migration

• Opinion

Trump, immigration and echoes of Kristallnacht

Donald Trump would treat immigrants in a manner not seen since World War II

• Opinion

Illegal immigrants will destroy America as we know it [Letter]

President Obama's plan to address immigration through executive order will destroy America.

• Maryland

The Rev. William Thomas: Christianity is more than rhetoric, talk

• Politics

GOP delegates seek answers on immigrant children

Republican members of the House of Delegates are seeking answers from Gov. Martin O'Malley about how Maryland will deal with the unaccompanied children coming to the state in the wave of illegal immigrants from Central America.

• Maryland

Megan McArdle: Obama can't just rewrite the law

• Opinion

O'Malley takes on another 'pop' issue [Commentary]

Gov. Martin O'Malley, a presidential hopeful, has taken on yet another "pop issue," proposing that Maryland provide foster care to several thousand unaccompanied Central American minors, lest they be sent to "certain death." He has also championed abolition of capital punishment and the establishment of gay marriage, the Dream Act, and tax credits and fueling stations for electric vehicles whose technology is not ready for prime time.

• Opinion

Hogan refuses plea to disavow Frederick sheriff

• Baltimore City

Troubled Reservoir Hill apartment complex to be razed

A troubled Reservoir Hill property that came to be known as "Murder Mall" will be demolished under an agreement that's left some residents relieved, but others worried about where they'll go.

• Politics

Brown, Hogan sharply divided on child immigration

As Gov. Martin O'Malley has extended a welcoming hand to immigrant children fleeing Central America, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Anthony G. Brown and Republican rival Larry Hogan have staked out starkly different positions on whether he is handling the influx wisely.

• Maryland

Securing the border should be top priority [Letter]

• Opinion

Plight of children should not mask illegal immigration threat [Letter]

Failure of U.S. to protect its southern border is the real crisis

• Opinion

The end result of unlimited illegal immigration [Letter]

The end result of unlimited illegal immigration

• Opinion

U.S. labor numbers don't tell the labor story [Commentary]

The Labor Department is expected to report this week that the economy added 235,000 jobs in July, and the unemployment rate remained steady at 6.1 percent. But that hardly tells the story.

• Politics

Faith leaders renew call for foster families for immigrants

Maryland religious leaders issued a call for families to offer foster care to immigrant children from Central America who may be on their way to Maryland as part of a national influx of unaccompanied minors fleeing violence there.

• Opinion

We need undocumented immigrants as much as they need us [Letter]

We need undocumented immigrants as much as they need us

• Opinion

Rick Perrys bold border move [Commentary]

The Texas governor plans to protect the border with 1,000 National Guard troops -- more than our president is doing.

• Opinion

Spend money on Baltimore, not illegal immigrants [Letter]

Rather than spending billions on illegal immigrants — whether they're adults or children — the money should be spent at home.

• Opinion

A moral obligation [Commentary]

The debate over our country's broken immigration system is not a new one, and the U.S. Catholic Bishops have consistently supported calls for comprehensive immigration reform. Our offer to provide humanitarian care to children in need should not be construed as an alternative response to the policies and conditions that have led to this crisis.

• Opinion

Don't turn your back on children [Letter]

U.S. should welcome immigrant children as they did European refugees after World War II

• Opinion

Fifty children set dangerous precedent [Letter]

Catholic Charities' plan to house 50 immigrant children sets dangerous precedent

• Opinion

Sauerbrey: Undocumented children at the border are not 'refugees' [Letter]

Ellen Sauerbrey, the former assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration, challenges the idea that the unaccompanied minors at the border count as 'refugees.'

• Opinion

Adam Kwasman runs for wrong bus, leaves border issue unsolved [Commentary]

What kind of human being looks at a humanitarian crisis and thinks: photo op?

• Opinion

It turns out that I was wrong

• Opinion

Commenters go awry

• Maryland

Hatred will not prevail [Editorial]

• Opinion

#Sendthemback [Commentary]

The violence the children are fleeing in Central America is not our problem. It was our problem in the 1980s, but Americans have overwhelmingly decided that it isn't our problem now.

