Experts warn of potential for immigration visa scams
2/14/2003. The Houston Chronicle
As Congress begins considering President Bush's proposal to help illegal immigrants, local experts worry that swindlers already may be gearing up to take advantage of the often desperate workers. ...

TV station pulls political ad opposed by labor leaders
1/2/2003. Associated Press
One central Iowa television station has stopped airing political ads criticized by labor leaders for being an anti-immigration message while officials at a second station were discussing the ads. "We took a look and decided the ads were unnecessarily inflaming and borderline racist," said Jim Boyer, general manager for WHO-TV, who said the ads took a position he did not want represented at the station. "It was a piece of business we did not want."...

Rangel fights to free immigrant
1/8/203. The Journal News
Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., has joined a Hudson Valley citizens group in calling for the release of a Pakistani pizza deliveryman detained in a federal prison near Buffalo for two years. He was being held in the crackdown on immigrants following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. ...

Council endorses protest movement against immigration laws
9/17/202. The Providence Journal
The City Council has adopted a resolution in support of The Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride, a movement protesting current immigration laws. The resolution, sponsored by Councilman Allan W. Fung and passed unanimously last week, states that immigration laws, for a number of reasons, fail to serve the city's interests....

Immigrants ride for rights
. Atlanta Journal Constitution
Last week Edna Silvester boarded a bus and began a mission that -- so far -- has taken her and about 100 other community activists and immigrants through the history-laden towns of Selma, Montgomery, Birmingham and Anniston, Ala....

The Kill Floor Rebellion
. from American Prospect
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