I showed the 1903 Edison film Emigrants Landing at Ellis Island for my students the other day and realized I had never put it up here. Just watching the 2 minutes of immigrants entering America is wor
Texas wins in the national case for cruelty. See, what happens if you are undocumented and need an abortion? Either way, the horrible people in Texas win and the regular people lose. Alanna Vagianos e
If you haven’t seen the footage of CBP agents riding herd on Haitian migrants on the Texas-Mexico border, you need to. This is a national shame, one of the worst incidents of racist violence by
Now this is a take I can get behind. Washingtonians love to complain about taxation without representation. But for me and my fellow noncitizens, it is a fact of political life that we submit to unque
There’s so much about the Trump administration that was utterly despicable. But close to the top was Herr Miller’s crusade to deport undocumented veterans of the U.S. military. Any conceiv
This remarkable Alice Guy Blaché film from 1912, Making an American Citizen, is a story in four parts. It shows an eastern European peasant and his wife becoming Americans. In each of the four parts,
Good news here! The number of deportations carried out by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement last month fell to the lowest monthly level on record, a drop that comes as illegal border crossings
In another sign of Biden’s indifference to immigration as an issue, he has not revoked Trump’s use of public health measures as a reason for mass deportation. President Joe Biden said duri