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Port. so, the port of entries are far where you could be traveling with a child. the cartels may push you away. and there are few spots there. so congress has said for decades if you get on u.s. soil, we will screen you no matter how you get here. thats where we need to go. the other thing is we need to have more legal pathways. we dont need more immigrant workers. that would reduce backlog at the border. let make the asylum system more efficient. no one should say we have year delays so put asy...

Screen you no matter how you get here. it doesnt mean you get it. the other think, frankly, is have more legal pathways. i dont know a single economist who says we dont need more workers and more immigrant workers. that would reduce backlog at the border. lets have pathways for workers. lets make the asylum system more efficient. no one is saying we should have year delays, so put asylum officers there. i also think theres too much focus on enforcement. as youve seen families come over the borde...

Immigrant workers are not displacing jobs but are contributing to the workforce, helping to strengthen it and support economic recovery efforts. Read more.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Wednesday is International Workers’ Day and the community gathered in Albuquerque to honor immigrant workers. El Centro, a local immigrant’s rights and worker justice organization, held the event which highlighted the economic contributions of immigrant workers. Event organizers say they honored Albuquerque and Bernalillo County’s legacy of passing immigrant-friendly policies that promote public […]

Nearly 40 immigrant workers claim in a federal lawsuit that a central Minnesota vegetable farm shorted their paychecks and subjected them to "deplorable" working and living conditions. The workers, who hail primarily from Honduras, Mexico and the Dominican Republic, Monday sued John Svihel and Svihel Vegetable Farm in U.S. District Court for Minnesota. They allege Svihel and his company ...

Presidential hopeful Donald Trump repeatedly pledges a mass deportation and expanded oil drilling. But migrants are the industry's 'shadow workforce.'

Presidential hopeful Donald Trump repeatedly pledges a mass deportation and expanded oil drilling. But migrants are the industry's 'shadow workforce.'

Pedro Marcos Raymundo knows what it’s like to work in hazardous conditions. Since moving to South Florida in 2014, the Guatemalan man has worked in electricity, plumbing, any construction work he can find.

President Joe Biden, visiting Baltimore, grieved with family members of the six workers killed during the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

As hundreds of Spanish-speaking worshippers packed the sanctuary of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Church to celebrate the Easter promise of new life, Baltimore’s Latino community also mourned six deaths. Amid signs of joy at the Highlandtown church — flowers wrapped in gold around the altar and little girls clutching stuffed rabbits in the pews — a sense of communal grief was present at ...