- Profile of a pro-immigrant advocacy coalition
- The link to the complete New Bedford Standard-Times series
- High quality profile of immigrant labor in one city
- A great pro-immigrant blog
- 4 in 10 green card holders had a prior illegal period of stay
- EU toughens stance on illegal immigrants
- Two cases of immigrant labor abuses
- Postville, IA: nogoodnik employer
- Burmese workers replace illegal meat processing workers
- 14% of Mexicans work in the U.S.
- Immigrant Hispanic unemployment rate: 7.5%
- One of out six workers is an immigrant
- A conservative's endorsement of liberal immigration policy
- Incremental immigration reforms held up by Hispanic caucus
- Grey market employer crackdowns and illegal workers
- Second generation immigrants doing well – study in New York City
- Canada recruiting Mexican labor
- Follow up on House of Raeford case
- Canada needs more immigrant workers
- how illegal farm workers from Mexico get healthcare
- A mass of data about immigrants in the U.S.
- News from Global Workers Justice Alliance
- Immigration Mexican American blog
- Remittances to Latin America are flat or down
- State legislation on illegal immigration: a 2008 inventory
- Article on status of Arizona’s Legal Arizona Workers Act
- Iowa House of Reps hammers illegal immigrants
- How immigration laws really work
- All States Deemed Compliant with Real ID
- CBS News profile of illegal immigrants
- Case of instant local police – ICE data link.
- Sent back to El Salvador with its 50% unemployment rate
- NPR: Jobs for day laborers decline due to housing slump, economy
- NPR story of a new illegal immigrant returned to El Salvador
- Arizona employers slow to E-Verify
- H-1B year to begin again April 1
- New York City area losing jobs due to visa barriers
- New Bedford raid follow up: Boston millionaire puts up bail for 40
- Seasonal immigrant workers severely cut back, pawn in immigration bill struggle
- CT's strategy to cut down on illegal workers
- Immigrant votes in 2008
- Immigrants have lower incarceration, crime rates
- House of Raeford Farms: three quarters of workers are Hispanic
- Expose of immigrant worker poultry factory injuries in North Carolina
- U.S. population projections: huge impact of immigration
- Airzona's economy drying up?
- Bush trying to grow the temporary farm worker H-2A program
- Michigan law and undocumented workers - contending proposals
- States where the Hispanic vote is most important
- Analysis of the Legal Arizona Workers Act
- Philippines and the planned export of labor
- correction: foreign born labor is 17%, not 30%
- 30% of working age adults are foreign born
- Illegal worker in Rhode Island wins workers comp award
- South Carolina court approves workers comp for illegal immigrant
- A case study of identity theft involving illegal immigratns
- Legal analysis of AZ and TN illegal immigrant laws
- Arizona about to implement draconian law
- Arizona crackdown on illegal workers may hit state economy
- More on aftermath of December 2006 Swift raids
- Records of Hispanic deaths on the job
- After the meatpacking raids: one year later
- Domestic slavery in America among foreign workers
- “Legal, Illegal Immigrant Numbers at Record Highs”
- Florida employer scam involving illegal workers
- Searching for farm labor in California
- Immigrants in Arkansas
- $300 billion a year in worker remittances back home.
- Illegal immigrants’ Emergency Care Is Limited by U.S. Rule
- Analysis of farm labor economics in California
- Case study of work injured immigrant who was deported
- Spitzer waffles on driver licenses for illegal immigrants
- Illegal immigration and Dem-Rep competition
- Don’t get a work injury if you live in Arizona…
- Bring back AgJobs? 500,000 workers may be affected
- Effort to Curb Illegal Workers' Hiring Blocked
- U.S. Immigrant worker figures in a nutshell
- Driver licenses in New York State
- Legal assaults against illegal immigrants
- Global Workers Justice Alliance – update
- Working on Faith: failures to protect workers in the Katrina cleanup.
- Partnership between DOL and Interfaith Worker Justice
- 2006 Remittances to Mexico flat – housing downturn in U.S.?
- Immigrant nation – new census data from 2006
- Tomato farms in Florida – what they say they are doing for workers
- for the record: how the Senate killed immigration reform -- the votes
- Resistance to illegal immigration crackdown
- Senate roll call vote data S. 2611 5 25 2006
- Attempt to revive AgJobs portion of Immigration bill
- New crack down on illegal workers: what it means.
