Reporting on Immigration

A San Antonio Express-News editorial series complicated the border policy narrative. That was the goal.

The ambitious, nuanced editorial series stands apart with policy deep-dives, diverse sourcing and deep understanding of the region

December 10, 2024

Josie Hollingsworth

Here’s your chance to experience journalism on the border — on us

20 journalists will attend an expenses-paid trip to meet with border officials, experts and aid workers in El Paso

March 14, 2024

A claim about the number of immigrants and the reemergence of foot and mouth disease is wrong

A social media post falsely alleged that an influx of immigrants is bringing a livestock disease eradicated since 1929 back into the US.

February 20, 2024

How to improve reporting on immigration? Produce more local coverage and hire immigrants.

Plus eight more takeaways from a report on improving immigration journalism from Borderless Magazine.

January 13, 2021

Amaris Castillo

USA Today Network is taking The Wall on the road

Last fall, the USA Today Network published a multimedia, multi-newsroom series on the U.S./Mexico border.…

July 2, 2018

How front pages around the world showed the separation of immigrant children in the U.S.

The separation of immigrant children from parents entering the U.S. illegally has led to contentious…

June 20, 2018

Taylor Blatchford

Journalists’ resources for reporting on immigration

Immigration has been a contentious topic for much of U.S. history, but Donald Trump's presidential policies…

June 19, 2018

Covering immigration can be tough, but there are strong stories out there

Norberto Santana Jr. thinks of his reporters as mechanics. They check what’s up, make sense…

November 8, 2017