immigration

Before being shot point blank in the head this weekend and surviving (thank God), U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was expected to be an outspoken leader of the immigration debate taking shape in congress this year.

Giffords had just won a very close, and at times contentious, battle to hold on to her seat facing opposition from a Tea Party candidate....

The new congress just began, but already the Republican-held House of Representatives is attacking the constitutional rights of immigrants. A group calling themselves State Legislators for Legal Migration held a press conference to talk up a new initiative to take birthright citizenship away from children born on U.S. soil to undocumented immigrants.

That grilled chicken salad that you ate for lunch? There’s a good chance that everything in it, from the tomatoes to the lettuce to the bird itself was picked or processed by a Latina. Some 640,000 women (mostly Latinas) perform farm work and another estimated 63,000 work in poultry farms and processing centers.

In both cases, women endure backbreaking work in return...