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We have to guard against a kind of moral obtuseness where if we don’t see the harm, that means it doesn’t exist. These poor people can’t afford to send their children off to day camp in the summer so they can do archery and go swimming. They can’t afford an academic program so the children’s achievements won’t dissipate over the summer. They can’t afford to have Mom quit work and stay home to watch them, so they bring their children to work. It is not in any way obvious that the children would be better off if their parents made...

4 indicted in death of migrant worker Saturday, June 16, 2007 By Bruce Hamilton A St. Tammany Parish grand jury has indicted four teenagers on second-degree murder charges in the shooting death of an El Salvadoran man killed during a bungled robbery April 29, according to the district attorney's office. The four teenagers are charged in the death of Jose Luis Martinez-Carpio, 36, who was shot three times in the torso. Police said he grabbed a kitchen utensil to fend off two masked men who stormed the trailer he shared with six other migrant workers. Sheriff Jack Strain said the...

Emilio Camacho and Jennifer Caruso could hardly be more different. He's a migrant worker from El Paso, Texas. She's a home-schooling mother from Hightstown. What they have in common is Honey Brook Organic Farm in Mercer County, the nation's largest practitioner of an increasingly popular business model called community-supported agriculture. Camacho and his family are the field crew, the backbone of the 60-acre farm. During the growing season they till the fields and pull the weeds, commuting from a rented house in Trenton. Caruso and 2,986 other New Jersey and Pennsylvania residents are the farm's members. Their checks fill its...

We [The Constitution Party] affirm[s] the integrity of the international borders of the United States and the Constitutional authority and duty of the federal government to guard and to protect those borders, including the regulation of the numbers and of the qualifications of immigrants into the country. Each year approximately one million legal immigrants and almost as many illegal aliens enter the United States. These immigrants - including illegal aliens - have been made eligible for various kinds of public assistance, including housing, education, Social Security, and legal services. This unconstitutional drain on the federal Treasury is having a severe...

RELATED NEWS: Cardinal Rivera calls border wall an “error” Mexican cardinal criticized xenophobic attitude of US against immigrants Irish Church celebrates contribution of immigrants Arizona bishops release dramatic letter on immigration Archbishop Naumann: Scripture exhorts faithful to welcome the migrant, alienKansas City, Feb. 03, 2006 (CNA) - In his latest column, Kansas City, Kansas Archbishop Joseph Naumann weighed in on the volatile national immigration debate, saying that Scripture exhorts faithful to welcome the stranger and the alien, not as an option--but as a responsibility.The Archbishop wrote in regard to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishop’s Justice for Immigrants Campaign...

The Senate killed legislation Thursday that would have limited workers' compensation benefits for illegal aliens injured on the job. House Bill 2056 stated that illegal aliens prevented from working because of on-the-job injuries would still receive compensation for their medical expenses. But the bill would have banned the workers from receiving lost wages. The bill passed the House of Delegates on a 53-42 vote. But on the floor of the Senate, members questioned whether the state could legally separate workers' comp benefits. Several senators suggested the bill could harm families dependent on the undocumented workers' income or could punish workers...