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Tag: Immigration

The vote will have consequences far beyond the UK's borders. 

Alex de Waal

The UN's World Humanitiarian Summit came up empty-handed.

Elizabeth Cullen Dunn

Prominent Hungarian intellectuals have taken surprising anti-immigrant stances.

Holly Case

Europe must accept that post-nationalism, by nature, is porous at its borders.

Paul Linden-Retek

It is time for the United States to take responsibility for the war it encouraged in Syria.

Aziz Z. Huq

Refugee camps, intended to be temporary, host people for an average of 12 years.

Elizabeth Cullen Dunn
Below the surface–and sometimes above it–a lot of today’s debates around immigration reform are about cultural assimilation.
Claude S. Fischer
Federal courts have been busy scrutinizing the government’s handling of immigration.
Louis Fisher

Immigrant families imprisoned in Artesia, New Mexico, say their due process rights are being violated.

Lauren Carasik

Migrants are dying as they cross the Mediterranean. Is there a better way?

David Bacon

Our enforcement-on-steroids immigration policies take their toll on potential migrants.

Adam Goodman
Latinos are a growing portion of the population, with an increasing capacity to swing outcomes at the ballot box.
Tanya Golash-Boza

Exaggerated fears about Muslims misread history and misunderstand multiculturalism’s aims.

John Bowen
Most of the demographic change in America today comes not from waves of new immigration, but from the echoes of past migration.
Stephen Ansolabehere
Anti-immigrant activists argue that the citizenship clause does not mean what it says. They are wrong.
Pamela S. Karlan
Rahman, a native of Pakistan, was wrongfully accused of aiding would-be Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad. 
David William Turner

Border Wars offers a stark portrait of the domestic cost of failed federal leadership in the post-9/11 era.

Tom Barry
Hispanics are developing stronger attachments to the Democrats.
Stephen Ansolabehere
Political Attacks Misread History, Target Muslims, and May Win Votes
John R. Bowen
What Americans Can Learn From Their Rogue State.
Tom Barry

Federal border policy is now effectively dictated by alarmist border-area sheriffs and politicians.

Tom Barry

Political theorist Joseph Carens argues that although states have a right to control their borders, the right to deport those who violate immigration laws is not absolute.

Joseph H. Carens

On Jacques Audiard's A Prophet.

Alan A. Stone

Misreading Muslim immigration in Europe.

John R. Bowen

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