On the life of illegal immigrant fruit pickers.
Without 1 million people on the ground, on ladders, in bushes—armies of pickers swooping in like bees—all the tilling, planting, and fertilizing of America's $144 billion horticultural production is for naught. The fruit falls to the ground and rots.
Recently discharged, an undocumented immigrant discusses his treatment.
In a city with a large immigrant population, it is not rare for hospitals to have one or more patients who, for reasons unrelated to their medical condition, do not seem to leave. At Downtown, where a bed costs the hospital more than $2,000 a day, there are currently three long-term patients who no longer need acute care but cannot be discharged because they have nowhere to go. The hospital pays nearly all costs for these patients’ treatment. One man left recently after a stay of more than five years.
Portrait of a Chinese-American family living in New York.
The intertwined destinies of El Paso and Ciudad Juárez.
There are believed to be 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States. We’re not always who you think we are. Some pick your strawberries or care for your children. Some are in high school or college. And some, it turns out, write news articles you might read. I grew up here. This is my home. Yet even though I think of myself as an American and consider America my country, my country doesn’t think of me as one of its own.
An investigation into the death of Victoria Arellano at a Los Angeles County immigration detention facility.
Over the course of a year, Luke Dittrich will be walking the entire 1,933 miles of the Mexico-US border “from the beach to Gulf” with a stroller. The first in a series.
In the aftermath of a mysterious murder, exploring a part of the story that has received little attention: the young man who lost his life.
Guz Dominguez says he was trying to help baseball players from Cuba; the U.S. government says he was smuggling athletes. The truth is more complicated.
On the political climate in Arizona.
For many immigrants coming through Arizona, it’s not enough to pay a coyote to shepherd you across the border. You also need to pay the ransom demanded by your kidnapper after you arrive.
How Juarez became the murder capital of the world.
Refugees arriving in the U.S. after receiving asylum face challenges that have led some to return to their war-torn homelands.
For the members of UCLA’s undocumented immigrant club, going to school means fighting for an education most students take for granted.
Job Cohen, the current mayor of Amsterdam, is leading the Dutch race for Prime Minister on a platform of racial integration that could transform the relationship between European politics and immigration.
Seized passports, debtor’s prison, and slave labor prop up a Disneyland in the desert now in decline.
How Indians with the surname Patel came to own 1/3 of the motels in America.
