Nation Topics - Immigration to the US | The Nation

The US policy of criminalizing undocumented immigrants has led innocent deportees to be jailed and maligned in their home countries.

To reconnect with the Latino vote that helped elect him in 2008, Obama needs to take two important steps.

Hammered by the recession, the key Latino voting bloc is concerned with the economy and education, too.

Impoverished by NAFTA, residents of Veracruz crossed the border to work in Smithfield’s Tar Heel slaughterhouse. Now, they're condemned as “illegals.”

With draconian laws like Georgia’s HB 87 hitting women especially hard, women’s groups are taking up the fight for immigrants’ rights.

In Georgia, HB 87 is a “giant scarecrow” for immigrant labor, and the result has been hundreds of millions in lost crops.

The threat of Arizona-style laws has strengthened pro-immigrant coalitions in unlikely places.

Salvador Licea shares his experience with the ICE Secure Communities Program.

When undocumented immigrants like Jose Antonio Vargas "come out," it changes the debate over immigration—but at considerable personal risk.