In the summer of 2016 while covering Trump’s so-called illegal immigration speech in Phoenix, I spoke to an older woman in a wheelchair from Chicago. She told me in an even tone that Hispanics and immigrants come to the ...
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Human migration is a pressing public health issue, report says
Most migrants have a mortality advantage, or greater life expectancy, than people in their host countries, according to the new research. This was true for the majority of diseases. ...
Immigration’s Border-Enforcement Myth
We’ve been here before. The last major immigration reform bill, the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, which was signed by President Ronald Reagan, legalized nearly three million undocumented immigrants in excha ...
Trump Administration Highlights Violence Against Women — To Blame Immigrants
More than 1,000 U.S. women are killed by their husbands, boyfriends or former partners each year. But that’s not the number we should pay attention to, according to the Trump administration. Americans, the administration ...
The biggest anti-immigration lie of them all
In other words, by scaring Americans that our borders are “open” (or that immigration reformers want “open borders”), opponents of immigration are pulling the wool over the eyes of the public and policymakers, just as th ...
No, Undocumented Immigrants Aren’t Stealing Your Benefits
But they DO help pay for yours. ...
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