immigrants

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Black and Indigenous Americans, labor organizers, immigrants, queer people, political dissidents, abuse survivors, and countless others have discovered that rights celebrated in the abstract can evaporate when exercised against the wrong forces.

From Slate • Jun. 4, 2026

I also ... write about the children of immigrants.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026

The daughter of Korean immigrants, Anna worked in tech, including at Stripe, although not at the same time as Brockman, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026

A hand-written Spanish-language letter published this week by Cosecha, a group advocating for undocumented immigrants, and signed by 300 detainees, said that they are "detained without justification," lack proper medical care and get "poor food."

From Barron's • May 29, 2026

In Harlem the precise accents of northern-born blacks mixed with the slow drawls of recent southern immigrants and the lilting accents from the islands.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers