Immigration
Hunted and Banned
Efforts to control Black mobility—from early passports to the Fugitive Slave Act—laid much of the groundwork for today’s border regimes.
Power Plays
ICE wants it both ways: to broadcast its might in spectacular shows of force, but to do so anonymously.
Renee Good’s Murder and Other Acts of Terror
An interview with Robin D. G. Kelley on how to think about ICE—and the broader history of police violence.
Profiting in Nowhereland
The sordid histories behind Texas’s new industrial-scale immigration detention center, Camp East Montana.
The Strongman’s Surveillance State
Trump has unfrozen a Biden-era hold on powerful Israeli-made spyware, now in the hands of ICE.
Mutual Aid in the Age of Fascism
As people are being deputized to do violence, building connections is political resistance.
The Insidious Doctrine Fueling the Case Against Mahmoud Khalil
How a century of immigration law has evaded constitutional rights.
Resisting Trump’s Immigration Machine
It faces serious obstacles, but the uncertainty and terror it has already unleashed is real—indeed, part of the point.
Post Colonialism
Along a recently designated historic trail on the U.S.-Mexico border, colonial legacies hide in plain sight.
There Is No “Migrant Crisis”
The problem isn’t new; it’s the bordered logic of global apartheid itself.
Race and Sweden’s Fascist Turn
The recent electoral success of a party with Nazi origins must be understood as part of the long history of white Swedes’ desire for racial homogeneity.
122 Immigrants Face the U.S. Death Penalty. Only 2 of Those Sentences Honor International Law.
The far-reaching effects of U.S. noncompliance.
The Humanitarian Disgrace of Australia’s Immigration Regime
Twenty years of cruel anti-immigrant policy have left thousands of asylum seekers in limbo, detained in offshore prisons or in mainland commercial hotels.
Guantánamo’s Other History
For decades Haitian migrants have been subjected to brutal mistreatment by the U.S. government, much of it at Cuban detention facilities.
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