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Lucas Dörre America Never Wanted the Tired, Poor, Huddled Masses
The U.S. is a diverse nation of immigrants—but it was not intended to be, and its historical biases continue to haunt the present.
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP Trump’s Immigration Policies Unify White Republicans
As the GOP’s political power concentrates in less diverse areas, resistance to the president’s agenda keeps on shrinking.
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Gregory Bull / AP Kirstjen Nielsen’s Job Prospects Are Probably Pretty Slim
Apart from the president, she was the official most associated with family separations—and that won’t exactly endear her to the private sector.
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Paras Griffin / Getty 21 Savage and the False Promise of Black Citizenship
The callous response to the rapper’s detainment by ICE shows how easily the rhetoric of law-enforcement agencies can influence public opinion.
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John Moore / Getty Family Separation Isn’t New
U.S. immigration policy has traumatized migrant children and parents for nearly a century.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters The Thorny Bureaucracy That Stands Between Detained Children and Their Parents
An immigration lawyer outlines the logistical challenges of family reunification, and why some detainees still face uncertain futures.
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Drawn and Quarterly The Graphic Novel That Captures the Anxieties of Being Undocumented
Jérôme Ruillier’s The Strange understands how the immigrant experience for those without papers can be frightening, isolating, and rarely straightforward.
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Edgard Garrido / Reuters The Lost Ones
What will happen to the 463 migrant children whose parents have been deported?
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Russell Berman / The Atlantic How Some Immigrant Families Are Avoiding Separation
Space constraints are preventing the government from keeping everyone who crosses the border in detention, allowing some to make it out of McAllen, Texas.
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Jonathan Nackstrand / AFP / Getty When Divorce Is an Opportunity
In Sweden, progressive gender dynamics can lead immigrant women to leave their husbands and become independent.
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Mike Blake / Reuters The People Who Want to Be Americans
Amid the roar of the immigration debate, there are still those working quietly and diligently to become citizens.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters 'An Assault on the Body of the Church’
Catholic parishes have been hit hard by President Trump’s decision to suspend Temporary Protected Status for Salvadorans.
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Pierre Crom / Getty Muslim Refugees Team Up With Anarchists in an Effort To Shame Greece
A squat in Athens is both a residence for asylum-seekers and a political statement.
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Evan Vucci / AP The Tragedy of President Trump's Tribalism
Dividing Americans into groups of winners and losers almost always backfires.
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Gregory Bull / AP The Border-Wall Prototypes Are Up—Now What?
As the administration assesses the projects, both the purpose and effectiveness of a barrier are in question.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP Latino Republicans Place Their Bets on DACA
Strategists are still hoping to salvage a years-long effort to make inroads with Hispanic voters by passing legislation granting legal status to the program’s recipients.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Democrats Dare to Trust Trump on DACA
Republican leaders recoiled from the president’s agreement on immigration, and now Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer are relying on him to see it through.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Why Trump's Immigration Gambit Will Likely Backfire
The president’s attempt to pressure Democrats using the status of those brought to the U.S. illegally as children may not turn out as he intended.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trump's Buck Passing on Immigration
The president’s decision to try to shift responsibility for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program to Congress could turn out to be one of his politically shrewder moves.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters The Anti-Sanctuary-Cities Bill That Outlawed Dissent
A federal court enjoined much of a Texas law that punished officials who dared “endorse” the view that its provisions were harmful to public safety.
