President Biden plans to visit Nevada and Arizona this week to champion his economic policies and attack Republicans on immigration and abortion as he seeks to shore up a crucial but wavering Latino electorate in the two battleground states. Mr. Biden will begin his trip on Tuesday in Reno, Nev., where he plans to promote […]
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Want to Know What Trump Will Do? Listen to What He Says.
One of the most enduring bits of folk wisdom about American politics is the notion that a promise made on the campaign trail is almost never a promise kept. The only thing you can count on from a politician, and especially a presidential candidate, is that you can’t count on anything. This isn’t actually true. […]
Read MoreHow Anti-Immigrant Anger Has Divided a Small Irish Town
On a cold January afternoon in Roscrea, a market town of around 5,500 people in rural Ireland, news began to spread that the town’s only remaining hotel would close temporarily — to provide housing for 160 asylum seekers. Almost immediately, speculation and anger began to swirl online. Posts to a local Facebook group blamed the […]
Read MoreSupreme Court to Weigh In on Texas Immigration Law
The Supreme Court on Monday again delayed acting on a request from the Biden administration to block a new Texas law empowering state and local police officers to arrest migrants who cross from Mexico without authorization. The law remains suspended in the meantime. Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., the member of the court who oversees […]
Read MoreChicago Begins Evicting Migrants From Shelters, Citing Strain on Resources
Chicago officials on Sunday began evicting some migrants from shelters, joining other cities that have made similar moves to ease pressure on overstretched resources. The process is starting gradually. Out of the nearly 11,000 migrants living in 23 homeless shelters in Chicago, according to the Office of Emergency Management and Communications, a fraction — 34 […]
Read MoreWill Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum, a Jewish Woman, Blaze a Trail or Follow One?
Mexico’s presidential campaign is well underway and if the polls are to be believed, Claudia Sheinbaum, a physicist and candidate of the left-leaning ruling Morena party, could be the country’s next president. Ms. Sheinbaum, who is of Jewish descent, holds a staggering 30 percentage point lead over Xóchitl Gálvez, a tech entrepreneur of Indigenous descent. […]
Read MoreA Retiree in California Is Teaching Afghan Women How to Drive
Bibifatima Akhundzada wove a white Chevy Spark through downtown Modesto, Calif., on a recent morning, practicing turns, braking and navigating intersections. “Go, go, go” said her driving instructor, as she slowed down through an open intersection. “Don’t stop. Don’t stop.” Her teacher was Gil Howard, an 82-year-old retired professor who happened upon a second career […]
Read MoreAnkle Monitors and Curfews: Inside Biden’s New Tracking System for Migrant Families
On a recent evening in California, a woman named Sandra was at a birthday party with her 15-year-old son when she glanced at the clock. She started to panic: It was after 10 p.m. She had less than an hour to get home in time for an 11 p.m. curfew set by U.S. immigration authorities, […]
Read MoreNYC Will No Longer Shelter Migrant Adults After 30 Days
New York’s longstanding legal obligation to provide shelter to homeless people will be scaled back significantly under a settlement agreement announced on Friday that was reached amid the city’s continuing struggle to house thousands of migrants. To ease the burden on the city’s shelter system, adult migrants will be allowed to stay in shelters for […]
Read MoreThey Helped a Family Facing Discrimination 80 Years Ago. Now They’re Being Celebrated.
Ron Dong was only 2 years old when his Chinese American parents moved to Coronado, Calif., a change that had been possible only because of a Black couple who defied anti-Asian segregation to rent a house to his family. More than 80 years later, Ron and his younger brother, Lloyd Dong Jr., 81, are carrying […]
Read MoreHow Biden Can Out-Populist the Populist
As Democrats puzzle over how President Biden can be so unpopular, it’s worth looking at the global context — because he’s actually doing better than most Western leaders. In the Morning Consult approval ratings for global leaders, Biden polls better than leaders in Canada, Britain, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Ireland, Sweden, Austria, the Netherlands, Norway, France […]
Read MoreRead Your Way Through the San Francisco Bay Area
Read Your Way Around the World is a series exploring the globe through books. The San Francisco Bay Area is anything but a monoculture. Go to San Francisco, hop across the Bay Bridge into Oakland, then head up into Richmond or down to Hayward, and the landscape around you — the people, the food, the […]
Read MoreJudge Upholds Biden Program Giving Some Immigrants Short-Term Legal Status
A federal judge on Friday allowed the Biden administration to keep in place a program that officials have used to give temporary legal status to some citizens of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. The decision is a notable victory for the White House, which has faced criticism on immigration policy and has used the temporary […]
Read MoreJudge to Review Prince Harry’s Visa Papers in Dispute Over Release
A federal judge has ordered the Department of Homeland Security to submit documents related to Prince Harry’s visa for the court to review after the department refused to release them to the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, under the Freedom of Information Act. The Heritage Foundation has sued the department, contending that it has […]
