SALT has actively worked to change the conversation about immigration from one of xenophobia and hostility to humanizing the issue and seeing the people who are caught within a web of a failed federal policy.

June 6, 2008:  SALT issued a joint statement with the National Lawyers Guild criticizing the criminalization of undocumented workers caught up in immigration raids without a commensurate increase of constitutionally mandated due process rights.  The ICE raid on the Agriprocessors meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa, calls attention once again to the failed and inhumane treatment of undocumented workers in this country.  Read the statement now.

There are many stereotypes that have been projected to defame immigrants. In the West, those stereotypes often attach to Mexican Americans. So when the 2006-2007 UCLA Moot Court Competition question evoked virulent stereotypes about Latinos, SALT responded with an October 27, 2006 letter to Dean Michael H. Schill.

After 9/11 local governments began to see immigration in different ways, proposing various local ordinances that tried to clear out local residents, often with a broad and cruel brush. SALT STATEMENT ON POST 9/11 ANTI-IMMIGRANT MEASURES analyzes many of these local ordinances for use by activists and practioners.

For up-to-date information on what's happening in the area of immigration, go to the Immigration Law Prof blog.

For links to the January 2008 Cover Workshop on "Humanizing Immigration," including an audio recording, courtesy of WBAI of the entire program, click here.