Safe House
A group of Latina women across the country have been working in secret, turning their homes into shelters for abused immigrant women.
A group of Latina women across the country have been working in secret, turning their homes into shelters for abused immigrant women.
Lizzie Presser California Sunday Oct 2018 15min Permalink
Working from a tiny shop in Chinatown, Sister Ping brought in thousands of Chinese immigrants by boat, bringing in over $40 million. Then one of her ships ran aground.
Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker Apr 2006 30min Permalink
Immigrants from Africa and the iron gateways of mass deportation.
Ashoka Mukpo Popula Aug 2018 35min Permalink
A long-running inferiority complex, vast statutory power, a chilling new directive from the top—inside America’s unfolding immigration tragedy.
Franklin Foer The Atlantic Aug 2018 25min Permalink
For years, the candidate for Kansas governor has defended towns that passed anti-immigration ordinances. The towns have lost big — but Kobach has fared considerably better.
Jessica Huseman, Blake Paterson, Brian Lowry, Hunter Woodall ProPublica, Kansas City Star Aug 2018 15min Permalink
A massive raid on a long-running cockfighting ring in Arkansas has raised complex questions about ICE, immigration, and the future of a centuries-old tradition.
David Hill The Ringer Jul 2018 35min Permalink
Inside the trailer park known as Little Mexico in Norwalk, Ohio in the wake of an ICE raid that separated children from their parents.
On the legacy of Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Vann R. Newkirk II The Atlantic Jun 2018 20min Permalink
“They think of us as pests, so they are trying to drive us out of our homes, for what is the Republican drive for our self-deportation if not a plan of fumigation?”
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio Jezebel Jun 2018 10min Permalink
How Texas’s decade-long border security operation has turned South Texas into one of the most heavily policed and surveilled places in the nation.
Melissa Del Bosque Texas Observer May 2018 30min Permalink
The teenager told police all about his gang, MS-13. In return, he was slated for deportation and marked for death.
Hannah Dreier ProPublica Apr 2018 30min Permalink
“Choice is a great burden. The call to invent one’s life, and to do it continuously, can sound unendurable. Totalitarian regimes aim to stamp out the possibility of choice, but what aspiring autocrats do is promise to relieve one of the need to choose. This is the promise of “Make America Great Again”—it conjures the allure of an imaginary past in which one was free not to choose.”
Masha Gessen NY Review of Books Jan 2018 15min Permalink
Hundreds of thousands of immigrants in the U.S. may face violence and murder in their home countries. What happens when they are forced to return?
Sarah Stillman New Yorker Jan 2018 40min Permalink
On Long Island, unaccompanied minors are caught between the violence of MS-13 and the fear of deportation.
Jonathan Blitzer New Yorker Dec 2017 30min Permalink
What happens to American children when their parents are deported?
Brooke Jarvis New York Times Magazine Dec 2017 20min Permalink
How a fight to stop a potentially toxic Costco chicken plant in Nebraska made common cause of small-town environmentalists and anti-Muslim xenophobes.
Ted Genoways The New Republic Dec 2017 25min Permalink
When you’re an American in a country that treats you as if you were not.
Nicole Chung Longreads Sep 2017 15min Permalink
Inside the Tacoma Northwest Detention Center, “an opaque system that literally disappears people” accused of immigrating illegally.
Corey Pein The Baffler Sep 2017 30min Permalink
Three years ago, the Republican-led House was close to reaching a compromise on immigration. This is the story of what went wrong.
Alec MacGillis ProPublica Sep 2016 30min Permalink
In a purgatory-like immigration center, a woman awaits the arrival of her son.
Cristina Henríquez New Yorker Jul 2017 10min Permalink
With The Apprentice, Trump rose to a level of popularity with minorities that the GOP could only dream of. Then he torched it all to prepare for a hard-right run at the presidency.
Joshua Green Businessweek Jun 2017 20min Permalink
After their mother was deported to Mexico, the Marin siblings faced an impossible choice: Stay or go.
Lizzie Presser California Sunday Jun 2017 30min Permalink
Olathe, Kansas, became a global magnet for tech talent, thanks to plentiful jobs, cheap housing, and good schools. Then someone opened fire on a pair of Indian-born engineers.
Romesh Ratnesar Businessweek May 2017 15min Permalink
One of the most dangerous companies in the U.S. took advantage of immigrant workers. Then, when they got hurt or fought back, it used America’s laws against them.
Michael Grabell ProPublica May 2017 25min Permalink
As a right-wing terrorist cell went on a seven-year killing spree, did authorities look the other way?
Jacob Kushner Foreign Policy Mar 2017 30min Permalink