What Right-Wing Whites Miss When They Talk About Secession
White Americans need immigrants and diversity. That鈥檚 not do-gooder talk. It鈥檚 math.
Immigration
12 Photos: What Hope Looks Like for Refugee Camps at the U.S. Border
The caravan movement is sustained by self-organized migrants and the volunteers who stand with them. It鈥檚 an organized, mobilized hope.
Grandmothers Bring Food and Comfort to Asylum-Seekers at Bus Stations
Each day at Greyhound stations across the nation, families released from detention and traveling to sponsors鈥� homes find grandmotherly help.
Why Hondurans See Migration as an Act of Civil Disobedience
In walking out of their country en masse, Hondurans are making a loud, bold statement about the extreme injustices they face at home.
I Walked Right Up to Militarized Police at the Border
Behind the agents, we could see our brothers and sisters watching from the Mexico side of the wall. We could hear them singing.
Dear Activist: The Healing of Handwritten Letters of Thanks
As an immigration attorney, I have reasons to feel defeated every day. I take solace in writing letters.
Europe鈥檚 History With Refugees Has Something to Tell the U.S.
Germany, Serbia, and Sweden hosted tens of thousands of migrants three years ago. Can the U.S. take a page from the EU as caravans mass at our border?
To the Children Seeking Asylum in the U.S.: This Is My Wish for You
鈥淭hat your days may soon change, that the love your parents and relatives feel for you glow inside you to give you strength.鈥�
Para Los Ni帽os de la Caravana de Migrantes: Este Es Mi Deseo Para Ustedes
鈥淨ue sus d铆as cambien pronto y que el amor que sus padres y familiares sienten por ustedes brille fuerte dentro de ustedes y les de fuerza.鈥�
What Welcome Really Looks Like: Softening Hearts to a New Generation of Refugees
The story of the Central American refugees is so essentially American that it鈥檚 a wonder we can鈥檛 recognize how much they belong here.
How to Treat a Stranger in Need: A Moral Response to the Migrant Caravans
Throughout history, the biblical story of Exodus has inspired people around the world fleeing persecution.
Refusing to Hide: Migrants Find Power in Caravans
No longer willing to collude in their oppression, Central Americans are coming to the U.S. in the open and en masse.
How You Can Help as Migrant Caravans Arrive at the U.S. Border
These are steps you can take right now to assist the refugees, who have risked everything to escape extreme poverty, gang violence, and political instability at home.
12 Photos of the Migrant Caravan: Hope and Self-Determination
Photojournalist Rob Wilson has been traveling with the caravans from Central America to document the journey of people looking for a better life.
Telling the Truth as a Means of Healing
A new documentary shows how one state is confronting Native American child removal.
This Isn鈥檛 the First Time White Supremacists Have Tried to Cancel Birthright Citizenship
History shows that a broad coalition of civil rights activists is how to fight back.
What It Means to Be a Nation of Immigrants
Pramila Jayapal writes about the Night of 1,000 Conversations, in which more than 2,500 strangers in 28 states gathered to discuss the role of immigration in the country鈥檚 past, present, and future.
What Will Climate Change Do to the U.S.-Mexico Border?
Rather than continue on a path to militarize the border, we should consider the alternatives.
U.S. Cities Issue IDs to Protect Undocumented Immigrants
A growing number of communities have implemented municipal identification programs, and not just in politically progressive areas.
A Conservative Town Embraces Its Immigrants, Documented or Undocumented
Once famous for gunslingers and cowboys, Dodge City, Kansas, relies on its Hispanic population鈥攁nd not just for economic survival.
Citizens United | Racial Justice | Native rights | Reproductive rights | Activism | Gender justice | Democratic reforms | Local power
How to Reclaim the Narrative鈥攁nd Power鈥攊n Post-Truth America
Hope plus action and investment equals revolutionary muscle. Now is the time for the progressive majority to set the terms of the conversation.
Lawyers Turn to Activism as Civil Liberties Come Under Attack
A new generation of social justice attorneys has risen to defend against the hard-line policies of the Trump administration, from immigration and abortion access to voting and gender rights.
Busting the Myth of Immigrant Crime
Trump鈥檚 White supporters鈥攏ot immigrants鈥攁re bringing lethal drugs, violence, and crime.
Families of Interned Japanese Americans See Parallels to Detentions at Border
Debates over confining migrant parents and children stir activism in a new generation of Japanese Americans.
You Want to Know Who America Is, Pay Attention to Who She Was
We鈥檝e been here before.
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