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Hidden from the public and overlooked by regulators, immigrant workers in the laundry industry face a litany of hazards and abuse. Our six-month investigation reveals the extent of their exploitation.
Spring 2025
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Stuck in Sanctuary: A Philadelphia Family Resists Deportation
With the Trump administration continuing to step up raids and deportations nationwide, providing real sanctuary is as vital as it is challenging. One immigrant’s story.
Standing With Immigrants in Nebraska
Nebraska has not voted for a Democratic presidential nominee in more than half a century. But in recent years, it has nonetheless seen the flowering of a pro-immigrant political culture.
Why I Left Immigration Law
The U.S. immigration system demands penance from immigrants for the privilege of staying in the country and reinforces tired stereotypes about the global South. After four years, I could no longer be part of it.
Belabored Podcast #127: Rebellion in the Streets
Five organizers talk about this year’s May Day, which saw immigrant workers taking to the streets around the country.
Berta Cáceres, Presente!
As tens of thousands flooded Washington, D.C. for the People’s Climate March, they carried the voices of those most at risk for defending the environment: indigenous activists like Berta Cáceres, who was murdered in Honduras last year and whose true killers remain at large.
The False Economics of Anti-Immigration 
George Borjas argues that a protectionist approach towards immigration would be good for American workers. Economists almost universally disagree.
Booked: The Empathy of Fiction, with Viet Thanh Nguyen
Novelist and critic Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses his new book of short stories, The Refugees, and how the art of fiction illuminates politics.
From a Day Without Immigrants to a City Without Fear
As the Trump administration intensifies its war on immigrants, undocumented workers are resisting with the most effective weapon: a refusal to be afraid.
Belabored Podcast #122: Immigrants Strike Back at the White House
Following last week’s Day Without Immigrants, organizers share their insights about how to fight Trump at work and in the streets.
How Immigrants Built the American Left—And Can Build It Again
For nearly two centuries, immigrants have been among the U.S. left’s most important partisans. As a new mass movement comes into being, they must again be at the heart of it.
The Return of Border Discrimination
A product of the civil rights era, the 1965 Immigration Act changed the United States in ways its supporters could hardly imagine. But will the principle of open immigration withstand Trump’s presidency?
An Economist’s Case for Open Borders
Amid today’s xenophobic tide, economist Branko Milanovic has made a controversial case for opening the borders—but without offering migrants full rights as citizens. Would such an arrangement reduce inequality, or only exacerbate the problems that have brought us to this point?
Belabored Podcast #120: Meet the New Boss, with Andrew Stettner
Andrew Stettner of the Century Foundation joins us to talk about Trump’s cabinet picks, and what they mean for labor.
Texas’s New Ground Game
While conservatives tighten their grip on Washington, a network of grassroots organizers in three Texas cities is showing how local progressives can beat the odds. Could their efforts become a national model for opposing Trumpism?
