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Immigration

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

The Supreme Court hands Biden the smallest possible victory in its “Remain in Mexico” case

By Ian Millhiser

Another 50 migrant deaths and an ever-climbing body count on the border

By Nicole Narea

What America owes to Dreamers, 10 years later

By Christian Paz

How the US is failing refugees, in one chart

By Sigal Samuel

Title 42, the controversial Trump-era border policy, explained

By Nicole Narea

The Supreme Court seems fed up with a Trump judge who sabotaged Biden

By Ian Millhiser

The enormous stakes in the Supreme Court’s “Remain in Mexico” case, explained

By Ian Millhiser

The Democratic revolt over Biden’s border policy

By Nicole Narea

The Biden administration is ending a controversial border policy

By Nicole Narea

The US took a key first step in welcoming Ukrainian refugees

By Nicole Narea

Where are Ukrainian refugees going?

By Nicole Narea

The Ukrainian refugee crisis has already begun

By Nicole Narea

Migrants are sewing their lips shut to protest the policy that stranded them in Mexico

By Nicole Narea

Immigrants could help the US labor shortage — if the government would let them

By Nicole Narea

Honduras’s new president could help Biden on migration, if she can survive a political crisis

By Nicole Narea

Migrants in Mexico are on their own against omicron

By Nicole Narea

Biden is defending key Trump immigration policies in court

By Nicole Narea

Biden’s immigration polices have left Haitians stranded in Mexico

By Nicole Narea

The great population growth slowdown

By Bryan Walsh

Can US investment really ease Central America’s migrant crisis?

By Nicole Narea

Just how much is Trump’s judiciary sabotaging the Biden presidency?

By Ian Millhiser

It’s only a matter of time before omicron spreads through immigration detention

By Nicole Narea

Democrats’ latest attempt at immigration reform is doomed

By Nicole Narea

Biden’s bewildering decision to expand a Trump-era immigration policy

By Nicole Narea

Biden’s latest travel ban is “probably a waste of time”

By Nicole Narea

Why Biden is struggling to revive the US refugee program

By Nicole Narea

Democrats are set to leave immigrants in the lurch again

By Nicole Narea

What is the price of separated immigrant families’ trauma?

By Nicole Narea

Biden is pushing to end “Remain in Mexico.” But he may still have to enforce it.

By Ellen Ioanes

Immigrants could fix the US labor shortage

By Nicole Narea

Biden’s incoherent immigration policy

By Nicole Narea

Americans do not see all Afghan refugees as equal

By Nicole Narea

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

By Nicole Narea

Democrats still have real options for immigration reform

By Nicole Narea

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

By Nicole Narea

The fight to resettle Afghans in the US has just begun

By Nicole Narea

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

By Ellen Ioanes

The affordable housing shortage is hurting Afghan refugees

By Nicole Narea

The long road to resettling Afghans in the US

By Nicole Narea

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

By Ian Millhiser