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US immigration

  • Thursday, 2 January, 2025
    US politics & policy
    Trump uses New Orleans attack to push security and border agenda

    President-elect blames US military veteran’s alleged terror act on Biden’s immigration policy

    A member of the FBI’s evidence response team takes photographs at the site of the attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans on January 1 2025
  • Thursday, 2 January, 2025
    US economy
    The coming American labour market shock

    Ignore the Fed’s flip-flop and focus on labour dynamics

  • Saturday, 28 December, 2024
    US politics & policy
    Musk’s fight with Maga reveals split on immigration within Trump’s circle

    President-elect’s new allies in Silicon Valley suffer backlash over foreign workers from his core supporters

    Elon Musk
  • Tuesday, 24 December, 2024
    OutlookPatti Waldmeir
    The migrants who face becoming political pawns again

    Many of those bussed in by the Texas governor have been absorbed by Chicago but could now have their lives upturned again

    Venezuelan migrants as they wait for a ride-share at the 1st District police station in Chicago
  • Thursday, 28 November, 2024
    News in-depthCanada
    Canada to strengthen border after Trump tariff threat

    Justin Trudeau’s government races to head off US president-elect’s concerns

    Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers greet refugees as they arrive at the Roxham Road border crossing near Champlain, New York in 2023
  • Monday, 25 November, 2024
    Immigration affects care work, too

    An obligatory reminder

  • Monday, 18 November, 2024
    News in-depthUS employment
    Business owners warn Trump’s deportation plan could shut them down

    Vow to round up undocumented workers risks labour shortages and higher prices

    Migrant farm workers pick strawberries on a farm in California, USA
  • Thursday, 14 November, 2024
    Global migration
    Migration to rich countries hits record high in 2023

    Surge has helped economies recover from inflationary crisis, but has also prompted voter backlash

    Montage of a chart with a person walking in an airport
  • Monday, 11 November, 2024
    US politics & policy
    Trump to name immigration hardliner Miller as deputy chief of staff

    Adviser championed policies during president-elect’s first term that included separating migrants from their children

    Stephen Miller
  • Monday, 11 November, 2024
    The Economics Show podcast31 min listen
    What does a second Trump presidency mean for immigration? With Michael Clemens

    What would the American economy look like without the millions of recent arrivals?

  • Saturday, 9 November, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    ‘They took our vote for granted’: immigrants abandon Harris in New York

    City’s Bronx borough saw historic realignment as Trump made inroads into a once solid Democratic voter bloc

    The Bronx in New York City
  • Sunday, 27 October, 2024
    News in-depthVenezuela
    Migration from Venezuela surges after Maduro snatches election from opposition

    Crossings of treacherous Darién Gap linking South and Central America rise before US presidential poll

    A Venezuelan migrant walks along the jungle path through the Darién Gap carrying her daughter in July 2022
  • Monday, 14 October, 2024
    OutlookPatti Waldmeir
    Wisconsin’s vote on the edge as immigrant scare stories spread

    In the final leg of the US election campaign, even the quietest towns are being dragged into the border war

    Supporters cheer Donald Trump as he speaks during a campaign event
  • Sunday, 29 September, 2024
    News in-depthUS presidential election 2024
    Harris walks a fine line in Arizona with tougher talk on the border

    US vice-president tries to appeal to voters worried about illegal crossings without alienating her liberal base

    Kamala Harris visits the US-Mexico border with US Border Patrol Tucson sector chief John Modlin in Douglas, Arizona, on Friday
  • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Harris vows US border clampdown in attempt to neutralise immigration issue

    The Democratic presidential candidate promises measures to stop illegal crossings in a campaign visit to Arizona

    Harris speaks during a campaign rally in Douglas, Arizona, on Friday night.
  • Thursday, 26 September, 2024
    Unhedged Podcast19 min listen
    Immigration and unemployment

    How does the influx of immigrants affect US jobs numbers?

  • Tuesday, 24 September, 2024
    News in-depth
    How Biden’s border crackdown led to a ‘dramatic shift’ in US migration debate

    Tougher policies have contributed to sharp drop in illegal crossings in run-up to presidential election

    A migrant at a tent encampment in Mexico City
  • Tuesday, 10 September, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    JD Vance escalates xenophobic rhetoric in appeal to Republican base

    Donald Trump’s running mate recycles conspiracy theories about Haitians and pets in Ohio

    JD Vance speaks at a rally
  • Tuesday, 27 August, 2024
    The Big Read
    The Midwest cities in search of new migrants

    Although immigration remains hugely controversial, a number of places in Republican-dominated areas are eager for an influx of workers

    From left: Moji Sidiqi, Arrey Obenson, Ruben Leon and Maksym Shapovalov
  • Tuesday, 30 July, 2024
    The Big Read
    The Democrats’ uneasy bargain with Mexico’s López Obrador

    The Biden administration needed the Mexican president’s help to reduce migration ahead of the election. Did it give too much in return?

    Montage image of López Obrador, Harris and Biden
  • Monday, 22 July, 2024
    Gideon Rachman
    Trump, Harris and a fear-filled campaign

    The outcome of the US election will turn on which candidate scares voters the most

    Illustration of spooky looking Democrat donkey and Republican elephant arguing as mist swirls around them
  • Friday, 19 July, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Trump pledges tax cuts, trade wars and border crackdown

    Former president invokes God in convention speech as he accepts Republican nomination days after assassination attempt

    Donald Trump and his wife Melania
  • Monday, 8 July, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    Migration, inflation and vacation Premium content

    The idea that mass tourism is creating knock-on effects like price rises is causing tension in the countries most-visited

    A tourist takes a photo as the Acropolis’ Propylaea are seen in the background, in Athens, Greece
  • Monday, 8 July, 2024
    Rana Foroohar
    Immigrants really do get the job done

    But even as migration greases the wheels of the US economy, it is becoming the source of increasing political friction

    Illustration of an angry man’s face seen in profile against a backdrop of a fence with razor wire on top with the silhouettes of people behind the fence. The razor wire is lined up so it looks like it is spooling out of the man’s mouth
  • Wednesday, 3 July, 2024
    News in-depthUS-China relations
    China exerts new control over its young expats in the US

    Students and workers who joined the Communist party say they have been asked to spread propaganda

    Passport of People’s Republic of China on United States flag
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