Opinion

As Congress debates the future of DACA recipients, the meaning of this word —America— continues to be a point of conflict.

The Spanish decided to use the letter X to represent this foreign sound that they could not pronounce.

As a daughter of a first-generation Korean immigrant, I was struck by how much Coco reminded me of my Korean roots.

So what’s liberating about a movement if it reifies old hierarchies of color and class?

As a scholar on U.S. immigration law and policy, I’d like to correct and contextualize the numbers.

It exposed the vulnerabilities created by ubiquitous socioeconomic inequality and the differential neglect of the island’s rural regions.

If Democratic leaders make a deal with President Donald J. Trump on his “shithole” border wall, they will secure his reelection in 2020.

For over a year now, Mexicali resistance groups have been defending the capital of Baja California’s water supply against foreign investment brewery Constellation Brands.

California, the self-proclaimed leader of the resistance on climate change action and emissions reductions, is about to steamroll over black, brown, and other communities of color with plans to expand a massive freeway in Southern California.

I’m infuriated by today’s deal. Democrats cravenly backed down in exchange for more delay and an uncertain promise of future action.

The current administration has demonstrated its disregard for people from this Caribbean island.

Offer a real apology because so far, you have only addressed your anti-Semitism with more anti-Semitism.

I didn’t want to post a #MeToo because, like Grace, I consider myself to be a realist.

Considering the history of immigrant youth coming to the United States from Cuba, why wouldn’t the DREAMers deserve to stay in the only country they call home?

In my most recent research, I interviewed DACA graduate students about the impacts of DACA’s forced name alteration. Here’s what they told me.

Democratic leaders should unite and stand firm against President Donald J. Trump (“Racist-in-Chief” and “Hustler-in-Chief”) and the complicit Republican leaders on passing a clean DACA bill.

For any of us to continue living our lives without fear of deportation, Congress needs to pass the Dream Act.

Your struggle, strength and resilience can only be described as inspirational. For that, I am almost ashamed to write this.

My journalist’s hiking boots still have leftover feces and dirt from the ultimate shitholes of El Salvador: its mass graves.

Readers respond. And the author responds to the readers.

It’s way too “coincidental.”