![Why Immigration Activists Are Celebrating Their Loss in Federal Court](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/nora_hernandez_luis_luna_otu_img.jpg)
Why Immigration Activists Are Celebrating Their Loss in Federal Court Why Immigration Activists Are Celebrating Their Loss in Federal Court
An appeals court blocked President Obama’s deportation relief program, setting the stage for a Supreme Court showdown over executive authority.
Nov 10, 2015 / Julianne Hing
![LIVE: The Presidential Candidate Immigration Forum](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/omalley_sanders_ap_img.jpg)
LIVE: The Presidential Candidate Immigration Forum LIVE: The Presidential Candidate Immigration Forum
Tune in this Sunday and Monday for a live conversation featuring Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley.
Nov 5, 2015 / Video / The Nation
![Martin O’Malley](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/martin_omalley_foreign_policy_ap_img.jpg)
Who Would Win an Immigration Debate Between Sanders and Clinton? Martin O’Malley. Who Would Win an Immigration Debate Between Sanders and Clinton? Martin O’Malley.
The former governor’s remarkably detailed policy platform is one place he could distinguish his stalled candidacy.
Nov 3, 2015 / Julianne Hing
![Immigrants from El Salvador and Guatemala board a bus following their release from a family detention center in San Antonio, Texas.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/US_Immigration_Child_Detention_ap_img.jpg)
The Department of Homeland Security’s ‘Baby Jails’ The Department of Homeland Security’s ‘Baby Jails’
In the wake of last summer’s migrant crisis, DHS is still keeping families in detention centers. What could go wrong?
Oct 23, 2015 / Michelle Chen
![Note to Dems: Simply Not Being Racist Isn’t Enough on Immigration Reform](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Democratic_debates_10-13-15_ap_img.jpg)
Note to Dems: Simply Not Being Racist Isn’t Enough on Immigration Reform Note to Dems: Simply Not Being Racist Isn’t Enough on Immigration Reform
The GOP’s xenophobic carnival has set the political bar dangerously low for Democrats.
Oct 14, 2015 / Julianne Hing
![3 Facts About the Supposed Cost of Undocumented Immigration](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/immigration_white_house_protest_rtr_img.jpg)
3 Facts About the Supposed Cost of Undocumented Immigration 3 Facts About the Supposed Cost of Undocumented Immigration
Or, a campaign-inspired lesson on why myth busting and fact checking isn’t going to be enough to fight anti-immigrant politics in 2016.
Oct 12, 2015 / Julianne Hing
![This Is How Immigration Reform Happened 50 Years Ago. It Can Happen Again.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/lbj_immigration_lbjlibrary_img.jpg)
This Is How Immigration Reform Happened 50 Years Ago. It Can Happen Again. This Is How Immigration Reform Happened 50 Years Ago. It Can Happen Again.
Recalling the civil-rights history of the Hart-Celler Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 can help us think about how to change immigration policy today.
![How Pope Francis Vindicated the Immigrant Rights Movement](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/immigration_demonstration_deerfield_beach_florida_ap_img.jpg)
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
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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
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Dawn of the Donald Dawn of the Donald
He wants to make America great again! It says so on his hat!
Sep 22, 2015 / Tom Tomorrow