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Immigration

World

On the Chain

An Australian slaughterhouse dispute shone a light on a system designed to exploit migrant workers’ hopes and ambitions.

André Dao, Michael Green, Sherry Huang The Monthly Jul 2021 30min Permalink

World

The Life and Death of Antonio Sajvín Cúmes

He planned to write a memoir, The Life of a Migrant. Its central thesis: The American Dream is a lie.

Emily Kaplan Guernica Mar 2021 30min Permalink

Best Article World

Out of Thin Air: The Mystery of the Man Who Fell From the Sky

In 2019, the body of a man fell from a passenger plane into a garden in south London. Who was he?

Sirin Kale Guardian Apr 2021 25min Permalink

World Health

To Stay or To Go?

Amid coronavirus outbreaks, migrants face the starkest of choices: Risking their lives in U.S. detention or returning home to the dangers they fled.

Hannah Dreier Washington Post Dec 2020 20min Permalink

Politics World

Sanctuary Unmasked: The First Time Los Angeles (Sort of) Became a City of Refuge

On Los Angeles’s 1985 declaration of “sanctuary status.”

Paul A. Kramer Los Angeles Review of Books Oct 2020 30min Permalink

World

Trafficking in Teachers

Filipino teachers, hired to fill historic shortages in the South and elsewhere, fight their exploitation by opportunistic recruiters.

Rachel Mabe Oxford American Aug 2020 30min Permalink

World

The Promised Land

A trans activist from El Salvador who has helped countless trans migrant women fight for asylum in the U.S. finds asylum for herself.

Alice Driver Longreads Jul 2020 15min Permalink

Politics

Young Americans

On the people who will be sent back to a place they’ve never called home if DACA runs out.

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The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Trump administration may not immediately proceed with its plan to end DACA

Michael Hall Texas Monthly Dec 2017 20min Permalink

Health

Tatiana’s Luck

Tatiana Angulo came to the U.S. legally and was trying to do everything right. Then came the coronavirus.

Hannah Dreier Washington Post Jun 2020 15min Permalink

World

“When can we really rest?”

More migrants than ever are crossing the Colombia-Panama border to reach the U.S. Five days inside the Darién Gap, one of the most dangerous journeys in the world.

Nadja Drost California Sunday Apr 2020 30min Permalink

Politics

Trust and Consequences

The government required him to see a therapist. He thought his words would be confidential. Now, the traumatized migrant may be deported.

Hannah Dreier Washington Post Feb 2020 20min Permalink

Politics World

A Translation Crisis at the Border

For migrants who speak Mayan languages, a grassroots group of interpreters is often their only hope for receiving asylum.

Rachel Nolan New Yorker Dec 2019 20min Permalink

Best Article

How ICE Picks Its Targets in the Surveillance Age

After two officers came to a Pacific Northwest community, longtime residents began to disappear.

McKenzie Funk New York Times Magazine Oct 2019 40min Permalink

Politics

Inside the Deportation Courts

Another inmate was unable to complete his application, and assented to voluntary departure, in which an immigrant agrees to leave the country at his or her own expense. “You’ll be on your way back to Mexico today,” said the judge.

Madeleine Schwartz New York Review of Books Sep 2019 20min Permalink

Politics

Why an Heiress Spent Her Fortune Trying to Keep Immigrants Out

Newly unearthed documents reveal how an environmental-minded socialite became an ardent nativist whose money helped sow the seeds of the Trump anti-immigration agenda.

Nicholas Kulish, Mike McIntire New York Times Aug 2019 20min Permalink

History Politics

Staging the Frontier

In the Southwest’s border region, historical reenactment meets today’s reality.

Valeria Luiselli New Yorker Jun 2019 25min Permalink

World

The Deported

Life in Mexico immediately after being forced to leave the U.S.

Seth Freed Wessler Good Jun 2012 20min Permalink

Best Article

The Lost Boys of Galveston, Texas

Young immigrants who have been separated from their parents find a home at the Children’s Center.

Jessica Weisberg New Yorker May 2019 25min Permalink

Crime

Chasing Danger

How the border patrol chases have spun out of control, with deadly consequence.

Kavitha Surana, Brittny Mejia, James Queally ProPublica, The Los Angeles Times Apr 2019 20min Permalink

History

White Nationalism’s Deep American Roots

On the book that Hitler called his “bible” and the man who wrote it.

Adam Serwer The Atlantic Mar 2019 25min Permalink

Politics

“The Best Kind of People”: Shifting Definitions of Citizenship and the Making of Arizona

For a century, Anglos from cold corners of the country have been lured here by the promise that this was a place where they could live among their own, in communities with nary a brown person in sight.

Fernanda Santos Guernica Feb 2019 20min Permalink

Politics

The Deported Americans

More than 600,000 U.S.-born children of undocumented parents live in Mexico. What happens when you return to a country you’ve never known?

Brooke Jarvis California Sunday Jan 2019 15min Permalink

Business Politics

Two Towns Forged an Unlikely Bond. Now, ICE Is Severing the Connection

For years, rural Guatemalans traveled thousands of miles for jobs in Mount Pleasant, Iowa. A series of immigration raids is creating havoc in a town desperate for workers.

Monte Reel Bloomberg Businessweek Dec 2018 30min Permalink

Best Article Politics

He Drew His School Mascot—and ICE Labeled Him a Gang Member

Alex drew his school’s mascot during class.Then he was suspended, arrested and deported. How high schools have embraced the Trump administration’s crackdown on MS-13 and destroyed immigrant students’ American dreams.

Hannah Dreier ProPublica Dec 2018 45min Permalink

A Culture of No

How one immigration court in Texas has shut the door on those seeking refuge in America.

Justine van der Leun Virginia Quarterly Review Oct 2018 50min Permalink

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