immigrant women's health
Lynda Waddington on July 30, 2008 - 8:00am
Just over 40 women, originally detained in the unprecedented May 12 immigration raid on the town’s kosher meatpacking plant, were released by Immigration and Customs Enforcement back into the town on humanitarian grounds to either care for children or for medical conditions.
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Rachel Roth on July 23, 2008 - 8:00am
A number of local and county police departments are now allowed to arrest people for immigration violations. In Tennessee, a pregnant, undocumented immigrant woman was arrested for driving without a license and gave birth, mostly shackled, in jail focusing new attention on local immigration enforcement.
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Lynda Waddington on June 13, 2008 - 8:00am
In the four weeks since the May 12 federal immigration raids at Agriprocessors in Postville, Iowa, St. Bridget's Church has been a refuge for the plant's undocumented workers.
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Lynda Waddington on June 3, 2008 - 8:00am
More than two weeks have passed since the federal government launched an immigration raid -- the largest single-site raid in American history -- against Agriprocessors in Postville, Iowa, and more stories of abuse continue to surface.
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