Short term memory is what we all suffer from. More than three months after the raids in Postville some of us are starting to forget the devastation and struggles of a small community in Iowa. Read More

“The wave of foreclosures spreading around the country is hitting Latino communities especially hard.” John Ydstie of All Things Considered reports for NPR. Read More

If the 8.1 million undocumented immigrants who cut lawns, bus tables and perform other jobs disappeared overnight, the nation's economy would lose nearly $1.8 trillion in annual spending.

Texas, the second-hardest-hit state after California, would lose 1.2 million undocumented workers and $220.7 billion in expenditures.

BENEFITS AND COSTS

The impact of illegal immigration on the U.S. Read More

On Monday, May 12, Postville, a tiny town in Northeastern Iowa experienced the largest ICE raid in US history. 390 workers at North America’s largest Kosher meat processing plant were loaded into buses and taken away for a different kind of processing. Read More

Roberto Lovato, a New York-based writer for New America Media, writes about the complex intersection of race and immigration politics in the American South. For example, the Southeast is home to the
fastest-growing Latino population in the United States, but he points out that although this story takes place in Georgia, it is perhaps not much different than the stories of immigrants and African Americans in other parts of this country.

"Documented and undocumented Latinos dealing with the economic and
political effects of Juan Crow in Georgia (and across the country) find
themselves unwitting actors in a centuries-old racial drama, which they
must alter if Juan Crow is to be defeated. Read More

Tomas R. Jimenez, assistant professor of sociology at UC San Diego and Irving Fellow at the New American Foundation writes that "Assimilation is a multigenerational process that unfolds as individuals pursue their economic aspirations. Read More