Perspectives
Why more places are abandoning Columbus Day in favor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day
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The official celebration of Native Americans represents the fruits of a decades-long effort.
Perspectives: The Powers That Be
Miguel Perez Jr. is back but thousands of deported veterans remain ‘in exile’
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For years, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has failed to follow its own policies by deporting veterans who may be eligible for citizenship.
Perspectives
US citizenship applications are backlogged, prolonging the wait for civil and voting rights
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The backlog in naturalization applications has ballooned to more than 700,000. Wait times have doubled in the last three years.
immigration
Rocket Dockets: How an effort to speed immigration cases is causing havoc for countless families
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It is almost as if there were two clocks in a system badly strained by a record backlog of cases, a fact faced daily by immigrants, most of whom are Latino. One clock ticks exceptionally fast and the other drags on painfully slow.
Perspectives
Trump administration revives public charge clause that kept Nazi-era refugees from the US
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During the Nazi era, roughly 300,000 additional Jewish refugees could have gained entry to the U.S. But the immigration law’s “likely to become a public charge” clause kept them out.
Perspectives
The long, bipartisan history of dealing with immigrants harshly
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Trump has expanded and escalated the most punitive policies he inherited from his predecessors.
Perspectives
Half a million American minors now live in Mexico
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Between 2000 and 2015, the population of U.S. citizen minors living in Mexico more than doubled. Who are the kids living on the other side of the border?
Perspectives
Charging asylum application fees is the latest way the US could make immigrants pay for its red tape
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Only two countries charge people who seek asylum fees. The rationale for not doing that is clear.
Employment and Labor
Chicago is the fastest shrinking major metro area
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Black and low-income residents continue to move out, but unlike other groups, a majority of African-Americans exiting the Chicago area didn’t have a job when they left.
Perspectives
Supreme Court validates Trump’s ‘fake news’ justification for travel ban
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The Muslim ban was never about national security. It’s another way immigration policy is being used as a weapon against people of color.