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immigration Archive
Immigrants, legal and otherwise, fuel Texas economy, job growth
Posted on August 24, 2011 | 2 CommentsThe Washington Post cites several studies indicating that immigrants, both legal and illegal, account for a good bit of the job growth in Texas. Also, they put more into the...
We Need a Better Coalition for Immigrants
Posted on April 19, 2010 | 2 CommentsSocial revolutions can take awhile, but the rise of young activists is heartening. Right now, white evangelical Christians are facing a generational crisis because those under 30 are comfortable with...
The Truth About Immigration
Posted on September 9, 2009 | 11 CommentsThe more Republicans talked about the border fence and the imaginary tidal wave of brown people sent here to infect us all with disease and take our jobs, the more I started thinking about the sheer arrogance of their position. What would I do if my family was hungry and there was no food to be found in my city? Where would I send my kids if there were no opportunity to be found? What would I do to survive? That's where this poem came from.
Feds Set Up South Texas for Katrina 2.0
Posted on July 24, 2008 | No CommentsAs Hurricane Dolly drew a bead on the South Texas coast and the mouth of the Rio Grande, workers began building a new section of the controversial U.S.-Mexico border Wall...