Immigration Policy

Trump’s Asylum Crackdown Intensifies the Fight for Refugee Rights

Trump’s Asylum Crackdown Intensifies the Fight for Refugee Rights Trump’s Asylum Crackdown Intensifies the Fight for Refugee Rights

Current policy makes a painful line of work even harder, but these attorneys aren’t giving up.

Sep 12, 2019 / Jack Herrera

Bilama Khatun India detention facility

Why India Just Stripped 1.9 Million People of Citizenship Why India Just Stripped 1.9 Million People of Citizenship

Those left stateless could face detention and deportation.

Sep 10, 2019 / Makana Eyre and Nation contributor

Immigrants in Dulles Airport

From Harvard Students to Diplomats—the US Is Turning Away Ever More Palestinians From Harvard Students to Diplomats—the US Is Turning Away Ever More Palestinians

When Harvard-bound Ismail Ajjawi was deported from Logan Airport last month, he joined a long list of Palestinians who’ve been denied entry under Trump.

Sep 5, 2019 / Mairav Zonszein

Donald Trump

Trump’s Corruption Is Now More Brazen Than Ever Trump’s Corruption Is Now More Brazen Than Ever

From his G-7 Doral heist to Bill Barr’s Christmas Party to steering wall-building contracts to GOP cronies, it’s grift all the way down.

Aug 28, 2019 / Joan Walsh

Shedding Light on Cruelty

Shedding Light on Cruelty Shedding Light on Cruelty

Light projections, Homestead Detention Center, Florida, 2019.

Aug 28, 2019 / OppArt / Alessandra Mondolfi

President Trump Has Legalized Concentration Camps

President Trump Has Legalized Concentration Camps President Trump Has Legalized Concentration Camps

The administration’s new rules will eviscerate key features of the landmark 1997 Flores decision, which mandates protections for immigrant children.

Aug 23, 2019 / Sasha Abramsky

Never Again? Again!

Never Again? Again! Never Again? Again!

Concentration camps in the USA.

Aug 22, 2019 / OppArt / Eneko Las Heras

We Have Been Here Before

We Have Been Here Before We Have Been Here Before

Japanese American incarceration is the blueprint for today’s migrant detention camps.

Aug 21, 2019 / Brandon Shimoda

The Statue of Liberty

Undoing the Promise of the Statue of Liberty Undoing the Promise of the Statue of Liberty

Attempts to rewrite the poem at the base of the Statue of Liberty are an attack on immigrants like me and my family.

Aug 16, 2019 / George Atallah

Migrant caravan from Honduras

The Current Migrant Crisis Was Created by US Foreign Policy, Not Trump The Current Migrant Crisis Was Created by US Foreign Policy, Not Trump

The roots of our migrant crisis trace back to decades of US interventionism and bloody coups in Central America.

Aug 16, 2019 / Rebecca Gordon

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