Caitlin Dickerson
Previously, she was a national immigration reporter for The New York Times. She is the recipient of Peabody and Edward R. Murrow awards for her investigative reporting and is a three-time finalist for the Livingston Award.
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Illustration by The Atlantic The ‘Permanently Orphaned’
Migrant families won their case against the government, but the damage can’t be undone.
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John Moore / Getty The Specter of Family Separation
Donald Trump and his allies have promised to restore their draconian zero-tolerance immigration policy.
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Sean Gallup / Getty Radio Atlantic: How Germany Remembers the Holocaust
What can memorials to tragedy in Germany tell Americans about how to remember slavery in the U.S.?
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Getty; The Atlantic The Family-Separation Files
Made public here for the first time, a collection of key internal government documents related to the Trump administration’s Zero Tolerance policy
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John Moore / Getty Congress Can’t Even Do This One Thing
Left and right agreed that migrant children shouldn’t be torn away from their parents. But they couldn’t be bothered to pass a law.
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Jerry Holt / Star Tribune / Getty I Didn’t Want My Children to Know—And Then I Did
In a new book for young readers, Achut Deng recounts her harrowing experiences as a girl escaping the fighting in Sudan and arriving in America as a refugee.
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Spencer Platt / Getty / The Atlantic Una catástrofe estadounidense
La historia secreta de la política de separación familiar del gobierno de los EE. UU.
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Oliver Munday An American Catastrophe
The secret history of the U.S. government’s family-separation policy
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Marcus Glahn for The Atlantic ‘You Cannot Host Guests Forever’
How long will Polish solidarity with Ukrainian refugees last?
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PAUL RATJE / AFP / Getty Democrats’ Free Pass on Immigration Is Over
As he extends Trump-era policies, President Biden discovers that many voters are no longer willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.
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Lucas Dörre America Never Wanted the Tired, Poor, Huddled Masses
The U.S. is a diverse nation of immigrants—but it was not intended to be, and its historical biases continue to haunt the present.
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Mark Wilson / The Boston Globe via Getty America’s Immigration Amnesia
Despite recurrent claims of crisis at the border, the United States still does not have a coherent immigration policy.
