Article:
Sen. Chuck Schumer hopeful immigration reform's on way
By:
Caitlin Millat
Date:
5/3/2009
Date Posted:
5/3/2009
Link to Article:
Daily News
Short Description:
Sen. Chuck Schumer arrived at the Daily News/Citizenship Now! headquarters with praise and some good news — a prediction that sweeping immigration reform will pass within the year.
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Article:
Alejandro Mayorkas picked to head immigration agency
By:
Josh Meyer
Date:
5/1/2009
Date Posted:
5/3/2009
Link to Article:
Los Angeles Times
Short Description:
Alejandro Mayorkas is President Obama's pick to be director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, which adjudicates a broad range of immigration and naturalization issues and oversees international adoptions, asylum, refugee status and foreign student authorization.
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Article:
Immigration Agents to Turn Focus to Employers
By:
GINGER THOMPSON
Date:
4/30/2009
Date Posted:
4/30/2009
Link to Article:
New York Times
Short Description:
In an effort to crack down on illegal labor, the Department of Homeland Security intends to step up enforcement efforts against employers who knowingly hire such workers.
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Article:
Swine flu concerns impacting migrant workers
By:
Andy Mattison
Date:
4/30/2009
Date Posted:
4/30/2009
Link to Article:
News 10 Now
Short Description:
OSWEGO COUNTY, N.Y. -- As the number of swine flu cases grows, many people are concerned about anyone coming into the country from Mexico. That could become a problem in Oswego County, which normally draws a lot of migrant workers to the area in the summertime. And it has the county's public health director concerned.
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Article:
New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand's genuine immigration reform push
By:
Albor Ruiz
Date:
4/30/2009
Date Posted:
4/30/2009
Link to Article:
Daily News
Short Description:
Kirsten Gillibrand supports comprehensive immigration reform, and is vowing to work in Washington to make it a reality.
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Article:
Calls to Shut U.S.-Mexico Border Grow in Flu Scare
By:
Hilary Hylton
Date:
4/29/2009
Date Posted:
4/30/2009
Link to Article:
Time
Short Description:
When the U.S. sneezes, Mexico catches a cold — so goes the old saying that is ironically being turned on its head as all eyes look south, afraid that the U.S. may be infected by what appears to be Mexican swine flu. But while public health and government officials on both sides of the border battle the outbreak, a virus of another sort is spreading across the Internet as anti-immigration groups use the imminent flu pandemic as an argument for closing the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Article:
Economy May Force Obama to Abandon Plan to Overhaul Immigration
By:
Nicholas Johnson
Date:
4/24/2009
Date Posted:
4/27/2009
Link to Article:
Bloomberg.com
Short Description:
The long campaign to overhaul U.S. immigration laws may be derailed for yet another year -- this time by the deteriorating economy.
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Article:
Immigration Reform and Hard Times
By:
Editorial
Date:
4/13/2009
Date Posted:
4/14/2009
Link to Article:
New York Times
Short Description:
The Obama administration said last week that it would begin a major push for immigration reform this year. The country’s two big labor federations just announced that they are joining forces to support that effort, which includes a path to citizenship for undocumented workers. That’s double good news.
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Article:
Labor Groups Reach an Accord on Immigration
By:
JULIA PRESTON and STEVEN GREENHOUSE
Date:
4/13/2009
Date Posted:
4/14/2009
Link to Article:
New York Times
Short Description:
The nation’s two major labor federations have agreed for the first time to join forces to support an overhaul of the immigration system, leaders of both organizations said on Monday. The accord could give President Obama significant support among unions as he revisits the stormy issue in the midst of the recession.
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Article:
A President making good on his promise
By:
Albor Ruiz
Date:
4/12/2009
Date Posted:
4/12/2009
Link to Article:
New York Daily News
Short Description:
They said it couldn't be done.
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Article:
Obama not pushing to pass immigration reform this year
By:
Jessica Yellin
Date:
4/10/2009
Date Posted:
4/13/2009
Link to Article:
CNN
Short Description:
Multiple Obama administration officials tell CNN that the White House is not pushing to pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill this year
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Article:
Obama to Push Immigration Bill as One Priority
By:
Julia Preston
Date:
4/8/2009
Date Posted:
4/9/2009
Link to Article:
New York Times
Short Description:
While acknowledging that the recession makes the political battle more difficult, President Obama plans to begin addressing the country’s immigration system this year, including looking for a path for illegal immigrants to become legal, a senior administration official said on Wednesday.
