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    • Monday, 25 September, 2023
      Oren Cass
      US Republicans could finally win the argument on immigration

      Illegal border crossings have quadrupled since Joe Biden became president

      Asylum seekers in New York. More than 100,000 migrants have arrived in the city over the past year
    • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
      Cross-border cargo trains disrupted as US strains to contain migrant rush

      Wave of crossings via Mexico puts pressure on authorities

    • Thursday, 10 August, 2023
      News in-depth
      New Yorkers’ compassion put to the test by migrant crisis

      Influx of asylum seekers poses challenge for a city with a liberal self-image and a legal obligation to provide shelter

      People gather last week outside the Roosevelt Hotel in central Manhattan, New York
    • Monday, 24 July, 2023
      US politics & policy
      Biden administration sues Texas over floating border barrier

      State will ‘see you in court’, governor Greg Abbott tells White House in migration stand-off

      Migrants, including children, some carried on the backs of adults, cross the Rio Grande river near Texas’s floating border
    • Sunday, 23 July, 2023
      Global migration
      Domicile: amid migrant crisis, nations woo footloose rich Premium content

      The prizes for countries hosting the wealthy are higher consumption, employment and investment

      Sydney Opera House and the harbour bridge seen over rooftops
    • Tuesday, 16 May, 2023
      News in-depth
      US executives call for immigration reform to staff manufacturing boom

      Clean energy and chip companies say they need influx of foreign labour for Biden’s re-industrialisation effort

      Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing’s facility under construction in Phoenix, Arizona
    • Sunday, 14 May, 2023
      Biden official says border crossings down by half since Covid rule expired

      Republicans had warned of a surge of asylum seekers as Title 42 restrictions were lifted

    • Friday, 12 May, 2023
      FT Swamp Notes
      The pendulum of immigration politics Premium content

      Turning all the controls off risks a stronger populist backlash

      Migrants wait to be processed by US Border Patrol officers after they crossed in the US illegally, in Yuma, Arizona
    • Thursday, 11 May, 2023
      News in-depth
      US and Mexico braced for border ‘chaos’ with end of Title 42 migration rule

      Expiration of pandemic-era immigration restrictions threatens to exacerbate a crisis that could last weeks

      Immigrants stand in line as they are processed by US Border Patrol agents
    • Monday, 8 May, 2023
      Gideon Rachman
      The US and Europe fear a new refugee crisis

      Pressure on politicians to respond is huge, but there are no quick solutions

      An illustration of images of people’s faces from around the world
    • Friday, 5 May, 2023
      Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch
      Progressives are winning the immigration debate — but it doesn’t feel like it

      In the west, increased openness to diversity may be a direct reaction to populism

      FT montage of people of different ethnicities superimposed over a bar chart
    • Monday, 17 April, 2023
      Rana Foroohar
      Immigration is back in the US

      The return of migrant dynamism could mean good things for American growth and the fight against inflation

      Illustration of a man and woman pulling suitcases and a child with a backpack walking against a backdrop of stylised skyscrapers, graph lines and US flag stars
    • Tuesday, 4 April, 2023
      News in-depth
      Fatal fire at migrant centre follows mounting tension at US-Mexico border

      Blaze that left 39 dead renews focus on disarray in treatment of asylum seekers

      Migrants travelling by train arrive in Ciudad Juarez on April 1
    • Tuesday, 28 March, 2023
      At least 40 people dead in fire at Mexico migration detention centre

      Incident comes as migration through the country to the US is near its highest level in 20 years

      The bodies of migrants lie covered after a deadly fire broke out at an immigration detention centre in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
    • Sunday, 26 March, 2023
      News in-depthGlobal migration
      Panama warns of surge in US-bound migration through deadly jungle

      People fleeing poverty and repression are often unaware of dangers of terrain infested by bandits and snakes

    • Wednesday, 11 January, 2023
      Americas politics & policy
      North American leaders set aside tensions to focus on chips and migration

      Leaders from US, Mexico and Canada discuss ways to enhance economic co-operation at Mexico City summit

      US president Joe Biden, Mexico’s Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Justin Trudeau, Canada’s prime minister
    • Sunday, 8 January, 2023
      Biden heads to front line of US border crisis with trip to El Paso

      President has faced persistent criticism that he has failed to address a surge of migrants from the south

      A family of migrants preparing to sleep on the street near the US border with Mexico in El Paso, Texas, last month
    • Thursday, 5 January, 2023
      US to expel more migrants as Biden tries to curb border crossings

      President will attend regional summit with leaders of Mexico and Canada on Monday

      A migrant camp in Matamoros, Mexico, near the US border
    • Monday, 19 December, 2022
      The Big Read
      The surprising resurgence of Republicans in Miami

      Growing support in south Florida could be a sign that the party has honed its appeal to more culturally conservative Latino voters

    • Monday, 12 December, 2022
      OutlookPatti Waldmeir
      Migrants bussed from Texas see their future in Chicago

      City welcomes political pawns in Republican governor’s protest at immigration policy but hurdles remain

      Chicago charity feeds migrants sent by bus from Texas
    • Saturday, 10 December, 2022
      FT Magazine
      The man who plants crosses where migrants die

      In a desert where more than 3,600 people have died, Alvaro Enciso tries to honour them

    • Monday, 31 October, 2022
      US midterm elections
      Republicans fire up base with tough stance on immigration

      Polling shows issue is low in voters’ priorities despite stunts to draw attention to border crisis

    • Wednesday, 12 October, 2022
      LexPan Kwan Yuk
      The Lex Newsletter: the economic ‘dous’ and don’ts of mother tongue survival in the US Premium content

      Studies suggest multilingualism boosts output but that language proficiency deteriorates with each generation

      A Chinese New Year parade in New York’s Chinatown
    • Tuesday, 28 June, 2022
      Fifty-one people found dead in tractor-trailer in Texas

      Federal authorities investigate what San Antonio mayor calls a ‘horrific human tragedy’

      Law enforcement officers work at the scene where people were found dead inside a trailer truck in San Antonio, Texas
    • Saturday, 21 May, 2022
      Ruling on US pandemic border restrictions leaves thousands in limbo

      Biden administration had sought to revoke Trump-era Title 42 despite fears of further surge in Mexico border crossings

      A border patrol agent checks passports from immigrants in Yuma, Arizona
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