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Plan Z for Immigration

October 2021 Issue

Red background with 8 blue doors, each with a white star and varying in how open or closed they are

How to Build a Life

What Immigrants Know About Happiness

Arthur C. Brooks

July 29, 2021

An illustration of a man in a striped outfit and fedora riding a polka-dot bird across an ocean, away from a frowny face and toward a smiley face

The Heaviest, Lightest Thing

Jesús A. Rodríguez

July 5, 2021

A photograph of immigration papers

Americans Say Immigrants Should Learn English. But U.S. Policy Makes That Hard.

June 4, 2021

A woman wearing a headscarf writes English letters on paper.

Racism Has Always Been Part of the Asian American Experience

April 21, 2021

Chinese immigrants on Ellis Island

Restoring the ‘Soul of the Nation’ Means Taking in Refugees

April 16, 2021

Joe Biden in silhouette

America Never Wanted the Tired, Poor, Huddled Masses

Caitlin Dickerson

illustration of Statue of Liberty coated with white dripping paint

Realism About the Border Is in Short Supply

March 30, 2021

A Border Patrol agent and migrant families

The Atlantic Daily: America Suffers From Immigration Amnesia

Caroline Mimbs Nyce

March 29, 2021

Red 'A' on an envelope

America’s Immigration Amnesia

Caitlin Dickerson

March 29, 2021

Refugees sleeping in bunk beds in Brownsville, Texas, in March 1989

The Real Border Crisis

March 26, 2021

A family crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.

Biden Has a Border Problem

March 16, 2021

A girl walking through El Chaparral crossing port

The Border Mess That Trump Left Behind

Juliette Kayyem

February 19, 2021

The border wall in Arizona

The U.S. Must Do More to Care for Its Caregivers

Catherine S. Ramírez and Glenn Kramon

January 24, 2021

Alicia Valeriano, originally from Mexico City, pictured at home in Freehold, New Jersey. Because she doesn’t have a social security number, her family did not qualify for aid under the CARES Act, even though she has paid taxes for 18 years.

The Books Briefing: What Stories About Immigration Reveal About America

December 11, 2020

Queens, New York in 2005

Donald Trump’s Refugee Policy Is Bureaucratic Sadism

October 24, 2020

Syrian-Kurdish refugees on a bus

The Declining Power of the American Passport

July 24, 2020

A passport with lettering falling off

The Danger of America’s Coronavirus Immigration Bans

June 28, 2020

How Fear Spreads the Coronavirus

May 29, 2020

A woman, dressed in a black track suit and with a blue surgical mask hanging off one ear, stands in a doorway.

What Isolation Does to Undocumented Immigrants

May 27, 2020

Immigrants Have Always Known the Pain of Social Distancing

May 2, 2020

An immigrant family at Ellis Island, New York, in 1925.

The Sinister Logic of Trump’s Immigration Freeze

April 29, 2020

An illustration of Trump, the Statue of Liberty, and a sign reading "We will not be banned"

The World’s Refugee System Is Broken

February 29, 2020

Silhouettes of migrants behind a chain-link fence.

The Trump Administration Is Gagging America’s Immigration Judges

Cristian Farias

February 28, 2020

Border fence in the Rio Grande Valley

The Undocumented Agent

February 14, 2020

Raul Rodriguez's hand rested on barbed wire in black and white.

Why Texans Don’t Want Any More Californians

January 31, 2020

The Golden Gate Bridge

Trump Targets a New Group of Immigrants

January 27, 2020

President Donald Trump

The World Is Turning Its Back on Refugees

Lama Mourad and Kelsey P. Norman

December 24, 2019

Palestinian women walk after fetching potable water in the Al-Shati refugee camp (also known as Beach Camp) in Gaza City, September 10, 2019.

Sick Migrant Children Are at the Whims of U.S. Border Guards

December 19, 2019

A camp for asylum seekers in Matamoros, Mexico, across the border from Brownsville, Texas.

Trump’s White-Nationalist Vanguard

November 19, 2019

‘Welcome to Europe. Now Go Home.’

November 15, 2019

Bill Clinton Owes My Father an Apology

November 11, 2019

Aarti Shahani with her father and sister

The Deportations Last Time

November 2019 Issue

illustration of a family standing on a train track in silhouette

The Fragility of American Citizenship

October 9, 2019

U.S.-citizenship candidates look at a video presentation as they wait to take the oath of citizenship at a naturalization ceremony.

Immigration Law Defies the American Constitution

October 3, 2019

A silhouette of an immigrant family

Trapped in Juárez: Life in the Migrant Limbo

J. Weston Phippen

September 16, 2019

Guatemalan migrant Ledy Perez embraces her son Anthony on a dirt road as a member of the Mexican National Guard stands beside them.