Dara Lind
Senior Correspondent
Latest articles by Dara Lind
“Secure Communities” was supposed to insulate states and counties from messy immigration politics. Instead, it’s become a yearslong battle between local and federal governments.
On National Safety Month, the head of the NRA’s lobbying arm says their job isn’t to criticize how gun owners behave.
This study compared cities with bad luck in the high-skilled visa lottery to cities with less bad luck. What it found is good news for immigrants and native-born workers alike.
The federal government is finally paying attention to the thousands of unaccompanied children arriving on the border from Central America. But is this a crisis that the US can solve on its own?
And everything else you need to know about the immigration struggle between Congress and the White House this summer
It’s “bad manners” to bring a long gun to Chipotle, the NRA says — but carrying a handgun is cool.
Just a day after a new Pentagon plan to let some unauthorized immigrants serve in the military got leaked, the White House says it’s putting it on hold
The Pentagon plans to expand an existing program to some unauthorized immigrants. But the person who designed the program says the new plan will just crush their dreams.
The Pentagon has approved a plan to allow some young unauthorized immigrants to enroll in the armed forces — but only if they have particular skills
After years of agent misconduct and management turning a blind eye, is Border Patrol finally curbing its force problem?