Tag: immigration

  • Things to Consider if You Want to Leave the U.S.

    Kaila’s post over at Home Abroad reminded me of the February report from the Brookings Institution that revaled a record number of American citizens moved overseas in 2025. It marks the first time since the Great Depression that more people left the United States than moved in.

    flag of usa and statue of liberty behind
  • This is What Mass Deportation Looks Like

    Around the corner from my apartment in Berlin, there is a group of five brass plates inlaid in the cobblestones of the sidewalk in front of the house at Boxhagener Strasse 50. They are the Stolpersteine for the Kaufmann family: Ewald and his wife Helene (her birth name was Gerechtner); their sons, Theo, Kurt, and Julian; daughter-in-law Johanna…

    Black and white image of people and belongings being loaded onto a passenger train.