Most read: Immigration & Migration — Q1 2026

Most read: Immigration & Migration — Q1 2026

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How much can a city take?

As Homeland Security’s siege on Minneapolis enters its third week, locals are volunteering for patrol shifts, protesting in the streets, and keeping one another up to date in group texts.

Scott Meslow 7 min read
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The birthright citizenship case at the Supreme Court hits close to home for this immigrant mother

An Argentine emigre in Florida quickly got her newborn son a U.S. passport last year. During a legal fight over President Donald Trump’s executive order to deny citizenship to children born in the U.S. to people in the country illegally or temporarily, the passport was tangible evidence the baby is

Mark Sherman 5 min read
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Judge warns Trump administration from changing plaintiffs immigration status in First Amendment case

A federal judge ruled that the academics, who are party to a lawsuit alleging U.S. policy singles out noncitizens for detention or deportation over their pro-Palestinian activism on college campuses, can seek relief from the court if their immigration status is changed as retribution for taking part

Michael Casey 4 min read
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This whistle fights fascists

3D-printed whistles are sweeping the United States to defend against ICE abductions — meet the “Whistle Crew.”

Sean Hollister 11 min read
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She was an orphan adopted from Iran by a US veteran. The Trump administration wants to deport her

A woman adopted as a toddler by an American war veteran, who he found in the 1970s in an Iranian orphanage and raised as a Christian, is being threatened with deportation to Iran, a country notoriously dangerous for Christians and on the brink of war with the United States.

Claire Galofaro 8 min read
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