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Article:
Farm Workers’ Rights, 70 Years Overdue
By:
Editorial
Date:
4/5/2009
Date Posted:
4/8/2009
Link to Article:
New York Times
Short Description:
The goal is to win basic rights that farm and domestic workers were denied more than 70 years ago, when the Roosevelt administration won major reforms protecting other workers in areas like overtime and disability pay, days of rest and union organizing.
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Article:
Focus on employers heartens immigration activists
By:
Trenton Daniel
Date:
4/4/2009
Date Posted:
4/4/2009
Link to Article:
The Miami Herald
Short Description:
Joubert Pascal recounts how the Bush administration showed little leeway for his fellow countrymen from Haiti but is now holding out hope that the Obama camp may offer some leniency.
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Article:
ICE releases workers arrested in Washington raid
By:
Staff
Date:
4/1/2009
Date Posted:
4/4/2009
Link to Article:
Associated Press
Short Description:
Many of the 28 workers arrested by immigration agents last month in a northwest Washington raid have been released and given permission to work, in another sign of how the Obama administration is handling illegal immigration differently than its predecessor.
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Article:
Homeland Security shifts focus to employers
By:
Josh Meyer and Anna Gorman
Date:
3/31/2009
Date Posted:
4/1/2009
Link to Article:
Los Angeles Times
Short Description:
Stepping into the political minefield of immigration reform, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano soon will direct federal agents to focus more on arresting and prosecuting American employers than the illegal laborers who sneak into the country to work for them, department officials said Monday.
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Article:
More unions favor legalizing workers
By:
Leslie Berestein
Date:
3/29/2009
Date Posted:
3/29/2009
Link to Article:
San Diego Union Tribune
Short Description:
The dynamics of the farm labor population have changed since César Chávez and others began organizing workers in California's fields.
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Article:
Delay in Immigration Raids May Signal Policy Change
By:
Spencer S Hsu
Date:
3/29/2009
Date Posted:
3/29/2009
Link to Article:
Washington Post
Short Description:
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has delayed a series of proposed immigration raids and other enforcement actions at U.S. workplaces in recent weeks, asking agents in her department to apply more scrutiny to the selection and investigation of targets as well as the timing of raids, federal officials said.
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Article:
Border Control Editorial
By:
Staff
Date:
3/28/2009
Date Posted:
3/29/2009
Link to Article:
New York Times
Short Description:
The Obama administration has taken sensible steps to keep Mexico’s vicious drug war from spilling over the border. The homeland security secretary, Janet Napolitano, announced that she was sending hundreds more agents and officers to patrol the border region and to work with the authorities in Mexico. She also is bolstering screening technology at border crossings to root out drugs, drug money, guns and violent fugitives.
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Article:
Advocates for illegal immigrants suggest a trade-off for legalization
By:
Peter Wallsten
Date:
3/27/2009
Date Posted:
3/27/2009
Link to Article:
Chicago Tribune
Short Description:
With their prospects in Congress sinking along with the economy, liberal advocates of giving undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship are launching a risky strategy to push lawmakers and the White House to take up their cause.
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Article:
Area farmers raise pitchforks at delays in guest worker reform
By:
Diana Louise Carter
Date:
3/25/2009
Date Posted:
3/25/2009
Link to Article:
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Short Description:
The federal Department of Labor is calling for a nine-month suspension of changes that Bush made in the H-2A program, which allows agriculture businesses to employ foreign workers for seasonal farm labor. The changes, aiming to streamline a program that many consider to be onerous, expensive and complicated, went into effect Jan. 17, just days before Barack Obama became president.
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Article:
U.S. immigrant detentions violate human rights: report
By:
Deborah Charles
Date:
3/25/2009
Date Posted:
4/1/2009
Link to Article:
Boston Globe
Short Description:
The detention of hundreds of thousands of immigrants every year in the United States represents a violation of human rights, Amnesty International USA said in a report on Wednesday.
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Article:
New report blasts U.S. on immigrant detainees
By:
Tyche Hendricks
Date:
3/25/2009
Date Posted:
3/26/2009
Link to Article:
San Francisco Chronicle
Short Description:
More than 400,000 people a year are detained by immigration officials in the United States - including undocumented immigrants, legal immigrants who run afoul of the law and asylum seekers who come fleeing persecution - but according to a report released today by Amnesty International, conditions are often deplorable and detainees are routinely denied due process.
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Article:
New York Congressman Introduces Guest Worker Bill
By:
WCAX News
Date:
3/25/2009
Date Posted:
3/26/2009
Link to Article:
WCAX News
Short Description:
New York Congressman John McHugh wants dairy farms to be able to legally hire foreign workers. He introduced a bill that would allow farmers to get 3-year visas for dairy workers and sheep ranchers.
