The “Catch an Illegal Immigrant Game”
You’ll never guess what’s going down at University of Texas’s West Mall on Wednesday… It’s essentially a game, a game called the “Catch an Illegal Immigrant Game.” If you need to […]
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Day Laborers: Ignored, Understudied, and Misunderstood
When most Americans think about day laborers or nonstandard employment, the image that first comes to their mind is a group of undocumented men standing on the side of a […]
Polleros: There’s Big Money Behind Unauthorized Immigration
The U.S. Mexico border is now the most militarized border in the world between two countries at peace. Since 9/11, the U.S. has poured money into securing its southwest border, nearly doubling […]
What the DOMA ruling means for “Undocuqueers”
With the recent ruling against the Defense of Marriage Act, LGBT couples across the United States are celebrating their new freedom. Finally the federal government will recognize all LGBT marriages […]
The Immigration Paradox: America in a Social Trap
Seven years ago, Emmy® Award winning filmmaker Lourdes Lee Vasquez sought to uncover the root-cause of mass, unauthorized migration in the United States, which led her to produce “one of […]
The Lie of America as a Meritocracy
Meritocracy: a system in which people can move ahead on the basis of their achievement, or in other words, achieve the American Dream. Such a system implies equal opportunity, in […]
Y’all Better Vote (If you can, that is)
Yesterday at 4:00 a.m. UK time, one of my friends (an American citizen currently living in London) tuned in to watch the first 2012 presidential debate, live. To her surprise, […]
A New Definition of the American Identity
Many Americans take pride in the United States for being culturally diverse, yet, at the same time, many of those same Americans also place an expectation on immigrants to assimilate. […]
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