If you’re a Texan with a disability, and you need someone to help you fill out your ballot in a polling place (it’s gotten more complicated for you to get a mail-in ballot), your assistant must fill out a document indicating his or her relationship to you...
31 Dec, 2021
One of the signal stories of 2021 was a narrative of unfulfilled promise: the promise by a new president to open a path to citizenship to 10.2 million immigrants – and the thwarting of that promise by the politics of a particular historical moment...
Like a gravitational field, there’s a narrative that exerts a powerful pull on U.S. immigration policy...
22 Oct, 2021
Congressional Democrats are now considering a watered-down version of immigration reform, a version they might hope to send through the budget reconciliation process as part of President Biden’s “Build Back Better” spending bill...
Vice-President Kamala Harris has an opportunity. More than at any time in the recent past, Congress and the Biden administration have the means to open a path to...
21 Sep, 2021
On Sunday, September 19, the U.S. Senate's parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough, ruled that a pathway to citizenship for millions of immigrants wouldn't have enough budgetary impact to qualify for a "fast-track" decision-making process as part of the $3.5 trillion infrastructure bill now before Congress...
3 Sep, 2021
It's easy to say, "our immigration system is broken." Or to declare: "we are a nation of immigrants."...
12 Aug, 2021
If negotiations in Congress open a path to citizenship this year for the roughly 10.2 million undocumented immigrants in America, the U.S. economy will grow by as much as $1.7 trillion over ten years...
9 Jul, 2021
Last month, attorneys from the Department of Justice joined with counsel for the private prison corporation, the GEO Group, to present oral arguments supporting private immigration detention in California.
17 Jun, 2021
The Biden administration has made some admirable moves and gestures toward addressing the immense challenges posed by climate-related migration.
6 May, 2021
A little more than a year ago, as the pandemic tightened its lethal grip on the nation, a 43-year-old agricultural worker named Nancy Silva received a letter from her employer.
30 Jan, 2021
Much has been made recently of the concept of the "big lie": repeating a falsehood so many...
24 Dec, 2020
"Each day the pandemic brings new mixtures of hope and dread: new reports on the vaccine..."
8 Dec, 2020
As with many issues raised by this pandemic, the problem of hazard pay is fraught...
18 Nov, 2020
In this bleak season of Covid-19, with vaccines on the way but not widely available for some time to come...
