We speak with attorney and law professor Michael Kagan about the illogic of U.S. immigration law, the need for solidarity, and the prospects for reform.
Democrats can’t rely on changing demographics to guarantee majorities; American immigration history proves there is much more at play than race or ethnicity.
Our immigration system is fundamentally unjust. It has corrosive effects on everyone who participates in it, and it is only getting worse under Donald Trump.
It’s been one year since the El Paso massacre. In part two, we discuss immigration reform, and ask Bishop Mark Seitz about his vision for an anti-racist Church.
One consequence of Trump’s order to send federal immigration enforcers to Portland is that Americans will get a better sense of the unjust ways these agents operate.
Prisoners have been disproportionately harmed by the spread of coronavirus. Progressive district attorneys like Larry Krasner have taken the lead in responding.
Community organizing and activism are happening beyond traditional parish structures, generating vitality and purpose from which many parishes could stand to learn.
As our shambolic “wartime president” exploits genuine fears to advance his xenophobic agenda, Germany is offering the United States a lesson in liberal democracy.
The administration claims its ban of immigrants from African nations like Nigeria is related to national security. A more plausible explanation is racism.
The debate is not whether modern paganism is real, but where it lives, how it appears, and what it does. In contemporary politics, it's cruelty and violence.
Refugees and migrants encounter homesickness as they struggle to establish identities in unfamiliar, often unwelcoming territory. Three books show how they do it.
Fiction is hard. Nonfiction is hard for different reasons: the need to ensure accuracy, the risk of angering your subjects. These books succeed brilliantly.
A new show at the ICA in Boston addresses the global migration crisis by posing a simple question: what is a home? And why do more than 60 million people lack one?
Thousands of migrants are now camping along the border in Ciudad Juárez, enduring squalid conditions as they await responses from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
We talk to Benjamin Francis-Fallon about his new book, The Rise of the Latino Vote. And the Commonweal staff speaks about what they witnessed at the border in El Paso, Texas.
The sisters I met along the border know well the intractability of poverty, disease, and violence. That does not keep them from working to relieve them.
We need a truly international reckoning with the fact of mass migration, one in which wealthy countries actually confront climate change and food insecurity.
A new federal rule redefines who is likely to become a “public charge,” and is therefore ineligible for citizenship. Few remember the rule’s anti-Catholic roots.
Don’t fall for the deflections of those claiming to seek “middle ground” on gun control and white nationalism. There is only one response: immediate condemnation.
A timely new novel from Oscar Cásares captures not only the vulnerability of newly arriving immigrants, but also the anxiety of simply trying to acclimate.
A protest outside a Texas detention center featured speeches and songs, but also revealed something more: God’s commitment to accompany those making their way north.
Progressive religious activists, including Catholic sisters, staged a sit-in at the Capitol, forming a human cross to protest Trump’s cruel treatment of migrants.
Why did so many descendants of Ellis Island immigrants vote for a president whose speech echoes 1920s eugenicists? A new book traces the rise of ‘scientific’ racism.
The retrial of humanitarian border activist Scott Warren raises frightening concerns for all who would help migrants. A conviction would set a dangerous precedent.
The first Democratic debates featured a flawed format. The progressive vision of Sanders and Warren set the tone, but Harris, Buttigieg, and Castro also stood out.
