During President Donald Trump's first week in office, he signed 10 executive orders on immigration and issued a slew of edicts to carry out promises of mass deportations and border security. Some ...

Seventy-one years after the Eisenhower administration launched a high-visibility operation to arrest undocumented immigrants, ...

President Donald Trump’s pledge to deport millions of undocumented immigrants has construction-industry watchers concerned ...

The story of Argentina, from before the Europeans arrived to the modern-day, also tells us the story of South America at the ...

The U.S. was once the world’s most geographically mobile society. Now we’re stuck in place—and that’s a very big problem.

As President Donald Trump promises that more tariffs will be coming, he has made an effort to give history lessons to explain ...

In just the past few weeks, the second administration of Pres. Donald Trump has issued a barrage of executive orders and efforts — as long promised — around immigration enforcement as well as sweeping ...

About 40 percent of Americans can trace their ancestry to Ellis Island. That's what made the U.S. so prosperous.

During passage of the 14th amendment in the 1800s, John Conness fought proto-Trumpian demands to exclude some groups.

In May of 1882, Congress codified these fears into law by passing the Chinese Exclusion Act, which banned Chinese people from ...

In 1888, struck by the number of orphans she was continuing to find around Atlanta, she founded the Carrie Steele Orphans Home.

(THE CONVERSATION) Undocumented immigration is a key issue in American politics, but it can be hard to nail down the basic facts about who these immigrants are, where they live and how their numbers ...