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Article:
Cardinal Calls for End to Immigration Raids
By:
Rupa Shenoy
Date:
3/21/2009
Date Posted:
3/25/2009
Link to Article:
Associated Press
Short Description:
The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops on Saturday called on the White House to end immigration raids that split up families.
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Article:
Obama puts immigration reform on docket
By:
Globe Staff
Date:
3/19/2009
Date Posted:
3/24/2009
Link to Article:
Boston Globe
Short Description:
On his very full plate, immigration was one issue that President Obama had yet to take on - until yesterday, when he discussed it with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
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Article:
Focus shifts to flow of cash, arms into Mexico
By:
Carolyn Lochhead
Date:
3/18/2009
Date Posted:
3/25/2009
Link to Article:
San Francisco Chronicle
Short Description:
California lawmakers and the Obama administration have begun to shift U.S. border policy with Mexico, abruptly changing focus from illegal immigration to the flow of cash and weapons from the United States that is fueling a savage war between the Mexican government and powerful drug cartels.
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Article:
Feds bolster agents on border with Mexico
By:
Rick Jervis
Date:
3/13/2009
Date Posted:
3/13/2009
Link to Article:
USA Today
Short Description:
The U.S. will soon send a large contingent of federal agents to its southern border to help stem the recent violence in northern Mexico, the nation's Homeland Security chief said Thursday.
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Article:
Farm workers from Immokalee protest conditions
By:
Breanne Gilpatrick
Date:
3/10/2009
Date Posted:
3/12/2009
Link to Article:
Miami Herald
Short Description:
TALLAHASSEE -- More than four dozen farm workers from Immokalee gathered at the Old Capitol on Monday to protest harsh working conditions and enslavement of migrant farmworkers in Florida.
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Article:
Immigration reform movement looks to evangelicals, children left behind by deported parents
By:
Dahleen Glanton
Date:
3/5/2009
Date Posted:
3/8/2009
Link to Article:
Chicago Tribune
Short Description:
Two years after a sweeping Immigration reform bill failed in Congress, Latino leaders have revitalized the effort, positioning children who were left behind when their parents were deported as the new face of the movement. The campaign is designed to place pressure on President Barack Obama to make comprehensive Immigration reform a priority.
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Article:
House to look at locals enforcing immigration law
By:
Suzanne Gamboa
Date:
3/3/2009
Date Posted:
3/8/2009
Link to Article:
Associated Press
Short Description:
The Homeland Security Department has failed to ensure that local and state law enforcement partners pursue serious criminals and don't misuse their authority while enforcing immigration law, government investigators say.
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Article:
Struggling Illegal Immigrants Yearn for Reform
By:
Joseph Ruzich
Date:
2/26/2009
Date Posted:
3/8/2009
Link to Article:
Chicago Tribune
Short Description:
Sal didn't just get laid off from his factory job in 2001; the Cicero resident also lost out on a chance to become an American citizen.
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Article:
Farmers back bill easing labor crunch
By:
Michelle Dupler
Date:
2/12/2009
Date Posted:
3/8/2009
Link to Article:
The News Tribune
Short Description:
Farmers and labor advocates tussled Wednesday over a pair of dueling bills heard by the House Commerce & Labor Committee that deal with seasonal immigrant workers.
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Article:
Immigration Reform Seen as within Reach
By:
Tom Rivers
Date:
2/11/2009
Date Posted:
3/8/2009
Link to Article:
The Daily News
Short Description:
Even with the economy tanking and a full plate of other pressing issues in Congress, this could be the year -- after a decade of failed negotiations in Washington -- for immigration reform, at least for the agricultural sector.
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Article:
Farm Worker Programs Debated as US Economy Sours
By:
Shannon Dininny
Date:
2/11/2009
Date Posted:
3/8/2009
Link to Article:
Associated Press
Short Description:
John Wyss had just been hired at one of the nation's largest apple growers in 2005 when the company couldn't find enough workers. Fruit went unpicked, and much of what was picked came off the trees too late.
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Article:
Farms See Big Crop of Workers
By:
Jerry Hirsch
Date:
2/10/2009
Date Posted:
3/8/2009
Link to Article:
LA Times
Short Description:
What a difference a bad economy makes. The collapse of the construction industry and a slump in the restaurant and food service sector have sent thousands of people back to looking for work on California farms, which not so long ago were hurting for workers.
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Article:
Gillibrand Hints at a Change of Mind on Immigration
By:
Michael Powell
Date:
2/1/2009
Date Posted:
3/8/2009
Link to Article:
The New York Times
Short Description:
Kirsten E. Gillibrand, New York’s new senator, suggested to Latino elected officials on Sunday that she would take the lead on some immigration issues — and perhaps quickly drop some positions that they considered objectionable.
