On the whole, American work has become significantly safer since the establishment of OSHA in 1970. There are two basic reasons for this. First, OSHA made American work safer. Second, and probably more important, most dangerous labor in the United States has either been mechanized...
immigration
I have to say that while, yes, marrying someone so they can get a green card probably should be technically illegal because it should be discouraged, that I have trouble.
The following poem is by S.M. Hill, a Swedish immigrant to Oregon, circa 1916. I take it from here. America They boast a great deal about equality, they loudly proclaim.
The California drought has not only devastated owners, but the workers who rely upon migrant farm work to survive: On July 11, Camacho was working at a health resource fair in Mendota, a rural farming community west of Fresno. Of the 100 or so farmworkers...
Alfredo Corchado has a powerful story of the plight of Central American migrants trying to move through Mexico to get to the United States. Heartbreaking stories about people we should.
Steve King threatens that if Obama delays deporting undocumented immigrants, Republicans will impeach him. Oh please Rep. King, don't do that. Combining impeachment with your war on brown people surely.
The reasons for the wave of child immigrants from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador are complex, but as Óscar Martínez correctly states, many of them are related to the United States: As thousands of children like Auner, Chele and Pitbull arrive at the US border,...
What is life like inside the immigrant detention centers the U.S. has set up to house the thousands of migrants fleeing Central American gang and drug violence? I went down.
A little racism with your breakfast. Some of the opposition has also bordered on the extreme. A few of the protesters who marched against a proposed shelter in Vassar, Mich.,.
We think of lynching as something whites did to African-Americans and that was of course often the case. But the use of extralegal violence to eliminate perceived threats without a trial was pretty common. Whites were often lynched, especially in power struggles in the West....
The whites of Murrieta, California sure know how to celebrate July 4. They kick it old school, through expressions of white supremacy. MURRIETA, Calif. — Suddenly, this city in the.
Americans at their finest here: Three buses carrying 140 undocumented immigrants are heading back to San Diego County after being met by angry protesters at the Murrieta Border Patrol facility.