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Felipe De La Hoz

Felipe De La Hoz is an investigative and explanatory reporter focusing on immigration. Along with co-writer Gaby Del Valle, he runs BORDER/LINES, a weekly newsletter breaking down the rapid pace of change in federal immigration policy.

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October 11, 2023
The Triumph of Trump’s Anti-Migrant Cruelty
Biden, and many other Democratic leaders, have come to embrace some of the former president’s restrictionist immigration policies.
March 1, 2023
Biden Has Fully Embraced Trump’s Asylum Policies
Advocates hoping that the new administration would wind down the abhorrent policies of its predecessors will instead see the status quo survive.
January 19, 2023
Biden’s Asylum Compromise Is a Faustian Bargain
The president’s decision to swap migrants into humanitarian parole status is a short-term political fix that will only lead to future chaos.
November 18, 2022
Biden Has Five Weeks to Replace the Trump-Era Asylum Process With a Better One
Now that a federal judge has vacated Title 42, which used the pandemic as a pretext for expelling asylees, the White House will have to adapt on the fly.
August 22, 2022
What Joe Biden Can Learn From Stephen Miller (Yes, Seriously)
Trump’s most infamous adviser ran roughshod over immigration policy during his White House tenure. Here’s how his techniques can be used for good.
June 30, 2022
The Supreme Court’s “Remain in Mexico” Ruling Is a Tiny Step Toward Fixing Our Gruesome Immigration Policy
There are many policies that have forced asylum-seekers into horrifying conditions, like those that caused the deaths of 53 people in San Antonio.
April 21, 2022
Biden Is Finally (Maybe!) Ending Title 42. But Trump’s Cruel Border Policies Aren’t Over.
“What is most needed on the border is not resources. It’s a change in mentality.”
March 8, 2022
Europe Can Handle Ukrainian Refugees—for Now. But Will It Need America’s Help?
The European Union is poised to handle the first big wave of migration. But if the war endures, the United States will have to play a role in resettling those fleeing violence.
February 22, 2022
Biden’s Unconscionable Embrace of Trump’s Cruel Migrant-Expulsion Scheme
Trump used the Covid pandemic as an excuse to invoke Title 42 and kick out migrants at the U.S. border. Now Biden is doing the exact same thing.
February 8, 2022
Greg Abbott’s “Operation Lone Star” Could Threaten Everyone’s Right to Vote
The Texas governor’s use of irregular military deployments to fearmonger at the border could be coming to a state near you.
December 21, 2021
Immigration Reform Is Dead
The Build Back Better Act was probably the last best chance for immigration reform for a long time. And even that didn’t offer much.
September 6, 2021
Getting to the U.S. Is Just the First Hurdle for Afghan Refugees
Trump and the pandemic left the refugee resettlement system in tatters. It needs money, volunteers, and to remove bureaucratic barriers.
June 29, 2021
The Immigrant Families Separated by Trump Are Stuck in Legal Limbo Under Biden
The White House is discovering that the path to undoing the former president’s most despised policy is full of tricks and traps.
May 12, 2021
Joe Biden, Tear Down Stephen Miller’s Administrative Wall
Rather than shred Trump’s immigration restrictions, Biden is responding with his own regulations that may only make things worse.
April 1, 2021
The “Root Cause” of Central American Migration Is Broken U.S. Policies
Migrants are fleeing their home countries in large part because of conditions that the United States helped bring about.
March 15, 2021
The Infernal Challenge of Ending “Kids In Cages”
There’s more the Biden administration can do to make a sharp break with his predecessors’ policies on unaccompanied minors.
January 12, 2021
Post-Work Migration and the End of America
Imagine a version of the U.S. that is not a global destabilizer and coercive magnet for those fleeing that destabilization. Imagine a world of movement for pleasure.
December 25, 2020
Joe Biden Doesn’t Need the GOP’s Permission to Fix Our Broken Immigration System
The presidency confers broad powers that will allow him to roll back all of the damage done by his predecessor.
December 18, 2020
Trump’s Most Vicious Cultists Aren’t Done With America
They gleefully enabled a corrupt president for years. How will they satisfy their destructive appetites in the years to come?
October 1, 2020
When Your Covid Symptoms Outlast Your Insurance
Immigrant workers who got emergency care are struggling, months later, with more symptoms and no doctor.

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