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Article:
Task force hears suggestions for enforcing human trafficking law
By:
Kyle Miller
Date:
12/17/2007
Date Posted:
9/9/2009
Link to Article:
Legislative Gazette
Short Description:
The New York State Interagency Task Force on Human Trafficking last week sought the
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Article:
Groups sue U.S. to get farmer info to workers
By:
Stephen Franklin
Date:
12/14/2007
Date Posted:
12/14/2007
Link to Article:
Chicago Tribune
Short Description:
Two farmworker advocacy groups Thursday sued the U.S. Labor Department, contending that the agency's failure to release information on farmers that hire guest workers hurts U.S. and foreign workers.
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Article:
Crime Gangs Make Billions From Bulgaria Sex Slaves
By:
Reuters
Date:
12/12/2007
Date Posted:
12/14/2007
Link to Article:
New York Times
Short Description:
The trafficking of Bulgarian women as sex slaves brings in about 1.8 billion euros ($2.6 billion) a year for the gangs behind it, making it the country's most profitable criminal activity, a report said on Wednesday.
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Article:
Farmworkers Protest at Burger King HQ
By:
Associated Press
Date:
11/30/2007
Date Posted:
12/5/2007
Link to Article:
CNN Money
Short Description:
Tomato Pickers Protest at Burger King HQ Over Low Wages. Farmworkers, union members and activists marched through city streets to Burger King headquarters Friday to protest low wages for tomato pickers and alleged exploitation of field workers.
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Article:
A Health Plan for Wal-Mart: Less Stinginess
By:
Michael Barbaro and Reed Abelson
Date:
11/13/2007
Date Posted:
11/14/2007
Link to Article:
The New York Times
Short Description:
For much of the last decade, the retailing behemoth Wal-Mart Stores has been associated with stingy health care as much as low prices.
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Article:
Op-Ed Columnist: Today's Hidden Slave Trade
By:
Bob Herbert
Date:
10/27/2007
Date Posted:
11/1/2007
Link to Article:
NY Times
Short Description:
As a society, we’re repelled by the slavery of old. But the wholesale transport of women across international borders and around the U.S. to serve as prostitutes stirs very little outrage.
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Article:
Glare of Fires Pulls Migrants From Shadows
By:
Date:
10/27/2007
Date Posted:
11/1/2007
Link to Article:
The New York Times
Short Description:
Fires of California Article
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Article:
Government to establish border task force in Western New York
By:
Associated Press
Date:
11/15/2006
Date Posted:
9/9/2009
Link to Article:
Lockport Union-Sun & Journal
Short Description:
Citing a farm labor contractor who withheld wages from upstate workers and used threats to keep them in
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Article:
Gonzales says U.S. must also look to the North
By:
Gene Warner
Date:
11/15/2006
Date Posted:
9/9/2009
Link to Article:
Buffalo News
Short Description:
While there's much focus on protecting the nation's southern border, U.S. Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales came to Buffalo on Tuesday to inspect the area's international bridges and put an exclamation point on previously announced plans to combat human trafficking
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Article:
With Illegal Immigrants Fighting Wildfires, West Faces a Dilemma
By:
Kirk Johnson
Date:
5/28/2006
Date Posted:
7/9/2008
Link to Article:
New York Times
Short Description:
The debate over immigration, which has filtered into almost every corner of American life in recent months, is now sweeping through the woods, and the implications could be immense for the coming fire season in the West.
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Article:
Contractor Gets 46 Months In Prison for "Despicable' Abuse of Farm Labor
By:
Dan Herbeck
Date:
5/27/2005
Date Posted:
9/9/2009
Link to Article:
Buffalo Evening News
Short Description:
Maria Garcia recruited illegal aliens from Mexico, brought them to farms in Western New York
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Article:
Reaping Profits From Farm Workers
By:
Dan Herbeck
Date:
12/3/2004
Date Posted:
9/9/2009
Link to Article:
Buffalo News
Short Description:
She packed as many as 50 migrant farm workers into a one-family house, where they shared one
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Article:
Migrant-Camp Operators Face Forced Labor Charges
By:
Steven Greenhouse
Date:
6/21/2002
Date Posted:
9/9/2009
Link to Article:
New York Times
Short Description:
Six people who run migrant labor camps east of Buffalo were indicted this week on the unusual federal charge of forced
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Article:
Labor Camp Indictments Stem From Risky Escape
By:
Sandra Tan
Date:
6/21/2002
Date Posted:
9/9/2009
Link to Article:
Buffalo News
Short Description:
It all started with an escape.
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