While there’s much we don’t yet know with less than two weeks remaining in a tightly contested 2024 election cycle, below are 10 things we do know with confidence about immigration and the 2024 elections. Donald Trump is making his closing argument all about immigration lies – and it’s... Continue »
Throughout the presidential election, and particularly during the last several weeks, the endless stream of ugly and dangerous rhetoric directed at immigrant communities in the U.S. is at an all-time high. Unfortunately, a lot of this disinformation has seeped into everyday conversations despite being blatant lies.  We think it’s... Continue »
A coalition of immigrant youth, Latino, and Black-led organizations have united to launch dozens of billboards across a number of states that send a clear, unequivocal message: immigrants are welcome here. The Arizona Center for Empowerment, Haitian Bridge Alliance, United We Dream, and Voces de la Frontera have teamed... Continue »
The 2024 Democratic National Convention featured a hopeful and optimistic view of what America can be, on immigration and beyond, that stands in stark contrast to the “send them back now” chants and “mass deportation now” signs at July’s Republican National Convention. While there was no ignoring the embrace... Continue »
The Biden administration’s policies addressing the detrimental effects that the pandemic and anti-immigrant agenda of the Trump administration had on immigration paperwork processing appear to be paying significant dividends. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has been processing naturalization paperwork for eligible immigrants at the fastest rate in a decade,... Continue »
Suni Lee welcomed home
The 2024 Summer Olympics closed on Sunday, and Team USA once again dominated the games, winning an astounding 126 medals, including 40 gold medals. Contributors to this incredible medal count included a number of athletes with immigrant roots. Gymnast Suni Lee, the daughter of a refugee born in Laos,... Continue »
Olympic rings Paris, 23 September, image via rawpixel
Naomi Girma is a proud daughter of Ethiopian immigrants and a Stanford University graduate with a degree in computational linguistics. She has been described as “one of the best defenders in the world” by one of her former soccer teammates. She may soon add Olympic medalist to her inspiring... Continue »
Gov. Tim Walz
As governor of Minnesota, Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz has helped usher in a progressive agenda that benefits all working Minnesota families and a style of governance that rejects the right-wing lie that pro-immigrant policies come at the detriment of U.S.-born Americans. As a member of Congress from... Continue »
From the start of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s first campaign in 2015 (when he descended the escalators of Trump Tower and called Mexican immigrants criminals and “rapists”) to the present day, over and over and over again Trump has pointed to President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s 1954 mass deportation... Continue »
A Catholic deanery in the San Francisco Bay Area has established a refugee support committee to help recent arrivals integrate into their new communities with greater ease. The Alameda Deanery’s Welcome the Stranger (WTS) program, inspired by Pope Francis’ ongoing call to welcome the stranger, has already assisted several... Continue »