Immigrants

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In 2012, Little Village residents helped shut down a coal plant. Now, a redevelopment company plans to build a distribution center in its place, bringing more dirty trucks to the neighborhood.

• By Sophie Yeo

They founded California's first commercial abalone fisheries, but after a few short decades, they were forced out by institutional racism. Let's not repeat the same mistakes with current and future immigrants.

• By Todd Braje

Wilbur Ross ignored many Census Bureau officials' warnings and will include a question about citizenship status in the census for the first time since 1950.

• By Justin Elliott

More than one in five Houstonians don't speak English very well. When it comes to recent immigrants, community organizations are critical to disaster response.

• By Francie Diep

If letters written by Lee Francis Cissna are any guide, he's poised to dismantle Obama-era policies like a humanitarian program for Central American children.

• By Marcelo Rochabrun

Only a tiny percentage of detained immigrants have attorneys, leaving even those with solid cases to stay in the United States to fend for themselves.

• By Patrick G. Lee

Immigration has become a state issue, and different states handle it very differently.

• By Francie Diep

Would you notice a day without Latinos? Most definitely.

• By Francie Diep

There are hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese families that immigrated to the United States after the Vietnam War, but Lana and Nam Luu's stands out.

• By Francie Diep

The fights women of color face for reproductive rights remain sidelined (and sometimes, made invisible) in what is now the establishment story: There is Roe, and everything after.

• By Melissa Gira Grant

Second generation South Asians in London are well on their way to becoming W.E.I.R.D.

• By Tom Jacobs

It’s built on lies and paranoia—let’s debunk the Republicans’ three central immigration myths.

• By Ana Aparicio

Israeli researchers suggest it may be inciting an anti-Muslim backlash.

• By Tom Jacobs

In Europe, women are valued for their fertility, not productivity.

• By Jim Russell

In Britain, Bangladeshis fare better than Pakistanis. The intensity of inbreeding homophily explains the difference.

• By Jim Russell

While the rest of the world is catching up, the United States is still the leader in quality science research—thanks to people from other countries.

• By Michael White

As immigrants to the United States adjust to life in a new country, their diets and habits start to resemble those of the native-born—and that's not a good thing.

• By Vanessa Hua

If you're looking for a two-parent, man-and-wife, never-divorced kind of family, head to one of those citizenship ceremonies.

• By Michael Todd