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How Americans decide who can come into the country and who can stay reflects beliefs about what makes people worthy of opportunity.
Trump justice officials portray the Salvadoran gang MS-13 as a powerful drug cartel staffed with criminal undocumented immigrants. That's a dangerous mistake if you actually want to prevent violence.
A legal scholar explains how even in the early days of the republic, Americans struggled to agree on who had the final say on immigration issues.
Scholars have you covered on all sides of the 'Dreamers' issue, with solid research to boot.
A scholar documented the risks a migrant faced after deportation, including his becoming involved in smuggling people across the border.
Scholars have you covered on all sides of the 'Dreamers' issue, with solid research to boot.
Throughout America's history, a duality has existed: On one side, there has been the belligerent, aggressive America. On the other, the generous, amiable one.
As Congress takes up the issue of immigration, we turned to our global network of scholars to get their perspective on how so-called merit systems work.
The White House and Republicans' narrative distorts the numbers and the values that underlie family migration.
Trump touted his administration's economic successes and laid out his immigration plan in an 80-minute speech to Congress. Our experts weigh in.
A scholar counts the winners and losers in Trump's immigration proposal.
As lawmakers debate immigration policy in coming weeks, they should realize that giving immigrants who came to the US as children citizenship not only has broad political support but lifts the economy too.
An anthropologist went to Mexico and interviewed more than 50 people who were deported. It was like being sent to the moon, they told him.
If they pass a deal on DACA, it's a win for both sides of the aisle and thousands of ‘Dreamers,’ but a loss for millions of undocumented immigrants.
While comprehensive immigration reform may be out of reach, giving immigrants who came to the US as children citizenship not only has broad political support but makes economic sense too.
Trump's anti-Haitian rhetoric ignores a long pattern of migration from Haiti to the U.S., often driven by American meddling in Haitian affairs. Today, the two nations are irrevocably bound by history.
Red tape forced some DACA recipients to change their names when they applied, making it all the more difficult to lead a normal life.
The U.S. government has ended the protective status of 200,000 Salvadoran migrants. If deported, they would go back to one of the world's deadliest places. How did violence in El Salvador get so bad?
A look back at how one of the most divisive issues of the Trump campaign played out during the first year of his presidency.
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Dean and Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Davis
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Professor of Anthropology, The Ohio State University
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Ph.D. Candidate, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Professor of Sociology and Program Head, New York University
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Associate Professor, History and African-American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
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Alex Reilly is a Friend of The Conversation.
Director of the Public Law and Policy Research Unit, Adelaide Law School, University of Adelaide
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Assistant Professor of Economics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Roy C. Buck Professor of Sociology and Demography, Pennsylvania State University
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Distinguished Professor of Political Science and U.S.-Mexican Relations, Emeritus, University of California San Diego
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Professor of Constitutional Law, The University of Montana
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Assistant Professor, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Associate Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College
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Professor of Political Science, Concordia University
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Associate Professor of Sociology, City University of New York
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Professor, Centre of Policy Studies, Victoria University
