The rhetoric isn't just dehumanizing and xenophobic, advocates said. It also promotes false tropes. Bodies of research show that immigrants boost the U.S. economy by expanding the labor force, ...

Wahidi helps run Afghan Hope Community Development, a volunteer-led nonprofit that assists Afghan refugees and families in the Sacramento, California, area. They’ve helped more than 5,000 Afghan ...

President Donald Trump’s latest immigration crackdown, prompted by the shooting of two National Guard members, means he has now halted or significantly tightened every form of foreign entry into the ...

Every year, millions of people decide they want to move to the United States, but only a fraction successfully make it through all the paperwork, background checks, interviews, and other requirements.

The president has limited immigration judges’ power to release detainees facing deportation. Immigrant rights groups say the policy is illegal. By Miriam Jordan Miriam Jordan is a national immigration ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The Trump administration is making it much more difficult for women fleeing ...

An analysis of census data shows more immigrants are leaving the U.S. than arriving. The number of immigrants in the country has dropped from 53.3 million to 51.9 million. The analysis did not ...