I keep thinking about José René Flores, a Los Angeles resident incarcerated at a Southern California migrant detention facility in the 1980s. The El Centro Detention Facility, where immigration agents ...

In 1876, France gifted the Statue of Liberty to the United States as a monument to republican liberty. Conceived by French abolitionist Édouard de Laboulaye and built by artist Frédéric Auguste ...

Over the past couple of months, mass immigrant arrests, asylum-seekers detained for longer and longer stays, and protests turned violent have shone a spotlight on the Immigration and Customs ...

As U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests soar across the country, California is seeing a monumental shift in who the agency is targeting for enforcement. ICE has arrested more than ...

For three immigration judges, the day took a similar turn. Kyra Lilien, who was hired in 2023, was presiding in a courtroom in Concord, Calif., in July when she paused the hearing of an immigrant ...

But the story of immigration came coupled with a long history of immigration control. Alongside the hundreds of ethnographies on immigrant communities, there are hundreds of studies on how the federal ...

The US is indefinitely suspending immigrant visa processing from 75 countries in another expansion of the Trump ...

Pt. I. Colonial America. Overseas migration from Europe ; English immigrants in America: Virginia, Maryland, and New England ; Slavery and immigrants from Africa ; Other Europeans in Colonial America ...

The Tenement Museum's exhibit of the home of Joseph and Rachel Moore, Black New Yorkers who lived in Lower Manhattan’s tenements in the 1860s and 1870s. The Tenement Museum's exhibit of the home of ...

Japanese Americans are seeing parallels between the government’s incarceration of their families during World War II and the current detention of Latinos. By Jill Cowan Jill Cowan grew up in the ...

The Home Office has reported a record number of immigration raids and arrests of illegal workers over the last year.