CHICAGO — Over 34,000 immigrant workers seeking asylum have arrived here since August 2022, sent by bus or plane by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. Most are from Venezuela and other countries in Latin America. Some 15,000 are currently staying in…
FORT WORTH, Texas — Over 300,000 immigrants crossed the southwest border of the U.S. last month, the highest number ever recorded. In one week in December some 12,000 migrants crossed the Texas border with Mexico at Eagle Pass. Last…
NEW YORK — “Fight for jobs for all workers! Build the unions! A working-class response to the ‘migration crisis’” was the topic of a lively discussion at the Militant Labor Forum here Sept. 16. Speaking for the Socialist Workers Party…
MIAMI — “The Fight for Immigrants’ Rights Is in the Interests of All Working People” was the title of the Aug. 19 Militant Labor Forum here, called to protest Florida law SB 1718, which took effect July 1. On the…
Along the Mexican border over 10,000 immigrant workers per day, including many families, attempted to cross into the U.S. to seek asylum the week before the end of Washington’s COVID-era border policy known as Title 42. It expired May 12. …
NEW YORK — International Workers Day marches and protests across the United States and in the U.S. colony of Puerto Rico May 1 — like similar actions all over the world — attracted working people and youth looking for ways…
PAJARO, Calif. — On March 30, dozens of angry victims of flooding here, many of them farmworkers, marched down muddy and debris-covered streets in a protest demanding government aid and equal treatment for undocumented workers. Ramiro Medrano, who helped organize…
MANCHESTER, England — “The unions should fight for amnesty for all workers who the government says don’t have ‘proper’ papers,” Peter Clifford, Communist League candidate for Manchester City Council, told retired sewing machine operator Pam Grocock when he knocked on…
MONTREAL — “Working people and our unions should oppose Premier Francois Legault’s anti-working-class campaign against immigrants. This is now centered on demanding that Ottawa shut down the unofficial Roxham Road crossing between Canada and the U.S. used by thousands of…
HALF MOON BAY, Calif. — As you drive into this small town on the California coast south of San Francisco, you see tree nurseries, flower greenhouses and mushroom farms, all crops the area is famous for. You also see the…
