Immigration

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

A rogue Trump judge has thrown the Supreme Court in disarray

By Ian Millhiser November 29

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

By Ian Millhiser November 27

Are 8 billion people too many — or too few?

By Bryan Walsh November 21

The Future Perfect 50

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

By Dylan Matthews October 20

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

By Ian Millhiser September 26

Why Ron DeSantis is baiting Biden on the border

By Nicole Narea September 22

Progressives have welcomed migrants. Now they need to house them

By Bryan Walsh September 21

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

By Ellen Ioanes and Haleema Shah September 17

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

By Nicole Narea August 25

How Republicans rigged Texas’s federal courts against Biden

By Ian Millhiser August 10

The Supreme Court just let a Trump judge seize control of ICE, at least for now

By Ian Millhiser July 21

America has an innovation problem. The H-1B visa backlog is making it worse.

By Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg July 13

A Trump judge seized control of ICE. Will the Supreme Court stop him?

By Ian Millhiser July 12

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

By Ian Millhiser June 30

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

By Nicole Narea June 28

What America owes to Dreamers, 10 years later

By Christian Paz June 15

How the US is failing refugees, in one chart

By Sigal Samuel June 14

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

By Nicole Narea May 20

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

By Ian Millhiser April 26

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

By Ian Millhiser April 25

The Democratic revolt over Biden’s border policy

By Nicole Narea April 8

The Biden administration is ending a controversial border policy

By Nicole Narea April 2

The US took a key first step in welcoming Ukrainian refugees

By Nicole Narea March 4

Where are Ukrainian refugees going?

By Nicole Narea March 3

The Ukrainian refugee crisis has already begun

By Nicole Narea February 25

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

By Nicole Narea February 17

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

By Nicole Narea February 16

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

By Nicole Narea February 2

Migrants in Mexico are on their own against omicron

By Nicole Narea January 30

Biden is defending key Trump immigration policies in court

By Nicole Narea January 25

Biden’s immigration polices have left Haitians stranded in Mexico

By Nicole Narea January 20

The great population growth slowdown

By Bryan Walsh January 5

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

By Nicole Narea December 30, 2021

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

By Ian Millhiser December 27, 2021

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

By Nicole Narea December 26, 2021

Democrats’ latest attempt at immigration reform is doomed

By Nicole Narea December 16, 2021

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

By Nicole Narea December 4, 2021

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

By Nicole Narea December 1, 2021

Why Biden is struggling to revive the US refugee program

By Nicole Narea November 17, 2021

Democrats are set to leave immigrants in the lurch again

By Nicole Narea November 15, 2021