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Curated news resources about immigration and related topics.
2024 News
The border needs fixing, but not because migrants are dangerous: Most immigrants, authorized and unauthorized alike, are more law-abiding than native-born Americans.
3/31/2024How the imagery of White women victims is being used to stoke anti-immigrant fear
3/27/2024Baltimore Key Bridge Collapses, Killing Six Immigrant Workers Who Had No Access to Emergency Warnings
3/27/2024Missing, presumed dead workers from Key Bridge weren’t informed of mayday call
3/27/2024Immigrant families on edge amid uncertainty over new Texas law
3/21/2024Martha’s Vineyard officials condemn DeSantis remarks on sending more migrants but say they’d be ready to respond
3/21/2024Fictions about the Forces Driving Migration
3/20/2024Racism derails public meetings on migrants, housing law in Mass
3/19/2024New immigration estimates help make sense of the pace of employment
3/7/2024An undocumented immigrant was arrested for allegedly killing a college student. Now Latinos are facing harassment and threats. When a white person commits a crime, only the accused is judged. But when the suspect is a person of color, people of color are treated as proxy suspects
3/5/2024Plight of migrant laborers killed, held hostage in Middle East exposes Israel’s reliance on overseas workforce
3/5/2024Four reasons the immigration crisis isn’t going away
2/29/2024Trump and allies plotting militarized mass deportations, detention camps
2/21/2024Fictions about the Forces Driving Migration
2/21/2024U.S. Policies Punish Refugees at the Border
2/20/2024Worried about immigrants overwhelming the U.S.? Take our quiz
2/19/2024Barbed Wire
2/16/2024Democrats Are Helping Make the US Border Look More and More Like Gaza
2/15/2024Birth of A National Immigration Policy
2/15/2024They Came Here for a New Life. Now They’re Trapped in O’Hare
2/10/2024Immigration to Boost US GDP by $7 Trillion Over Decade, CBO Says
2/7/2024Immigrants Make America Stronger and Richer
2/5/2024GOP Congressman Suggests 'Pinochet Air' Death Flights for Migrants
2/2/2024Invisible Lives: Meet Canada’s Undocumented Kids
2/2/2024First They Came For the Immigrants
1/31/2024The historically familiar subtext to fears about immigrants to the U.S.
1/30/2024“Do I have to come here injured or dead?”
1/28/2024But who can hear you in the desert -part of Migrating and Vanishing series
1/24/2024Migrant Families Expelled from NYC Hotel After Mayor Adams Issues New 60-Day Shelter Limit
1/10/2024Asylum seekers faced racist severe abuse in ICE detention under Trump, suit says
1/2/2024Why a Greenwich teen is sending hundreds of letters to kids detained in immigration shelters in Texas
1/1/2024Attribution
The resource list was compiled by Lynn Ditchfield with contributions from:
- Anita Botti
- Cheri Cluff
- Michael Ditchfield**
- Victoria Dryfoos
- Camila Fernandez
- Justen Foster
- Shari Geistfeld**
- Linda Graham
- Marissa A. Gutierrez-Vicario
- Julie Huff**
- Naomi Ostwald Kawamura
- Jenik Munafo Khelalfa
- Roslyn Sue Le Mesurier
- Kendra Mills
- Vivian Maria Poey
- Nadia Sahila
- Jane Sampaio
- Guy Michel Telemanque
- Rachel Toon
- Others
* - especially informative content
** - special thanks
Funds to help support granted in part by:
- Mass Cultural Council (MVLCC)
- Martha’s Vineyard Vision Fellowship