Immigrants from Afghanistan – A profile of foreign-born Afghans

The crisis in Afghanistan and the decision to admit tens of thousands of people from that country, with plans to admit more, has raised interest in Afghan immigrants already in the United States. This report uses the latest Census Bureau … Read More

Catch-and-Bus: Thousands of Freed Border-Crossing Immigrants Are Dispersing Across America

Lorenzo Ortiz, a volunteer with the El Buen Samaritano Migrante church, loading a van to drive Haitian immigrants in Del Rio, Texas. Photo by Todd Bensman. DEL RIO, Texas — On a recent evening with the night ahead-looking long, an … Read More

Trump Seeks to Stop Counting Unauthorized Immigrants in Drawing House Districts

Critics described the move as unconstitutional and a transparent attempt to help Republicans. President Trump, in a statement, accused “the radical left” of trying to “conceal the number of illegal aliens in our country.”Credit…Doug Mills/The New York Times WASHINGTON — … Read More

Jared Kushner’s new assignment: Overseeing the construction of Trump’s border wall

Jared Kushner speaks with President Trump during a signing ceremony for criminal justice legislation. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) President Trump has made his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, the de facto project manager for constructing his border wall, frustrated with a lack … Read More

Rhetoric won’t fix border crisis

Mounted Border Patrol agents ride along a newly fortified border wall structure on Oct. 26, 2018, in Calexico, Calif. President Donald Trump is visiting Calexico on Friday, April 5, 2019, to tour the recently-built portion of the border fence that … Read More

Thousands of U.S. troops to stop an “invasion” of migrants.

Source 1 News Thousands of U.S. troops to stop an “invasion” of migrants. Tent cities for asylum seekers. An end to the Constitution’s guarantee of birthright citizenship. With his eyes squarely on next Tuesday’s elections, President Donald Trump is rushing … Read More