Organizers describe it as the largest and most successful union campaigns in recent years.
Where local governments collaborate with ICE, deportations have increased more than 75 percent. New Mexico shows a different way.
Eleanor J. Bader teaches English at Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn, New York. She is a 2015 winner of a Project Censored award for "outstanding investigative journalism" and a 2006 Independent Press Association award. The coauthor of Targets of Hatred: Anti-Abortion Terrorism, she presently contributes to Lilith, Rewire, Theasy.com and other progressive feminist blogs and print publications.