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Asylum seekers from Central and South America wait to be picked up by Border Patrol after crossing into the United States from Mexico on April 30, 2021 near San Luis, Arizona. (Photo: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

Immigrants Are Essential: A Manifesto for the Covid-19 and Climate Change Era

The U.S. needs a reform as sweeping as the 1965 Hart-Celler Act, which eliminated racist immigration quotas, allowing millions of talented people to find a home here and build new lives.

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Welcome to the New America: Low-Wage Nation

Soon we’ll all be stuck with the unjust working conditions that immigrants face: contingent jobs, with lousy pay and few or no benefits.

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