Amnesty for undocumented workers, unify working class!

Vol. 87/No. 3 - January 16, 2023
Immigrant rights march April 2021 near the White House. Fighting for amnesty for undocumented workers in the U.S. is key to working-class unity, strengthening our unions.

Now halfway through the term of President Joseph Biden, his Border Patrol agents arrested a record 2.2 million immigrants in 2022 at the border with Mexico. Nearly half were deported back under Title 42, a 1944 law invoked in March…


Join fight for amnesty for all immigrants living in the US!

Vol. 86/No. 37 - October 10, 2022

Republican governors in Arizona, Florida and Texas have been sending busloads of migrants who’ve crossed the Mexican border to liberal northern “sanctuary” cities, saying authorities there should be glad to get them. Democratic mayors, like New York’s Eric Adams, and…


Protesters demand: ‘Amnesty for workers without papers in the US!’

Vol. 86/No. 8 - February 28, 2022
Union construction workers join New York “Day Without Immigrants” protest, one of more than 25 actions around U.S. Feb. 14. Bosses use threat of deportations to attack working class.

NEW YORK — Well over two dozen “Day Without Immigrants” actions took place coast to coast Feb. 14, many demanding amnesty for the 11 million immigrants in the U.S. without government-recognized papers.  The initial call for the actions was made…


Australia refugees fight detention, rotten conditions

Vol. 86/No. 3 - January 24, 2022

SYDNEY — Australia’s ruling capitalist families have a long history of harsh border control measures against refugees trying to land by boat. Beginning in 2012, Canberra began paying the governments of Papua New Guinea and Nauru to run detention centers…


Biden orders mass deportations of Haitians in Texas

Vol. 85/No. 36 - October 4, 2021
Biden orders mass deportations of Haitians in Texas

More than 14,000 migrants, the vast majority of them Haitians seeking asylum and jobs in the U.S., have been camped out in squalid conditions in Del Rio, Texas. Most are fenced in under an international bridge over the Rio Grande…


Tamil refugees seek asylum in Australia

Vol. 85/No. 28 - July 19, 2021

SYDNEY — When immigration police arrested the Murugappan family, including two infant daughters, in a pre-dawn raid March 5, 2018, in Biloela, working people in the small central Queensland country town started a fight for their right to stay. Supporters…


‘Let migrant workers return to New Zealand!’

Vol. 85/No. 25 - June 28, 2021

AUCKLAND, New Zealand — “They are us. They belong here. Bring them back!” Unite Union Co-president Tina Barnett told a rally organized by the Federation of Aotearoa Migrants here June 5. Over 800 people marched to demand border restrictions be…


‘Support amnesty for all immigrant workers in the US’

Vol. 85/No. 14 - April 12, 2021

The Joseph Biden administration insists that its attitude toward immigration is more “humane” than that of Donald Trump’s before it. But the fact is Biden is trying to shut the U.S. southern border as increasing numbers of migrant workers from…


Biden says he’ll continue Trump policy, keeps Mexico border shut

Vol. 85/No. 8 - March 1, 2021
Gerardo Sánchez, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Dallas City Council, left, talks to Arnulfo Alvarez Jan. 25. “SWP campaign fights for amnesty for all 11 million undocumented immigrants who live and work in the U.S.,” Sánchez said in a statement Feb. 15.

DALLAS — White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki announced Feb. 10 that the Joseph Biden administration will continue to use a COVID-19 order from President Donald Trump’s administration to immediately expel would-be immigrants who cross the border from Mexico. “The…