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Immigration

Nativism Versus Security
When police become immigration enforcers, everybody loses.
September 10, 2009 | By Ann Friedman

Chicken Little Goes to Europe
Western Europe is being transformed by immigrants from the Islamic world. But they are not the enemy within.
August 28, 2009 | By Stephen Holmes

Detention Retention
President Obama has tried to split the difference between comprehensive immigration-reform advocates and law-and-order types. But for immigrants in detention, not much has changed since the Bush era.
June 2, 2009 | By Renee Feltz and Stokely Baksh | web only

A Give and Take on Immigration
One year after the largest raid in U.S. history, we rarely hear stories of small towns suffering in the absence of immigrants.
April 22, 2009 | By Ann Friedman

Translating Disaster
In the crisis, the Gulf's Hispanic communities dealt with linguistic and political isolation. But Katrina produced a boost to new organizing efforts.
February 23, 2009 | By Carolyn Petri

The Real Economics of Immigration Reform
By ignoring the role of immigration policy in our economic situation, Americans are actually hurting themselves.
February 12, 2009 | By Cristina Jimenez | web only

The Big Business of Family Detention
It's not just alleged terrorists who are suffering from our inhumane treatment of detainees. It's also children.
February 2, 2009 | By Courtney E. Martin | web only

The Fence to Nowhere
The Minutemen promised their supporters a high-tech border barrier. Instead, they got a five-strand barbed-wire fence and a bunch of radical splinter groups.
September 22, 2008 | By David Neiwert

African Americans and Immigrants: The Common Good
Are foreigners "taking Americans' jobs"? Or are employers once again exploiting cheap labor and vulnerable people?
September 22, 2008 | By Maria Echaveste

The Undocumented American Dream
A new anthology of autobiographical stories written by undocumented immigrant college students serves as a reminder that we're neglecting some of the country's best and brightest.
May 5, 2008 | By Courtney E. Martin | web only

Canada Imports "School Choice" Ideology
Toronto's current debate over whether to create Afrocentric public schools looks suspiciously like arguments over private school vouchers in the United States, with the same charged rhetoric and misleading data.
March 21, 2008 | By Dana Goldstein | web only

Justice Denied for Battered Immigrant Women
The Department of Homeland Security is considering a policy change that would harm immigrant women who are abused by husbands who are U.S. citizens.
March 10, 2008 | By Anabel Lee | web only

Black and Brown Together
In Mississippi, African American leaders are the foremost champions of the state's growing Latino immigrant population. Some day soon, they hope, the new alliance will transform the state's reactionary politics.
February 25, 2008 | By David Bacon

The Fight for the Latino Vote
Super Tuesday has brought the power of the Latino vote to the forefront of the campaign. Clinton and Obama are once again sparring over a slice of the demographic pie.
February 4, 2008 | By Dana Goldstein | web only

Identification Politics
The congressionally mandated national ID system moved with little discussion from big idea to law. As the devilish details emerge, it's proving easier mandated than done--and leaving immigrants to face the consequences.
January 18, 2008 | By Brian Beutler | web only

What to Really Do About Immigration
Half a million Mexicans will cross the border annually for the next 15 years. Here's a plan to enable them to stay home.
January 17, 2008 | By Jeff Faux

America's Biggest Divide
Here's some news for anti-immigration demagogues. If they think this country or this economy can succeed in coming decades without millions of additional immigrants, they're not thinking straight.
January 4, 2008 | By Robert B. Reich | web only

A Teenager's Asylum Plea Ignites an EU Immigration Debate
A Kosovar teenager's recent YouTube plea to let her stay in Austria is making Europeans rethink some of their immigration policies.
November 29, 2007 | By Sarah Wildman | web only

The Struggle to Shift the Immigration Narrative
Who won last week's Democratic presidential debate? Thanks to the immigration question, the winner was Rudy. Or Mitt. Or whoever stands to win the Republican nomination.
November 20, 2007 | By Adele M. Stan | web only

Immigration Issues: After Failure
With immigration reform dead, Democrats court Hispanics and Republicans go (more) nativist.
September 24, 2007 | By Ezra Klein

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