From Arizona to Amsterdam, immigration remains one of the most contentious and divisive debates for Americans and Europeans alike.
How We See Immigration — and Why We’re Wrong
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Joel Stein on Immigration, New Jersey’s Indian Influx
Statement Appended: July 2, 2010I am very much in favor of immigration everywhere in the U.S. except Edison, N.J.
How the G-Man Got His Groove Back
FBI Director Bob Mueller glanced at the black chronograph he wears Marine-style, the face inside his wrist. It was 7:38 a.m
TIME Forum: This Is A Battle For America’s Identity
BALDEMAR VELASQUEZ President, Farm Labor Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO The key problem is making felons out of everyone who is here without documents. What people miss is that includes 1.6 million children
Four E.U. Nations Stoke Fears of an Immigrant Flood
Immigration has always been a contentious issue in Europe. But these days, with enduring economic turmoil further fueling concerns over rising unemployment, European nations are especially sensitive about the prospect of foreigners taking jobs away from their citizens.
Arizona: GOP Bill May Target Illegal Immigrants’ Kids
Anchor babies isn’t a very endearing term, but in Arizona those are the words being used to tag children born in the U.S.
Should They Stay Or Should They Go?
You wouldn’t think the man who made his mark in Washington as the knight-errant of campaign-finance reform and whose name is rarely written without the word maverick attached would ever meet a cause he deemed hopeless. But that was pretty much where Arizona Senator John McCain was a couple of weeks ago in his quest to transform the nation’s immigration laws and set on the path to becoming citizens the estimated 11 million people who are here illegally
Did a Mother Lose Her Child Because of a Lack of English?
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Berets and Baguettes? France Rethinks Its National Identity
For decades, the French considered it taboo to question whether immigration and foreign influences were diluting France’s social and cultural character. Indeed, the topic was considered so toxic that no one in France besides extreme-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen would even take it up in public
Detained immigrant children face legal maze in U.S.
When “Marta” was 12, she entered the United States illegally, hoping to join her mother, who had left her in Central America years ago to search for work. Three years later she was sitting in immigration detention by herself waiting to be deported back home to her grandmother, who was dying of cancer