- Refugio: OSHA - Hispanic worker joint safety project in NJ
- Real ID program implementation plan issued by DHS
- The bill that will not go away
- Review of workers compensation coverage of illegal workers
- Immigration Malpractice by Citizenship and Immigration Services
- Workers comp protections for illegal workers cut in New York
- "I think that is something that can be dealt with at a later time.”
- Senate to try again on immigration reform
- Big trouble with temporary work visa for professional workers.
- Coaching Mexicans on labor rights in the U.S.
- Green card disasters
- Legislative update
- Do we need a point system? We cannot avoid it.
- Immigration debate resumes
- Accuracy in media coverage
- Hispanic labor share continues to grow, now 25% of construction
- “Make a Bad Bill Better”
- Some provisions in Title IV, Temporary worker program
- Edgar Velázquez: Maimed at work, then deported
- Tracking the aftermath
- The Senate has done what it needed to do....
- What the Senate Bill is trying to do
- What is an immigration point system?
- Senate Bill expected for test vote Monday
- Chronology of Senate immigration reform bill this year
- Ranking economics over family in immigration
- guest worker program and all immigrant workers
- Operation Return to Sender
- Can OSHA protect low wage immigrant workers?
- Progress on Immigration reform law
- House and White House proposals compared
- Republicans continue to be divided.
- Huge demand for H-1B visas this month
- Senate to address immigration reform in late May, per Sen Reid
- STRIVE Act introduced in House, 3/22
- White House PowerPoint outline of its proposal
- Overview of non-immigrant visa activity
- No immigration reform bill yet
- slow movement on immigration reform bills
- Son of illegal Mexican immigrants makes good
- Trafficking in identity papers - a case study
- Senator Kennedy leading Senate effort to pass immigration reform bill.
- Senator Kennedy on New Bedford sweat shop raid
- More on expose about current guest worker programs
- New expose on H-2A and H-2B guest worker programs.
- 2008 Elections and immigration reform
- Regional sources of Mexican workers in U.S.
- sweat shop in New Bedford MA busted, 350 illegal workers out of work
- Two of three new construction jobs go to Hispanics
- Live-in domestic foreign in workers in the U.S.
- Data about the H-2A and H-2B temporary work visa programs
- Digging into abuses of H-2A and H-2B temporary worker programs in U.S.
- The IFCO guilty pleadings: what was behind them
- Recruiter abuses in H-2A agriculture guest worker program
- California labor law enforcement in the underground economy
- Executives indicted for tax evasion re: illegal employees
- Wealth of statistics on illegal immigrants in the U.S.
- AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades Department’s statement on immigration reform.
- U.S. Border Patrol has become more aggressive
- OSHA and regional business association join forces to train Hispanic workers
- Robert Feenstra on the powerful dynamics linking U.S. and Mexican workforces
- Immigration’s impact on American wages by educational level of workforce
- Poorly educated immigrant workers hurt, help American workers: 2005 study
- New York Times editorial on immigration reform.
- Skilled foreign workers – summary statistics
- Essential Worker Immigration Coalition: Reform platform
- How long do Mexican migrants work in the U.S.? 6 – 11 years
- Contractor insurance fraud and why it matters
- Human trafficking suit in CT
- Tidbits from the first year of this blog
- Mexican Government guide for illegally entering the U.S.
- Another follow up on the Swift raid: what happened to Cactus, TX.
- The net fiscal impact of illegal immigrants? New Jersey and Texas studies clash
- A new information center for immigration issues
- Mexican remittances were $25 billion in 2006
- 2/5/07 update on Swift raid
- An initiative in California to protect immigrant workers from insurance fraud
- H-IB visa quota for this year may be exhausted in first 15 days
- American immigration and world trade: the connection
- Swift plants for sale after raids?
- Reform proposals to protect workers comp rights of day laborers -- Texas
- SEIU on immigration reform
- NYCOSH online library on immigrant work safety
- What President Bush said about immigration reform
- Income tax and social security tax payments of illegal immigrants - a legal analysis
- Where to find country population, migration and related projections
- France’s new skilled labor focus on immigration
- Case study of employment results of a large ICE raid on a poultry plant
- Shortages of farm labor hit Florida, California. Are they due to immigration enforcement?
- Can a work injured illegal immigrant obtain benefits? In Indiana, it depends
- Mexican immigrant worker economics - remittances are the goal
- Major problems in immigration and future guest work info systems
- 150 million internal migrants in China today
- “Open Doors Wider for Skilled Immigrants”
- Immigrant entrepreneurs involved in one quarter of technology start-ups
- United States the leader in cities with large foreign born populations
- A valuable new public interest group: Global Workers Justice Alliance
- From the Economist: government policies to attract the highly talented worker.
