has neither halted family separations nor compensated past victims of the practice. Dig deeper ( 17 Min. Read )

Immigration

Mexico’s War Against Migrants

Dawn Paley / Truthdig Nov 14, 2022 Andrés Manuel López Obrador campaigned on a promise to humanize migrant policy in Mexico and Central America. What happened? Dawn Paley investigates. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

Tear Gas Sprayed Across Migrants at Turkey-Greece Border

MSTYSLAV CHERNOV and SUZAN FRASER / The Associated Press Mar 7, 2020 EU leaders accuse Erdogan's government of using the refugees' desperation "for political purposes" as open-borders policy causes rush. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Clashes Erupt on Greece-Turkey Border as Migrants Seek Entry

COSTAS KANTOURIS and SUZAN FRASER / The Associated Press Mar 4, 2020 Greece fires tear gas and stun grenades on crowds seeking refuge after Turkey declares its previously guarded gateways to Europe open. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Court Sides With Trump in ‘Sanctuary Cities’ Grant Fight

LARRY NEUMEISTER / The Associated Press Feb 26, 2020 The decision conflicts with those by three other federal appeals courts. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Trump’s Immigration Policy Amounts to Torture

Ilana Novick / Truthdig Feb 25, 2020 A new report from Physicians for Human Rights lays out the traumatic effects of child separation. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )