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A pregnant woman waits for an appointment outside the Nuestra Senora de la Altagracia Maternity Hospital in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, in November 2021. Haitian officials and activists say the government is violating laws by deporting pregnant women. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

For Haitian migrants in the Dominican Republic, ‘reproduction is like a death sentence’

The government of the Dominican Republic is raiding maternity wards and deporting Haitian women before or after they’ve given birth. More than 3,000 have been deported since April 10.
The Mexican-American community in southwest Detroit held a rally in March 2025, asking ICE to leave the immigrant community alone. Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Detroit’s population grew in 2023, 2024 − a strategy to welcome immigrants helps explain the turnaround from decades of population decline

Attracting immigrants is key to growing and maintaining a more resilient economy in former industrial cities like Detroit.
A Kinney County sheriff’s deputy arrests an undocumented immigrant who was pulled over in March 2023 in Brackettville, Texas. Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Surge of ICE agreements with local police aim to increase deportations, but many police forces have found they undermine public safety

History shows that building the trust of immigrants is an effective tactic in combating local crime and making entire communities safer.
President Donald Trump shows printed news articles during a meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa at the White House on May 21, 2025. Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Trump’s white genocide claims about South Africa have deep roots in American history

Trump’s claims of a white genocide happening in South Africa have been debunked by fact-checkers. But this is still the rationale for bringing white South African people to the US as refugees.
While sanctuary policies for immigrants have grown in the U.S. since the 1980s, the Trump administration is the first to challenge them. Marcos Silva/iStock/Getty Images Plus

Sanctuary cities can’t protect people from ICE immigration raids − but they don’t actually violate federal law

There’s no one set legal definition for sanctuary cities and other places with these policies. But they often limit local coordination with federal immigration authorities.
More than 23,000 French people are studying in Canada, and the number is growing rapidly. What motivates French citizens, and what factors influence their post-study trajectories? (Shutterstock)

Why French students are choosing Canada, not the United States, for their North American adventure

There are five times more French students studying in Canadian universities today than 20 years ago. A study reveals the factors that influence their choices.
U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen, right, meets with Kilmar Abrego Garcia in San Salvador, El Salvador, on April 17, 2025. Photo by Sen. Van Hollen's office via Getty Images

Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s wrongful deportation case is more about individual rights than the Trump administration’s foreign policy

The Trump administration claims that judges’ orders in the cases of immigrants deported to a prison in El Salvador intrude on the president’s right to conduct foreign policy.

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