- Capitol Hill analysis of immigration reform prospects for 2007
- A case of sex work coercion of illegal immigrants in the U.S.
- DREAM Act proposal: citizenship through military service
- Economics of remittances from U.S. to Brazil
- New Texas study says illegal immigrants are net benefit to economy
- NY Times editorial on Swift Company raids
- Things are heating up for a reform bill
- Case study of immigrant workers in Hilton Head
- Remittances from U.S. to Mexico, 1995 – 2005
- MA Governor Romney’s foot caught in illegal worker raccoon trap
- Why poorer educated Mexican men come work in the U.S.
- Key Democrat tells Homeland Security to back off on new rules about employment of illegal workers
- Two reservations about an immigration reform bill
- Guest workers in the future: union organizing
- Construction accidents in New York City up 61%
- “Independent contractor” abuses among immigrant construction workers in Boston
- The nursing shortage: real, getting worse, and global
- Senate Bill 2612: Guest worker provisions
- Senate Bill 2612: rights of current illegal workers
- The dog that didn’t bark: failure of anti-immigration as a campaign position
- Electoral result: We'll enact a guest worker program next year
- Spanish language barriers increase hazards on construction sites
- Immigration reform - for 2007?
- Immigrant worker fatalities from violence
- Arizona, microcosm of views on immigration: candidates positions
- Arizona, a microcosm of views on immigration – the ballot questions
- size of Indian work populations in the United States.
- The Hispanic vote and the next Congress
- Immigrant labor essential for New Orleans recovery
- Remittances to Mexico expand, new Federal Reserve program helps
- Barriers to occupational health services tolow wage workers in CA
- Major study of low wage immigrant workers in California
- I'll bet the fence is never built
- Disparities in education, income among second generation immigrants
- Ten top migration issues of 2005
- “Subidos” or Mexicans working legally in migrant construction work
- Canada’s use of skills based point system for immigration: do we need it?
- How an ICE raid crippled a rural Georgia town
- A Marie Antoinette statement on illegal immigrants
- An analysis of WC law protections for illegal immigrants
- New article: Illegal immigrants frequently denied compensation
- Many immigrants working at WTC cleanup
- Throwaway workers: dangerous jobs take toll on illegal immigrants
- House Republicans to stop beating the immigration reform drum
- Mexican remittances at annual rate of $20 billion
- Wal-Mart further penetrates the banking activities of Mexicans
- A new legal tactic against illegal workers in California
- Legal battle over WC coverage for illegal workers in AZ
- Homeland Security estimates of unauthorized immigrants January 2005
- ABCs of Immigration: H-2B (non-agricultural work) Visas
- New Orleans suit over H-2B guest workers
- Why the Basic Pilot program is a failure
- U.S. was 12.4% immigrant in 2005, vs. 11.2% in 2000
- Pew Hispanic Center: immigration has not hurt American workers
- ABCs of Immigration H-2A (agriculture work) visas
- A closer look at Immigration Voice
- “Building boom in Mexican town was born in Minnesota”
- Immigration Voice, or "Green Card applicants unite!"
- More aggressive enforcement by ICE re: employers
- A source of practical advice for immigrant professionals
- The immense challenge of employee/employer verification, Part 2
- The immense challenge of employee/employer verification, Part 1
- Where are Hispanic voters concentrated?
- Poll: hispanic voters turning away from Bush, Repubican party
- High impact of immigrant workers on civilian labor force, 1990 - 2001 and beyond
- New study of low wage Korean immigrant workers in New York City
- Two loopy proposals to control those pesky illegals
- Illegal workers, employers, being pressured by state and local legal action
- Do immigrants depress existing wages?
- Bloomberg: Economy would fail if illegal immigrants deported
- Why the hotel industry wants a guest worker program
- Third study out on labor rights violations on Katrina cleanup
- More on remittance traffic to Latin America
- New Mexico Workplace Safety for Immigrant Workers From Mexico (2005)
- Industries lobbying for a guest worker program
- Bush may shift more towards House’s immigration proposal
- Major developments regarding illegal immigrants, first half of 2006
- Massachusetts State Police, IRS use the same illegal worker cleaning crew
- Senate immigration bill to lift ceilings on foreign nurses
- Wage and benefits by job category, U.S.
- Phased immigration reform?
