When Alameda news writer Karin K. Jensen was a child growing up, her mother Helen Yee Chan Cochran, a Chinese American immigrant daughter, shared stories from her life about her American dream and her ...

In his first year back in office, President Trump has completely shifted the U.S. approach to immigration, launching the most visible enforcement effort seen in history while closing the door to many ...

The idea of a “trans-national America” argued against forcing immigrants into an Anglo-Saxon mold.

During my recent presentation to an economic roundtable in Florida, I encountered a familiar confusion—my highly educated and accomplished audience was unclear about who qualifies as an “immigrant” in ...

If I were to sum up in one word what I experienced when I read the “Special Message” on immigration released on November 12, 2025, by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, it would be ...

From arriving in the Bay Area as an 18-year-old immigrant with limited English to teaching math at Diablo Valley College’s Pleasant Hill campus while running a successful Italian restaurant in ...

Preface -- Chronology -- Overview: immigration by the numbers, 1820-1870 -- Leaving home, 1820-1845 -- Across the Atlantic and into America, 1820-1845 -- Immigration at high tide, 1845-1854 -- ...

The crackdown on immigrants is often sold as a benefit to citizens, but the columnist Jamelle Bouie argues it’s an economic ...