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?
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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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ICE Now Locks Up Everyone
Jan 03, 2019The agency no longer recommends release for detainees with no criminal records, and refuses to release information about its shift to mandatory detention for all.
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Can the House Stop Trump’s Gross Immigration Abuse?
Dec 24, 2018An overdue reform agenda awaits investigations and hearings.
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Trump's Wall Keeps Getting Smaller
Dec 24, 2018Yet his base has no choice but to accept that he's keeping his promise.
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Epicenters of Refuge: A Tale of Two Cities
Dec 21, 2018The U.S./Mexico border has become the focal point for an international human rights crisis that only seems to be getting worse. Veteran photographer Arturo Talavera captures images from refugee camps in Mexico City and Tijuana, and the desperate lines of asylum seekers arrayed along the U.S./Mexico border.
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Texas Detention Players Ramp Up Trump’s For-Profit 'Baby Jails'
Dec 20, 2018A Texas court ruling on child-care providers offers the Trump administration a way around protections for underage migrants.
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Donald Trump Will Never Change His Strategy
Nov 18, 2018He thinks he won the midterms, so why do anything differently in 2020?
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Local Officials Paid a Price on Tuesday for Cooperating with ICE
Nov 09, 2018In a number of counties, voters ousted elected officials who’d directed their police departments to aid ICE in its deportations.
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Is Xenophobia Politically Rational?
Nov 08, 2018The evidence from the 2018 election is now in.
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Another Ominous Transition in Europe
Nov 01, 2018With the impending departure of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the continent’s fragmentation intensifies.
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The Cross-Border Farmworker Rebellion
Oct 31, 2018Workers in the berry fields of the United States and Mexico have the same transnational employers. Now, farmworker unions in those two nations have begun to work together.
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