With Trump’s New ‘Public Charge’ Rules, the War on Immigrants Just Got a Whole Lot Worse

They will allow immediate deportation of millions of immigrants who receive government benefits.

Sasha Abramsky

Why Do We Hate Immigrants?

Whether we are indigenous to this land, whether we came in the hull of a slave ship or landed at Ellis Island, our government’s brutal response to the migrant crisis is an affront to us all.

Kevin Powell

A Call to Put an End to Inhumane Conditions at the Border

An open letter by Ariel Dorfman, Salman Rushdie, Gabriel Byrne, Neil Gaiman, Khaled Hosseini, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Wayétu Moore, Reza Aslan, and more.

The Nation

Trump Is Targeting the Most Vulnerable Among Us

Trump’s immigration policies have traumatized thousands of migrant children and have killed at least seven.

Karen J. Greenberg

Approval Rating

Calvin Trillin

To Fight Trump, Take to the Streets!

The Trump administration gets more malicious, harmful, and absurd every day. So why aren’t many of us outside protesting? 

Katha Pollitt

A Weekend of Trumpian Cruelty: Remember, That’s the Point

Mike Pence’s border visit wasn’t sanitized, because the Trump administration wants its base to see brown people in cages. The ICE raids that didn’t happen were pre-announced for the same reason.

Joan Walsh

Civility in Crisis

Won't somebody think of the border agents?

Tom Tomorrow

Trump Is Dumping Asylum Seekers on American Streets—but Solidarity Activists Are Fighting Back

“It’s a humanitarian issue. We will not allow an atrocity to occur in our community.”

Sasha Abramsky

Hondurans Are Still Fighting the US-Supported Dictatorship

Ten years after the coup, they have become the largest single Central American nationality in the refugee caravans fleeing north.

James North