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The Nation's Bob Moser, John Nichols and Roberto Lovato discuss what progressive economic and immigration policy should be.

In its zeal, the federal immigration agency has been deporting US citizens.

Immigrant Latinos live under a matrix of oppressive laws, customs and institutions.

Immigrants facing deportation find shelter with the religious New Sanctuary Movement.

A patchwork of local laws reflects the complicated, contradictory national debate over immigration policy.

The debate in New York State over driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants became a proxy for the unsettled issue of immigration reform.

Junot Díaz's masterful new novel maps the ambiguities in the modern immigrant experience in America.

Undocumented immigrants who have survived for years living along San Diego's hillsides and canyons now find themselves left out of relief efforts in the Southern California fires.

Would a vastly expanded guest worker program benefit illegal immigrants? Just ask a guest worker.

A federal judge in San Francisco has put on hold new Homeland Security regulations designed to crack down on illegal immigrants in the workplace.

Blogs

The interactive La Ruta dramatizes an experience that many immigrants know too well—and senators could learn from.

April 30, 2013

After Boston, are the Senate Judiciary Hearings on immigration actually helping us get closer to reform?

April 25, 2013

Legal permanent residency and eventual citizenship will be conditional on expanded border security—including the use of drones.

April 17, 2013

A fair path to citizenship, an end to deportations, a better temporary worker program, immigration reform that works for women—three activists and a policy expert talk about what the reform bill must include.

April 15, 2013

If living through the reality of immigrant raids and detention seems difficult, try depicting it with cameras rolling.

April 8, 2013

A new book argues that the media failed to grasp the frightening extremism of the anti-immigrant border patrols of a few years ago—and wraps it in a thrilling true-crime tale.

April 3, 2013

The leading Democrat working to unveil a comprehensive immigration reform bill is getting his campaign money from the private detention industry.

April 3, 2013

Undocumented youth are taking to public and online spaces to represent themselves—in some cases, without the support of important allies.

March 29, 2013

We do know that a comprehensive immigration reform bill will soon surface. The trouble is, we don’t know what it will contain.

March 28, 2013

Undocumented immigrant activists have protested on the street and infiltrated detention centers. Their next stop? Courtrooms.

March 15, 2013