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Immigration Law

Posted inCurrent Events, Highlight, Quotes

The Family Is Political

by michelleweber January 22, 2019October 19, 2022

U.S. immigration law has a history of excluding “undesirables” from citizenship through policy. It’s doing it now with LGBTQ families, in spite of marriage equality.

Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

Why Is Australia Deporting So Many Maori and Pacific Islanders?

by Aaron Gilbreath July 18, 2018October 19, 2022

Why are 60% of the New Zealanders deported from Australia Maori or Pacific Islanders?

Posted inCurrent Events, Quotes

“This Is Our Regional Refugee Crisis”

by michelleweber May 2, 2018October 19, 2022

The U.S. immigration system is ill-equipped to deal with refugees who are feeling real violence and hardship but who don’t qualify for asylum.

Posted inCurrent Events, Featured, Nonfiction, Quotes

A Roll of the Immigration Law Dice

by michelleweber August 21, 2017October 19, 2022

Captain Noorullah Aminyar has been in detention for three years now, his asylum application subject to a system of immigration law both complex and capricious.

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Fight of His Life

by michelleweber August 16, 2017October 19, 2022

Afghan Noorullah Aminyar was a valuable ally to the American military. Now, after a failed defection attempt and three years in detention, his asylum claims rests on the argument that the U.S. has lost the war in Afghanistan.

Posted inBusiness & Tech, Current Events, Nonfiction, Quotes

Deporting Billions of Tax Dollars, Farm Work, Good People, and Affordable Food Right Out of America

by Aaron Gilbreath July 7, 2017October 19, 2022

TheHudson Valley offers a glimpse of the ways deportations will effect America’s farm economy and food system.

Posted inEditor's Pick

A Legal Journalist on the “Surreal” Experience of Becoming a U.S. Citizen Under Trump

by michelleweber July 5, 2017October 19, 2022

Sarah Jeong has spent the past several months covering Trump’s travel ban… while officially becoming an American citizen.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Sold For Parts

by michelleweber May 3, 2017October 19, 2022

One of the most dangerous companies in the U.S. took advantage of immigrant workers. Then, when they got hurt or fought back, it used America’s laws against them.

immigrants examined upon arriving at ellis island
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

LOL, JFK: The Hot Mess That Is U.S. Immigration Law

by michelleweber March 11, 2017October 19, 2022

Immigration lawyer Matt Cameron writes in The Baffler, laying bare the inequities, misconceptions, and plain messiness that characterize U.S. immigration law.

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