Immigration
Editors' Picks
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Immigration and America's Urban Revival
Jul 07, 2015The evidence favors a hypothesis many Americans reject: Immigration has helped reduce crime and revitalize city economies.
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The Fundamentals of Immigration Reform
Mar 12, 2013To begin fixing America’s broken system, we must be guided by both our highest values and our economic needs.
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16 Million Refugees Are Not Some Other Country's Problem
May 01, 2015A Marshall Plan now is cheaper than military action to deal with collapsing states later.
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Refugee Blues
Sep 08, 2015Right-wing, anti-immigrant nationalism has been on the rise in Europe. Can EU leaders still learn from history?
Latest
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DNA Testing at the Border Could Provide Cover for More Family Separations
May 20, 2019A new ICE program may make it harder to keep immigrant families together.
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A Trumpified Census Won’t Limit Its Undercount to Undocumented Latinos
May 15, 2019The citizenship question will lead to undercounting millions of Latino, Asian, and immigrant households, many with legal status—and nowhere more so than in California.
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Resisting Trump’s Politicization of the Census
Apr 26, 2019Trump’s intention is to undercount noncitizens, and Supreme Court conservatives appear on board.
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The Trump Administration Says It Can’t Handle More Migrants, Ignoring Thousands of Vacant Beds in Family Detention Centers
Apr 19, 2019If the border is overflowing, as Trump insists, why are some facilities less than half full?
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Trump Takes Dividing the Nation to a New Level
Apr 15, 2019The president of the United States says he wants to intentionally harm Americans who didn't vote for him, for no reason other than retribution. We have never seen anything like it in our lifetimes.
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Trump’s Huddled Masses and the Politics of 2020
Apr 10, 2019The politics of immigration just got a little harder for liberals.
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The Migration Crisis and the Future of Europe
Apr 05, 2019The identity crisis imperiling the continent isn’t one of race and religion. It’s one of Europe’s willingness to preserve and expand its liberal values.
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Seizing the Family and Community Values Narrative
Mar 27, 2019Americans are concerned about health care, education, worker rights, and climate change. Democrats should own these issues, go beyond bashing billionaires, and move toward a more comprehensive agenda for 2020.
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How Trump’s ‘Invisible Wall’ Frightens Legal Immigrants Out of Medical Care
Mar 22, 2019Diseases don’t respect borders, nor do they care about passports, citizenship, or residency.
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Will Immigrants Find Themselves in the Driver’s Seat?
Mar 19, 2019Trump’s ICE crackdown is increasing support for access to driver’s licenses.
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How the Spending Bill Can Hurt Immigrant Detainees
Feb 15, 2019Increasing ICE’s funding threatens more immigrant families, though the legislation also requires the agency to report more regularly to Congress.
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21 Savage and the 50,000 ICE Detainees
Feb 14, 2019The Atlanta-based rapper’s untimely run-in with immigration enforcement agents offers a window into the world of the tens of thousands of immigrants currently locked in ICE jails.
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Border Wall or No, Immigrants Will Soon Have to Scale a Paywall
Jan 23, 2019Proposed new Trump administration rules could keep low-income immigrants from applying for green cards or citizenship.
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‘I Have an Absolute Right to Cry Wolf,’ Claims the President
Jan 11, 2019And it’s not clear anyone can stop him from doing it again and again.
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Trump Said Nothing New or True Last Night, but He Said It in Less Time Than It Usually Takes
Jan 09, 2019A legally dubious declaration of national emergency may be his only way out of his self-created conundrum.
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