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Deportation
November 30, 2022
Matt Ford
The Supreme Court Takes on the Chaos-World of Federal Immigration Priorities
Who gets the final say on deportations and enforcement, Washington or the states? The high court faces some nettlesome questions—and some intriguing divisions.
May 14, 2020
Laura Weiss
Trump’s Deportation Flights Are Inflaming the Pandemic
After baselessly accusing migrants of bringing coronavirus to the U.S., the administration is endangering the lives of infected detainees.
August 28, 2019
Nick Martin
Deporting Harvard Students Was Always the Goal
Trump's anti-immigration policies were introduced with talk of "rapists" and "murderers," but that was just a pretext to come after the rest.
January 8, 2018
Rachel Stone
Trump’s favorite immigration target: people fleeing war and natural disasters.
November 14, 2017
Magazine
Alex Shephard
Anti-Sanctuary Armies
How local officials across the country are working for the Trump administration’s clampdown on undocumented immigrants
November 9, 2017
Magazine
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
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Ellen Jacob
Inhospitable
Today, immigrants threatened with deportation grapple with depression, anxiety, and PTSD.
August 28, 2017
Magazine
Laura Reston
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Alex Garcia
Onboard ICE Air
A look inside the massive immigration enforcement apparatus that Obama built up—and that Trump is now exploiting.
February 12, 2016
Steven Cohen
Clinton and Sanders spar over deporting immigrant children.
February 5, 2016
Steven Cohen
Colombia’s president thanks Obama on behalf of “all the people who live south of the Rio Grande.”
November 23, 2015
Brian Beutler
The Promise and Peril of Marco Rubio’s Trump Triangulation
He has unwittingly outflanked the Republican front-runner—on the right.
November 19, 2015
Steven Cohen
We need a wall immediately ... to keep Mexican immigrants from leaving.
December 29, 2014
Brian Beutler
Obama Went on the War Path in 2014 Not Just for His Legacy, But Hillary's Too
December 16, 2014
Brian Beutler
Jeb Bush Is Running for President, But Obama Has Already Destroyed His Candidacy
December 4, 2014
Brian Beutler
This Radiohead Song Perfectly Explains John Boehner's Immigration Problem
November 26, 2014
Margo Schlanger
A Civil Rights Lawyer Explains Why Obama's Immigration Order Is an Even Bigger Deal Than It Seems
November 24, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
Here's What SNL's Immigration Skit Got Right—and Wrong
November 21, 2014
Brian Beutler
Did Obama Literally Shred the Constitution? A TNR Investigation.
November 20, 2014
Brian Beutler
Note to GOP: Just Because Right-Wingers Are Blind With Rage Doesn't Mean Obama's Immigration Action Is Illegal
November 19, 2014
Danny Vinik
Reagan and Bush Acted Unilaterally on Immigration, Too—for the Same Reason That Obama Will
September 8, 2014
Brian Beutler
Obama Played Politics on Immigration—And Democrats Will Pay the Price
Executive amnesty and deportation relief at the throes of Senate elections
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