If there is anything as American as apple pie, it would be mass deportations. As a nation, we have often leaned into this ...

In 1876, France gifted the Statue of Liberty to the United States as a monument to republican liberty. Conceived by French abolitionist Édouard de Laboulaye and built by artist Frédéric Auguste ...

Immigrants have historically strengthened the U.S., embodying the American dream and contributing to communities and businesses. Immigrant families typically assimilate within three generations, ...

In my family, tales of anti-Chinese racism are passed from one generation to the next. A century ago, my great-grandparents, Wallace and Tungert Chong, were forced to get special documentation — visas ...

A 1920 photograph of attendees at the Silver Jubilee Banquet of the Association of Poles in America Banquet. It’s easy to think about immigration in the short term. News outlets report that border ...

During the Great Depression, politicians struggling to respond to the economic crisis needed a scapegoat, and racialized ...

Americans overwhelmingly favor strong borders, legal immigration, and the deportation of illegal aliens. Yet, fewer than half ...

President Donald Trump’s vow to wage the biggest domestic deportation program in American history – expelling a million people a year – is one of his signature goals. In its own words, US Customs and ...

Japanese Americans are seeing parallels between the government’s incarceration of their families during World War II and the current detention of Latinos. By Jill Cowan Jill Cowan grew up in the ...

Recently, I took a few months away from doing “Memo from the Middle” to write a book about the 50 years I spent with the Korean woman who is my wife. While writing a memoir in far-off places like ...

Election results are always subject to wild, often willful, overinterpretation. In a “we the people” society, the consent of the governed is supposed to be essential, but it often becomes more than ...