Mae Ngai is the Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History at Columbia University.

When a waiter of 20 years is deported, suddenly immigration has a face and gains complexity.

My colleague Smmo Ozawa and I spent the past year recording oral histories about immigration in the rural United States. One of my favorite interviews happened at the police station in Fort Morgan, a ...

A federal immigration agent maces a bystander after detaining a man and his child near 35th Street and Chicago Avenue on Jan. 22 in Minneapolis. There is little lighthearted immigration talk these ...

The Trump administration’s efforts to reduce the foreign-born population are being felt in hospitals and soccer leagues and on Main Streets across the country, with hints of what’s to come. By Lydia ...

In the wake of the November shooting of two National Guard members, President Donald Trump took aim at legal immigration and asylum practices with a rash decision to “permanently pause migration from ...

Newcomers make up 40% of home health aides. Worker shortages could drive up care costs — and leave our elders without help.

Rep. Andy Ogles plans to introduce congressional bill banning entry from six Muslim-majority countries, reviving Trump-era ...

People protest in front of an ICE office in New York, October 22, 2025, one day after federal immigration agents made nine arrests during a raid on Canal Street in Lower Manhattan. Credit: Lucas ...

Two dissimilar government agencies have inadvertently combined to clarify the immigration debate. Stomach-turning excesses by Immigration and Customs Enforcement have turned many Americans’ ...