Study finds changes to gut microbiome begin as soon as migrants move to the US and continue to change over decades.
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More than two-thirds of Central American migrants will experience violence on their journey through Mexico, from robbery and extortion to rape. Caravans create safety in numbers.
Latinos are less likely than other Americans to vote in November, new polling shows. Here’s why Democrats shouldn’t expect a Latino blue wave to swing the midterms in their favor.
Trump has called Venezuela a ‘human tragedy’ and threatened invasion while quietly deporting and denying asylum to Venezuelan refugees. His anti-socialist rhetoric may make for good midterm politics.
How did governments get the power to limit people’s movements in the first place? A historian explains.
It’s more than just a slogan. For community organizers, ‘Abolish ICE’ represents the first step to a world without immigrant detention or prisons.
A 15-year-old fleeing violence in El Salvador came to the US in 1985. Her case set in motion a Supreme Court decision that would affect how authorities treat children in their custody for decades.
History shows that the US court system isn’t sympathetic to undocumented migrants when it comes to parental rights.
Camps of the 20th century were focused on resettlement. Today, the focus is on confining movement and deportation. What changed?
Central American youth are 10 times more likely to be murdered than children in the US. Child homicides in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador are rising even as other violence declines.
An immigration expert breaks through the alphabet soup of federal agencies responsible for enforcing immigration laws.
How city and state governments identify and keep records of suspected gang members can be problematic. Good data are essential to addressing violent crime across the US.
Public opinion data on immigration show support across parties and ideologies on a key immigration issue over time.
Leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a former Mexico City mayor and career outsider, won Mexico’s July 1 presidential election in a landslide. The US-Mexico relationship is about to change.
Mexico elects a new president on July 1. Frontrunner Andrés Manuel López Obrador says Trump’s immigration policy is ‘arrogant, racist and inhuman’ and that he won’t do the US’s ‘dirty work’ anymore.
The power of the mainstream media to put pressure US government policy should not be underrated.
When thousands fled violence in Haiti, the US military set up a refugee camp at Guantanamo. Most were sent back to Haiti, while hundreds remained trapped on the base under terrible conditions.
Trump’s executive order to end family separations at the border is too little too late, a human rights expert writes. Indefinitely detaining immigrants is breaking the law.
U.S. President Donald Trump may believe he’s contained the political damage of his policy to separate migrant children from their parents. But the psychological damage to children has only just begun.
It is still unhelpful and hyperbolic to compare the Trump administration with the Nazi regime. But we must be aware of similarities, too.
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