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This past weekend, the partial shutdown affecting a quarter of the federal government became the longest on record. Most Americans do not support the shutdown: In a recent NPR-Ipsos poll, 71 percent said Congress should pass a bill to reopen the government while...

Anglo media is often a daunting and frustrating place for Spanish-speaking Latino artists who are trying to find a foothold for their work. Often, these musicians are forced to navigate marketing strategies and value systems that ignore the historical and social...

The data raises questions about whether the immigration system may be enabling forced marriage, the Associated Press reports. By Colleen Long WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of requests by men to bring in child and adolescent brides to live in the United States were...

More than a century before Donald Trump issued a flurry of executive orders restricting the entry of foreign nationals from certain Muslim-majority nations, demonized Central American refugees seeking asylum, and voiced his desire to end birthright citizenship, the...

Contrary to common political rhetoric, immigration does not represent a zero-sum game in which jobs, services, and resources consumed by immigrants result in fewer resources for taxpayers and working-class citizens. By Grant Schreiber It’s a fact that immigrants open...

Instead of Santa, the Three Kings "made much more sense with the Nativity scenes we had seen throughout Christmas," said a professor who grew up in Miami. By Gwen Aviles Ernesto Acevedo-Muñoz still remembers the excitement of being a child in Puerto Rico, anticipating...

What is the status of the current U.S. H1B visa program and what can we look forward to in the new year? By Andy J. Semotiuk Foreigners view the H1B visa as the golden gate to furthering their career, starting a family and building a new life in America. The visa is...

We should not expect in 2019 that Donald Trump will visit the Statue of Liberty and deliver a speech about America’s great tradition as a nation of immigrants. But here's a look at what we should expect to happen on immigration in 2019. By Stuart Anderson Continued...

Jamillah James, curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA), and Betty Avila, executive director of Self Help Graphics & Art, are young women—both in their 30s—who have recently taken leadership positions at L.A. institutions that have been...

At 17, Andre Haddad could identify types of explosives based on the sounds they made whizzing overhead. A mortar shell in trajectory thundered like the sounds of Blue Angels flying low over San Francisco — a noisy spectacle that still rattles Haddad almost 30 years...