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Trump has a poor track record on trade, inflation and taxes but the area of biggest economic concern if he is re-elected president would come from his rejection of climate change.
Last year, at least 686 migrants died trying to cross into the US from Mexico. Many had the option to call 911 but were too afraid of detection and deportation to seek help.
Scholars of communication and politics assess a presidential debate with a clear loser, but no clear winner.
When a COVID-19-era policy was set to expire in May 2023, Republican officials predicted that the US-Mexico border would be overrun with migrants. That didn’t happen.
Relaxing ‘rules of origin’ restrictions in an existing trade deal could add tens of thousands of jobs in Central America.
More than half a million people made the treacherous crossing in 2023 – far higher than in previous years.
With US aid to Ukraine locked in a partisan battle over security at the US southern border, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy faces the possibility of losing his largest supporter.
The US is home to more international migrants than any other country. But even though immigration is an actively debated topic, immigrants are poorly understood.
Title 42 has triggered criticisms from immigration advocates and public health experts. But the end of the controversial policy may mean fewer asylum seekers crossing the US border.
Latino youths often feel more at home in after-school programs and in the community than they do in school. A sociologist explores why.
Title 42 has triggered criticisms from immigration advocates and public health experts. But some still want to keep it in place and delay accepting asylum-seekers.
Some Republicans have claimed that a crisis exists on the US southern border. But federal immigration statistics tell a different story about the GOP’s overblown numbers.
A 1994 US policy was supposed to deter migration by securing popular access points. Instead, it drives people to enter the US by more hazardous means, such as being crammed in hot tractor-trailers.
The US president was hoping that the gathering of Latin American leaders would present a united front of migrants. But several key players were absent.
The number of migrants dying while trying to cross the US-Mexico border is at an all-time high. But these figures are still likely an underestimate.
Nine agencies, most of them faith-based, are resettling Afghan evacuees in the US. But the system is under strain.
Immigration has historically offset America’s low fertility rate, but the recent dramatic drop in immigration threatens that trend.
The media tends to render Asian Americans as either a ‘perpetual foreigner’ or ‘model minority’ – both stereotypes that have been levied in tandem against immigrants from Asia since the 1830s.
The House passed a bill creating a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who came to the US as children. Here’s what you need to know about the Dreamers and DACA.
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Associate Professor of Sociology, American University
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Director of Cisneros Hispanic Leadership Institute, George Washington University
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Associate Professor of Anthropology and Human Rights Center Research Fellow, University of Dayton
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Assistant Research Scientist, Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics, and Public Policy, Texas A&M University
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Assistant Professor of Education, College of Charleston
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PhD Candidate in Couple and Family Therapy, Adler University
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PhD Candidate in Mexican immigration to the US, Edge Hill University
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Associate Professor of Journalism, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor of Sociology, University of South Florida
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PhD Candidate/Political Science Instructor, Portland State University
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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 Geography, Vassar College
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Virginia Commonwealth University
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Adjunct Professor of Politics and Director of Think Again, University of Virginia
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Professor of Communication Studies, Colorado State University
