By Matthew FeeneyDirector, Project in Emerging TechnologiesCATO Institute Originally published by CATO Institute, 11.01.2018, under the terms...
Immigration
The border wall, drug smuggling, and lessons for immigration policy. Originally published by CATO Institute, 12.19.2018, under...
Migrants found both opportunity and hardship in modernizing California. Introduction In the half-century between the Civil War...
Comprehensive immigration reform has eluded Congress for years, moving controversial policy decisions to presidents and courts. By...
A look at Sicily, where political restrictions on immigration are taking their toll on local residents as...
A sculpture in St. Peter’s Square to commemorate the travails and hopes of displaced people through human...
Will we allow the most hateful and uncaring among us to write our history, or will we...
Following the Red Scare of 1919, widespread fear of radicalism fueled anti-foreign sentiment and exclusionist demands. Introduction...
Sephardic, German, and Eastern European immigrants each contributed to the formation of American Jewry. By Dr. Joellyn...
Poverty and violence are often cited as the reasons people emigrate from Central America, but factors such...
They were all about family and work. “And so you know the difficulty in becoming an American....
What happens in El Norte doesn’t stay in El Norte. By Rebecca Gordon It’s hard to believe...
Immigration has been an important element of U.S. economic and cultural vitality since the country’s founding. This...
City founders expected an outpost of New England. What they created was a paragon of immigrant civic...
What it was like at the main gateway to the U.S. in the early 20th century. Immigrants...
In the fields of south Texas Mexican women work long hours in dangerous conditions under the ever-present...
Communities like mine, in small-town Michigan, are told to blame immigrants when unchecked capitalism hurts us. We...
How siblings torn between two sides of the Pacific forged identities in the aftermath of war. I...
If we’re cowardly, we must steel ourselves; if we’re tired, we must wake ourselves; if we’re paralyzed,...
Exploring the subject of immigration in U.S. history with particular attention to the two and a half...
While Congress stalls, you can take other kinds of actions to help immigrants in transition, in detention,...
Maybe, maybe not, but it certainly didn’t do what it’s authors intended. Introduction For as long as...
A law designed to repair flaws in the fabric of American justice also created new ones. At...
In 1911, the Dillingham Commission set a half-century precedent for screening out ‘undesirable’ newcomers. The Dillingham Commission...
Fort Sill, a military base in Oklahoma, will soon house 1,400 Central American children, the Trump administration...
Done right, aid fosters greater stability and boosts the economy. That reduces incentives to move away. President...
Presuming that immigration was a boon to national security, U.S. borders remained mostly open for the first...
Examining different time periods and ethnic groups to document the history of a city where immigrants have...
The United Constitutional Patriots are just one in a long line of anti-immigrant groups who try to...
After capturing Constantinople in 1204, the Fourth Crusaders established several states in former Byzantine territory. Starting from...