A delegation of farm workers lobbied Congress ahead of the holiday weekend to pass legislation that would provide a pathway to citizenship for thousands of workers who provide the food for our tables.
If poor and low-income Black, white, and Hispanic Texans turn out and stand together, they could change the outcome of Texas's gubernatorial race. They could shift the terrain — in Texas and every state that's playing politics with people's lives.
Throughout the United States, racial separation remains a common feature of collective life. The consequences are significant for left political organizing aimed at building a multiracial working-class majority.
Massachusetts lawmakers are urging the Treasury Department to investigate Florida governor DeSantis for "effectively using Covid-19 relief to score political points by exploiting vulnerable immigrants."
In More Than a Wall / Más que un Muro, labor journalist David Bacon offers a politically rich, bilingual compilation of photographs and oral histories. Corporations know no borders, while they rely on the US-Mexico border to keep wages low...
Brigitte Gynther and Azadeh Shahshahani
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Last month, the White House announced more than $1.9 billion in “private sector commitments” to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador-part of Vice President Harris’ “Call to Action” to address the root causes of migration from northern Central America.
Emails obtained by The Texas Tribune and ProPublica confirm that federal authorities are probing discrimination claims involving Gov. Greg Abbott’s multibillion-dollar border initiative.
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