This week’s Letter will be a little unconventional. I’m going to try to put Canada’s shifting immigration policy in a global context. But, if you’ll permit, I’d like to first take a moment to introduce myself. Hello! I’m The New York Times’s new Canada bureau chief. My family and I …
Read More »A Muslim Mayor in Michigan Endorses Trump, Roiling a City of Immigrants
Amer Ghalib has made a lot of national news as the leader of a small, Midwestern city. His election in 2021 as mayor of Hamtramck, Mich., was itself a headline. Mr. Ghalib, who is from Yemen, became the first Arab American and first Muslim to govern the city. And he …
Read More »Who Is Tommy Robinson, the Far-Right Activist Behind a London Rally?
Thousands of supporters of the far-right British agitator known as Tommy Robinson marched through the streets of London on Saturday — many of them carrying flags or placards — before holding a rally in the city center. Mr. Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, is the highest-profile leader of …
Read More »How Fugetsu-Do Survived the Evolution of Little Tokyo
Fugetsu-Do has been making mochi for most of the past 121 years.It’s kept the tradition alive through Japanese American internment, urban renewal and Covid.For generations, the store has helped anchor the culture of a neighborhood marked by displacement.How Fugetsu-Do Survived the Evolution of Little Tokyo How Fugetsu-Do Survived the Evolution …
Read More »Italy Sends Boat to Albania With Migrants Who Were Bound for Italian Shores
Italy sent its first boat carrying migrants to Albania on Monday, part of a plan to send migrants who are rescued in the Mediterranean by Italian ships to detention centers in the Balkan nation, where their asylum claims will be assessed. The plan, which is being heralded by the Italian …
Read More »Opinion | When Trump Rants, This Is What I Hear
I’ve never considered “immigrant” my calling card, even though it’s one I’ve always carried. I arrived here first as a 3-year-old boy in the mid-1970s, settling with my family in Northern California, in a small town with trees so thick that their branches mingled high over the roads. My mother …
Read More »These Americans Are Going Back to Mexico as Its Citizens
She hid with her four boys under the cover of darkness, the distant shouts of Border Patrol agents and a helicopter droning over the hills on the Tijuana-San Diego border. The agents threatened to end a one-way trip from Mexico to the United States with arrest and deportation. Some 37 …
Read More »One of the World’s Most Immigrant-Friendly Countries Is Changing Course
A late-night Uber ride from Toronto’s Pearson Airport into the city usually guarantees a good fare for the driver. But not for Sachindeep Singh on the evening of Sept. 19. A few miles into the ride, his Uber app stopped working. Mr. Singh’s work permit had expired at midnight and, …
Read More »Opinion | This Is Why Trump Imagines He Will Win
If Donald Trump wins, the people who voted for him would have a range of reasons for putting him in office. There are a lot of potential Trump voters who don’t like him that much or who really like only parts of his personality or platform and tolerate the rest. …
Read More »Trump Blames Immigrant Surge for Housing Crisis. Most Economists Disagree.
Former President Donald J. Trump and his running mate, Senator JD Vance, regularly blame America’s housing affordability crisis on a recent surge in immigration. They point to their plans for mass deportations of undocumented workers as part of the solution. But most economists do not believe that immigrants have been …
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