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US immigration

  • 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
  • Monday, 1 July, 2024
    Panama
    Panama will close notorious Darién Gap to migrants, president vows

    José Raúl Mulino has vowed to crack down on popular and dangerous route for people headed for southern US border

    A group of migrants arriving at the Reception Center for Migrant Care in Lajas Blancas
  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    Biden opens green card path to undocumented spouses of US citizens

    Sweeping reform offers route to eventual citizenship and protection from deportation for 550,000 people

    Two women raise their right hands while holding a pamphlet with the naturalisation oath at a citizenship ceremony in New Jersey
  • Sunday, 16 June, 2024
    ReviewFT Books Essay
    How should migration be managed?

    As the global movement of people prompts hardline approaches by populists and policymakers, four new books explore the west’s struggle to balance domestic pressures with the plight of asylum-seekers

    A man in a hat and with  a bag and blanket on his back watches a heavy-goods train passing
  • Thursday, 6 June, 2024
    US Election Countdown
    What’s the economic impact of restricting US immigration?

    Also in today’s newsletter, a tale of two economies in Michigan

    Migrants seeking asylum in the US are watched by Texas agents next to the border wall in El Paso
  • Tuesday, 4 June, 2024
    Biden tightens US immigration rules with limit on asylum seekers

    Surge in border crossings from Mexico has become potent political campaign issue for Donald Trump

    Migrants wearing wristbands with barcodes are scanned in Eagle Pass, Texas, before boarding a state-sponsored bus to New York
  • Monday, 20 May, 2024
    Companies warn against immigration cuts as Trump plans crackdown

    Business groups say US economy remains dependent on foreign workers as migration becomes election issue

    People walk towards an immigration checkpoint after crossing the US-Mexico border on September 28, 2023 in Eagle Pass, Texas
  • Tuesday, 7 May, 2024
    Undocumented workers struggle with New York’s underground economy

    Surge of migrants into US cities has fuelled political divisions but not ended labour shortages

    Migrants sell clothes and other used goods on the streets of Queens in New York in March
  • Wednesday, 24 April, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The dire situation on America’s southern border

    If Congress will not act, President Joe Biden may have to do so

    Ismael Cruz, a 26-year-old Venezuelan migrant, plays with his young son on the by the Rio Grande river
  • Sunday, 21 April, 2024
    Borderlands
    How Mexico’s ‘kabuki pantomime’ fails to stop US-bound migrants

    Dysfunction and corruption are disrupting efforts to stem the flow of people towards America

    Migrants breach infrastructure set up by the US on the Rio Grande in El Paso, Texas
  • Thursday, 11 April, 2024
    Borderlands

    This series examines the unprecedented scale of migration, which is stoking political and economic crises on both sides of the Atlantic

  • Tuesday, 19 March, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Nelson Peltz to vote for Trump over fears of Biden’s ‘mental condition’

    Billionaire disavowed ex-president after January 6 riot but plans to back him again in November election

    Nelson Peltz
  • Friday, 1 March, 2024
    Biden and Trump berate each other over border in rival Texas visits

    President accuses Republicans of lacking ‘spine’ to pass law to curb immigration

    President Joe Biden speaks with US Border Patrol officers
  • Thursday, 29 February, 2024
    Global migration
    Colombian ferry strike halts migration to US via treacherous border crossing

    About 3,000 migrants trying to reach Panama via Darién Gap have been stranded with more arriving every day

    Migrants board a boat in Necoclí, Colombia, bound for the Darién Gap in October last year
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