Immigration Archive
Archives for December 2019


After living in limbo for decades, they can now apply for green cards in the US.

Asylum seekers face competing miseries: violence at home, and a punitive detention system with a shard of hope for relief abroad.


It’s his immigration policy.


It’s one of many ways the Trump administration has tried to scale back the US refugee program.


Buttigieg’s immigration plan, explained.

Thousands of asylum seekers remain at risk in Mexican border towns, waiting for humanitarian aid.


He wants to make amends for Trump’s family separations policy.


Almost 50% of unauthorized immigrants nationwide can now apply for a driver’s license.


23 Republicans voted to bring farmworkers out of the shadow economy.


It would undermine US-Mexican efforts to combat them.


It starts reckoning with the Obama administration’s legacy, but stops short of some big progressive reforms.


Trump’s policies are pushing migrants into Mexico instead.


Amid stricter EU immigration policies, they’re seeking protection in the US instead.


Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo are immigrants themselves — and they both think the evidence shows we need more people like them.