Perspectives
Who is born a US citizen?
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If upheld, a federal court ruling would solidify birthright citizenship as the law of the land, and overturn more than a century of federal refusal to grant American Samoans citizenship status.
Blog del Editor
Cómo LATINEXT abordará las necesidades de noticias de la comunidad Latinx de Chicagoland
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El cierre de Hoy resalta la urgencia de encontrar un modelo nuevo, receptivo y sostenible para el periodismo en español de alta calidad en los extensos y crecientes desiertos de noticias fuera de los límites de la ciudad.
Editor's Blog
How LATINEXT will address the news needs of Chicagoland’s Latinx community
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Hoy’s closure highlights the urgency for a new, responsive and sustainable model for high quality Spanish language journalism to address the vast and growing news deserts outside of city limits.
Perspectives
Immigrants and some people of color are moving to the suburbs – but life there isn’t as promising as it once was
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As more people of color move to the suburbs, they might not find the full range of opportunities that white European ethnic groups did for most of the previous century.
Perspectives
What Trump’s travel ban really looks like, almost two years in
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Was the ban a Muslim ban — or was that just an anti-Trump narrative? A political scientist combs through the data for answers.
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.