Migrants

With pulse-pounding sweep and moral fury, the veteran Polish director Agnieszka Holland turns her camera on injustice at the Polish-Belarusian border.

The Arizona rancher was accused of killing a migrant. A tragedy, and a possible murder, quickly became a political cause.

Matteo Garrone’s epic about two young Senegalese cousins attempting to reach Italy is his finest film since “Gomorrah.”

For nearly fifty years, Ruben Garcia has welcomed migrants and refugees at Annunciation House. Amid record border crossings, Texas is now trying to shut down his network of shelters.

In Brooklyn, hundreds of men have languished in a city-run facility, taking cold showers, eating bad food, and sleeping inches from one another.

A congressman described Musk as a “concerned citizen with a megaphone.” But Musk’s megaphone is the problem.

Untangling the politics, policies, and messaging behind the current crisis.

Maya Binyam’s sphinxlike début, about an exile returning home, punctures the demands we make of immigrants and their stories.

An immigrant small-business owner sees himself in the asylum seekers who were sleeping on the street outside his restaurant in midtown.

For the Georgian migrants in Ani Mrelashvili’s short documentary, shipping packages home is a sacred activity.

Fourteen relatives—children, grandparents, and a pregnant mother—traversed the notorious Darién Gap, six nations, and the Rio Grande for a life that they hope will be full of promise.

What has become of the tens of thousands of people who have disappeared on their way to Europe?

Jorge Camarotti’s short film follows a Burkinabé immigrant in Montreal who reaches out to an older woman in need of help.

What a political stunt by Ron DeSantis involving vulnerable people tells us about the current politics of U.S. immigration policy.

Chartering planes to transport migrants to Martha’s Vineyard is just the latest maneuver from red-state leaders focussed on owning the libs.

Along the border, a nonprofit works to reunite families with their loved ones—alive or dead.

In a 5–4 decision, the Court allowed the White House to end Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” program—for now.

At the start of the pandemic, the Trump Administration invoked an obscure provision called Title 42 to effectively stop migration. Even as other COVID restrictions are lifted, anti-immigration politicians insist that it remain in place.

Two filmmakers who set out to make a film about refugees put aside the harrowing in favor of a slice of life.

The order to shutter Al Mabani, a notorious jail set up in Libya to detain migrants bound for Europe, might be seen as progress. But it is also an indication of darker aspects of migrant detention.