Immigration
Vox’s coverage of immigration policy: from executive orders targeting birthright citizenship to the expansion of ICE and more.
Their proposal would mandate E-Verify nationwide — but it would likely just drive more undocumented immigrants to work off the books.
Increasing numbers of migrant children are arriving on the border, and the shelter system for them is under strain.
Biden is likely to spend his presidency fighting Republican judges who block his policies for legally dubious reasons.
But foreign workers still can’t get visas.
Border officials are slowly working up to processing 300 migrants daily.
Immigrant advocates say there should be further limits on ICE agents.
Democrats are pushing a comprehensive approach to immigration reform — for now.
The “Remain in Mexico” program left 25,000 asylum seekers stranded on the other side of the border.
He will increase refugee admissions to 125,000 annually starting in October.
Biden’s proposal to legalize America’s 10.5 million undocumented immigrants is popular — but can he achieve it?
Elections have consequences.
Obama had a mixed record on immigration. Biden is striving to do better.
Biden is continuing to prioritize immigration during his first weeks in office, but isn’t going as far as activists hoped.
It’s only the first step in making amends for one of Trump’s cruelest immigration policies.
The state of Texas had challenged the policy, claiming that it violates an immigration enforcement agreement brokered in the Trump administration’s waning days.
Biden is delivering on a key campaign promise on immigration policy.
Migrants arriving on the border will no longer be sent back to Mexico to await hearings.
It’s the beginning of the end for Trump’s immigration policies.
The president is planning six executive actions on his first day in office.
Biden is sending an immigration bill to Congress on his first day in office. Here’s what’s in it.
Biden’s immigration plan would include a pathway to citizenship. But it could face an uncertain future in Congress.
Census officials have reportedly stopped working on Trump’s plan to exclude undocumented immigrants from census counts, which are used to redraw electoral maps.
The president made one last stand on immigration in Alamo.
He’s the latest Cabinet official to step down in the wake of last week’s insurrection at the Capitol.
“We’re trying to normalize that Georgia is no longer Black and white.”
The new coronavirus aid package fills a critical gap in relief for some mixed-status families.
More than 5,000 migrant families were separated under Trump. Here’s how the president-elect could make amends.
With just weeks before Inauguration Day, Biden will have to decide whether to exit the agreement.
Immigration authorities have expelled another 67 children on public health grounds since the November court ruling.
“If they go back to Obama-era immigration policies, they will have failed.”
Biden has signaled a more welcoming era for immigrants — but Trump is making a last-ditch effort to push through his policy agenda.
Dismantling Trump’s policies that put up a wall to the asylum system is an immense task.
A federal judge handed immigrants a big win — and gave President-elect Biden a potential crisis.
The Court must decide whether to follow the Constitution’s clear text — or to rubber-stamp an illegal effort by Trump.
Whoever Biden picks will inherit an agency in dire need of reform.
Thousands of children have been expelled amid the pandemic.
The new sheriffs have promised to end cooperative agreements with ICE at the local level.
The judge said Chad Wolf’s unlawful appointment to his position invalidated his immigration policy.
Trump ran on immigration in 2016. His focus has shifted to maintaining “law and order.”
Rep. Joaquin Castro explains why he’s calling for a human rights commission.