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“Nation of immigrants” discourse is generally used to counter xenophobic fears, but the ideology behind it also works to erase the scourge of settler…

National Archives, Washington, D.C. (544069) Meanwhile, the Bracero Program lost support, and the United States terminated it in December 1964. One advantage of the program had been its legality. The U.S. government kept records of the immigrant workers; however, undocumented Mexican labourers were also drawn by the promise of employment, and, because of the ease with which illegal immigrants could be hired, only a small portion received valid worker certificates from 1947 to 1960. The influx of undocumented workers sparked a public outcry that contributed to the mass deportation of Mexican n...

The United States has, without any evidence, accused China of forcing residents of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region into "forced labor", and imposed sanctions on some Chinese officials and other entities, which China has rightly and strongly denounced as "politically motivated" and based on "lies". But what is the situation in the US, the self-proclaimed upholder of human rights?

ANTHONY, N.M. — Josh Jasso stood among mounds of greenery in an otherwise parched expanse, squinting at the fields of La Semilla Community Farm. “We’re feeling smaller and smaller in our fractured landscape,” said Jasso, the farm manager at La Semilla, which is located on a stretch of highway in Anthony, a speck in the […]

Farming is a precarious business in the desert. But in a small border community like Anthony, much else is precarious, too.