• Maryland

We are a nation of immigrants

• Politics and Government

O'Malley seeks to house immigrant children in foster homes, not large centers

Gov. Martin O'Malley and a group of faith leaders agreed Monday that thousands of immigrant children who have poured into the United States should be housed in foster homes and other small settings, not large centers as the federal government has proposed.

• Opinion

Standing up for children [Editorial]

Plan by Catholic Charities to house 50 immigrant youngsters at Timonium's St. Vincent's Villa deserves the community's support

• Maryland

Don't use kids as political pawns

• Trials and Arbitration

Immigration courts clogged as thousands of cases loom

Before they get a decision in their immigration cases — before they even have a hearing — the tens of thousands of children entering the country illegally will face an increasingly daunting challenge at the heart of a massive backlog in U.S. immigration court: The young immigrants must first find an attorney.

• Baltimore County

Baltimore County officials react to Timonium proposal for immigrant children

Officials in Baltimore County reacted Friday to a proposal by Catholic Charities to shelter 50 immigrant children at a facility in Timonium.

• Opinion

Letting men off the hook for contraceptives and child support [Letter]

Letting men off the hook for contraceptives and child support

• Opinion

Immigrant or refugee?

• Baltimore County

Catholic Charities seeks to house immigrant children in Baltimore County

Catholic Charities wants to care for about 50 children from Central America at a campus in Baltimore County, seeking a role in the immigration crisis even though the consideration of other sites in Maryland met fierce local opposition.

• Maryland

We'll keep a light on for you

• Maryland

State, city working toward shelter for immigrant children

State and local officials in Maryland stressed Wednesday that they are working with the federal government to identify a shelter for Central American children crossing the U.S. border after at least four potential sites fell through, including one that was opposed by Gov. Martin O'Malley.

• Politics

O'Malley defends position on immigrant children and Carroll site

Gov. Martin O'Malley came under fire Wednesday for advocating for thousands of children entering the U.S. illegally while simultaneously trying to waive the White House off a potential shelter in Westminster, Md.

• Maryland

Our diversity always makes us better [Letter]

• Opinion

Carroll's revealing 'illeagle' graffiti [Editorial]

A spray painted message exposes the political heart of the furor over undocumented minors crossing the southern border.

• Opinion

Immigration crisis threatens America [Letter]

Immigration crisis threatens America

• Maryland

Politics blind board [Editorial]

• Opinion

Obama puts politics ahead of border security

Violence in Central America isn't new; it's the president's policies that are driving the border crisis, Jonah Goldberg writes.

• Maryland

Carroll Co. officials push back on shelter for immigrant children

WASHINGTON — Carroll County officials voiced swift opposition Friday to news that the federal government is eyeing a former military property near Westminster as a potential a shelter for immigrant children — underscoring the challenge the Obama administration faces as it tries to manage a surge of new arrivals.

• Maryland

Officials warn child immigrant crisis is draining resources

The federal government will run out of money to deal with the influx of Central American children crossing the U.S. border illegally this summer if lawmakers fail to approve $3.7 billion in emergency funds, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson told a Senate panel Thursday.

• Opinion

No amnesty for illegal immigrants [Letter]

No amnesty for illegal immigrants

• Opinion

Obama's disastrous immigration policy [Letter]

President's failure to address security threat posed by illegal immigration is disastrous

• Opinion

America's refugee crisis [Editorial]

Thousands of unaccompanied minors from Central America are crossing illegally into the U.S. not because they want a better life but because they want to stay alive

• Politics

Obama requests $3.7 billion to address influx of immigrant children

President Barack Obama asked Congress Tuesday for $3.7 billion in emergency funding to address the influx of children from Central America entering the country illegally, a first step in what the White House described as a broader effort to speed deportations.

• Opinion

A crisis in Central America

It's past time for another presidential initiative to consider ways to improve conditions in Central America, address the challenges of drugs and migration, and work with all responsible actors in the region. In the spirit of President John Kennedy's Alliance for Progress, this should not be a purely North American venture. Frankly, given our recent perceived indifference, that wouldn't be taken seriously by many of our neighbors in any event.