Immigration Policy

A student walks past the Rotunda, under renovation, on the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville.

Trump’s Academic Purge Will Make America Stupid and Provincial Again Trump’s Academic Purge Will Make America Stupid and Provincial Again

The administration’s targeting of international students is a return to a disgraced tradition of xenophobic anti-intellectualism.

Mar 31, 2025 / Jeet Heer

The Hopes and Struggles of Thousands of Migrants

The Hopes and Struggles of Thousands of Migrants The Hopes and Struggles of Thousands of Migrants

Walled off from the American dream.

Mar 31, 2025 / OppArt / Hormigas Bordadoras

Alireza Doroudi on the University of Alabama’s campus.

Alabama Won’t Say Alireza Doroudi’s Name. We Must. Alabama Won’t Say Alireza Doroudi’s Name. We Must.

The Iranian PhD student is one of several abducted by ICE in the past month—a pattern we cannot become numb to.

Mar 28, 2025 / Dave Zirin

Rumeysa Ozturk being detained by ICE.

What Will You Do? What Will You Do?

What’s your “I am Spartacus” move to protect the more vulnerable, the targeted, the invisibled, the next-on-the-list?

Mar 28, 2025 / Kaveh Akbar

Attention Must Be Paid to the Migrants Disappearing Under Trump

Attention Must Be Paid to the Migrants Disappearing Under Trump Attention Must Be Paid to the Migrants Disappearing Under Trump

Hundreds of Venezuelan men have been spirited away to a hell outside of the reach of habeas corpus rulings. It is our duty not to look away.

Mar 28, 2025 / Sasha Abramsky

Jeff Bezos (L) talks with Alphabet's CEO Sundar Pichai (R) as they attend Donald Trump's inauguration on January 20, 2025.

Trump’s War on Immigrants Wouldn’t Be Possible Without Big Tech Trump’s War on Immigrants Wouldn’t Be Possible Without Big Tech

Silicon Valley is proudly furnishing the administration with the tools to fulfill its mass deportation agenda.

Mar 27, 2025 / Cinthya Rodriguez

COURT D'ÉTAT

COURT D'ÉTAT COURT D'ÉTAT

Courage.

Mar 21, 2025 / Steve Brodner

People stage a rally against the imprisonment of Venezuelans in a Salvadorian jail in Caracas.

Trump’s Lawless Deportation Machine Should Concern Every American Trump’s Lawless Deportation Machine Should Concern Every American

It’s only a matter of time before the administration expands its use of the Alien Enemies Act to ever-greater numbers of people from ever-greater numbers of countries.

Mar 21, 2025 / Sasha Abramsky

Protesters gather against Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez’s decision to abide by President Donald Trump’s order to effectively abandon the county’s stance as a “sanctuary” for undocumented immigrants, as they make themselves heard outside the Stephen P. Clark Center Government Center on January 31, 2017 in Miami, Florida.

A Step-by-Step Guide to Trump’s Deportation Machine A Step-by-Step Guide to Trump’s Deportation Machine

March 20, 2025 A Step-by-Step Guide to Trump’s Deportation Machine The machinery of mass deportation is meant to be impossible to stop. But any machine can be brought to a halt, if…

Mar 20, 2025 / Michael Gould-Wartofsky

President Donald Trump and White House senior adviser, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk sit in a Tesla Model S on the South Lawn of the White House on March 11, 2025, in Washington, DC.

Trump’s Economics—and America’s Economy Trump’s Economics—and America’s Economy

You can’t make America great again by wrecking the government.

Mar 19, 2025 / James K. Galbraith

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