Nation Topics - Immigration | The Nation

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.

Immigration reform may have crashed in Washington, but a very different
discussion of the same issues continues below the border.

A grim history lesson of what happened in the 1920s when fears of alien infection inflamed American eugenicists.

History is full of examples showing that policies designed to exclude immigrants are doomed to fail.

The punitive rage directed at illegal immigrants grows out of a larger blindness to the manual labor that makes our lives possible.

Iraq has prompted the fastest-growing refugee crisis in the world, and it's threatening to destabilize the entire region.

The Senate's "grand bargain" on immigration may be the best deal to be done in the present political climate, but it's still not good enough.

Outraged at the 17 percent fees they are charged on money they wire home, immigrant workers are pressuring Western Union to reinvest the profits.

Advocates pushing for reform and immigrants clamoring for justice in the streets will not forget the recent violence in Los Angeles.