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Child Migrants
April 25, 2023
Pablo Manríquez
You Know Who Won’t Miss Susan Rice? Immigration Advocates
The outgoing Biden policy adviser was not viewed as much of an improvement over Stephen Miller.
February 28, 2023
Timothy Noah
The Shocking, Sickening Reality of Child Labor in America
Large corporations have made the enforcement of labor protections for frontline, low-wage workers other people’s problem.
April 26, 2022
Kenneth R. Rosen
These Three Migrants Were Rescued at Sea. Then They Were Charged With Terrorism.
The “El Hiblu 3” were just teenagers when an oil tanker saved their overloaded dinghy in the Mediterranean. So why are they facing decades in prison in Malta?
September 24, 2021
Cora Currier
The Photos the Border Patrol Wants You to See
The agency portrays itself as a humanitarian force—not one that whips desperate migrants by horseback.
April 20, 2021
Laura Weiss
Biden’s Disturbing Acceptance of State Violence Against Central American Migrants
The eerily similar deaths of George Floyd and Victoria Salazar demonstrate how our own abusive police practices have been shipped abroad in the name of “deterring” migration.
August 21, 2019
Matt Ford
Trump’s Tax on the National Psyche
The corruption and incompetence of this administration has led to a grotesque theft of Americans’ precious time and energy.
July 3, 2019
Matt Farwell
America’s Once and Future Concentration Camp
Postcards from a homeland outpost where Native Americans, Japanese-Americans, and now lone migrant children have been enemies of the state.
September 13, 2018
Jeet Heer
The Trump administration is detaining a record number of child migrants.
July 6, 2018
Kaila Philo
Is the Trump administration keeping its promise to reunite migrant families?
June 22, 2018
Sarah Jones
The Trumps Don’t Care
The president can't see the cruelty of his immigration policy. It's not clear the first lady can, either.
June 20, 2018
Emily Atkin
A Homeland Security spokesman ranted at U.S. airlines for criticizing Trump’s child separation policy.
June 20, 2018
Emily Atkin
The mind-boggling cost of breaking up migrant families.
June 8, 2018
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Rikha Sharma Rani
Weaponizing Children
The president is wielding parental love and fear for political gain.
September 23, 2015
Stephanie Heimann
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Alex Shephard
Child Migrants’ Exhausting Journey to Europe
At the border, families find themselves unable to enter the European Union.
July 31, 2014
Brian Beutler
Nancy Pelosi's Priceless Reaction to the Death of the GOP's Border Crisis Bill
July 25, 2014
Alec MacGillis
Obama Understands the Border Crisis Better Than Rick Perry. His Child-Migrant Plan Proves It.
July 14, 2014
Brian Beutler
Republicans' Failure to Pass Immigration Reform Has Cost Us $900 Billion
July 8, 2014
Alec MacGillis
The Border Crisis Is Not "Obama's Katrina." Not Even Close.
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