10 Best Articles on Immigration
The most useful articles on immigration from around the web, curated by thought leaders and our community.
Refind focuses on timeless pieces and updates the list whenever new, must-read articles or videos are discovered.
Top 5 Immigration Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved on immigration by Refind users in 2024 so far.
Short Articles
Short on time? Check out these useful short articles on immigration—all under 10 minutes.
Migrant | No Mercy / No Malice
Early on a Monday morning, 51 people assemble at a safe house in northern Mexico. A semi truck pulls up, and the man they’ve paid to shepherd them to America directs them into the trailer. Hours…
As GitHub’s Conference Begins, Five Employees Resign Over ICE Contract
Tech workers are protesting outside of Github’s biggest event of the year—and several speakers have dropped out.
Hours before passing, Cummings signed subpoenas directed to two US immigration agencies
In one of his last official acts before his death, the late House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings signed two subpoenas for documents related to a temporary end to a policy…
'Bees, not refugees': the environmentalist roots of anti-immigrant bigotry
Recent mass shootings have been linked to ‘eco-xenophobia’ – part of a tradition that dates to America’s first conservationists
Google Says Google Translate Can’t Replace Human Translators. Immigration Officials Have Used It to Vet Refugees.
Documents shared with ProPublica show that immigration officials have been told to vet refugees’ social media posts using Google Translate. Language experts caution even students against using the…
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles on immigration.
Countries with the Highest (and Lowest) Proportion of Immigrants
Shared by 151, including Noah Smith, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe #VivaTech, Catherine Rampell
The Right to Leave
In 1816 an American lawyer named J.F. Dumoulin wrote Thomas Jefferson a letter to thank him for his hospitality during a recent visit to the former president’s Monticello plantation. As a token of…
Deaths, Surgeries, Drugs: Health Care For Jailed Immigrants Criticized In Memo About Secret ICE Whistleblower
BuzzFeed News has obtained a memo in which an ICE whistleblower says two immigrants got preventable surgeries and two were given the wrong drugs. Four died — one after getting "grossly negligent"…
Immigration panic: how the west fell for manufactured rage
The long read: From Trump to Orbán, politicians are winning votes by stoking age-old hatreds. Where does this fear of migrants come from?
Immigrant kids fill this town’s schools. Their bus driver is leading the backlash.
In rural Worthington, Minn., a surge of unaccompanied minors has crowded schools and left residents divided over funding an expansion.
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