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Immigration

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

New York City’s not-so-sudden migrant surge, explained

By Fabiola Cineas

The fate of hundreds of thousands of immigrants is caught in an endless court fight

By Li Zhou

An act of Congress could grant legal status to thousands of Afghan allies. What’s the holdup?

By Jen Kirby

NYC is struggling to help asylum seekers. Here’s why.

By Ellen Ioanes

A deadly shipwreck illustrates the tragedy behind Europe’s migration policies

By Li Zhou and Jen Kirby

Biden is taking Texas to court over its floating border barrier

By Nicole Narea

What the Dutch parliament collapse reveals about European migration

By Ellen Ioanes

Florida’s new immigration law previews a DeSantis presidency

By Christian Paz

DeSantis keeps looking like a Trump copycat

By Nicole Narea

The Supreme Court may be running out of patience for Trump’s worst judges

By Ian Millhiser

A guide to Ron DeSantis’s most extreme policies in Florida

By Nicole Narea and Li Zhou

Why immigration policy is so inhumane

By Kelsey Piper

Ron DeSantis’s immigration law is already leading to worker shortages

By Christian Paz

9 questions about Biden’s border policy, answered

By Nicole Narea

Title 42 is over. Immigration policy is still broken.

By Ellen Ioanes

The seismic consequences of ending Title 42

By Nicole Narea

Why Biden is deploying more troops to the southern border

By Nicole Narea

Why so many top Republicans want to go to war in Mexico

By Zack Beauchamp

Are 8 billion people too many — or too few? 

By Bryan Walsh

Biden’s long-awaited plan to give health care to Dreamers, explained

By Nicole Narea

Migrants were left for dead in a Mexican detention center. Was it a preventable tragedy?

By Nicole Narea

Biden and Trudeau’s immigration deal makes it easier for both countries to turn away asylum seekers

By Li Zhou

The UK’s extreme new immigration plans, explained

By Ellen Ioanes

How Biden came to embrace Trumpian border policies

By Nicole Narea

A new Supreme Court decision leaves a Trump judge in charge of the Mexican border

By Ian Millhiser

This Penn professor has been offending minorities for years. Will tenure save her?

By Jack Meserve

The Supreme Court is manipulating its own calendar to lock GOP policies in place

By Ian Millhiser

Blue cities and the Biden administration are failing migrants bused from the border

By Nicole Narea

Title 42 may be ending soon. The US immigration system isn’t ready.

By Ellen Ioanes

How an obscure Christian right activist became one of the most powerful men in America

By Ian Millhiser

A Senate breakthrough on immigration might still be a long shot

By Nicole Narea

A rogue Trump judge has thrown the Supreme Court in disarray

By Ian Millhiser

A Trump judge seized control of ICE, and the Supreme Court will decide whether to stop him

By Ian Millhiser

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Leah Boustan is illuminating how and where people migrate — and why it matters

By Dylan Matthews

The Supreme Court’s new term could be even more consequential than its last one

By Ian Millhiser

Why Ron DeSantis is baiting Biden on the border

By Nicole Narea

Progressives have welcomed migrants. Now they need to house them

By Bryan Walsh

DeSantis’s Martha’s Vineyard flights escalate GOP immigration stunts

By Ellen Ioanes and Haleema Shah

DACA is in jeopardy. Can the Biden administration save it?

By Nicole Narea

How Republicans rigged Texas’s federal courts against Biden

By Ian Millhiser

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