InvestigationImmigration, Politics Children of the Exodus US immigration officials deport tens of thousands of unaccompanied children to Mexico each year, many of whom grew up in the United States. What, exactly, becomes of them? Melissa del BosqueThe Texas ObserverNovember 4, 2010
InvestigationImmigration, Justice, Politics Nativist Militias Get a Tea-Party Makeover The Minutemen were the nation’s largest border vigilante group before financial scandals and criminal violence tore them apart. Now former leaders are bringing their anti-immigrant politics inside the Tea Party. Gaiutra BahadurThe NationOctober 28, 2010
InvestigationImmigration, Politics, World Deportation Horror: From Texas to Bangladesh Texan Shahed Hossain, a US green card holder, was deported to Bangladesh just for telling a border guard that he was a citizen. He’s but one casualty of President Obama’s policy of mass deportations. Brian Palmer & Seth Freed WesslerColorlines.comOctober 10, 2010
AnalysisImmigration Diary of a Dobbs Story Gone Viral Our Twitter feed has gone crazy. Romenesko, Olbermann, and David Carr are all tweeting it. The Huffingon Post has it front-paged; Politico calls it a “PR bomb” for Dobbs; Salon gleefully announces that Isabel Macdonald “nails [Dobbs] to the wall”… Esther KaplanOctober 7, 2010
InvestigationImmigration, Labor Lou Dobbs, American Hypocrite While he railed against “illegal aliens” and their “illegal employers,” undocumented immigrants tended to Lou Dobbs’ estates and prize horses. Isabel MacdonaldThe NationOctober 7, 2010
InvestigationImmigration, Labor Indocumentados trabajaron para Dobbs Lou Dobbs regularmente arremetía contra los “empleadores de ilegales.” Sin embargo, el propio Dobbs utilizó mano de obra de indocumentados para que trabajaran en sus propiedades multimillonarias y que atendieran los caballos que le tiene a su hija Hillary. Isabel MacdonaldEl DiarioOctober 7, 2010
InvestigationImmigration, Justice At War in Texas Border policy is now effectively dictated by alarmist border-area sheriffs and politicians — and the federal funds flow fast and loose their way, with little accountability. Tom BarryThe Boston ReviewSeptember 28, 2010
AnalysisImmigration, Labor Behind a Human Trafficking Investigation On September 1, the Department of Justice leveled the largest human trafficking indictment in US history… John BoweSeptember 14, 2010
ImpactImmigration, Labor Federal Indictments in Human Trafficking Scheme Mordechai Orian, the target of an Investigative Fund probe into human trafficking, is now under federal indictment, in the largest such federal case in history. Esther KaplanSeptember 7, 2010
InvestigationImmigration, Justice What a Tough-Love Sheriff Left Behind Long before Arizona passed its anti-immigrant law, Sheriff Joe Arpaio was taking border enforcement into his own hands. His jail deported a dead man walking, and now a Mexican family grieves. Aura BogadoMother JonesJuly 30, 2010