Biden’s executive action will shield approximately 500,000 undocumented spouses of US citizens, as well as 50,000 children, from deportation and give them the legal right to stay in the US.
Undocumented migrants in Jacumba, Calif., are detained by U.S. Border Patrol officers on June 4, 2024.
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Biden’s executive order won’t apply to undocumented minors who enter the US alone. And the order will require the help of Mexico and other countries.
A U.S. Border Patrol officer shows how he found an undocumented Mexican immigrant under the hood of a car along the U.S.-Mexican border in March 1954.
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Donald Trump says he will authorize a roundup of all 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country. A 1950s program with similar goals, called Operation Wetback, offers lessons.
A new citizen holds the American flag during a naturalization ceremony in May 2022 in Indianapolis, Ind.
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Texans’ belief in their state’s exceptionalism has helped fuel support for the Republican state government trying to take border security and immigration enforcement into its own hands.
Migrants cross the border from Mexico into Texas on Feb. 6, 2024.
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The shift from family migration towards skilled migrants changed settlement patterns in the first two decades of this century. But these skilled migrants still get paid less than non-migrants.
This week, the High Court made an order which overturns the laws on which much of Australia’s immigration system is based. What happens to the law, and those most affected by it, now?
San Francisco has the oldest and largest Chinatown in the U.S.
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Wei Li, Arizona State University e Yining Tan, University of Arizona
Chinatowns once served as gateways for early Chinese immigrants. But the suburbs are the center of cultural and commercial life for new immigrants and later generations.
Buoy barriers are shown in the middle of the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass, Texas, on July 18, 2023.
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Setting up buoys in a section of the Rio Grande is more likely to result in migrants seeking pathways elsewhere, rather than deterring migration altogether.
Effective African economic development depends on economic integration and free movement of people.
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Chinese politicians have looked toward policies to encourage couples to have more children to offset population decline. It hasn’t worked.
Canada is generally viewed positively for its immigration policies, but more can be done to welcome those seeking to make Canada their home.
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To make a success of Canada’s immigration targets, we must all work to make communities more welcoming to newcomers.
In an aerial image taken on May 12, 2023, a border wall and concertina wire barriers stand along the Rio Grande river between Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, left, and El Paso, Texas.
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When host communities unexpectedly receive large numbers of migrants, the influx can tax local services – and relations between migrants and residents.
The illegal migration bill is an attempt to stop small boat crossings, which have increased in recent years.
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Labour and Conservatives share a desire to wean the UK off a dependency on migrant labour.
Suella Braverman’s Chinook flight to an immigration holding facility in Kent is the latest move in a decade of border spectacle.
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Professor of International Migration and Forced Displacement and Director of the Institute for Research into International Migration and Superdiversity, University of Birmingham