Immigration
Vox’s coverage of immigration policy: from executive orders targeting birthright citizenship to the expansion of ICE and more.
The Biden v. Texas decision rejects a Trump judge’s absurd reading of federal law, then sends the case right back to that same judge.
Including those found dead in a truck Monday, 290 people have died trying to cross the border in 2022.
After a decade of DACA, what’s next for immigrant activists?
Since 1980, the number of refugees admitted into the US has generally declined, even though the need for resettlement has skyrocketed.
A Louisiana judge is preventing Biden from ending the policy as planned.
Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk is not secretary of homeland security, even though he might think he is.
Elected presidents, and not unelected judges, should decide America’s foreign policy.
Some moderate Democrats are breaking with Biden over pandemic border restrictions ahead of the midterms.
A former White House immigration official weighs the challenges ahead as the administration prepares for a spike in migrant arrivals.
Ukrainians already in the US can now live and work legally in the country temporarily.
The arrival of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees is straining humanitarian resources.
The time for the US and its European allies to act is now.
Thousands are trapped in the city of Tapachula as Mexico tries to limit migration north under US pressure.
A massive work permit backlog is threatening to put immigrants out of work.
Xiomara Castro needs her own government behind her to enact the reforms she promised.
US border policies have left them stuck in Mexico without adequate health care access.
The Justice Department is fighting to maintain Trump’s border restrictions and against compensation for separated families.
Record numbers of Haitians are seeking asylum in Mexico because they have no other option.
The pandemic has only accelerated a decline in US birth rates, even as immigration has plummeted.
Biden is leaning on US companies to convince migrants from El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala to stay home.
More than a year after Trump’s defeat, Biden is forced to share power with increasingly partisan judges.
Immigrants in ICE custody are already at high risk.
They wanted to protect millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation.
The Biden administration says it’s still committed to ending “Remain in Mexico.”
It couldn’t delay omicron’s arrival, and may do little to delay the variant’s spread.
Afghan arrivals and Trump-era policies pose obstacles to resettling 125,000 refugees this year.
Immigration provisions in Democrats’ budget reconciliation bill are likely on the chopping block.
Both Republicans and Biden say $450,000 payouts are too high.
A prior court decision is complicating the administration’s latest effort to end the policy.
The US has more jobs than it can fill. Fixing the immigration system could boost the economy.
President Biden proposed humane immigration reforms but continued harsh, Trump-era enforcement policies at the border.
A new Vox/Data for Progress poll reveals some Americans’ selective stance on Afghan refugees.
The US embraced Afghan refugees. Where’s its sympathy for migrants at the border?
Democrats wanted to give millions a path to citizenship. They still might have a chance.
But it’s actually a humanitarian disaster exacerbated by Biden.
Afghanistan presents Biden with a chance to reassert the US commitment to refugees.
Democrats are pushing to include immigration reform in an upcoming reconciliation measure.
Finding housing is the most difficult part of the resettlement process.
Getting evacuated is only the beginning.
The Court’s decision on Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy upends decades of precedent warning that judges shouldn’t mess with foreign affairs.