Donald Trump’s justification for a temporary ban on refugees is to improve US security measures.
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The US resettlement program has long had strong bipartisan support. It is also critical to global resettlement efforts: the US takes in by far the most resettled refugees of any country.
Presidential candidate Trump holds a sign at a rally.
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The logic behind building a wall is centuries old. But can concrete solve the complex problems the U.S. is facing today?
Former Agriprocessors employee Jonas Ordenes, center, at a prayer vigil in Postville, Iowa on May 12, 2009, the anniversary of the 2008 immigration raid at the plant that ended with 389 arrests.
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The stress of immigration enforcement has implications for health.
Sturgeon popularity.
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With a second Scottish referendum ‘all but inevitable’, here’s a strange pill for the nationalists to swallow.
Corbyn’s first big speech of the year was full of contradictions.
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It’s not going to be easy to square this circle, but the Labour leader isn’t presenting a meaningful post-Brexit vision.
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MPs have proposed Britain follows Canada’s model allowing regions to decide how many immigrants they let in.
New hat, new plan.
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The plan is to start again in 2017, but the Labour leader’s key messages are still too vague.
A new plan.
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The country’s new scheme could make it an extremely popular destination.
About 200 convicted illegal immigrants serving their sentences before being deported, in Phoenix.
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In his first year of office, Trump’s immigration policy will likely focus not on building an expensive wall, but rather on the work that earned Obama the nickname ‘Deporter in Chief.’
Residents take part in the Olympic Flame torch relay in Gravata, Pernambuco state, Brazil, May 31, 2016.
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Being Brazilian in the US means navigating an identity that doesn’t neatly fit into a single check-box, and can be perceived in vastly different ways depending on what part of the country you’re in.
Pro-swearing: Sajid Javid.
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Forcing citizens to swear allegiance is misguided – and doesn’t work.
Living like a Parisian.
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Why a Ghanaian cardiac surgeon in London is seen as a migrant, while an American banker is considered an expat.
A festive decoration hangs from the truck that ploughed into the Christmas market in Berlin.
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Attacks like the one in Berlin harm democracy because they spread fear and self-censorship among citizens.
The beefed up border between Bulgaria and Turkey.
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In an unequal, globalised world, should we be able to move between states as freely as we can within them?
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If education and tolerance go hand in hand, how is it possible that anti-immigrant sentiments are so virulent in educated populations?
Bags are packed, you’re ready to go.
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A fall in the number of migrants after Britain leaves the EU will be costly.
Public services are under threat from government cuts, not migration.
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When it comes to public services, it’s not just a question of demand, but also one of supply.
How British are you?
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A new report has suggested migrants should be required to pledge allegiance to British values on arrival in the UK.
Theresa May wanted to “deprioritise” school places for children of people illegally in UK.
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No Theresa May, “deprioritising” school places for children isn’t the right way to go about reducing immigration figures.
Grape pickers carry loads of cabernet sauvignon grapes to a trailer bin during harvest at the Clos du Bois vineyard in Geyserville, California.
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Trump’s plan to deport up to 3 million undocumented immigrants will likely end up rounding up many of the laborers Americans depend upon to pick their grapes and tend to their avocados.