After years of neglect, U.S. border policy remains in crisis.
The Humanitarian Respite Center in McAllen, Texas, formerly a nightclub, now shelters between 200 and 300 migrants each day.
The first residents of a migrant tent encampment in Matamoros, Mexico, were finally allowed to cross the border into the U.S.
This week a sweeping immigration reform bill is to be introduced in the House of Representatives.
Immigration, the outgoing president’s signal issue, could be his gravy train after he leaves the White House.
Joe Biden’s biggest challenge lies at the U.S.-Mexico border, where an estimated 67,000 migrants are stranded.
After Trump, can Americans bridge a chasm of political beliefs to meet halfway on immigration issues?
Immigrant rights advocates claim that the abuses of the criminal legal system parallel institutional injustices against migrants.
Migrant advocates are heartened by Biden’s pledge to reverse many of Trump’s signature actions—but want him to go much further.
An adviser for Physicians for Human Rights says that immigrant family separation cases meet all four United Nations criteria for torture.
Capital & Main’s new series examines whether the incoming president can tackle the nation’s migrant crisis.
Joe Biden faces a divided Congress, but his first 100 days in office could see a big rollback of President Trump’s immigration restrictions.
JeanCarlo Jimenez is one of 179 immigrants to die in U.S. custody since 2003. The missteps and errors of ICE and its contractors have led to concerns about the safety of immigrant detainees.
Capital & Main’s new project, Deadly Detention, is intended to give names and faces to undocumented immigrants who have died in federal detention, and to explain how they met such sad fates in the country most had come to in search of better lives.
Here are the immigration stories you might have missed this week.
Co-published by International Business Times
Darrell Issa, like the voters in his district, was a man under pressure. He put his finger in the air to test the political winds and then realized it was the ground beneath his feet that was moving.
Co-published by International Business Times
More than 600,000 immigrants are battling deportation or fighting for asylum in American immigration courts — nearly 20 percent of them live in California. Fewer than 40 percent of these are represented by an attorney, including children as young as 3.
Hundreds of protesters gathered to send a message to the Trump administration that they disagreed with the decision to rescind DACA. They marched towards Olvera Street from Echo Park, with the day beginning in MacArthur Park.
Co-published by The American Prospect
Guatemala-born Alex Alpharaoh may soon become a man without a country — and without a family. Brought to America when he was three months old, Alpharaoh is the only member of his immediate family who is not a U.S. citizen.
Co-published by Fast Company
The last few days have been tense for Camila. Four years ago, she was approved for status in Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the Obama-era program that has granted nearly 800,000 young people who were brought to the U.S. as children the right to live free from fear of deportation and to work here legally.