Source: International Organization for Migration

Source: William H. Grey analysis of U.S. Census estimates released April 19, 2019 / Metropolitan Policy Program

Source: Philip N. Cohen / Department of Homeland Security Data

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Dear U.S. history teachers: Your job is crucial. More than ever. when people say, "Ellis Island took in LEGAL immigrants," please remind students that immigrants did not need visas and green cards during the Ellis Island era. They just showed up. ~ @joseiswriting

2014: 350.000 undocumented Hondurans 2015: 20,204 Hondurans removed. --------------- 2014: 500,000 undocumented Indians 2015: 502 Indians removed *Hondurans are 40 times more likely to be deported than Indians. Source: Tanya Golash-Boza, Ph.D

Republicans are more convinced than Democrats that reducing illegal immigration would reduce economic inequality, 2019

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Undocumented migrants pass a young boy between two train cars after they ran and climbed aboard "The Beast." A wave of gang violence in Honduras and El Salvador is causing surging numbers of child migrants to arrive in the United States. Migrants in shelters across southern Mexico report gangs demanding parents pay them a monthly "War Tax”, under threat of killing their children if they do not pay – causing many families to flee north...— at Tenosique, México. Photo credit: Meridith Kohut

A Honduran boy rides a freight through Mexico. Each year thousands of undocumented Central Americans stow away for 1,500 miles on the tops and sides of trains. Some are parents desperate to escape poverty. Many are children in search of a parent who left them behind long ago. Only the brave and the lucky reach their goal. Ferrocarriles Del Istmo De Tehuantepec is the company that operates the trains, 2015. Photo credit: Don Bartletti / The Los Angeles Times

In the hold of the boat Believe in God some hundred miles off the coast of the Bahamas after leaving Ile de la Tortue, Haiti, the Haitians aboard are terrified as we realize that the boat is sinking. Most do not know how to swim. They are willing to risk life to make it to America. Forty-four Haitians are on board attempting to reach America, 2000 — at Ile de la Tortue. Photo credit: Christopher Anderson

Crew members take a break on the deck as forty-four Haitians attempt to sail from Haiti to the United States in a 23-foot homemade wooden boat named the "Believe in God," 2000. Photo credit: Christopher Anderson

Inspecting a freight train from Mexico for smuggled immigrants, June 1938. Photo credit: Dorothea Lange / Library of Congress — in El Paso, Texas.

Democrats' support for a path to legal status for undocumented immigrants ticks up Source: Pew Research Center

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"5 Illegals Killed Trying to Outrun Agents" - Even in death Fox News won't call them people. They're simply "illegals" ~ @paleofuture

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More than two-thirds of Europe's unauthorized immigrants in 2017 lived in Germany, the UK, Italy and France Source: Pew Research Center

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ICE arrests went up after Trump took office, but remain lower than during much of Obama's tenure, 2019 Source: Pew Research Center

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This is a view of immigrants who have illegally crossed the border and have been detained inside a Border Patrol station in McAllen, Texas. Photo credit: EDH / Reuters

Detainees sleep & watch TV in a holding cell where hundreds of mostly Central American immigrant children are being processed & held at the U.S. Customs & Border Protection Nogales Placement Center on Wednesday, June 18, 2014. CPB provided media tours Wednesday of two locations in Brownsville, Texas, & Nogales, that have been central to processing the more than 47k unaccompanied children who have entered the country illegally since Oct. 1. - Photo credit: Ross D. Franklin / AP

Migrants and asylum seekers awaiting processing are held in temporary fencing underneath the Paso Del Norte Bridge. U.S. Customs and Border Protection has temporarily closed all highway checkpoints along the 268-mile stretch of border in the El Paso sector, March 28th, 2019. Photo credit: Christ Chavez / Getty Images — in El Paso, Texas.

These photos are from the Juarez Valley near Tornillo, Texas, where immigrant children are being detained behind the border fence in a place the Trump Administration is calling Tent City. Photo credit: Ivan Pierre Aguirre / Texas Tribune — in Tornillo, Texas.

"Welcome to America," This cover of Time Magazine features an image of a two-year-old Honduran asylum seeker who was detained with her mother near the U.S.-Mexico border on June 12, 2018. An image of President Donald Trump towers over her.

An aerial view of a tent camp set up to house unaccompanied child migrants, 2018 Photo credit: Joe Raedle / Getty Images — at Texas.

This is an image of a two-year-old Honduran asylum seeker crying as her mother is searched and detained near the U.S.-Mexico border, June 12, 2018. Photo: John Moore — in McAllen, Texas.

Stop Insecure Communities. Deportations Are Inhumane Source: Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition

In El Paso, Texas hundreds of migrant families are held in the parking lot of a Border Patrol station because there is no room for them inside, March 27, 2019. Photo credit: Nick Miroff — in El Paso, Texas.

This photo shows a Honduran migrant mother fleeing tear gas at the US-Mexico border with her young daughters, November 2018. Photo credit: Reuters photographer Kim Kyung-Hoon

"Our prison for stolen children isn't a concentration camp because we're only killing them accidentally" is not the winning argument yoou think it is. ~ @jdmaccoby

Two Border Patrol officers appear to struggle with a fugitive in the U.S as he tries to get back to Mexico, 1939. The photo is likely staged. Photo credit: Luis Marden

Source: Bersani, B.E. (2014) An examination of first and second generation immigrant offending-trajectories. Justice Quarterly 31:315-343.

"Seeking Safety Is Not a Crime" Artist: Médecins Sans Frontières

Many American unions begin with "international" for a reason. It's because solidarity extends beyond our borders. Labor's first organizers understood that workers will only rise together. We must never lose sight of that. #ImmigrantRights are #WorkersRights. ~ @Kanielalng

Portrait of Migratory Woman Worker, 1935. Photo credit: Dorothea Lange

First Braceros, 1942. In 1942, the Bracero agricultural worker program begins; it will eventually bring almost five million Mexicans to live and work in the U.S. — in Stockton, California. Photo credit: Dorothea Lange / National Building Museum

"The N****r Must Go And The Chinese Must Go. The Poor Barbarians Can't Understand Our Civilized Republican Form Of Government." Source: Harper's Weekly, September 13, 1879, p. 721.