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Vox's coverage of immigration policy: from DACA to Trump's proposed border wall and more.

The 9 worst court decisions since Trump remade the federal judiciary

By Ian Millhiser

America’s misunderstood border crisis, in 8 charts

By Nicole Narea

The UK’s controversial Rwanda deportation plan, explained

By Ellen Ioanes

The very short Mayorkas impeachment trial, explained

By Li Zhou

Chicago’s inhumane migrant evictions are a symptom of a bigger problem

By Li Zhou

The Supreme Court’s confusing new border decision, explained

By Ian Millhiser

The Supreme Court may let Texas get away with a totally unconstitutional deportation law

By Ian Millhiser

Republicans’ voter suppression obsession may end up helping ... Democrats?

By Eric Levitz

America has a good model for how to handle immigration: America

By Abdallah Fayyad

Trump’s immigration policies are his old ones — but worse

By Li Zhou

How NIMBYs are helping to turn the public against immigrants

By Eric Levitz

Republicans’ baseless Mayorkas impeachment sets a disturbing precedent

By Li Zhou

Cities have always been havens for immigrants. So why are they struggling now?

By Abdallah Fayyad

Republicans’ humiliating failed impeachment of Alejandro Mayorkas, explained

By Li Zhou

What’s really going on at the border, explained

By Nicole Narea

Democrats are trying to pass a right-wing border bill, but the GOP won’t let them

By Nicole Narea

The legal fight over whether Texas can seize control of the border, explained

By Ian Millhiser

The Supreme Court says no, Texas can’t use razor wire to restrain federal agents

By Ian Millhiser

Biden weighs a “shocking” revival of Trump’s immigration agenda

By Nicole Narea

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Lant Pritchett wants rich countries to let the people come

By Dylan Matthews

How Biden ended up building part of Trump’s border wall

By Nicole Narea

New York City’s not-so-sudden migrant surge, explained

By Fabiola Cineas

The fate of hundreds of thousands of immigrants is caught in an endless court fight

By Li Zhou

An act of Congress could grant legal status to thousands of Afghan allies. What’s the holdup?

By Jen Kirby

NYC is struggling to help asylum seekers. Here’s why.

By Ellen Ioanes

A deadly shipwreck illustrates the tragedy behind Europe’s migration policies

By Li Zhou and Jen Kirby

Biden is taking Texas to court over its floating border barrier

By Nicole Narea

What the Dutch parliament collapse reveals about European migration

By Ellen Ioanes

Florida’s new immigration law previews a DeSantis presidency

By Christian Paz

DeSantis keeps looking like a Trump copycat

By Nicole Narea

The Supreme Court may be running out of patience for Trump’s worst judges

By Ian Millhiser

A guide to Ron DeSantis’s most extreme policies in Florida

By Nicole Narea and Li Zhou

Why immigration policy is so inhumane

By Kelsey Piper

Ron DeSantis’s immigration law is already leading to worker shortages

By Christian Paz

9 questions about Biden’s border policy, answered

By Nicole Narea

Title 42 is over. Immigration policy is still broken.

By Ellen Ioanes

The seismic consequences of ending Title 42

By Nicole Narea

Why Biden is deploying more troops to the southern border

By Nicole Narea

Why so many top Republicans want to go to war in Mexico

By Zack Beauchamp

Are 8 billion people too many — or too few? 

By Bryan Walsh

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