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Mario Tama / Getty The Unorthodox Solution to the World’s Migration Woes
Plus: Caregiving in crisis
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Ariana Drehsler / Getty Nine Reader Views on the State of Immigration Policy
“America is by no means running up against scarcity,” one writes.
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Jordan Vonderhaar / Reuters Ron DeSantis Can’t Troll His Way Into the White House
The Florida governor’s cruel stunt will collide with the serious real-world problem of immigration.
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Ray Ewing / Vineyard Gazette / Reuters How Democrats Can Turn the Tables on DeSantis
Republicans’ cruel immigration tactics present an opportunity for blue cities.
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Chandan Khanna / AFP / Getty A Sadistic Immigration Stunt
Even border-security hawks should be horrified.
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The Atlantic Breaking Down an American Catastrophe
The biggest findings from Caitlin Dickerson’s investigation into the Trump administration’s family-separation policy
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The Atlantic Caitlin Dickerson on the Moral Catastrophe of Family Separations
Caitlin Dickerson discusses the Trump administration’s devastating family-separation policy and bureaucratic failures—and how it could happen again.
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Mike Blake / Reuters / Alamy; Oliver Munday The Secret History of Family Separation
The Trump administration’s cruelest policy is, as Caitlin Dickerson’s new cover story shows, a cautionary tale about empowering zealots.
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Oliver Munday An American Catastrophe
The secret history of the U.S. government’s family-separation policy
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Adriana Zehbrauskas for The Atlantic Trump’s Big Border Wall Is Now a Pile of Rusting Steel
Worth at least a quarter billion dollars, the steel bollards are a relic of the Trump era.
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PAUL RATJE / AFP / Getty Democrats’ Free Pass on Immigration Is Over
As he extends Trump-era policies, President Biden discovers that many voters are no longer willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.
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Paul Spella Plan Z for Immigration
Let the states sort it out.
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Courtesy of Jorge Felipe-Gonzalez I Watched Cuba Crumble From the Inside
The frustrations that burst into public view this month have been simmering for decades.
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Jan Buchczik What Immigrants Know About Happiness
The act of migration involves taking risks in pursuit of a meaningful reward and having faith in the future. Everyone should try to live more like that.
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Photographs by Shane Rocheleau The Heaviest, Lightest Thing
To undocumented people like me, a few pieces of paper are the difference between stability and crisis.
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Jeff Kowalsky / AFP / Getty Why Canada Won’t Open Its Doors
COVID-19 case counts are plummeting and vaccinations are up, but hardly anyone can get across the border.
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Getty / Paul Spella / The Atlantic The IVF Cases That Broke Birthright Citizenship
The U.S. had to rethink its definition of parenthood, to account for children born abroad to American parents using egg and sperm donors or surrogates.
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Jasmine Carter / Pexels The Experiment Podcast: The Surprisingly Complex History Behind 90 Day Fiancé
What a guilty-pleasure reality show teaches us about immigration and democracy in America.
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Emmanuel Dunan / Getty; Adam Maida / The … ‘I Never Thought China Could Ever Be This Dark’
Leaving Xinjiang has not meant Uyghur women are free of Beijing’s grasp.
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Lucas Dörre America Never Wanted the Tired, Poor, Huddled Masses
The U.S. is a diverse nation of immigrants—but it was not intended to be, and its historical biases continue to haunt the present.
