Avendaño, Ana; Hincapié, Marielena. “The Rollback of Immigrant Workers’ Civil Rights.” AFL-CIO. (2007). “As the nation engages in a heated and emotional debate about the status and role of immigrant workers in the United States, two labor lawyers describe how the current immigration system coupled with the Bush administration’s failure to enforce labor laws undermine labor standards for all workers in the United States.” [read article]
“Netlets for Friday, Dec. 29.” Star Tribune. (Dec 29, 2006). “The immigration raids earlier this month in Worthington and five other Swift & Co. plants nationwide beg the question of why immigrant employees of the food-processing industry can't get documents to work in a sector that relies on immigrant labor.” [read article]
“Not Very Swift Meatpacking Raids, Mitt Romney and Other Immigration Follies.” LibertyPost.org. (Dec. 22, 2006).
“At his press conference Wednesday, President Bush alluded to last week's federal raids on Swift meatpacking plants to round up suspected illegal immigrant employees. ‘It just reminded me that the system we have in place has caused people to rely upon smugglers and forgers in order to do work Americans aren't doing,’ Mr. Bush said. We hope the incoming Members of Congress were listening.” [read article]
“Netlets for Wednesday, Dec. 20.” Star Tribune. (Dec. 20, 2006). “I appreciated the Dec. 8 article "Green-card limbo." Few Americans know how difficult it is to legally immigrate to the United States.” [read article]
Hart, Karega. “Why Unions Must Support the Immigrants Rights Movement."The Black Commentator. (Dec. 14, 2006). “‘The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor.’ - A. Philip Randolph. When A. Phillip Randolph spoke the above words during the 20th century, he was the leader of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters was a union mainly of African American workers. Other unions refused to organize African American workers and accused African Americans of taking jobs, lowering wages and strikebreaking.” [read article]
Taylor, Ann. “Another Reason Workplace Raids Harm the Middle Class.” DMI Blog. (Dec. 2006). “Is there another agenda behind the recent surge in workplace raids? Some commentators argue that in addition to a pre-holiday show of force on the issue of illegal immigration, the raids are part of a larger conservative agenda aimed at creating a climate of fear to undermine union organizing efforts." [read article]