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Immigration

Vox's coverage of immigration policy: from DACA to Trump's proposed border wall and more.

The Afghan refugee crisis has revealed the artificial limits of America’s will to welcome

By Nicole Narea September 23

Democrats still have real options for immigration reform

By Nicole Narea September 22

The Texas GOP sees Haitian migrants in crisis as a political opportunity

By Nicole Narea September 18

The fight to resettle Afghans in the US has just begun

By Nicole Narea September 14

Democrats’ immigration hopes rest on a decision by the Senate parliamentarian

By Ellen Ioanes September 12

The affordable housing shortage is hurting Afghan refugees

By Nicole Narea September 9

The long road to resettling Afghans in the US

By Nicole Narea August 27

The Supreme Court’s stunning, radical immigration decision, explained

By Ian Millhiser August 24

A new Supreme Court case could blow up decades of US diplomacy

By Ian Millhiser August 24

Biden’s immigration policy is hampering Haiti’s recovery from back-to-back crises

By Nicole Narea August 19

A Trump judge ordered Biden to reinstate one of Trump’s cruelest immigration policies

By Ian Millhiser August 17

The Texas GOP’s war on governing

By Nicole Narea August 14

Time is running out to save Afghans who helped US troops

By Nicole Narea August 9

Biden’s immigration policy isn’t Trump’s — but it’s still a disappointment

By Nicole Narea August 4

These immigrants have one shot to come to the US. But Biden has to act.

By Nicole Narea August 1

Biden is turning back Haitian migrants at sea, echoing a shameful chapter in US history

By Nicole Narea July 29

Democrats are going it alone on immigration reform

By Nicole Narea July 23

A federal judge declared DACA unlawful. Here’s what that means.

By Cameron Peters July 17

The US is bracing for a potential Haitian migrant crisis. Biden needs to step up.

By Nicole Narea July 16

Few immigrants in detention have been vaccinated. That needs to change.

By Nicole Narea July 14

The Texas GOP’s border wall fantasy

By Nicole Narea July 9

What a Reagan-era law can teach Democrats about legalizing undocumented immigrants

By Nicole Narea July 4

US investment alone won’t solve Central America’s migrant crisis

By Nicole Narea June 18

Biden’s plan to increase legal immigration could aid the pandemic economy recovery

By Nicole Narea June 11

New York gave every detained immigrant a lawyer. It could serve as a national model.

By Nicole Narea June 9

The US is telling migrants “don’t come.” They might not be listening.

By Nicole Narea June 8

The false promises of more immigration enforcement

By Nicole Narea June 3

America’s asylum system is broken. Here’s how Biden could fix it.

By Nicole Narea May 28

The human cost of Biden’s travel ban on India

By Nicole Narea May 17

Biden finally raised the refugee cap. Now comes the hard part.

By Nicole Narea May 10

The census shows the US needs to increase immigration — by a lot

By Nicole Narea May 6

Sending aid to Central America won’t stop migrants from coming

By Nicole Narea April 30

Biden is quietly enforcing one of Trump’s most anti-immigrant policies

By Nicole Narea April 29

Why Biden still hasn’t raised the refugee cap

By Nicole Narea April 21

Biden vows to increase refugee cap after criticism from Democrats

By Katelyn Burns April 17

3 asylum seekers on why they decided to flee for the US

By Nicole Narea April 15

The “natural-born citizen” ceiling

By Jesus A. Rodriguez April 12

Foreign workers blocked by Trump are no longer banned from entering the US

By Nicole Narea April 1

9 questions about the humanitarian crisis on the border, answered

By Nicole Narea March 27

Migrants are heading north because Central America never recovered from last year’s hurricanes

By Nicole Narea March 22