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Newly obtained data show that the U.S. government has detained nearly 1,000 migrant children for longer than one year since fall 2014.
The past four years have birthed a progressive movement so extraordinary it just might survive the forces that threaten its extinction.
A 40% increase in pay would cost just $25 per household
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's (AMLO) recent visit to the US stirred a great deal of media reaction in the US and México. To appreciate what AMLO and Morena are attempting to do, here are factors the Left, needs to consider.
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This is not the time to pull up the (national) hatches and speak simply of the fight against the virus inside our own borders.
This book on modern immigration explores the complex relationship South Asian migrants to the U.S. have with the always contested notion of "whiteness."
Charges her conservative colleagues on the court with being too eager to side with the Trump administration
First, they came for the immigrants…
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