Immigration

In reminding us of America's aspirational values – ones a majority of the country supports – these directives are a first step toward healing.

An under-reported policy change has left asylum-seekers in inhumane detention conditions, unable to access legal counsel. The Biden administration must end the policy.

The Biden administration will need to move quickly to avoid further devastation in Tigray.

Biden's asylum executive orders are laudable in many respects, but more work is needed to fix an asylum system that was broken well before Trump took office.

Although the Muslim travel ban has now been consigned to the dustbin of history, it is worth reflecting how the Supreme Court’s decision already looks in retrospect.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee's Republicans and Democrats alike were mostly welcoming as they probed his approach to the world's trouble spots.

Our statutes improperly give U.S. government officials broad discretion to deny asylum even to those who are determined by the government to face persecution in their home countries.

The abuses they faced under the Trump administration's immigration policy echo those revealed in a new Human Rights Watch investigation.

Whereas Australia has sought to put asylum seekers out of sight and out of mind by moving them offshore, it has simultaneously created another cohort of refugees who are stuck…

There is a unique opportunity for new U.S. leadership to employ a rights framework both to remedy abuses and lock in collaboration on building a new migration policy architecture…

Refugee crises often seem to emerge out of nowhere. All of a sudden, people are streaming across borders, making the excruciating choice that is no choice at all: to flee home…

Whether informally quarantined in camps or formally confined in overcrowded detention centers, refugees and migrants in detention are extraordinarily vulnerable in a pandemic.…