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On Incentives

January 18, 2022 Filed Under: Articles

Budget reconciliation is not going to include a significant legalization component. It may include other immigration measures. But Dreamers, TPS recipients and farmworkers will remain in limbo. Which means everyone is angry at everyone.

The far left is angry at the left. The left is deeply suspicious of the right. The right is politically paralyzed by the far right. And, well, …

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A Painting

January 13, 2022 Filed Under: Articles

Route 29 stretches from Pensacola, Florida, to the suburbs of Baltimore, Maryland. 

In Virginia, where parts of it are named the Lee Highway (for General Robert E. Lee), it travels alongside rolling hayfields, farmhouses, and vineyards; the Blue Ridge Mountains of the Shenandoah National Park looming in the background. Namesakes aside, it is a beautiful stretch of …

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Why do they come here?

January 5, 2022 Filed Under: Articles

That morning was like almost any other morning. 

Sure. After four years of Trump, there was a new Congress. And a new president was on the way. These felt new and good. Very good. 

But I also knew Trump was holding a big rally near the White House that day. It was going to be tense.

Even that felt normal. It was Trump being Trump. One last rant before he …

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Normal People Read the Sports Page

December 23, 2021 Filed Under: Articles

Let’s talk about the news. More specifically, about how the news shapes perception. 

Even more specifically, how immigration news shapes our understanding of immigration. What to be inspired by. What to be afraid of. 

So much so that the news creates a perception that overpowers our lived experience. 

In his 2017 …

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The Deadly Reality of Crossing Borders

December 18, 2021 Filed Under: Articles

Governments are squabbling. Cartels are winning. Migrants are dying.

When it comes to migration, we are setting all the wrong records.

On November 24, in “the worst migrant tragedy in the English Channel in years,” over two dozen migrants died while trying to cross from France to Britain.

In Central America, smugglers crammed more than 160 migrants into a …

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