Immigration reform

Vietnamese kindergarten students

The Right Is Alienating a Huge and Amazingly Diverse Immigrant Population The Right Is Alienating a Huge and Amazingly Diverse Immigrant Population

Our relentless focus on the Latino vote obscures all the other people GOP nativists are pissing off.

Oct 1, 2015 / Joshua Holland

How Pope Francis Vindicated the Immigrant Rights Movement

How Pope Francis Vindicated the Immigrant Rights Movement How Pope Francis Vindicated the Immigrant Rights Movement

By framing immigration as a moral challenge, rather than a criminal one, activists say the pope reinforced much of the work they are doing to challenge dehumanizing rhetoric.

Sep 24, 2015 / Zoë Carpenter

Pope Francis addresses Congress

Pope Francis Delivers Sophie Cruz’s Message to Congress Pope Francis Delivers Sophie Cruz’s Message to Congress

Francis to Congress: “Thousands of persons are led to travel north in search of a better life for themselves and for their loved ones.… Is this not what we want for our own childre...

Sep 24, 2015 / Julianne Hing

Migrants walk through Serbia en route to Croatia.

Europe’s Handling of the Migrant Crisis Shows Just How Morally Bankrupt It Has Become Europe’s Handling of the Migrant Crisis Shows Just How Morally Bankrupt It Has Become

While the spotlight turns to refugees from violence, Europe keeps its poorest migrants in the dark.

Sep 18, 2015 / Michelle Chen

GOP 2016 Debate

The Truth About Border Security You Didn’t Learn From the GOP Debate The Truth About Border Security You Didn’t Learn From the GOP Debate

Repeated assertions about lax border security are simply, demonstrably false. But those lies have distorted our immigration policy.

Sep 17, 2015 / Julianne Hing

Donald Trump a rally

Shouting Back at Donald Trump Shouting Back at Donald Trump

Trump’s circus of anti-immigrant rhetoric is all fun and games until someone gets attacked.

Sep 15, 2015 / Julianne Hing

Migrants and Austrian police

How Xenophobia Could Ruin the Best Thing About the EU How Xenophobia Could Ruin the Best Thing About the EU

If the European Union can’t agree on a common resettlement policy for refugees, one of its signal achievements—open borders among member nations—could disappear.

Sep 14, 2015 / Daniel Trilling

This Is What Greece’s Refugee Crisis Really Looks Like

This Is What Greece’s Refugee Crisis Really Looks Like This Is What Greece’s Refugee Crisis Really Looks Like

“Thanks to God I have made it here. I am free, I am alive!”

Sep 1, 2015 / Jesse Rosenfeld

Donald Trump.

Give Trump This: The 14th Amendment Has Been Working Overtime Give Trump This: The 14th Amendment Has Been Working Overtime

How healthy is it to found a democracy on this one slender reed?

Aug 26, 2015 / Back Issues / Richard Kreitner

Trump and Ramos

Jorge Ramos Challenged Both Trump and an Increasingly Absurd Debate Jorge Ramos Challenged Both Trump and an Increasingly Absurd Debate

Candidates and the process itself should be questioned when realism and humanity are being abandoned.

Aug 26, 2015 / John Nichols

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