Read MoreFact-Checking Donald Trump’s Super Tuesday Speech
Former President Donald J. Trump moved another step closer to becoming the 2024 Republican nominee for president Tuesday, sweeping up delegates and prompting his last remaining rival, Nikki Haley, to suspend her campaign. The results all but guarantee a November rematch against President Biden. But in his 20-minute victory remarks, which offered a grim view […]
Read MoreThe Chinese Immigrants Making Their Way to New York City
When busloads of migrants from Venezuela and Latin America started turning up on New York City streets in 2022, it spurred a crisis that has overwhelmed city shelters and incited protests over immigration policies. And while Mayor Eric Adams and city leaders have sought to slow the pace of new arrivals, there has been another, […]
Read MoreThe Biggest Issue on Americans’ Minds Is Also a Tough One to Agree On
I don’t know how to make sense of it. It just hurts my heart. It should not be that hard. Americans have argued about immigration for decades, often with anger, fear and racial resentment. But if the debate stands out today, it is for another sentiment coursing through the conversation: exhaustion. Decades of neglect and […]
Read MoreArizona Governor Vetoes Bill Allowing Police to Arrest Migrants
Gov. Katie Hobbs of Arizona vetoed a bill on Monday that would have authorized the state police to arrest undocumented immigrants. It was the first veto of the year from Ms. Hobbs, a Democrat who shot down a record number of bills passed by Arizona’s Republican-controlled Legislature in 2023 dealing with abortion, elections, L.G.B.T.Q. rights […]
Read MoreJudge Upholds Parts of Arizona Law Requiring Voters to Prove Citizenship
Republicans and Democrats alike claimed victory days after a federal judge issued a mixed decision in Arizona’s ongoing battles over voting rights and public trust in elections, upholding requirements for voters to prove their citizenship but limiting the ways that voters could be disqualified. The decision, issued last Thursday, dealt with two voting laws passed […]
Read MoreRacial Profiling in Japan Is Prevalent but Unseen, Some Residents Say
It’s not that there is anything bad about your hair, the police officer politely explained to the young Black man as commuters streamed past in Tokyo Station. It’s just that, based on his experience, people with dreadlocks were more likely to possess drugs. Alonzo Omotegawa’s video of his 2021 stop and search led to debates […]
Read MoreHondurans Watch Intently As Former President Faces Trial in New York
In the clamor of the New York City news cycle, the criminal case currently playing out in Lower Manhattan against former President Juan Orlando Hernández of Honduras hardly registers. To Hondurans, it is a rare chance for national justice. The prosecution of Mr. Hernández in Federal District Court on charges of conspiracy to import narcotics […]
Read MoreBiden Challenges Trump to ‘Join Me’ in Tightening U.S.-Mexico Border
President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump made dueling visits to the U.S.-Mexico border on Thursday, with Mr. Biden challenging his predecessor to “join me” in securing the country’s southern frontier and Mr. Trump blaming the president for lawlessness at the border. The remarks came at a moment of political peril for Mr. Biden, […]
Read MoreThe U.S. Economy Is Surpassing Expectations. Immigration Is One Reason.
The U.S. economic recovery from the pandemic has been stronger and more durable than many experts had expected, and a rebound in immigration is a big reason. A resumption in visa processing in 2021 and 2022 jump-started employment, allowing foreign-born workers to fill some holes in the labor force that persisted across industries and locations […]
Read MoreFederal Judge Blocks Sweeping Texas Immigration Law SB4
A federal court in Austin on Thursday blocked a Texas law that would allow state and local police officers to arrest migrants who cross from Mexico without authorization, siding with the federal government in a legal showdown over immigration enforcement. The ruling, by Judge David A. Ezra of the Western District of Texas, was a […]
Read MoreFact-Checking Trump and Haley’s War of Words
Follow for live updates on the South Carolina Republican primary. As voters in South Carolina prepare to take to the polls on Saturday, Nikki Haley has vowed to continue challenging former President Donald J. Trump for the Republican nomination — to the dismay of her onetime boss. In recent weeks, Mr. Trump and Ms. Haley, […]
Read MoreDemocrats Hope the Road to House Control Starts in Long Island
Within hours of Tom Suozzi’s decisive victory in a House special election in New York last week, the optimistic pronouncements from Democrats began rolling in. Gov. Kathy Hochul vowed that her party’s path to regaining control of the House of Representatives “flows through New York.” And the House minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries of Brooklyn, took […]
Read MoreIn Eagle Pass, Texas, a Round of ‘Combat Golf’
At the center of a fierce legal battle over immigration enforcement lies a city park along the border in Eagle Pass, Texas. In January, Gov. Greg Abbott directed National Guard troops to take over the park, known as Shelby Park, to intercept migrants crossing the Rio Grande from Mexico. Now, at a place where residents […]
Read More‘Migrant Crime Wave’ Not Supported by Data, Despite High-Profile Cases
In the past month, the New York Police Department has described alarming crimes involving young men living in the city’s migrant shelters. A 15-year-old boy, the police said, shot at an officer in Times Square and hit a tourist. Two officers were kicked and punched on West 42nd Street. A Venezuelan man oversaw a ring […]
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