An Election Day roundup of stories about why today's vote matters for immigrant rights.

Because no one should be left to die alone in a jail cell because their calls for help are not taken seriously.

Distinguishing good immigration data from misleading reports can be difficult.

Space is filling up for NIJC's October 22 screening of The Visitor and panel discussion on immigrant detention.

More than 100 people are on Day 2 of a hunger strike to draw attention to the need for humane immigration reform and to mobilize 1 million people to sign a pledge to vote in support of immigrant rights.

The Des Moines Register reports today that the May immigration raid at the Agriprocessors, Inc., meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa, cost taxpayers more than $13,396 for each of the 389 workers who were detained.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced another large-scale worksite raid today, this time targeting a poultry-processing plant in Greenville, South Carolina.

The Immigration Oversight and Fairness Act, H.R.7255, would improve immigrant detainees' access to legal counsel and medical care and improve oversight of the immigrant detention system.

Most of the immigrant workers who were detained in a rural Louisiana detention center following the largest worksite immigration raid in U.S. history were cut off from contact with families and unable to contact lawyers for weeks after the raid, according to a National Immigrant Justice Center attorney who traveled to the detention center in early September to help provide legal consultations.

The Kentucky Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights is circulating a petition to demand answers about the death of Ana Romero, a 44-year-old mother who died at a jail in Franklin County, Kentucky, while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The National Immigrant Justice Center and the Midwest Coalition for Human Rights are hosting a screening of the critically acclaimed feature film The Visitor on October 22, 2008, at the Chicago-Kent College of Law.

The federal immigration enforcement agency today released a new set of "performance-based" detention standards to govern the treatment of detained immigrants.

The Associated Press reports that the Iowa attorney general has charged the owners and managers of the Agriprocessors, Inc., meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa, with more than 9,000 criminal violations of child labor laws.

The latest TRAC study shows that the Department of Justice and Executive Office for Immigration Review have failed to fulfill significant parts of a 22-point plan issued in 2006 by then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to improve the U.S. immigration court system.

Information about the ICE raid in Laurel, Mississippi, is starting to come out, about 24 hours after the raid took place.

From the Associated Press: "Federal immigration agents arrested some 350 suspected undocumented workers in a raid on a Mississippi electrical equipment plant Monday, authorities announced, hours after sealing all entrances amid reports their sweep had idled normal operations."