immigration

Executive Director Alex Han underscores In These Times' commitment to community-based storytelling that paves a path forward for the Left

For immigrants, the coronavirus crisis is becoming a nightmare.

Tom Kiefer spent years collecting items confiscated and thrown away by border patrol

Covering undocumented immigrants under Medicare for All isn’t just morally right—it’s also economically sound.

Under Trump, government websites are more frequently using derogatory language to refer to migrant children.

The author and activist speaks on Greta Thunberg, climate barbarism and why she's not your lifestyle advisor.

Humanitarian aid for migrants crossing through dangerous deserts has been a crime for years.

Thanks to local organizing, King County International Airport no longer provides ground support for ICE.

In the era of Trump, communities are organizing foot and bike patrols to protect their neighbors against immigration raids.

A shortage of court interpreters means vulnerable, non-English-speakers may not be getting adequate legal support

The Trump administration’s new “public charge” rule is having its intended effect: collective punishment of immigrant communities.

As Trump threatens sweeping raids, it's important to remember how we got here.

The administration has discussed warehousing refugee children at the notorious prison.

Democrats cannot have it both ways. If you oppose jailing and exiling people for crossing an invisible line, you must be in favor of significantly opening our borders. Fortunately, that’s fine.

As Congress debates Trump's "national emergency" declaration, here's what you need to know about the proposed border wall.

Supporting freedom of movement isn’t just the right thing to do — it’s a political winner for the left.

“I didn’t understand that humanitarian aid was criminal,” said Zaachila Orozco.

Mexico's new progressive president says he has a just immigration plan. But critics say it's flawed.

I was released from the nightmare of detention--but most are not.

While Trump begs for his wall, children are fighting for their lives.

The shutdown’s impact on the poor is about to get a lot worse.

Leah, whose parents are undocumented, slammed Trump's "evil" family separations.

In 2015, ordinary Europeans welcomed refugees with open arms. Will we do the same with the caravan from Central America?

By revoking Temporary Protected Status (TPS), the Trump administration is sending Honduran immigrants back to a nation in crisis.

The root of the problem is the criminalization of immigrants.

The leader of Italy’s far right, an admirer of Trump, has suggested a “mass cleansing” of Roma.

The U.S. is slamming the door on people forcibly displaced by American interventions.

Undocumented communities are demanding an end to devastating detentions, deportation and incarceration—not the transfer of such policies to a different agency.

As tens of thousands took to the streets this weekend, many marchers joined the growing demand to defund and dismantle ICE.

Protesters kept the facility closed for 10 days. Although federal police reopened it June 28, occupiers say, "The camp is not going anywhere."

The Trump administration's cruel policies towards black and brown migrants stem from a long history.

By ordering that immigrant families be detained together indefinitely, Trump has provided a windfall to private prison operators.

The president's new executive order is clear: The incarceration of parents and children will continue--and likely expand.

In May, Trump ended Temporary Protected Status for about 57,000 Hondurans living in the United States. They’re still dealing with the uncertainty.

Amid the horror of family separation, a grassroots network spearheaded by Mijente is launching a national tour of resistance.

The war on terror has unleashed unspeakable cruelty. We must not rely on its institutions to fix the climate crisis.

The newest plank of immigration enforcement? Piling children into overcrowded detention centers.

A conversation with Eve Stotland, director of legal services for The Door.

At privately run detention centers, immigrants say they're forced to work for $1 a day.

How hog barn builders are importing labor at low wages and leaving local workers in the dust.

A North Carolina sheriff’s office had a “pattern of racial profiling,” but that hasn’t stopped Trump’s ICE from inviting it into the 287(g) program.

In a Tijuana church, dozens of migrants remain stranded.

This party is rejecting the false choice between a Europe united under the misery of austerity, or one united under the horrors of racism and bigotry.

Talking immigrant justice with a DACA recipient taking the fight to Schumer’s doorstep.

In exchange for protecting Dreamers, the Trump administration is seeking to restrict immigration and increase deportations on a vast scale.

By negotiating a government funding deal with no protections for immigrants, top Democrats made a strong case for why the party's activist base should be able to replace them with new leadership.

While his inflammatory rhetoric dominates the news, Trump is upending the lives of 200,000 Salvadoran migrants and refugees.

Day laborers in Denver are tracking down runaway employers.

How the commander-in-chief succumbs to the perils of positive thinking.

Sen. Jeff Flake and his ilk aren’t the heroes we’re looking for.

It's not just a pipe dream.

Against the threat of deportation, refugees from Athens to Vienna are standing up for their rights.

The "taking our jobs" myth continues to sow division in Chicago’s black and brown working-class communities.

Undocumented Texans in Hurricane Harvey's path face a horrifying choice: deportation or risk of death.

Protections for immigrant communities were already meager. Now, safeguards are being scrapped as the Trump administration escalates nationwide sweeps.

Refugee advocates are rebuilding the city's once-strong anti-fascist tradition.

Activists are taking aim at corporations like JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo for their complicity in the administration’s mass deportation agenda.