Tag: undocumented immigrants
His former company got caught employing undocumented workers. Now he’s profiting...
It’s run by Nathan Albers, who previously co-owned a company that pleaded guilty to a scheme to hire and conceal undocumented workers.
Biden faces pressure to act as Trump’s mass deportation plan sparks...
With Trump’s return to office looming, undocumented immigrants and mixed-status families brace for unprecedented deportation efforts. Activists call on Biden to take immediate action to protect vulnerable populations.
Undocumented immigrants pay higher tax rates than top 1% in most...
New study reveals that undocumented immigrants pay nearly $100 billion in taxes annually, contributing more to state and local revenues than the wealthiest Americans in most states, while being excluded from the social programs they help fund.
Undocumented immigrants may actually make American communities safer – not more...
People from all social groups and backgrounds commit crimes. But undocumented immigrants, and immigrants more generally, are often baselessly blamed for increasing crime rates.
New York passes DREAM Act, becomes fourth largest state to do...
New York now joins 18 other states who have passed various bills over the years.
Progressive Briefing for Monday, September 24
Nationwide walkout for sexual assault survivors, Kavanaugh struggles with more questions, undocumented immigrants refuse to testify on domestic abuse, and more.
US cities issue IDs to protect undocumented immigrants
A growing number of communities have implemented municipal identification programs, and not just in politically progressive areas.
POPULAR
ICE at the gates: Rights groups warn Trump airport deployment risks civil liberties crisis
Civil liberties advocates, unions, and lawmakers raise alarm over use of immigration agents in airport security amid shutdown-driven staffing crisis.
California’s herbicide spill ignites growing movement to ban paraquat nationwide
The spill, which closed a major highway and sent at least ten people to seek medical attention for respiratory symptoms, became a catalyst for a renewed political battle over the chemical's future in California.
Why Donald Trump just can’t stop going to war
When imperial America offers help, it just might get you killed.
The Age of Arrogant Amateurism – as ‘know-it-all’ opportunists seize power to control, not...
To win big in this brave new world, forget tested skill-sets and the wisdom of experience: chutzpah and risk-taking, even gambling, are paramount, then the facile ability to learn on the job how to cling to power.
Balanced budget amendment would put Social Security, Medicare, and core public services on the...
The proposal would make revenue increases extraordinarily difficult while allowing tax cuts to pass more easily, shifting pressure onto widely used federal programs.