Writing — Amanda Sakuma

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Sanctuary Vilified How a symbolic fight over 'sanctuary cities' derailed the entire immigration debate.

Hell and High Water Two man-made catastrophes threaten to sink the Marshall Islands, creating a new generation of climate change refugees.

My Family Was Interned. Now They're With Trump How they coped by rapidly assimilating into American culture.

The New York Times

A Crisis At Their Doorstep Red-state Texans are putting their own politics aside as a surge of immigrant children arrive at the border.

Women Hold the Frontlines of Ferguson How they turned Black Lives Matter into a nationwide movement.

Mexico's Other Border For years, Mexico turned a blind eye toward migration. Now, it's cracking down.

How traffic stops became a pipeline to deportation An investigation into skyrocketing arrests in Georgia show the early influence of the Trump's immigration crackdown.

Immigrants wrestle with Bernie Sanders’ brand of socialism

MSNBC

How a church found a loophole to protect an undocumented father

MSNBC

Local cops are being recruited as federal deportation agents

The Atlantic

Why Trump's immigration plan screws over women most

Broadly