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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.
When a child loses mom or dad to deportation, the harm can be severe and lasting. New immigration bills in the House and Senate seek to avoid family separation and allow deported parents back home.
Many within the political left and right draw on the Bible to inform their views on immigration, but neglect to take into account how foreigners were treated under the Roman Empire during the time of Jesus.
At least 92 US military veterans were deported between 2013 and 2018. These deportees are not currently included in Biden’s effort to reunite families as part of his new immigration reform plan.
Trump made three anti-immigration pledges in 2016: ban Muslims, build a wall and enforce all immigration laws. Four years on, a migration scholar examines his record – and its effect on the country.
In 2016 Trump promised to ‘shake the rust off America’s foreign policy.’ Four years later, it’s clearer what that looks like: a US that sits on the sidelines of world crises and collaborations alike.
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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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Dean and Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Davis
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Professor of Sociology, University of South Florida
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Distinguished Professor of Political Science and U.S.-Mexican Relations, Emeritus, University of California, San Diego
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Dean of Economics, Politics & History, The University of Austin
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Assistant Research Scientist, Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics, and Public Policy, Texas A&M University
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Professor of Economics and Government, Texas A&M University
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Professor of History and International Affairs, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Assistant Professor of the New Testament, Vanguard University
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PhD Candidate/Political Science Instructor, Portland State University
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Director, Human Rights Institute, Associate Prof. Social Work and Human Rights, University of Connecticut
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Deputy Director, Global Migration Center, University of California, Davis
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Associate Professor of Journalism, University of Colorado Boulder
