List of Migration and Immigration articles
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Palestinian schoolgirls and women attend a protest in the southern Gaza Strip refugee camp of Rafah on March 8, 2010. (Said Khatib/AFP/Getty Images) The Unintended Consequences of Trump’s Palestinian Budget Cuts
By cutting aid to Palestinian refugees, the United States is undermining stability in the entire region.
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French President Emmanuel Macron attends a ceremony at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, west of London on Jan. 18. (Ludovic Marin/AFP/Getty Images) Macron the Conqueror
France is back, thanks to a president committed to disrupting politics at home and abroad.
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President Donald Trump attends a luncheon with U.S. and African leaders at the 72nd United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 20, 2017 in New York. (Brendan Smialowski /AFP/Getty Images) African Ambassadors to Convene in Wake of Trump’s ‘Shithole’ Outburst
U.S. diplomats worry the president’s comments will set back relations. Others wonder why it took the “shithole” comment to get Washington to finally notice Africa.
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U.S. President Donald Trump delivers a speech on his National Security Strategy on Dec. 18, in Washington, D.C. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images) Two Cheers for Trump’s National Security Strategy
Its survey of the world is mostly accurate, but the discussion of domestic policy falls flat.
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President Donald Trump delivers a statement on Jerusalem from the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House on Dec. 6. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images) Trump Administration Blindsided Palestinian Leaders on Jerusalem Designation
U.S. officials failed to mention the impending recognition of the holy city as Israel's capital just days before Trump's announcement.
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President Donald Trump holds up a proclaimation that the U.S. government will formally recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel on Dec. 6, at the White House. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem Is Not a Disaster
But the Trump administration needs to walk a very fine line with Palestine and Arab states.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks during a press conference following a so-called "Diesel Summit" with mayors of large German cities in the chancellery in Berlin on Nov. 28, in order to look at ways of improving air quality. (John MacDougall/AFP/Getty Images) Edgar on Strategy (Part XI): Strategy, or slip-up? The Willkommen that was heard round the world
It was the invitation heard around the world. And maybe that’s the problem.
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A Syrian refugee family from Aleppo takes shelter during a rainy day on March 8, 2014 in Istanbul. (Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images) Germany Is Preparing to Send Refugees Back to Syria
Syria’s war isn’t over, but a growing number of German policymakers are trying to revoke asylum and send Syrians back home — against their will, if necessary.
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Members of the New York Immigration Coalition, recent immigrants, and activists rally outside of Trump Tower in New York on Nov. 6. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) U.S. Cities Want to Join U.N. Migration Talks That Trump Boycotted
Urban centers want a seat at the table, even if the White House doesn’t.
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President Donald Trump leaves the lecture after addressing the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters, September 19, 2017 in New York City. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Trump Boycotts U.N. Migration Talks
The White House’s ‘America First’ policymakers see little gain in setting the global rules for migration.
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Writer Mohsin Hamid during the Doha Tribeca Film Festival on Nov. 18, 2012. (Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images for Doha Film Institute) ‘Dishonesty Comes Through Omission’: An Interview With Mohsin Hamid
The Booker Prize nominee talks Trump, refugees, and truth.
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Refugees arriving from the Greek islands of Lesbos and Chios in 2016. (Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty Images) The Trump Administration Wants Refugees to Fit In or Stay Out
An obscure new policy would give priority to refugees who seem like they might “assimilate.”
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel greets US President Donald Trump prior to the start of the first working session of the G20 meeting in Hamburg, northern Germany, on July 7. Leaders of the world's top economies will gather from July 7 to 8, 2017 in Germany for likely the stormiest G20 summit in years, with disagreements ranging from wars to climate change and global trade. / AFP PHOTO / POOL / IAN LANGSDON (Photo credit should read IAN LANGSDON/AFP/Getty Images) Europe Slams Its Gates (Part Two)
Are the moral consequences of Europe’s increasingly hardline policy on African immigration outweighed by the political imperatives?
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STRALSUND, GERMANY - SEPTEMBER 16: A vandalized billboard showing German Chancellor and Christian Democrat (CDU) Angela Merkel stands on September 16, 2017 Stralsund, Germany. Merkel is seeking a fourth term in federal elections scheduled for September 24. She currently holds an approximate 16-point lead over her main rival, German Social Democrat (SPD) Martin Schulz. Both the German Greens Party and the Free Democrats (FDP) are hoping to position themselves to be part of the next coalition government. The right-wing, populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) will likely finish above the 5% election votes minimum and hence win seats in the Bundestag. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images) The Dam Will Hold. Until It Doesn’t.
Europe has managed to slow the flow of migrants, at least for now — but is undermining its most-cherished values in the process.
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WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 5: Demonstrators march during a demonstration in response to the Trump Administration's announcement that it would end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program on September 5, 2017 in Washington, DC. DACA, an immigration policy passed by former President Barack Obama, allows certain undocumented immigrants who arrived in the United States as minors to receive renewable two-year deferred action from deportation and eligibility fork a work permit. (Photo by Zach Gibson/Getty Images) Will Republicans End Up Fixing Immigration After All?
Trump took aim at the Obama-era DACA program. Now, reform-minded conservatives are scrambling to find their own immigration solutions.
