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Curated news resources about immigration and related topics.
2024 News
60 news items
- Hopping Across the Line
- Yes, Undocumented Immigrants Pay Taxes—and Receive Few Tax Benefits
- Immigration and the macroeconomy in the second Trump administration
- Inside The Plan To Let Trump Track Millions of Immigrants
- Will Submitting the FAFSA Put Undocumented Parents at Risk? This Group Thinks It Could.
- Law Enforcement and Leaders in Blue States Are Hatching Plans to Stop Trump’s Mass Deportations
- How to bring Indigenous knowledge into classrooms and curricula
- Watch: How the Race for Sheriff in Del Rio, Texas, Became a Referendum on Immigration
- What the Data Reveals About U.S. Immigration
- Held for Ransom in Animal Pens, Migrants Face Mass Kidnappings as U.S. and Mexico Ramp Up Enforcement
- Immigrant Rights Advocates Are Preparing for “The Worst” Under Trump. Will It Be Enough?
- Immigrants brought to the U.S. as children ask judges to keep protections against deportation
- How Immigration Became a Lightning Rod in American Politics
- Explainer: Immigrants and the U.S. Economy
- Atlantic Crossings: West African migrants in New York City
- Kamala Harris’ Immigration Record
- Kamala Harris Has an Opportunity to Reframe the Immigration Conversation as the Democratic Nominee for President
- How would Project 2025 impact Black America?
- Government must rethink its Draconian white paper on refugees and migrants
- “Green Border”: Agnieszka Holland’s New Film Shows “Impossible Choices” Facing Refugees in Europe
- “The Case for Open Borders”: Journalist John Washington on New Book & Biden Asylum Ban
- Asylum seekers at the US-Mexico border worry about their next move: ‘We cannot return’
- An American Immigration Council Analysis of the President’s 212(f) Proclamation and Interim Final Rule Restricting Asylum
- Seeking fantasies across the sea
- The rightwing plan to take over ‘sanctuary’ cities – and rebuild them Maga-style
- A Mural Project Remembers Uvalde’s Lost Lives
- The Take: Inside the journey across the Darien Gap
- NYC Migrants Are Being Welcomed by Kansas City’s Mayor to Fill Jobs
- The border needs fixing, but not because migrants are dangerous: Most immigrants, authorized and unauthorized alike, are more law-abiding than native-born Americans.
- Missing, presumed dead workers from Key Bridge weren’t informed of mayday call
- Baltimore Key Bridge Collapses, Killing Six Immigrant Workers Who Had No Access to Emergency Warnings
- How the imagery of White women victims is being used to stoke anti-immigrant fear
- Immigrant families on edge amid uncertainty over new Texas law
- Martha’s Vineyard officials condemn DeSantis remarks on sending more migrants but say they’d be ready to respond
- Fictions about the Forces Driving Migration
- Racism derails public meetings on migrants, housing law in Mass
- New immigration estimates help make sense of the pace of employment
- An undocumented immigrant was arrested for allegedly killing a college student. Now Latinos are facing harassment and threats. When a white person commits a crime, only the accused is judged. But when the suspect is a person of color, people of color are treated as proxy suspects
- Plight of migrant laborers killed, held hostage in Middle East exposes Israel’s reliance on overseas workforce
- Four reasons the immigration crisis isn’t going away
Attribution
The resource list was compiled by Lynn Ditchfield with contributions from:
- Cynthia Aguilar
- Anita Botti
- Cheri Cluff
- Michael Ditchfield**
- Victoria Dryfoos
- Camila Fernandez
- Justen Foster
- Shari Geistfeld**
- Linda Graham
- Marissa A. Gutierrez-Vicario
- Julie Huff**
- Naomi Ostwald Kawamura
- Jenik Munafo Khelalfa
- Roslyn Sue Le Mesurier
- Kendra Mills
- Vivian Maria Poey
- Nadia Sahila
- Jane Sampaio
- Guy Michel Telemanque
- Rachel Toon
- Others
* - especially informative content
** - special thanks
Funds to help support granted in part by:
- Mass Cultural Council (MVLCC)
- Martha’s Vineyard Vision Fellowship
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