- Three suits over subcontracted janitor labor violations
- Massachusetts Governor wants state police to round up illegal immigrants
- Second report on breakdown of worker safety in Katrina cleanup
- Serious breakdown in workers comp for Katrina cleanup
- Republican Senator: REAL ID is a real stinker
- Jim Platner's analysis of higher construction deaths among Hispanics
- Locations of worker centers in U.S.
- Fake IDs among Massachusetts construction workers
- George Will on short vs long term politics on immigration
- Overseas Indians send back $21 billion.
- Awareness of workers comp, safety regulation is troublingly low among immigrant workers
- Poll: Senate's immigration bill more popular than House's
- Illegal immigrant workers face serious risks in Katrina cleanup
- Homeland Security's SAVE program to verify employment
- How the Senate bill increases worker immigration
- Easy to buy fake IDs in Los Angeles
- immigration population estimates vary widely
- Working conditions in a 800 person poultry plant in Iowa
- Colorado split on immigration reform
- The two waves of Hispanic labor into the United States
- Mohawk RICO case dismissed by Supreme Court
- Analysis of employer liabilities over illegal employees
- Working in the military to gain U.S. citizenship
- 10% of young working ago persons in U.S. are non-citizens
- Roll call vote for S. 2611 62 yes 36 no
- Senate passes S. 2611 62 to 36
- Senate ready to vote on final S.2611 with guest worker provision intact
- Summary of Senate Bill 2611
- A good source for info about working immigration news
- My prediction for an immigration reform bill this year
- How much illegal workers pay to Social Security: over $6B
- Millions of illegal working immigrants may be here on expired visas
- Mistreatment of H-2B immigrant guest forestry workers
- "Blood Sweat and Fear" - Meat and Poultry Plants (Human Rights Watch, 2005)
- House, Senate and Bush ideas on illegal immigrants compared
- Bush's May 15 speech on illegal immigration in outline and full text
- Rare use of Social Security numbers and IRS data to search for illegal immigrant workers
- Political pork and the tamper-proof identification card
- Census Bureau reports on Hispanic growth rate
- Labor centers for immigrant workers
- Wages and economics of immigrant restaurant workers: a case study
- Pandering and posturing in Arizona about illegal immigrants.
- NPR report on social impact back home of Mexican work migration to U.S.
- Illegal Immigrants, Immigration Reform and the Catholic Church
- Strangers No Longer: Catholic Church's statement on Hispanic illegal immigration
- May Day Immigrant rallies and aftermath
- Using fear of raids to estimate the numbers of illegal immigrants
- Immigrant labor and agriculture today: fully integrated
- RICO suit against Mohawk Industries heard by U.S. Supreme Court
- Dept. of Labor helps illegal workers in Katrina clean up to get paid
- Can the U.S. reduce its illegal immigrant population by attrition?
- Illegal immigrants want to stay, become U.S. citizens
- Federal government unable to enforce immigration laws effectively
- Nursing shortages: foreign workers to fill them?
- What is behind the ICE initiative on illegal immigrants
- ICE raids an employer, IFCO, for hiring illegal workers
- New Georgia law on undocumented workers S. Bill 529: worth a look
- How illegal workers get and use documentation
- Another look at immigrant workers and declining labor force participation
- Medicaid's new strict identification requirements to create barrier to illegal immigrants.
- Congressional poll on immigration bill
- Ten reasons why illegal immigrants should file income tax returns
- recruitment of foreign nurses to the United States
- Economists surveyed about impact of illegal immigrants
- Economic impact of a guest worker program on American agriculture
- This week’s immigrant demonstrations make big impact
- A few handy figures about immigration to work in the U.S.
- Lessons from immigration reform in 1986
- Opinions by Washington Post, NYT's Nicholas Kristoff
- U.S. Senate struggles on April 6 with immigration bill compromise
- Case study of Nevada: Do immigrants take jobs from Americans?
- developed world pop growth: mostly immigrants
- Douglas Massey of Princeton: a blast of fresh air on Mexican immigrant workers
- Study: without immigrants, almost 2 million poorly educated Americans would be back in labor force.
- The Tyson Foods - illegal immigrant case: past and present.
