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Americans are rightly frustrated with the humanitarian and administrative crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border and in our cities, as 30 years of band-aid “fixes” to a broken immigration system have collapsed under the weight of record human displacement around the globe and across the Americas. Recent polling indicates that Americans across party lines agree that […]
Washington — A trio of senators on Sunday released a bipartisan immigration agreement with the White House that would give the president far-reaching powers to clamp down on unlawful border crossings, including the authority to turn away migrants without allowing them to request asylum. The deal, which has been months in the making, would overhaul […]
For decades, single young men, mainly from Mexico and later Central America, did their best to sneak past U.S. border agents to reach Los Angeles, Atlanta and other places hungry for their labor. Today, people from around the globe are streaming across the southern border, most of them just as eager to work. But rather […]
Crownsville patients work in the hospital’s fields in the 1910s. Maryland State Archives/Hatchette hide caption toggle caption Maryland State Archives/Hatchette Crownsville patients work in the hospital’s fields in the 1910s. Maryland State Archives/Hatchette From the outside, the Hospital for the Negro Insane of Maryland, which opened in Crownsville, Md., in 1911, looked like a farm, […]
Refugee protection is less about vulnerability and more about oppression. This is at least what I have long believed, having worked in the field for more than 15 years. When we speak of refugees, we often speak of their vulnerabilities and the responsibility to safeguard their rights. There is truth in that, but in real […]