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Illegal Immigrant Crime Is Its Own Kind of Tragedy
Few Democrats acknowledge what most Americans believe: Tolerance should be far lower for crimes committed by people who entered the country illegally.
Charles Lane
The West Is on a Suicide Mission
Gad Saad knows the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Here’s what we can do about it.
Rafaela Siewert
1HR 13M
The Haitians Stuck in Limbo. Look Who’s Coming to the Correspondents’ Dinner. Plus. . .
The Harvard professor who says dismissing aliens is arrogant. Eli Lake on Iran’s secret weapon. Al Gore’s climate legacy, 20 years after ‘An…
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They Were Ordered Back to Haiti. Then Their Conservative Church Stepped In.
A deportation order became a test of faith for one rural Texas church. Its members chose to put their neighbors before politics.
Carrie McKean
Will Trump Close the Door on Mass Haitian Migration?
The U.S. has fast-tracked immigration from Haiti since a 2010 earthquake. Sixteen years later, activists want to keep the program open forever.
Charles Lane
This Week in Canada: So Many Americans Wish They Were Canadian
A surge in citizenship interest from south of the border, King Charles III foils the '51st state,' Canada helps Iran get a win, and more.
Rupa Subramanya
Two Drinks with . . . a Very Angry Truck Driver
Truck driving is the most common occupation for young men without a degree. Yet, says Gord Magill, today they are forced to contend with shrinking…
River Page
Coleman Hughes: What Ibram X. Kendi Doesn’t Admit
In his new book, America's most famous anti-racist calls politicians who support border control ‘neo-Nazis’ and puts scare quotes around ‘crisis’ when…
Coleman Hughes
What People Get Wrong About Birthright Citizenship
She lost a cabinet nomination for sheltering an undocumented immigrant. Now Linda Chavez reflects on what’s gone wrong in the immigration debate.
Coleman Hughes
1HR 12M
I Can’t Wait for the Kristi Noem Biopic
River Page writes the first scene of the former DHS secretary’s movie. Plus: What’s the drama with Zendaya’s new dark rom-com ‘The Drama’?
River Page
Trump Will Lose on Birthright Citizenship—but an Immigration Win Is Coming
Critics say the justices are either lackeys or haters of the president. But the Court’s approach to two big immigration cases suggests they’re guided by…
Jed Rubenfeld
Exclusive: U.S. Says Help Is on the Way for South African Refugees
‘We took immediate action,’ said a U.S. official, after a Free Press investigation found refugees living in decrepit housing with minimal resettlement…
Madeleine Rowley
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