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ICE is picking people up on warrants for detention across the country. ICE Director Tom Homan calls all undocumented immigrants criminals and therefore credible targets for deportation, no matter how many years they have lived in the country.

The US working class has a long tradition of standing up against immigrant repression. This history is a reservoir of inspiration and strategic thinking — and it can help immigrant workers and communities confront Donald Trump’s promised wave of repr

In the wake of Trump’s first election to the presidency, David Bacon’s perspectives on the economic context of immigration policy and how Trump can—and can’t—shape it are still relevant after his re-election victory.

20th century American Communist Party members were portrayed as the Red Menace, an enemy within. In reality, they were ordinary people with extraordinarily complex intellectual, political, social, and romantic lives that deserve to be chronicled.

Farmers are risking their lives to fight back against the US-owned factory farms that are destroying Mexico’s water.

Former FPIF columnist Conn Hallinan, who passed away on June 19 at the age of 81, wrote sharply and passionately about international issues for five decades.

Soups are made from the traditions of the countryside where people are used to eating the animals that live there (the rat is a country creature, not the urban variety) and some think of them even as a kind of medicine.

While Republicans cry “invasion” and Democrats placate them with hard-line border policy, immigrants languish in prisons or die in dangerous passage. A rational approach to immigration must both address the causes of displacement and protect those w

Under the new visa pilot program, the administration is prioritizing growers’ profits over farmworkers’ rights.

"All over the country, immigrant workers are a big part of the workforce. They're all part of a base that can force change. We can't depend on political winds or what people tell us is possible. We have to be tenacious for what's just and righteous."