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By Josh Meyer, Politico September 1, 2017 One of the four companies picked by the Trump administration this week for its Mexico border wall prototype paid more than $3 million to settle a Justice Dep…
Immigration issues seem set to get renewed public attention next month. Ten rightwing state governments are suing to end DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the popular program that grants …
Hundreds march to oppose Trump’s proposed wall. Photo: AP/Eric Gay By Nomaan Merchant and John L. Mone, AP via Austin American-Statesman August 12, 2017 MISSION, TX—Hundreds of protesters wearing wh…
Officials and politicians naturally expressed shock and horror at the deaths of 10 migrants crammed into a sweltering tractor-trailer in San Antonio the night of July 22. The political class blamed h…
The deaths of 10 migrants in San Antonio this week have gotten plenty of media attention, and there’s been some for the four deaths at the Rio Grande. Despite these stories, people continue to mouth …
Northern Mexican cities are among the hemisphere's most violent. Across the border, it's a different story. Border fence between San Diego and Tijuana. Public domain. By Juan Carlos Garzón-Ve…
Border Patrol Raids Humanitarian Aid Group Camp in Arizona By Fernanda Santos, New York Times June 16, 2017 Photo: No More Deaths/Carrot Quinn PHOENIX — The Border Patrol raided a humanitarian aid…
Since late January Aaron Bobrow-Strain, an associate professor at Whitman College in Washington state, has been circulating a weekly bulletin with a roundup of immigration news, action alerts, and b…
Most news coverage of unauthorized border crossing operates on the assumption that the act is obviously a crime and always has been. Actually, it didn’t become a crime until 1929. UCLA history profes…
As of April 25 President Trump seems to have backed off from his threat to demand that the April government spending bill include funding for his border wall. But there’s still plenty of controversy…
Luz Rojas, Anastasio Hernández´s mother. Photo: La Prensa (San Diego) Border agents beat an undocumented immigrant to death. The U.S. is paying his family $1 million. …[N]one of the agents involved h…
“Why don’t they just get legal?” people ask. Well, one reason is that they might be arrested and deported when they go for their green card interviews. And a domestic abuse victim now needs to think…
"Bad hombres"? CBP detained Colombian sisters for 36 hours, won't say why Another example of the Border Patrol out of control . Two Colombian sisters—Laura Gómez, 11, and Dayana Gómez, …
Photo: David Bacon The Trump administration’s proposed budget includes $999 million for 62 miles of the president’s promised border wall. But Republicans legislators, facing opposition from Democrats…
16-Year-Old's Death After Coerced Meth Ingestion Underscores Violence of Immigration System ICE's haste to portray Acevedo as a "dangerous" drug trafficker skirts the issue of ICE&#…
The New York Times editorial for the paper’s February 26 edition (see below) made several telling points about enforcement measures targeting undocumented immigrants: the policy was absurdly ex…
On February 21 the Supreme Court heard arguments in Hernández v. Mesa , a suit by the parents of a CBP victim Sergio Hernandez. Photo: AP Mexican teenager killed by a Border Patrol agent as the unar…
By Ben Casselman, FiveThirtyEight February 9, 2017 Donald Trump ran for president on a promise to crack down on illegal immigration. But most of the people who are in the U.S. illegally live in place…
Judges upheld order issued last week to prevent 90-day travel ban from seven Muslim-majority countries and 120-day freeze on US admission of any refugees By Ben Jacobs, The Guardian February 10, 2017…
A federal appeals court panel is expected to rule soon on the executive order barring refugees and visitors from seven Muslim countries. By Josh Gerstein, Politico February 7, 2017 The Justice Depart…
