On they go, so they can stay
10/2/2003. Poughkeepsie Journal
An educated native of Mexico, Arellano left her home and family when her father became ill and no longer could work. She gave up a job as a secretary, where she made about $30 a week, and crossed the border into the U.S. six years ago, where she gave birth to a baby boy and found work at a Chicago airport, cleaning passenger cabins for $6.50 an hour. ...

Immigrant workers press for protections
10/2/2003. The Atlanta-Journal Constitution
WASHINGTON -- A caravan of buses filled with immigrants and their supporters Wednesday pulled into the nation's capital, where they encountered -- and joined -- a spirited rally punctuated by cheers, Mariachi music and fists flying in the air....

McLaughlin, Council praise Freedom Ride
10/2/2003. Times Ledger
A group of city council members and state Assemblyman Brian McLaughlin (D-Flushing) have invoked the civil rights campaign of 40 years ago in urging support for the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride....

Immigrants in Our Politics
10/2/2003. The Washington Post
"Being a foreigner, being an immigrant," Elia Kazan, the great Turkish-born, Anatolian Greek director who died this week, once mused. "I mean, I wasn't in the society. I was rebellious against it." ...

Opposition to mass immigration, newcomers growing in U.S.
10/1/2003. Sun-Sentinel
Opposition to mass immigration and resentment against newcomers appear to be growing in the United States, fueled by economic insecurity as well as fears arising from the Sept. 11 attacks, immigration experts say....

Project to ID bodies found at border
10/1/2003. The Washington Times
WACO, Texas (AP) � The sun-bleached bones are kept in a cardboard box in a locked cabinet � a skull, a thighbone, several ribs and vertebrae, pieces of a pelvis. To Lori Baker's trained eye, the remains found in a lonely corner of south Texas near the Rio Grande tell of a boy, about 13....

Immigrant Workers 'Ride' Reaches D.C.
10/1/2003. Associated Press
Hundreds of immigrant workers and their supporters rolled into the nation's capital Wednesday, bringing their "freedom ride" for better treatment to the halls of Congress....

Mario Ramos: Immigration law must evolve fairly
10/1/2003. The Tennessean
Paul Melander, quoted Sunday on the Equal Time page of The Tennessean, should be congratulated for acknowledging some of the ''hues of gray'' associated with immigration debates . However, in the end, he still defends outdated and harmful current immigration policies — simply because they are the ones on the book....

Immigrant workers speak out
10/1/2003. Memphis Commercial Appeal
Los Angeles seamstress Enriqueta Soto can tell you what it's like to work a 12-hour day without a bathroom break. She's practiced her craft for 26 years and her world is so much better now, she says, since she joined the union two years ago. ...

Caravana de la Libertad se enfocar� en temas migratorios y laborales
10/1/2003. Providence en Espanol
Lorenzo Aldana, de Providence, es uno de miles de inmigrantes que participar�n de un multitudinario encuentro en la ciudad de Nueva York, promoviendo el derecho a la ciudadan�a, la reunificaci�n familiar y mejores condiciones laborales para los inmigrantes en EEUU....