- Anti-guestworker panel argues its case
- AgJobs bill passes Judiciary Committee March 27
- The Farmworker Justice Fund
- David Brook’s illuminating column about immigrants
- Large Los Angeles immigration rally echoed protests about Proposition 187 in mid 1990s
- Latin American migrants send back $54B in year in remittances
- The great demographic shift in the American workforce
- Study asserts H-1B visa program undercuts American computer programmers
- Senate Committee approves McCain bill on March 27
- ICE no longer to impersonate OSHA personnel
- Paul Krugman on immigration reform
- Skilled labor immigration into the U.S.: some highlights
- Legal and illegal immigration survey results
- Immigration bill debate heats up in Washington; filibuster threatened
- Washington Post columnist: "We don't need guest workers"
- Meat processing: an industry engineered to hire immigrants
- Non-white populations continue to penetrate more areas of the country
- Bill Gates on H1B visas; Manhattan Institute on immigration reform
- Does immigration depress wages of native Americans?
- Stalemate for Immigration reform this year?
- Smuggling of Chinese workers into the United States
- Wall Street Journal article on employer use of illegal immigrants
- Why Hispanic workers have higher work fatality rates
- Study of Hispanic North Carolina Poultry Workers
- The “Real ID” program to catch illegal immigrants: Stalled? Dead?
- Sen. Specter Guest Worker bill to expand foreign worker programs for professionals
- The working immigrant and social mobility in America
- Immigration of medical doctors to the U.S.
- Types of work done by illegal immigrants and other data from the Pew Hispanic Center
- More than 70% of Congress supports a guest worker program
- Study: Fatal occupational injuries among Asian workers
- Employer obligations in Sen. Specter's guest worker bill
- Farm workers labor contractor fraud
- Data on immigrants (2000 - 2005)
- Sen. Specter bill on illegal immigrants: some key provisions
- The undocumented worker debate in Washington this week
- Failure of existing guest worker programs as seen in FL figures
- The day laborer: characteristics of the individual
- McCain Guest Worker bill S 1033: strong worker rights provisions
- New study on economics of rural immigrant workers
- Florida's improves work protections to migrant workers, progess report just out
- Deaths at work: who dies, how
- Line up of endorsers of McCain guest worker bill
- H-2A visas - snapshot of wage and worker comp rules
- Thai worker case in WA reveals turmoil in use of foreign workers
- New York court in Balbuena case: worker gets full lost wages
- WA Employer settles private RICO suit over use of illegal immigrants
- 2004 Green card awardees: what work they do
- Proposals to tighten worker documentation enforcement
- Can illegal immigrants receive workers compensation benefits? MA said, “Yes”.
- Illegal immigrants pay taxes, like we do
- Immigrant worker injuries at day labor
- SAFE: Socially Accountable Farm Employers in Florida
- Number of undocumented workers by state and their workforce share
- Wall Street Journal article on Brazilian immigrant cleaning business in MA
- One out of eight new jobs to be filled by immigrants, 2002 - 2012
- IRS gives taxpayer identification numbers (ITIN) to undocumented workers
- How immigrants without bank accounts get by
- Where immigrant workers live in the United States
- What day laborers earn by hour, month, year
- Demand for foreign nurses is intensifying
- NY Times: U.S. officials defend fake OSHA sting
- New York construction safety expert: safe practices hard to find in Brooklyn
- Migrant Clinicians Network
- Inconsistent quality of healthcare for work injured immigrant workers
- Time Magazine poll on views about illegal immigration
- H-1B visas and the engineering workforce shortage, per Chair of Intel
- Access to medical care denied by ID requirements
- High future demand for immigrant construction workers
- Immigration officials to continue to impersonate OSHA safety trainers
- Avian flu and immigrant workers in poultry plants
- National Employment Law Project on wage abuses
- serious worker injuries by ethnic group, job and diagnosis
- Occupational fatalities of immigrants
- TN's program for driver’s license and Real ID
- Size of the illegal alien population (2000 - 2005)
- Polarization of American labor market
- Oakland garment workers and failure to file claims
- New IL law to protect labor rights of day laborers
- Mexican Immigrants save Vermont milk industry
- IL Governor supports Panel on Latino Work Safety
- MA program on employer insurance fraud
- Where undocumented immigrants live and work
- Whom day laborers work for, what they do
- How Mexicans in U.S. send money back to Mexico
- Jennifer Gordon: Professor, Researcher, Activist, MacArthur Fellow
- Employer insurance fraud inflicts damage on workers
- undocumented worker vs. illegal alien
- Florida construction injuries and Hispanics (2005)
- Brazilian Immigrant Center (Boston, MA)
- More on Nationwide survey of day labor hiring sites
- Work injury risks in Oakland CA garment industry (2002)
- North Carolina employer tries to keep a work fatality out of the workers comp system
- The Erosion of Worker Safety (1/4/06)
- Nationwide survey of day labor hiring sites
- Workers compensation rights of undocumented workers (2006)