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The Obama administration has announced that the President will issue an executive order that grants safety from deportation for undocumented young people.
The Bracero Program streamlined the process of immigration for farm workers between 1942 and 1964. How have things changed since then?
"It was the discovery of both an incredibly innovative and progressive cultural life, as well as a fantastically enthusiastic attitude to the arts, that first made me consider making L.A. a home."
L.A. sumo wrestler and actor is a man of three worlds and three different cultures.
This week in 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act barred immigration from China. While this marked a significant point in U.S. history when a specific group was targeted in an exclusionary immigration law, it was not the first of its kind, nor was it the la...
The film "El Field." presents a "portrait in motion" of the desert croplands that privileges the visual experience of the landscape and the poetic dimensions of labor and migration.
Today is International Workers' Day, also known a May Day -- a holiday founded by socialist , labor unions, and born of violence in its effort to obtain equality for the working class. Though not officially celebrated and historically ignored, the holi...