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Immigration

The Cost of Citizenship Denied

This series examines how our failure to acknowledge and accommodate 11 million undocumented Americans has far-reaching consequences.
Immigration, and Social Justice

The Failure of an Enforcement-Only Approach to Immigration

Instead of creating a path to citizenship for 11 million aspiring Americans, we’ve built a colossal, expensive, and ineffective deportation apparatus that breathes new life into America’s prison industrial complex.
Immigration, and Social Justice

The “Illegal” “Essential” Workforce

When the pandemic decimated the American economy, an indispensable undocumented workforce was left to risk contracting coronavirus on behalf of a country that remains fixated on deporting them.
Immigration, and Social Justice

Scapegoating Undocumented Immigrants Threatens Our Democracy

Justifying voter suppression by falsely claiming that undocumented immigrants commit voter fraud disenfranchises citizens of color; unconstitutional efforts to depress immigrants’ participation in the census undercounts entire communities.
Immigration, and Health

Undocumented and Uninsured

Healthcare in the United States has largely been treated as a privilege reserved for citizens who could afford it; in most states, undocumented immigrants are unilaterally excluded. But individual exclusion has a collective cost.
Immigration, and Education

What Happens When Graduation is a Dead End

Without DACA or a pathway to citizenship, hundreds of thousands of young undocumented people cannot realize their full potential—to our collective detriment.
Fellows Friday Series

A new travelogue explores what it means to be Latinx in the U.S.

Writer and activist Paola Ramos discusses her new book, Finding Latinx, and sheds light on the term, “Latinx,” and how to think about the Latinx vote in the 2020 election.
Dial Fellows

A promising approach to community-driven care amid a pandemic

Dr. Sriram Shamasunder and his organization, HEAL Initiative, stood in solidarity with Navajo healthcare workers as they fought a COVID outbreak through the spring and summer.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Introducing the Recover and Renew Cohort of Emerson Collective Fellows

The new cross-disciplinary cohort is forging a path to a more equitable response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Priorities

97 million people have voted early in-person or by mail

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