What Caitlin Dickerson thinks about immigration
American journalist and staff writer at The Atlantic covering immigration, earlier a reporter at The New York Times and NPR; her 2022 investigation of the Trump administration's family-separation policy won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting.
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7 dated positions, 2021 to 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Caitlin Dickerson has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsAll the while, the president, his top advisers, and his public-affairs offices have pumped out rhetoric and imagery that celebrates the merciless, military-style pursuit of deportations. The overall message to employees, including those who carry weapons, is that anything goes.
↗How ICE Lost Its Guardrailstheatlantic.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 5 months earlier
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Their wordsBut the administration has already learned that the political blowback from doing so would be untenable, because businesses would fail and communities would revolt. Instead of paring back its goals, the White House has continued spending indiscriminately.
- 10 months earlier
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Our readingMisinformation and fearmongering about immigrants have only made the immigration debate worse.
Their wordsThis complex picture of immigration and its implications calls for the hard work of policy making and statesmanship. Again and again, misinformation and fearmongering have only made things worse.
- 7 weeks earlier
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Their wordsTrying to cut off migration to the United States by unilaterally changing policies that are carried out in Texas or Arizona would be like trying to stop people from competing in a marathon while standing on the finish line.
↗There’s No Such Thing as a Border Czartheatlantic.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsI’ve heard countless stories about the factors that people weigh before deciding to leave home. Rarely do these narratives include even a passing reference to American immigration policy.
↗There’s No Such Thing as a Border Czartheatlantic.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 21 months earlier
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Their wordsTo say that Congress has failed to fulfill its duties when it comes to addressing immigration in general, and family separation specifically, is a profound understatement.
↗Congress Can’t Even Do This One Thingtheatlantic.com 1st of 2 in this piece
- 13 months earlier
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Their wordsNot everyone who comes to the United States for a job needs humanitarian protection, but everyone who comes for humanitarian protection needs a job. Yet our laws are so outdated and our elected officials so dependent on divisive talking points that we can’t figure out a lawful way to solve a problem that should be quite fixable.