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Felipe De La Hoz

Felipe De La Hoz is a contributing editor for The New Republic. 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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February 8, 2022
Felipe De La Hoz
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
Felipe De La Hoz
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
Felipe De La Hoz
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
Felipe De La Hoz
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
Felipe De La Hoz
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
Felipe De La Hoz
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
Felipe De La Hoz
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
Felipe De La Hoz
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
Felipe De La Hoz
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
Felipe De La Hoz
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
Felipe De La Hoz
When Your Covid Symptoms Outlast Your Insurance
Immigrant workers who got emergency care are struggling, months later, with more symptoms and no doctor.
July 8, 2020
Felipe De La Hoz
Trump’s Reopening Agenda Is Upending International Students’ Futures
“Is there going to be an injunction? Do we have months to years, or are we packing up right now?”
June 19, 2020
Felipe De La Hoz
America Owes More to Its “Essential” Immigrant Workers
The moral case for legal status is straightforward. The path there is snaking and dotted with pitfalls.
April 17, 2020
Felipe De La Hoz
A New Home in a Country Shuttered by a Pandemic
“When I arrived at the airport, I felt that hardness just ripped off. But that stayed for only two weeks. Then the coronavirus came."
March 19, 2020
Anonymous, Felipe De La Hoz
My Life in ICE Detention During the Coronavirus Outbreak
“If I’m going to get the coronavirus, I’m going to get it from an officer before I get it from an inmate.”
March 18, 2020
Felipe De La Hoz
Facing Deportation in a Pandemic
With many immigration courts still open, immigrants and their attorneys must choose between two very different kinds of danger.
February 24, 2020
Felipe De La Hoz
Trump’s Xenophobia Could Create a Public Health Crisis
A rule targeting immigrants who use Medicaid and other benefits goes into effect on Monday. The consequences will be widely felt and hard to reverse.

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