Immigration

President Obama is at risk of losing his Latino base — and surrendering the moral high ground — unless he champions the rights of immigrants.read more

Congress should move quickly from health care to immigration reform. But to succeed, it will have to beat back specious anti-immigrant claims.read more

I recently became a U.S. citizen, and I recommend that you attend a naturalization ceremony yourself. You’ll see that immigrants have a fervent desire to contribute to America’s strength as a diverse and unified nation.read more

The phrase “first, do no harm” is often attributed to the Hippocratic Oath that doctors swear to before practicing medicine on patients. Congress would be doing harm by excluding anyone from health care.read more

Edwidge Danticat has won the prestigious MacArthur Foundation fellowship. This comes from a 2007 piece in The Progressive magazine.read more

I met Kennedy in 2005, when a group of activists in the immigration reform movement went to Washington to huddle with the staff of our staunchest ally.read more

Being a good Samaritan should not be a crime. Nor should preventing immigrants from dying of dehydration.read more

President Obama is wrong to postpone immigration reform. And his own immigration policy is causing concern and dismay among many of those who supported his election.read more

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We need to examine why fewer Mexicans are coming to the United States. The number is down 25 percent since the recession began. And that’s no accident.read more

On Earth Day, the environmental movement in the United States must reject bigotry. It should not join hands with anti-immigrant groups.read more

Our immigration laws are out of whack. And they are clogging our federal prisons with nonviolent folks who are guilty of nothing more than living, working and raising families here without proper documentation.read more

Hopefully, this month our fellow Americans will learn that Hispanics have been part of the history of this country for almost 100 years before the founding of the first English colony in America, and not just newcomers crossing the border.read more

It’s a day of joy for immigrants who have waited many years to participate fully in the American Dream.

But it’s a day many law-abiding immigrants may never get to celebrate.read more