By Teresa Cotsirilos and Ted Genoways The U.S. food system is propped up by low-wage immigrant workers from farm to table. From California’s strawberry fields to Florida’s orange orchards, at least 70 percent of the…
By R. Allen Wight El Futuro Es Nuestro, or “It’s Our Future (IOF),” organizes H2-A and immigrant farmworkers in North Carolina and advocates on their behalf. The organization initially materialized out of grassroots demands for…
By Michael Hewlett Mina Ezikpe went to a morning meeting of Central Piedmont Community College’s board of trustees on March 12 with a friend and part-time student, Eboni Exceus, to learn more about a plan…
How 15 years of budget cutting has impacted NC Commentary by Rob Schofield Several important policy priorities have defined conservative Republican governance of North Carolina during the last 15 years – the culture wars, the…
ICE just said they didn’t actually have to. By Natasha Lennard Homeland Security’s changes to SEVIS, the Trump administration said, have no bearing on a student’s lawful nonimmigrant status. “Terminating a record in SEVIS does…
How this legal worker visa became a human trafficking scheme By Katie Nixdorf and Paul Blest In recent years, a massive scheme to traffic and exploit vulnerable agricultural workers has taken shape in the US….
By Maggie Grether The notice from the Department of the Interior arrived in the middle of the workday. Alexa Sendukas, a managing attorney at the Galveston-Houston Immigrant Representation Project, opened her inbox to a notice…
By Isabela Dias On February 14, Kerry Doyle sat at the court in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, preparing for her new job as an immigration judge. She was excited to step into such a consequential position. Each…
By Noah Hurowitz An immigration raid in western New York on May 2 targeted a group of immigrants involved in a landmark statewide effort by farm workers to unionize. On Friday morning at around 9:30…
By Eileen Markey On May 20 housing justice groups including People’s Action, VOCAL-NY, Texas Organizing Project, Arkansas Community Organization and others rallied in DC—and in more than a dozen communities from Duluth to Akron to…