We at the Americas Program strongly believe that this is a critical moment for immigration reform in the United States. For several years, we have watched with consternation as restrictionist forces have gained ground in communities, public policy, and political discourse. While there have always been brave voices to protest the violation of immigrant rights, we have seen a relative weakness in mounting a unified and coherent defense of immigrants and building a compelling call for reform.
In the current political context where security concerns are defined as paramount, those efforts have been further complicated. We feel it is time to look at the immigration issue in new ways, which take into account the concerns of all involved: community members, immigrants, workers, and human rights advocates.
We have put together a series of articles on immigration to engender dialogue and provide food for thought on the issues.
Analysis
Why has immigration become such a hot social and political issue in the past few years? What is the intersection between immigration policy, domestic economic policy, and foreign policy in these times of rapid economic globalization and the global war on terrorism? And what are the outlines of a comprehensive immigration reform that would resolve the immigration policy crisis, protect immigrant and worker rights, and address legitimate citizen concerns, while at the same time deflating the agenda of the hard-line restrictionists who are setting the terms of the national policy debate?
By Laura Carlsen:
Mr. President: Calderon is not Mexico
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/6058
The New Bilateral Relationship and Immigration Reform
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/5829
A Few Bad Apples ... Or a Rotten System?
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/5752
Mexico's Immigration Problem Also a "Red Flag" at Home
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/5713
NAFTA Inequality and Immigration
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/4705
The Slow Slide to Barbarity
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/4237
Migrants: Globalization's Junk Mail?
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/4022
Doublespeak in Congress and Soldiers on the Border
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/3319
Labor's May Day Call from Both Sides of the Border
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/3263
Protests Turn the Tide on Immigration Debate
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/3207
Bad Blood on the Border
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/3096
By Tom Barry:
Restoring Integrity to the Immigration System
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/6135
Criminal Alien Funding and the Immigrant-Based Criminal Justice Complex
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/6114
Fighting the Drug War at Homeland Security
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/6111
War on Crime Targets Immigrants
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/6110
Immigrant Crackdown Joins Failed Crime and Drug Wars
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/6015
The Failed Border Security Initiative
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/6063
The National Imperative to Imprison Immigrants for Profit
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/5946
Medical Claims and Malpractice in Correctional Healthcare
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/5895
Napolitano's Hard Echo of Liberal Immigration Reform Strategy
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/5884
The New Political Economy of Immigration
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/5873
Immigrant Inmates Caught in Outsourcing Labyrinth
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/5871
Immigrant Prison Burns in Pecos
http://americas.ire-online.org/am/5849
America's Frontline Is Getting Crowded
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/5848
Napolitano Finessing Immigrant Crackdown
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/5835
Good News from Nashville: Diversity Not Uniformity
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/5812
Obama's Immigration Challenge: More about Words than Policy
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/5808
Immigrants Drive Prison Profits
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/5705
Expect "Rule of Law" to Rule Immigration Policy
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/5696
Anti-Immigration Forces Ready to Challenge Obama
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/5686
Identity Politics and the Latino Payback on Immigration
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/5677
Both Sides of Immigration Debate Retrench
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/5671
Emanuel's Political Pragmatism on Immigration Reform
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/5656
Republicans Echo Immigration Restrictionists
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/5511
Chertoff's Challenge to Obama
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/5647
Legal Immigrants Next Target of Anti-Immigration Groups
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/5600
Democrats to Immigrants: "Get Right with the Law"
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/5512
The Dragnet for "Fugitive Aliens"
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/5315
The Immigrant Bed Bureaucracy
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/5293
Homeland Security's Enemy Next Door
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/5286
The Deterrence Strategy of Homeland Security
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/5269
Spanish
County Jails Welcome Immigrants
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/5253
Spanish
Paying the Price of the Immigration Crackdown
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/5234
Spanish
Truth about Illegal Immigration and Crime
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/4903
Losing the War of Ideas, Again
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/4823
Planning the War on Immigrants
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/4816
Pushing the Anti-Immigration Agenda Further Right
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/rw/4077
The Right's "War for the Free World": U.S. Immigration Debate Splits Conservatives
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/3405
Tom Tancredo: Christian Crusader, Cultural Nationalist, and Iran Freedom Fighter
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/rw/3281
Tom Tancredo: Leader of the Anti-Immigrant Populist Revolt
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/rw/3005
Immigration Advocates Face Challenges
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/387
Politics of Class and Corporations
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/224
Immigration Debate: Politics, Ideologies of Anti-Immigration Forces
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/652
The Immigration Debate: Whose Side Are You On?
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/784
Pushing Our Borders Out
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/804
Restrictionism Resurgent in Post-9/11 Politics: Protect America Now
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/710
"Common Sense" Immigration Reform—What's FAIR got to do with it?
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/rw/3053
Which Side Are the Republicans On?
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/3145
Which Way Immigration Reform? Toward A Comprehensive Immigration Policy
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/3161
By others:
U.S. Policy Toward Latin America in 2009 and Beyond
By Cynthia McClintock
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/5859
Indigenous Communication in a Gobal World: Strategies Used by the FIOB in the United States and Mexico
By Bertha Rodrguez Santos
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/5874
The Challenges of Current Indigenous Migration
By Rufino Domnguez-Santos
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/5806
Cross-Border Activists Escalate Fight Against "The Wall of Death"
By Kent Paterson
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/5530
Apaches Rise to Defend Homelands from Homeland Security
By Brenda Norrell
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/4884
Senate Bill a Step Backwards for Immigrant Rights
By Oscar A. Chacón
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/4293
In the Crossfire: Mesoamerican Migrants Journey North
By Miguel Pickard
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/741
Migration and Coffee in Mexico and Central America
By Luis Hernández Navarro
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/959
How U.S. Corporations Won the Debate Over Immigration
By David Bacon
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/996
The ABCs of Immigration Reform
By Sean Garcia
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/1792
U.S. Immigration Policy on the Table at the WTO
By Sarah Anderson
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/2962
The Benefits of Dual Citizenship
By Michele Wucker
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/3119
