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Is Texas About to Turn Latinos Into Single-Issue Voters?

April 14, 2024

Photo of asylum seekers waiting along a border fence to be processed, March 2024, El Paso, Texas

The Man Who Now Controls the U.S. Border

March 1, 2024

Picture of Andrés Manuel López Obrador

Something’s Fishy About the ‘Migrant Crisis’

Jerusalem Demsas

February 19, 2024

Migrants stand at a processing center as they wait for a bus to Chicago, in downtown Brownsville, Texas, U.S., October 24, 2023.

No One Is Prepared for a New Era of Global Migration

February 13, 2024

silhouette of woman and child with coordinates interspersed

Trump’s ‘Knock on the Door’

Ronald Brownstein

February 8, 2024

America’s Immigration Reckoning Has Arrived

Fernanda Santos

January 31, 2024

A woman and child on the border

The Supreme Court Has Itself to Blame for Texas Defying Its Orders

January 29, 2024

A photo of Greg Abbott speaking

Texas Pulls an Ugly Stunt on the Border

Jerusalem Demsas

January 13, 2024

Illustration of a border fence with knotted bars

The ‘Permanently Orphaned’

Caitlin Dickerson

December 11, 2023

parent and child hand prints

The Specter of Family Separation

Caitlin Dickerson

January/February 2024 Issue

A black-and-white photo of a woman in a T-shirt and jeans leaning with both hands against a white van at night while a woman in uniform frisks her and a toddler stands underneath crying

El espectro de la separación familiar

Caitlin Dickerson

December 4, 2023

Una fotografía en blanco y negro de una mujer con una camiseta y jeans apoyada con ambas manos contra una camioneta blanca,mientras una mujer uniformada la inspecciona y una niña pequeña llora, por la noche.

Will Republicans Pay a Price for Extremism?

Ronald Brownstein

October 26, 2023

people waiting on the border

The Hard Truth About Immigration

David Leonhardt

October 23, 2023

Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965

Biden Lets Venezuelan Migrants Work

Ronald Brownstein

September 21, 2023

A photo of Joe Biden

New York Is Full

August 26, 2023

The Statue of Liberty, with a "No Vacancy" neon sign on the pedestal

The GOP’s Lurch Toward Extremism Comes for the Border

Ronald Brownstein

July 21, 2023

Texas State Troopers talk with migrants behind razor wire along the Rio Grande River in Eagle Pass, Texas, US, on July 13, 2023.

Why Republicans Keep Calling for the End of Birthright Citizenship

Martha S. Jones

July 2, 2023

An illustration of a mobile made of stars and stripes, hanging over a baby's crib

How Deterrence Policies Create Border Chaos

Jerusalem Demsas

June 21, 2023

A black-and-white photo of immigrants in Tijuana, Mexico

What Emma Lazarus Got Wrong About Immigration

Benjamin F. Jones

June 18, 2023

People going up an inclined zigzag pathway

Every Emergency Needs to End, Even COVID-19

Juliette Kayyem

May 5, 2023

A mask dangling from the fingers of a man

Biden Is Making a Trumplike Mistake at the Border

David A. Graham

May 3, 2023

Biden walking with two police officers, the border wall in the background.

Congress Can’t Even Do This One Thing

Caitlin Dickerson

October 27, 2022

a migrant mother and child

Will Venezuelans in Florida Turn Against DeSantis?

Gisela Salim-Peyer

October 8, 2022

A hand holding a Venezuelan flag and threatening to smash miniature of Ron DeSantis.

The Unorthodox Solution to the World’s Migration Woes

Conor Friedersdorf

September 29, 2022

Ukrainians who are seeking asylum walk at the El Chaparral port of entry on their way to enter the United States, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, on April 6, 2022 in Tijuana, Mexico.

Nine Reader Views on the State of Immigration Policy

Conor Friedersdorf

September 26, 2022

a truck parked in front of the border wall between the U.S. and Mexico

Ron DeSantis Can’t Troll His Way Into the White House

September 20, 2022

Migrants waiting roadside

How Democrats Can Turn the Tables on DeSantis

September 19, 2022

A photo of Venezuelan migrants in Martha's Vineyard

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A Sadistic Immigration Stunt

September 16, 2022

Ron DeSantis speaking

Conservatives Can Win By Embracing ‘Selectionism’

June 17, 2022

An American flag worn in a suit pocket during a naturalization ceremony

The Truth About Extremism That America Likes to Forget

May 19, 2022

A makeshift memorial in Buffalo, New York, on May 15, 2022, the day after a gunman shot dead 10 people.

Why the Right Went Quiet on Ukrainian Refugees

May 13, 2022

Images of Afghan refugees and Ukrainian refugees

The Mistaken Assumption That Immigration Is Inevitable

Jennifer D. Sciubba

March 31, 2022

An illustration of figures on both sides of a tall fence

Work In Progress

Why U.S. Population Growth Is Collapsing

March 28, 2022

Five long rows of figures representing people that gradually fade from right to left.

How the Right’s Rules of Rhetoric Create Racial Provocateurs

January 13, 2022

Democrats’ Free Pass on Immigration Is Over

Caitlin Dickerson

September 25, 2021

DHS agents with Haitian migrants at the border

Why Afghan Refugees Aren’t Actually Welcome in California

Darrell Owens and Muhammad T. Alameldin

September 9, 2021

Afghan residents in Fremont, California